-Origin Space, Suicune-
Origin Space where it was rumored that Arceus hatched from an exploding sun. I didn’t know if that was true, but what was true was that he was our father.
Being a legendary water type canid Pokémon that specialized in easily cleansing bodies of water, I had a lot of free time on my paws. It was quite understandably upsetting to see Fontaine is such disrepair, my long flowing purple mane reflected my slightly agitated state from having to figure out how to help clean up that mess. My twin ribbon like tails just couldn’t wag when I knew people were hurting.
I came to Origin Space because wanted to know where the ‘Queen of Canines’ was and needed to… ‘wanted strongly’ to get to know her better. A legendary such as me should really not give in to baser impulses for the grand possibilities of pets and belly rubs…
I heard Pom was in Violight, but she disappeared and the trail went cold since I couldn’t exactly find her. So… to that end I came here to find Arceus watching her current adventures in another world. One that was connected to Ransei loosely at the moment.
I sat down and was immediately offered a spicy potato curry dish with the smell of a rawst and cheri berry sauce wafting off of it, I took the bowl from Arceus and watched what was going on trying to figure out how things were going for the ‘Canine Queen’. She was looking a little roughed up at the moment.
-Fury Clan High School back entrance hall, Dolly-
“Look, can we avoid the fight and just say we did it?” Pom asked sweetly with a desperation bordering on going completely spare considering all the stuff I’ve seen her go through.
“No.” Ultros answered with a grin. “You are just so adorable, I could just eat you up you sweet thing, but the sugar might go to my teeth!”
“Vaguely horrified to hear flattering things from a goofy looking octopus monster with teeth in a weird place… so what would it take for us to avoid coming to blows?” I can see that Pom was at least partially stalling, maybe to give Moose and Bike dude some time to finish of Grapple and Shawl guy to help us out with tentacle dude here.
Still the octopus guy didn’t look like he had an aura impervious to just about everything like that Okra guy and looked to have been battered in the fighting with stoner android at the beach. I wasn’t about to ignore the flashes of dark purple coming from the rubble of the room we collapsed on Okra either.
The octopus looked to be thinking about what it would take to avoid fighting him, he seemed to gain a grin quite quickly.
“Why we can avoid a fight if you leap into my tentacles and let me get them all over you!” Yeah the octopus wasn’t about to get that, considering the turn Pom’s mood just took. “I bet you feel ‘real’ nice, cotton soft even!”
“Sorry to be rude, but I think I’d rather fight if that’s alright with you.” Sometimes wondered if Pom needed to hear an even worse solution or possible turn out to seriously get motivated for a fight.
“Sounds about right to me, I think we can take him. He’s not currently charged up on impossible like Ogremon currently is and he looks to be at a quarter strength.” Sami announced as her rifle clacked. “Someone remind me to make a digital shotgun later, it’s more intimidating to pump one of those.”
“Go ahead… touch me all you want!” Dazzle said brazenly moving forward making us all stare at her, even the stoic Frizzle and Canard were caught off guard.
“Uh… what?” I stated blankly, then I got a thought from Pom explaining why Dazzle might do something like that. At some point I had forgotten that Dazzle was deadly poisonous and getting that close to the octopus… there would be no way she could miss and he didn’t look like he had a defensive measure for poison. “Ah… got it Pom, so do we owe Dazzle like… twenty… for taking one for the team?”
“Really!” The octopus was quite excited by the way his tentacles waved about and Dazzle sauntered forward with a bright smile on her face.
“What’s concerning is that he doesn’t have any Fujitsumon on his pot…” Sami muttered as she aimed her rifle. I have no idea what that was about.
Canard, Lit, Pom and I readied up alongside the soldier lizard, while Frizzle… she just looked upset and sat the ground drawing circles on the floor with a claw.
“Frizzle, Dazzle is going to need our help soon, so get ready.” Stated Pom out the side of her mouth as Dazzle wandered close enough to be grabbed. Frizzle nodded, but still seemed upset about something as she stood up and glared at the octopus.
-Frizzle-
Dazzle really didn’t have to do this… she told me about other Salazzles and how she hated the fact that they acted like this. Now she was forcing herself to do this...
It’s kind of weird, we’re both lizards, we’re both fire breathers and she’s poisonous and I’m hazardous. Lot’s in common… though I don’t think anyone other than another Guilmon can match my hunger for bread or simply baked goods.
