Impmon was sitting on a lamp post close to his Tamers' house. He sniffed the hot dog he was holding, then took a bite of it.
"Man..." he grumbled. "Those things taste more like Ai's rubber duck by the day..."
"And how would you know that?" a snickering voice called up from below.
Impmon looked down... and saw an Agumon with grey scales who was grinning up at him. Upon closer inspection, he could see that it was wearing a small bracelet on its right arm, with a mechanical device on it. There was also a glowing, red triangle on his forehead. Impmon frowned. Where had he seen that symbol before?
"Whaddya want?" he spat. "Who are you anyway?"
"I'm BioAgumon!" the grey Rookie said in a cocky voice. "And I'm here... to beat you up!"
Impmon had to smirk inwardly. It happened again: A boastful Rookie who assumed he was stronger than any other Rookie challenged him to a duel and in the end, always ended up wondering how he managed to get his ass beaten.
Normally, Impmon would have jumped at him in a matter of seconds, but right now, he was hungry. "Go away, kid!" he said while munching on his hot dog. "You're bothering me..."
"That wasn't a request!" BioAgumon shouted. "PEPPER BREATH!"
The small fireball shot up to where Impmon was sitting, and the little imp instantly jumped up to avoid the big bang that followed.
"Hey!" he shouted when he landed on the sidewalk. "Disgusting or not, I still wanted to eat that hot dog in peace. Now you made me angry!"
"That's what I wanted to hear!" BioAgumon grinned and beckoned the other Rookie with his claws. "Bring it!"
"You asked for it, pal..." Impmon grumbled and let a flame appear on his fingertip. "BADDA-BOOM!"
"PEPPER BREATH!" The two fireballs hit each other right in the middle between the two opponents and exploded with a loud bang.
"A rouge Digimon fight!" a nearby pedestrian yelled as he ran away.
"Somebody call the police!" a neighbor woman shouted as she closed her window.
"Just perfect, and here I thought I could do Ai a favor and improve my reputation in this district..." Impmon grumbled. "Now I have another reason to beat you up, buddy!"
"Not a chance!" BioAgumon said. "Claw Attack!"
Impmon jumped up when the grey reptile came charging at him with bared fangs, and gave him a firm kick to his head. "You still have a lot to learn if ya wanna beat me!" he laughed. "For yer information: I'm the one who helped to defeat the D-Reaper!"
"I know that," BioAgumon muttered while turning around. "But I don't think you'll have a chance against me without digivolving. And your Tamers are not around, are they?"
"I don't need to digivolve to take on the likes of you!" Impmon yelled. "SUMMON!" And from a dark hole that appeared in front of him, multiple shards of ice appeared. They were floating in the air, and with a gesture of his hands, they all flew at his enemy.
"Pepper Flame!" Another, bigger plume of fire shot out of BioAgumon's mouth and evaporated the ice shards within seconds. "That's boring!" he huffed. "Is that the best you can do?"
Impmon was surprised, then he smirked. "I'll give it to ya, kid: You're good! But don't think I'll go easy on you! BADDA-BOOM!"
This time, BioAgumon was not able to deflect the attack with his own fireball anymore. The small explosion threw him backwards to the ground, where he rolled over a few times.
"Dang, you're better than I thought you would be..." he grumbled while standing back up. "But my master warned me of your abilities... still, I can't let you interfere!"
"You master?" Impmon asked. "Who's that supposed to be? And interfere? Interfere with what?"
When a loud explosion could be heard behind him, he was startled. 'Oh no...' he thought. 'That came from... Ai's house!'
"AI!" he shouted and turned around to run. "MAKO!"
He stopped when suddenly, BioAgumon came jumping over his head and landed right in front of him. "I'm afraid I can't let you go any further!" he grinned. "My master told me to take care of yourself... and since we would have some trouble beating your Mega form, I have to finish you here and now!"
"Get out of my way, you punk!" Impmon yelled. "You better not touch my Tamers, or else..."
"You're all talk..." BioAgumon chuckled. "But you never had been able to even beat a Champion in your Rookie form. Let's see how cocky you are when faced with a strong one like me..." The triangle on his head started glowing.
"BIOAGUMON BIO HYBRID DIGIVOLUTION TO... BIOGREYMON!"
Impmon winced when suddenly, his opponent grew to more than half his size. The grey-scaled Greymon was more humanoid than any Greymon Impmon had seen before, and he also was wearing black armor that covered his chest. BioGreymon let out a mighty roar, then he pounded the earth with a massive stomp that made Impmon stagger.
