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// Chapter 4: So, one breach at a time? 
// Story: Crest of Imagination 
// by Boyzilla 
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Crest of Imagination



Chapter 4: So, one breach at a time?


A couple hours in the morning, the sun high in the air, our chosen ones were rudely awakened to the side of an angry flock of birds. Like, really angry, they pecked at the barn's superstructure like woodpeckers with a goal. At first the children tried plugging their ears by burying themselves deeper within their sleeping bags. But the pecking onslaught continued to annoy and irritate them.

Finally, they had enough.

"What is that noise!" Ryan exclaimed.

"Someone shut the birds up!" Daniel said, angry that he was so rudely awoken.

"Spearow, Spearow, Spearow!" the noise of the birds echoed into the building.

Madison had a annoyed look on her face, "I hate spearow, they're annoying to everyone!" She stood up, the nine year old grasping the pokeball on her waist. "Charmander, I choose you!"

She opened the pokeball, and a bright white energy coursed outward and took the shape of the Pokémon before her. After full materializing, the fire orange Pokémon greeted her.

"Char, Char!"

Alyssa groaned, "Let's go Guilmon. It sounds like there are a lot of them out there," she then yawned as her body tried to awaken her.

Guilmon stood up, ready to move, "Sure thing partner," he said.

The Pokémon trainer and Digidestined opened the barn door, and were greeted by a huge flock of winged terror. Huge flock being around in the hundreds, which were a lot of spearows.

Alyssa blinked, "I thought those breaches only transport one at a time?"

Madison stepped back a bit, "Apparently not Alyssa, there so many of them!"

"Spearow!" The flock shouted with rage, all charging at them.

Guilmon went in front of Alyssa protectively, "Pyro Sphere!" he shouted, a concentrated ball of flame erupted forth from his mouth, shooting toward the wild Pokémon and exploding when making contact, taking out three spearow who fainted and landed on the ground.

"Charmander, ember attack!" Madison commanded.

"Char!" Her Pokémon spin its tail, specks of flame launching toward the flock of spearow , taking out a few.

"Pyro Sphere!"

"Charmander!"

"Pyro Sphere!"

"Char, Char!"

Again and again, the fire-ordinated duo of creatures launched their flame-based attacks at the flock of spearow. But which each blow, each spearow that fainted and fell, another took its place. Soon enough, the spearow was on them, pecking at both them and their partners.

"Ow! There's too many! We can't fight them all!" Alyssa shouted over the noises of the spearow.

Madison clutched to Alyssa's side as she tried to use her hands to wave the flying Pokémon off, "Go away! Go away!" she looked to charmander and yelled, "Use smoke screen!"

The fire Pokémon opened its mouth to release a cloud of black smoke, it rushed out of him and expanded to cover the entire area that made battlefield. The spearow stopped their relentless assault and flew back to avoid the smoke. This action allowed both humans and their partners to retreat back into the barn house and close the door.

Madison fell on her rump against the door, her hands caressing the bruises and scratches caused by the spearow. "It hurts... I never knew how much pecking can hurt..."

Daniel and Ryan ran up to them in concern, Ryan asked, "Are you alright? Those marks look like they really hurt."

Daniel took a glance at Guilmon, "You don't look injured at all."

Guilmon replied, "My scales were too strong for them to penetrate or scratch, but Alyssa wasn't as lucky.'

Alyssa nodded, "I'm sure if Guilmon could digivolve to champion we would've defeated them easily." she grasped her digivice from her side and inspected it, "But I don't think they counted enough as a danger for the digivice to work."

Madison looked to her, "But they were dangerous! Look at how much they attacked us!"

The fourteen year old halfa commented, "But none of you are bleeding, just minor scratches and bruises."

Ryan then noticed something, "Hey, is it me, or is it really quiet?"

That got everyone's attention, they listened for the rambunctious sound that spearow made, but nothing was to be heard. Just the sound of the wind. They opened the door slightly to get a peek, but the flock of bird Pokémon had vanished mysteriously.

"You think they return to the Pokémon world?" Ryan questioned.

"Possibly, Guilmon, go outside and check." Daniel said.

"Sure thing." Guilmon replied, the door opening more to allow him passage as he walked outside and looked around for any danger. The digimon glanced around for any sign of the spearow, but they were gone, poof, disappeared into thin air. There was no way they could have flown away that fast, so the most logical choice was that the Realm Balance returned them to their original home.

Guilmon turned around, "It's all clear! The spearow had returned to their realm!"

The humans breathed signs of relief, Madison returned her Pokémon partner into her pokeball, and then they all went outside to Guilmon's position.

Suddenly, Guilmon started growling, surprising the human children with a sudden jolt. Alyssa scanned the area around her, before her eyes set upon a pillar of fog appearing in the dead center of Ponyville, before expanding to create a digital field that engulfed the entirety of the town.

"Joy..." Daniel commented sarcastically.