Is this because Dazzle knew I refused to evolve after what happened when I first became a Growlmon? She really didn’t have to do this for us and shouldn’t have had to.
-Pom-
Out of the corner of my eye, I watched another pulse happen from the collapsed lunchroom. Ogremon is definitely terrifying now if he can eventually dig himself out. I turned my sight to Gawappamon and Shawjamon the two kappa Digimon were quickly going down. We just might be close to moving through the school to get to Etemon.
We didn’t know how the Skate Park Scamps were doing, but they had to be doing relatively okay… though they probably ran into Abobo and didn’t have Lit to suck the strength out of him.
I watched as Ultros greedily grappled Dazzle with a mostly normal tentacle and she shivered and frowned at the feeling of being lifted off the floor.
After a moment she unleashed purple liquid from her body onto Ultros’s tentacle, it quickly evaporated.
“Huh… are you trying to poison me?” Considering how the poison works, Ultros really didn’t know what was coming to him. “Well it’s a good thing I’m quite resilient to things like that!”
Dazzle’s toxic attack, unless somehow blocked or otherwise prevented from making direct contact, is ludicrously dangerous. However, it thankfully cannot poison a water supply and the poison doesn’t hold cohesion long beyond a body. It has to be introduced by at least immediate skin contact with another being to be dangerous, at that point it grows exponentially more devastating the longer the poison has time to act.
“Ugh… I don’t feel so well!” After a moment Ultros flinched violently and squeezed Dazzle painfully, his delayed reaction to the poison wasn’t a bad sign. What was a bad sign was that he was refusing to drop Dazzle, we’d have to make him do so. “Well if this is how you are going to be, then be prepared for ten tickles from this Octomon!”
In the back of my mind I wondered what has become of Chaosdramon X who was poisoned by Dazzle before we dropped into this realm.
Ultros brandished the blade and the gun weapon and I leapt forward.
-Canard-
While I miss my hockey stick, nothing beats a puck pistol at keeping your distance from an enemy and the pucks I was firing were actually doing damage this time.
I had to stop firing when Ultros brought Dazzle into the line of fire. Pom was busy keeping two of his tentacles ending in three metallic claws busy. Notably he wasn’t swinging his sword at her as she slashed her hooves created claws of energy in the air to deflect the attempts to grab her.
“Enough of that you pesky puck popping pest, let me grab my beauties in peace!” Ultros stated loudly before opening a portion of his mouth and fire a wide spray of ink that I quickly moved away from.
Even if I didn’t get hit by it, it smelled quite noxious and was possibly poisonous… for a digital being.
Didn’t exactly want to chance that and Ultros was managing to keep Dazzle out of reach of Pom as he focused his ire on me.
I had to avoid a blast of energy from the gun one of his tentacles was wielding.
“He doesn’t seem to be slowing down Dazzle!” He was shooting and aiming at me while fending off Pom and even Frizzle started to spit fireballs that were deflected or slashed apart by the sword he wielded.
“Give it a minute or two, with how battered he already is… he’ll drop soon enough!” Maybe the currently struggling Dazzle was overestimating her poisonous abilities, her arms were pinned at her sides, she started trying to breathe flames and slip free. If the poison was truly effective against Digimon as she thought, then all we had to do was stall.
Dazzle looked to be having trouble lighting Ultros on fire and the tentacle wrapped around her mouth to keep her from spewing flames once she tried to blast him. He kept putting Dazzle within the path of my aim and was making it hard to shoot pucks into an exposed part of his body that wasn’t currently under a pot as armor.
Dolly seemed to be staying back while also prepping to throw the strange boomerang bone. Lit, who was currently on her head, obviously didn’t want to shock Ultros while he was holding Dazzle.
“Eugh… this poison is really nasty! What in the world did you eat to be that caustic lady?” Ultros got a rather scathing glare from Dazzle and I tried to place a puck where his eyes were in the hole in the pot his spear like tentacle ending in metal tip stopped deflecting shots from Sami and flickered forward. It deflected the flaming puck and then slapped the bone thrown by Dolly back at her and she barely caught it. “If this is all you have then, I can take all of you on quickly enough before this poison gets to me!”
“I can’t get any shots by his defending tentacle.” Sami wouldn’t fire a rocket because Dazzle would get caught in the blast.