"We got to save them!" Ryan exclaimed, rushing toward danger.

"It's a digital field, that means there's a digimon! Guilmon, we have to help!" Alyssa said, running toward Ponyville.

"Right away, Alyssa!"

Daniel and Madison chased after their friends, all of them heading toward Ponyville to help with whatever chaos a newly arrived digital being was going to cause.





A large bird like creature, with the appearance of an eagle, two black horns coming from its head, and razor sharp talons to match! The size of this digimon matched that of a bus! This digimon's name is Aquilamon, champion level, usually a guardian of good will, its Blast laser and Glide horn attacks are both unique and destructive!

"Taste my Blast Laser!" Aquilamon shouted, opening its mouth as a loud screech echoed outward and ring-like energy shot forth and destroyed a few stalls around the marketplace.

"Why are you doing this!" a purple unicorn yelled out.

Twilight Sparkle tried effortlessly to reason with the large bird digimon before her, she assumed it was a digimon because of what Daniel told them of Digital Fields beforehand. And from Guilmon's indication, all digimon were intelligent. So hoped that perhaps she could get through to the digimon even if the recent breach was influencing its mind.

The Aquilamon shook his head, more like it was resisting than saying no, "You will perish- Stop me... Please, prepare to be deleted!" the bird digimon exclaimed as charged with its horns at Twilight Sparkle. "Glide Horn!"

Twilight, in an act of quick reflexes, had her horn lit up with magic, teleporting in a flash of light from her current position to a few meters to the right. Avoiding Aquilamon's attack who then flew up into the air, and turned around.

"Hey, you leave her alone you big chicken!" the voice of Rainbow Dash insulted, the speeding Pegasus slamming her small body against the digimon's side. Causing the digimon to yelp in pain before flapping its powerful wings, causing a strong breeze to blow Rainbow Dash away.

"You dare attack Aquilamon?! Blast Laser!" it screeched, ring-like energy shooting toward Rainbow Dash who struggled to regain her flight against the artificial made wind.

"Pyro Sphere!" A ball of flame rushed right past the falling Pegasus and intercepted the Blast Laser of Aquilamon's. Allowing Rainbow Dash to land safely on the ground.

Aquilamon flew closer to the ground, his keen eyes scouting the battlefield before laying eyes on a digimon and a group of humans, all with tags around their necks with crest. He began to plead, "Digidestined! You must- Suffer!" the voice of Aquilamon went back to its rampaging self.

"Get ready Guilmon! This is going to be tough." Alyssa said.

"Charmander, use ember!" Madison shouted as she released charmander from his pokeball, the fire pokemon spinning its flamng tail around, small spurts of fire releasing toward Aquilamon.

But Aquilamon used his power wings to make a gust of air that dissipated the ember attack before it could reach him.

Guilmon charged forward, opening his mouth to release his signature attack, "Pyro Sphere!"

Aquilamon dodged his attack easily, taunting them, "You're going to have to do better than that, Digidestined!"

"Ryan, go hide and stay safe!" Daniel shouted to Ryan.

"But-!"

"No buts! Now hide!" Daniel commanded, causing the eight year old to fidget and scramble for shelter. Daniel glared at the large bird digimon, "Alyssa, do you know anything about this guy?"

Alyssa made a thoughtful face, "Well, I think he's champion level. Which is a level above where Guilmon's at right now."

"So I assume it's going to be tough?" Daniel questioned.

Alyssa nodded, "Unless I can get Guilmon to digivolve again, then yeah."

"Thanks, that'll all I need to know. I don't think the ponies will do anything bad to me, so what's to hide?" he got into a familiar stance, "I'm going ghost!"

Daniel felt the familiar energy that was his ghostly powers run up and down his body, the appearance of those white rings crossing through his vision before his transformation completed itself.

Daniel gulped as he ran toward the nearest building, watching all the while as Madison gave orders to her charmander, and Guilmon continued to fire Pyro Spheres at Aquilamon. The champion level bird digimon seem to be distracted by the ember and Pyro Sphere attacks, and Daniel was going to use that to his advantage... If he can try and fly that is.

So far, the only way he knew how is to try his luck. Jump from a building, cross your fingers, and try and fly. Luckily, from what he's seen from Danny Phantom, if he fails, fall, and crash lands on the ground. His enhanced ghost body will remain mostly unscathed from the impact.

So jump away! Wow, that sounded sort of suicidal now that he thinks about it.

Reaching the top of the building, Daneil looked up to see Aquilamon rushing toward Guilmon, his horns sharp and ready to tear through Alyssa's partner.

"Glide Horn!" Aquilamon shouted his attack, but as the digimon approached closer. Something suddenly made Daniel's body have a sudden chill rush through him.

He released a breath of blue mist from his mouth.

"Oh God..." Daniel commented, as he looked at Aquilamon and noticed his eyes were green.

"He's being overshadowed by a ghost! No wonder he's attacking!" Daniel shouted out loud, everyone hearing him.