“Speaking of shots, how about I take one at you… sure you may be a bit homely, but I’m an equal opportunist octopus when it comes to beauties!” Ultros certainly insulted Sami and then he slung forward a tentacle glowing purple. “Deadly Shade!”
An arc of purple erupted out towards us and we avoided it, Sami wasn’t so lucky and immediately fell over and looked a bit stiff when it struck her in the chest.
“Pa-ra-ly-sis…” Sami got out before a grimace of pain crossed her face, as one of his tentacles fended off Pom’s bark blast by snapping the claws shut to create a shockwave to counter her blast another lashed out and tightly wrapped around Sami’s body.
I fired a puck or two into the tentacle before having to evade a fast bullet of ink from his gun that destroyed some rubble around the entrance to the lunchroom by melting. The tentacle grappled Sami and pulled her back to Ultros.
“Gyeheheh, that’s two beauties in my grasp! Now for the remaining two!” Ultros focused his attention on Pom and Frizzle as he said that.
Frizzle spat some more fireballs, and since Ultros had less tentacles to defend with, when he blocked them with the sword I fired and managed to hit one of his eyes with a puck.
“Agh, didn’t I say to leave already so I can play with these lovely visions!” Ultros, having shouted that at me, I threw myself to floor a bullet passed by and took out a chunk of the wall in a splatter of black ink. “Deadly Shade!”
I rolled and avoided the blast fired another puck that was deflected, Pom managed to fire a wad of energy from her throat and it exploded upwards nearly knocking the protective giant pot off the Octomon’s head. He simply slammed it back down with a tentacle and a bone throw from Dolly managed to crack it slightly as it rebounded off and back into her waiting paw.
“Frizzle we need more firepower… I know you might not like the idea of becoming Growlmon again, but we need you at your best! I believe you can keep control of yourself, you’re a team player aren’t you!” Another fire ball slashed, the claw tentacle deflected any of Pom’s attempts to close in and attack close up and even kept up with her when she went into a Dancing Flame state. My pucks were doing some damage to his limbs provided he wasn’t actively blocking them with his tentacles.
“A Growlmon, that would be a beauty of such ferocity, I’d gladly welcome the chance to get my tentacles all over one!” Ultros was seriously messed up in the head for a Digimon. He wasn’t weak by any stretch of the imagination despite showing up here battered, even if he was slow on land he made up for that by being quick with his tentacles and being capable at all distances. “Nnn… seriously could have used Black Widow’s back up with this!”
For a moment Ultros wavered a bit and his eyes looked a bit dizzy beneath the pot, Dazzles poison was really starting to get to him.
Dolly barked something and Pom backed off from attack Ultros and looked to her with a quirked eye, after a moment she nodded and turned to me and Frizzle.
“Keep firing as quickly as you can manage, also don’t mind if I get caught we both have ideas that might work.” What, why did it sound like you were about to get caught on purpose? Ah, Dolly gave a Pom plan and was hopeful that Octomon didn’t speak in their barks.
-Lit-
Friends need help with big Octillery.
Had some friends in grip.
Get closer, attack in shell!
-Dolly-
“Hope you’re ready to get closer little dude.” Lit squeaked and hopped from my head and started to scuttle forward from me and into Pom’s shadow.
I prepared to start throwing my bone and get a little bit closer in with my board, I definitely was not going to let the octopus grab me if I could help it. I don’t feel like having my bones crushed.
“Ull… how is the poison this powerful… is it getting worse?!” He was started to turn a pale purple or pink, Dazzy’s poison was wearing him down quickly as his movements against Pom turned sloppy and she got a good swipe in with her magic claws.
“Okay, we might just have to defeat him to save his life, his Backspace System brought him here and he is not going anywhere else fast!” Really Pom, you actually wanted to help this sleazeball? Heh, just like my parents when they could have left Cruella to die and instead said her sorry ancient evil backside.
I threw the bone and noticed Ultros making a mistake in trying to deflect it, it hit the base of the tentacle that was holding Dazzle and he almost let her go. Yeah, it wasn’t my imagination, he was getting slower by the second. Now if only he didn’t have a death grip on our friends.
Pom continued to deflect tentacles and was eventually grappled around the waist, I saw that she immediately hardened her wool as the octopus started putting pressure on her. She continued to claw at the tentacle holding her and was trying to free herself up. I caught the bone as it came back and moved forward and started to dodge into and out of range using my skateboard.
A fireball from Frizzle was torn in half by his sword and that’s when she immediately charged in, I moved to cover her and hoped she knew what she was doing.
-Frizzle-
Okay, I got something to prove and Lit was making his move to get on Ultros the Octomon, Dazzle’s poison was getting exponentially stronger… but he was still this strong. Also it seemed he refused to use his sword or gun for anything other than defense against us or offensively against Canard.
It’s a good thing we didn’t choosing to fight Ultros at full strength at the beach, he would be much harder to deal with near the water.
I quickly lashed out with my slightly damaged chain and caught one of his tentacles and pulled it into the floor, I watched as the little yellow electricity eating Lit got into a crevice in the bottom of his pot and get in.
“What… I’m supposed to be the one entangling you, not the other… ohnnn.” Octomon wobbled in place drunkenly and placed his free three clawed tentacle against his pot. He was definitely getting slower, because I used a Pyro Sphere to blast away one of his tentacles and it actually worked. “Yeowch! Why does everyone keep trying to make calamari out of me, that’s more of a thing for squids or a sexy Calamarmon!”
Despite how weak he currently was, his mouth was still working perfectly fine, much to everyone’s chagrin.
“Wha… agh… what the… erg… something is in my pot, get it out get it out get it out!” It seems like Lit finally begun his tiny assault and Ultros almost dropped Pom, Dolly even tried to assist in her getting free and almost got crushed by a tentacle for her trouble.
Ultros was thrashing with all of his tentacles that weren’t currently holding Sami, Pom and Dazzle. I was barely holding onto the chain to keep one of the remaining combat tentacles occupied as Canard pelted Octomon in the eyes with flaming pucks.
“What revolting development this has turned into, I can’t even stop for a moment to enjoy getting my tentacles all over some beauties!” Still didn’t know why Octomon wanted to do so in the first place, it seemed like an oddly specific hang up of his to wrap us girls up in his tentacles. He seemed to despise Canard as he fired another blast of energy Canard’s way with his gun. “Okay those pucks and whoever is in my pot scratching me up is making me mad! I’ve heard of High School trauma before, but I didn’t think it’d be this ridiculous or literal!”
I hopped to the side as his free clawed tentacle slapped at me as I kept a tight holding on his chain to pin his tentacle that I wrapped it around.
He had at least five tentacles occupied, how was he still giving us this much trouble while poisoned and under constant assault when he appeared here at half strength?! At least the Skate Park Scamps and the Commandramon had it easier than us… hopefully.
-Fury Clan High School, Front Hall, Lobomon-
It looked like a warzone in here, wasn’t far from the truth… considering the Commandramon outside were trying to prevent Falcomons from getting in.
Abobo was still proving to be a serious threat.
Garu and I were hitting him with everything we had, he just wouldn’t stop coming at us! Was he seriously that high tier a champion?!
-Nearby buildings, Commandramon-
“I’ve never seen this many bird Digimon in my life!” I continued to provide anti-air cover to my comrades, the fact that we had lasted this long was a testament to our digital coding for absurd amounts of stamina.
“DCD bomb going out!” Pineapple on a stick was thrown and it exploded amongst several Falcomon trying to toss shuriken with their talons through the windows at us. “How’s Uver doing against the Chrome Digizoid bird?”
“Surprisingly well, I didn’t think he was that good of a fighter, he’s putting up one hell of a fight with very few attack programs to his name!” Another Commandramon yelled over the sound of constant digital rifle fire.
“He’s an inspiration to be taking on a combat digimon when he’s a supply specialist!” A commandramon threw a grenade and it suddenly propelled itself like a rocket into Raptor Sparrowmon’s face distracting it from Uver for a second, allowing him to get in a blow. “How’s my new DCD Bomb trick?”
“Cool, show me how you did that provided we survive this mess!” The Commandramon pulled out a round black bomb with a fuse, said fuse immediately lit and started to quickly wear down as he timed his throwing of it to take out a Falcomon that tried to glide in and get us into melee range. “Maybe I can do something interesting with my version DCD Bomb!”
“I’ve been working on a version of DCD Bomb that can walk around and explode, I’ve been considering using a crank key to get it moving maybe give it eyes and a cute aesthetic of a living bomb.” Another one said, as a syringe slammed home into a Falcomon from below taking them out. As Driver drove up with the flatbed and Hea-gatomon wielding throwing syringes with her scalpel claws. “We’ll do a weapons show and tell after this, no Commandramon dies today!”