"Overshadowed? What you mean! Like possessed?!" Alyssa yelled in reply.

Twilight Sparkle, having helped Rainbow Dash up, said, "Of course, that's the reason why he can't resist the breach's influence properly! He's fighting a two-sided battle in his mind!"

Madison exclaimed, "Wait, if a ghost is here. Doesn't that mean there were two breaches simultaneously?" the little girl stated.

Daniel sighed, "Talk about bad luck, our second day here and the bad guy can't just send us one breach at a time?" He said, getting a running jump before he grasped onto the charging Aquilamon's leg.

"Daniel, be careful!" Ryan shouted from his hiding spot.

"Guilmon wait! Don't fire your Pyro Spheres, you might hurt Daniel!" Alyssa yelled to Guilmon.

Guilmon jumped to the side to avoid Aquilamon's Glide Horn attack, "What's he doing, he's tough sure, but he can't handle a digimon!" Guilmon exclaimed.

Daniel struggled to climb on Aquilamon's back, gripping on the rather strong feathers before he managed to get on. "No, I can't handle a digimon yet, but I can sure handle a ghost!" He turned his hand intangible, "And it's about time this one got out of the bird's nest!"

Daniel Phantom thrust his intangible hand into Aquilamon's back. Causing the digimon to screech in surprise as the sudden feeling of ice ran up his spine. Suddenly Aquilamon's eyes turned brown, and Daniel pulled out a nasty looking green bird ghost.

The bird ghost tried to peck him, but Daniel smashed his fist into it. "Talk about a bad egg." he punned.

Aquilamon stopped his erratic movement with a sudden halt, causing Daniel to slip off the digimon's back and start falling with the ghost tight in his grip.

"Ahhh!" Daniel screamed, closing his eyes in fear.

"Daniel!" All his friends screamed out in horror.

But Daniel Phantom strangely felt the rush feeling of air stop slowly, he opened his eyes to see his legs gone, only a ghostly tail having replaced them. He looked around to see he was hovering in the air a few meters from the ground.

"Phew," Daniel breathed a sigh of relief. Making sure the feeling of him flying is filed nice in his memory, Daniel slowly, very slowly, managed to float back down to the ground. It was a lot easier for his legs to appear once more since he knew the feeling of them all his life. He landed, but as he glanced toward the bird ghost in his grip, it began phasing out of existence before disappearing all together.

"Guess that's how they go back." Daniel said as he looked toward his friends running toward him.

"You alright?" Alyssa asked in worry.

"Daniel, you're okay right?" Madison also asked in worry.

"That was so epic!" Ryan complimented.

Daniel scratched the back of his head with a embarrassed smile on his face, "I'm fine, and yeah, it was quite epic."

Aquilamon flew down and landed before the group of humans, digimon, and a Pokémon. The group went in their own battle stances as they prepared to fight once more, but Aquilamon raised a wing.

"Hold your hands Digidestined, I am in control of my actions." Aquilamon said with a royal-like voice.

Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash hurried over to them, Rainbow Dash prepared to fight, "Let me show you-" but was stopped by Twilight's magic.

"Wait Rainbow Dash, he's not rampaging anymore!" Twilight said.

Aquilamon turned his head to them, "Your friend is right, I was not myself beforehand. But now that the Digidestined have lifted the stronger influence off of me, I can now control myself. I apologize for my actions, and the damage I have caused to your town."

Twilight smiled as Rainbow Dash calmed down, the purple unicorn asked, "Excuse me, Aquilamon, may I ask. What happened to you?"

Aquilamon nodded, understanding the question. "Very well, I was guarding my area within the Digital desert. When suddenly, a tear opened up and blinded me. Transporting me right above your town, where I then noticed a influence on my mind which started to try and take over. I battled for dominance and won, but in my distraction, a flash of green passed by my vision and before I knew it. I was losing against a two-sided war within the confines of my own body and mind. Thankfully, once I saw the Digidestined, I knew that they would stop me."

Twilight rubbed a hoof on her chin, "Mmh, the first influence must be the breach's side effect."

Daniel added on, "The second was the ghost overshadowing him."

Aquilamon took notice that he was phasing out, "What is happening to me now?"

Twilight grinned, "Don't worry Aquilamon, that happens when the Realm Balance is repairing itself. You are returning to your original world you were in before being transported here."

Aquilamon then said, "If that is so," he turned to the four human friends and their partners, "Thank you Digidestined, for saving me. I wish you luck in fulfilling your duties." He saluted with a wing, before disappearing all together.

"We learned a lot today." Twilight said.

Alyssa began, "Like how multiple breaches can happen not only in the same day, but at the same time?" she finished.

"Yes, and its imperative that you four and your partners start training." Twilight said, "As much as I dislike teaching how to fight. I know that Ryan will need to know some fort of combat magic to defend himself. We didn't fair so well against Aquilamon." she said.

"I agree, let's get started shall we?" Daniel said.