-Fury Clan High School, back hall entrance, Sami-
I’m still upset Octomon called me homely, I mean that in spite of me not really caring that much about my appearance aside from the color orange making me stand out. There was just something about the way he said it that earned my ire.
Now if only I wasn’t paralyzed by his Deadly Shade attack. I’d shove a DCD Bomb into his mouth or beak… wait, does he even have a beak? I mean Octomon are supposed to have beaks yet this one has teeth… that among other things lead me to thinking something was still something very off about him.
I felt the tentacles grip weakening around me as Canard, Frizzle, Lit and Dolly continued to occupy his tentacles.
“I think the poison has almost gotten to him.” Pom whimpered as she tried to use her hind legs to slap at the tentacle holding her. “Keep struggling, he’s almost worn down!”
Easy for you to say, I couldn’t feel most of my body due to his paralysis attack hitting me directly. The only thing I could do currently was… a ‘backfire’. Would I remotely trigger my bazooka at point blank range though?
I did it with Ogremon before, so why not now! It was the only thing I could do in this moment while locked up like this.
A click and the tube at my back blasted downwards launched the tentacle holding me upwards and over Octomon, catching me in a small portion of the blast by proximity.
“Wha… OOF!” Octomon toppled when Frizzle let go of her chain and now he was on his back flailing after having reflexively let us go, his pot was now cracked and Dolly barked something loudly with her paws framing her face. “Huh… oh cr…aghhh G-g-g-g-?!”
Electricity ripped out from under Ultros’s pot and down to his tentacles as he flailed wildly and after a moment he flopped a bit lifelessly against the floor.
I rolled along the floor to a stop where I could see Ultros’s body spasming and looking less purple and more burnt now.
“Why... I’ve been cooked again…” Cried Ultros as Lit crawled out from under the pot and bounced his way merrily for Dolly.
“Pecha berry coming up.” Pom clawed the berry a bit so its juices were flowing and tossed it into a fried Ultros’s beakless mouth.
An energy ogremon bursts from the lunchroom rubble and we thankfully weren’t hit by it. It looked like Ogremon was free to lunge at us until more rubble collapsed on him and he roared angrily. Yeah another minute or two and he’d get out of that without trouble.
“Well we don’t have much more time before he’s on us, how are Moosemon and Pistmon doing?” Pom asked and I heard the sound of three Digimon fighting. Who went down besides Ultros?
I felt myself rolled to stare up into Canard’s face.
“Sami, are you okay?” Couldn’t really do much to reassure you that I was Canard, wish I could smile right now as you were actually concerned about me.
“Open her mouth, we’ll give her a Cheri Berry for her paralysis!” Dazzle announced as she appeared over me, tossed a small berry in my mouth and forced my jaws closed on it. Smooth and slightly spicy, a very interesting flavor and texture, said warmth soon filled out my coding and I could suddenly move again.
“I’m okay, but darned if that Deadly Shade attack didn’t hurt.” It should have hurt worse, but I had a feeling Ultros wanted me alive for whatever reason. He could have just as easily wringed us out, maybe he wasn’t too bad a guy? “Also a little blown up, but I’m data stable at least.”
I was hefted up by Canard and turned to see Gawappamon was down and leaking data. Both Moosemon and Pistmon were tag teaming Shawjamon, Pistmon have taking the worst of it for being in enclosed spaces where his high speed abilities were hampered. Shawjamon was still dangerous in a close up confrontation with his weapon despite looking haggard, but he was quickly being whittled down by Moosemon’s ramming horns and Pistmon firing spikes when an opening was present.
Shawjamon was on the backfoot and they almost had him finished off.
“It’s only a matter of time before Ogremon gets out, we can’t exactly sit here and wait for him.” Okay, but did you have any actual suggestions Pom?
“We take a minute then start climbing floors looking for Etemon.” Canard put me down on my feet slightly wobbly. I watched as Moosemon caught Shawjamon’s weapon with his horn and launch it upwards managed to cut up Shawjamon with his antlers.
“Ugh…” Shawjamon was slapped by the flat of the blade of his own weapon coming back down and toppled over as it clanged loudly against the floor. “Lord… Etemon…”
“Okay, I think things are going rather well.” Pistmon stated as he rode up besides Moosemon.
“Hey, uh… Sami, can we get some help out here? Raptor Sparrowmon is putting a lot of pressure on us.” I looked at everyone as I heard one of the Commandramon calling. “Can we also get a sit-rep?”
“Octomon leader of the Data Divers down, Ogremon is rage mode and currently buried and is slowly working his way out from under a collapsed portion of building. We’ll be proceeding inwards now and will try to deal with any of the King’s Kame gang we run into on the way.” Looking towards Pistmon and Moosemon taking a break. “Guys take a minute to cool down and rest, then your needed out front, the Commandramon are getting hammered and you can get some healing from Hea-gatomon. Raptor Sparrowmon is giving them problems.”
“We’ll get on that once we’re off our break.” Pistmon responded and threw me a thumbs up, then the bike Digimon looked a little concerned. “What about Ogremon?”
“We’ll cross that bridge and burn it behind us when we get to it.” I answered, Pistmon saluted as I started to stumble forward and was kept upright by Canard. “Let’s get moving!”
-Fury Clan Front, Uver-
“Neko Punch!” My fist met Raptor’s face with the power of digital cat claws, dazing him slightly. I followed this up by turning his entire body into a billboard as I kicked off him and landed on top of a light pole to barely keep my balance.
Raptor Sparrowmon went skidding down the street with a face full of billboard, but still outclassing me in raw power, tenacity and endurance being practically covered in Chrome Digizoid.
The Commandramon were getting hammered in close range. Considering how many Falcomon were being thrown at them, it’s an utter surprise they’ve even held up so well this far given all the general stereotypes that particular brand of rookie digimon have faced in the past. They lived up to some of those, but these guys were even using their rifles as bayonets or clubs and digging into the fight with a fervor I haven’t seen in a long time.
Hea-Gatomon was backing them up and keeping them standing, but neither her nor I could really focus down Raptor Sparrowmon together when there were Falcomon flooding the air around here. I bet they were teleporting back to base to pick up healing items. We couldn’t and wouldn’t leave the Commandramon without support, they were our primary offense against the Falcomon.
“Diamond Storm!” A number of Falcomon were suddenly shredded under a storm of crystallized leaves from a Renamon. “In the name of the Doggy Messiah Pom, you will have backup!”
“Remind me again why you formed a religion based on a mortal sheep like being?” Bearmon stated as he physically tore a Falcomon away from a Commandramon with his claws and heaved them into another Falcomon with a ridiculous amount of force.
“You would not understand even if I were to explain her greatness Bearmon, only a true canid can understand the glory she brings to us! Unfortunately WereGarurumon doesn’t count and he also sent us out here to help you with the Falcomon while he and Lobomon deal with Abobo...” Renamon was on point when she lashed out a kick that sent a falcomon flying. “I didn’t want to admit this, but that Bulkmon scares me…”
Despite looking badly roughed up the two immediately started to help turn the tide as far as Falcomon were concerned, but how would they deal with Raptor Sparrowmon? The guy was already up and lifting off again.
-Back entrance, Metabee-
“Now?” I asked as I watched, Pistmon and Moosemon exit the building and started around for the front of the campus.
“Hmm… we’ll enter the back hall, I sense something amiss there.” Rokusho leapt forward and was already passing through the entrance.
“Hey wait for me Rokusho!” We had to work together on this, as I leapt forward and landed at the entrance and walked in, a purple massed exploded from the collapsed rubble of the lunchroom. “Uh… should we take care of this guy?”
Ogremon looked our way and roared while brandishing his bone and raising his left fist, his dark purple aura flared.
“We do not currently have much of a choice in the matter I believe, he seems to have locked onto us.” Rokusho readied his pincer blade and I raised my guns and lowered my missile blasting horn. “That aura… dark net influence, be careful Metabee. We have no idea who has given him such power.”
“Oh come on Rokusho, you don’t have to tell me to not be head strong with that kind of glow coming off of him.” We were both focused and ready to start getting involved as Ogremon leapt for us. “Do you think he generated this dark net power himself?”
“It’s the only conclusion we have at the moment as the realm this digital world is connected to doesn’t have hackers.” Rokusho started forward and I stayed behind him to back him up.
-Inner Hallway, first floor, Pom-
I heard the building shuddering and felt the roar of Ogremon shaking my bones, I shivered and I noticed everyone else around looking uneasy.
“Intruders in the hallway! How did they even get by our gatekeepers Gawappamon and Shawjamon?!” A Kamemon stated and several Kamemon rushed out the nearby doors and started towards us.
Canard was the first to meet one with a boot to the face and a flaming puck to the stomach to send the poor Kamemon sliding into their comrades.
I was next up to tackle a Kamemon head on with my shoulder and increased fluff to bowl them over. I was hoping that Ogremon didn’t catch up to us at this point, because it certainly sounded like he got free and I doubt he’d accept an apology… no that would probably make him angrier.
A lash of fire took down a Kamemon to my left and Dazzle quickly clambered up the wall to the ceiling to avoid the blasts of water the Kamemon were firing our way with accuracy almost as bad as the Moliarty’s moles. They were in a panic and we did catch them off guard, so it was a little understandable that they were having problems aiming at us.
Frizzle was slamming through them and taking out some kind of frustration on them, given how vicious she was starting to act. I glanced at Dazzle who refused to look in Frizzle’s direction.
There were issues I had to work out later, focus on the here and now as we force our way towards the stairs.
To that end I loosed a bark blast that popped a Kamemon into the air and Dolly immediately slammed the bottom of her board into his face and bounced him off the floor and spun her board to slap them into another Kamemon. Lit squeaked and blasted out a series of entrapping electrical webs to incapacitate the remaining aggressors.
As the other made their way forward, I stayed back and looked at Sami.
“Are you okay Sami?” I noted that she was not taking as active a part in battle.
“Sorry if I’m a bit slow, oh before I forget... M-loader.” She lifted her bazooka onto her shoulder and pressed it against the floor. “Shouldn’t forget to have that at the ready if I need another ‘backfire’ or a powerful shot... let’s move.”
Wary of Sami’s health, I stayed with her as we made our way to the stairs and started up to the second floor.
“Do you think Etemon is still on the fourth floor below the roof access?” We had a moment of quiet so I figured it was time to ask. Never thought a High School needed to be this big, then again I’ve never formally finished schooling and really did most of my school work in exile from Meadow Hills. This place is making me think about bringing it up with Tianhuo when we can next talk. I think this place fits with Digimon aesthetics at least, what with all the weird childish scrawling art on the walls and a few oddities in the building design. Like the fact that the front entrance was across the school from the only staircase going up a floor and the back entrance was halfway to that. “Also do we have to fight our way across the entire school two more times just to reach stairs going up to the fourth floor?”
“Yes, Etemon was stated to be in the principal’s office and we mapped the layout of the school, no reports of him leaving the room… even if the other Commandramon are too busy to keep an eye on him. This school is basically one solid brick with a small back entrance hall and a lunchroom and a few auxiliary rooms connected to it. We destroyed most of the auxiliary rooms collapsing them onto the lunchroom.” That answered my first question Sami, what about the second? We came to the top of the staircase and there were no further stairs up to the third floor and down a long hallway I could vaguely see stairs in the distance. “Also yes as there is no elevator or staircases leading between all floors in more points in throughout the building to make getting up and down floors much easier. So you literally have to cross the length of the entire school again to go up a floor, digital buildings are less likely to catch fire as badly as those in reality and it’s not like this school was in normal use anyway. Many Digimon are still trying to sort out themselves and find places in the city to settle down and this digital realm is still relatively new.”
“But fires can still happen and you’re saying you don’t have fire escapes in the case of an emergency?” The look I received was generally befuddlement as we saw the others pushing through some Kamemon upon exiting the staircase, it was as if Sami didn't understand what I was trying to get across. “Okay, why am I actually surprised that this is a non OSHA compliant world?! Am I really that used to this stuff by now...”
-Beach Bungalow, Hi-Vis Monitamon-
The Black Widow had finished its self-repair routine and Hi-Andromon had fled after delivering quite a beating to our forces.
Still... we successfully fended him off.
The Monitamon in the city were delivering real time information on what was currently happening at Fury Clan High School and it was apparent that Ultros was down and needed an immediate extraction to the ocean bunker.
Also Ogremon was facing off with two Digi-bots, apparently the less stuffy system police found our united gang’s headquarters based out of an unused schooling program.
“Do not worry lord Ultros, I shall endeavor to aid you personally!” Right or wrong, Lord Ultros was still our boss and leader of the Data Divers.