"Do you still think you can beat me?" BioGreymon asked in a deeper voice. "How pitiful!"
"So you're big!" Impmon shouted angrily. "Big deal! You're just a big showoff, so shut yer big trap! Badda-Boom!"
The fireball flew at BioGreymon's head, but it bounced right off the hard scales.
"As I said..." BioGreymon yawned. "Boooring... I came here, expecting a good fight, and what do I get? A Rookie that can't stand his ground without having to rely on a pair of little kids!"
"Shut up!" Impmon yelled. "SUMMON!" Once again, he summoned the multiple ice shards, and they flew at the dinosaur's foot at an incredible speed. Before BioGreymon could do anything, they hit his foot. "Damn!" he roared in pain. "That stung!"
"An opening!" Impmon smirked and started running. He jumped on top of another lamp post, aimed at BioGreymon's eyes and released his other attack: "BADDA-BOOM!"
"NOVA BLAST!" BioGreymon roared, and a massive flame coming out of his muzzle intercepted the two small fireballs Impmon had thrown.
"Uh-oh..." Impmon gulped when he realized that he had made a fatal mistake. By jumping up into the air like this, he had given BioGreymon an opening himself. He braced himself for any attack the dinosaur would throw at him.
Instead, he found himself being snatched out of the air by BioGreymon's massive hand. The Champion Hybrid grinned at him with his sharp teeth and held him close to his face. "Game Over!" he chuckled. "I won! And now... supper time!" And he opened his maws wide.
Impmon paled. "You g-gotta be kidding me..." he winced.
"POISON IVY!"
To both Impmon's and BioGreymon's surprise, multiple vines came flying out of nowhere and wrapped themselves around the dinosaur's right foot. Suddenly, BioGreymon felt a strong yank at his foot, making him stagger around.
"Hey, whoah!" he shouted. "Who's doing this? Cut it out, or I'll... I'll... whaaaaaah!"
He cried out in pain when he stumbled over and fell right on his broad muzzle.
Impmon freed himself from his opponent's claws and jumped away, to the place where the young Palmon was just retracting her vine-like fingers.
"Thanks..." Impmon grumbled. "Whoever you are."
"The name's Kei," she replied. "I'm Takato's cousin... well, kind of..."
"NOVA BLAST!"
"Tell me later, okay?" Impmon gasped while they had to dive to avoid the massive fireball that hit the pavement where they had stood just seconds ago. "Damn, that guy can't take a hint..."
Kei smirked. "Then we just have to pound the message into his head. You with me?"
Impmon grinned. "I like you, girl! Let's do it!"
Kei knew how serious the situation was, but she actually was having fun. By himself, BioGreymon wasn't such a dangerous opponent, not if she had a teammate herself. Still, this fight wasn't like those the 'main characters' of this game had to face, so she could let loose and have a bit fun by herself.
"Tie him up!" Impmon shouted.
"Okay!" Kei nodded. "Poison Ivy!"
BioGreymon growled when the annoying vines tangled up his feet, legs and tail. Well, he just had to burn them to set himself free... but to his surprise, another vine wrapped itself around his mouth just as he was going to launch another Nova Blast.
"Now, Impmon!" Kei yelled.
Impmon concentrated his powers. "SUMMON!" he yelled. The icy shards flew up into the air. BioGreymon tried to yank his head to the side, but Kei had secured her vines by wrapping them around a huge van which was parked nearby.
The ice shards hit BioGreymon's face and exploded in a shower of stinging, cold pieces.
"MY EYES!" the Hybrid roared as he ripped himself free. "I CAN'T SEE!" And he started to blindly stumble around the street.
"Time to finish him off!" Impmon shouted and jumped on a car.
"Okay!" Kei nodded as she jumped on another one.
"BADDA-BOOM!"
"POLLEN RAIN!"
Both of their projectiles hit BioGreymon with full force, and with a loud roar, he collapsed in the middle of the street, shrinking back to his BioAgumon self.
"Yeah! How'd you like that?" Kei grinned.
"I think that is enough," a calm voice exclaimed.
"A-ai?" Impmon was taken aback. Above them, Ai's shining form was hovering, her wings spread in all directions. Behind her, a tall, dark Digimon that looked like an elderly man was floating. And just a moment later, two other humanoid, grey-colored Digimon appeared.
"You better behave if you want him to live!" BioGarurumon growled, raising the paw in which he firmly held the struggling form of a young TinyDevimon. "I'm serious!" And he raised a claw to Mako's neck.
"I-impmon..." Mako whimpered. "H-help me..."
"Everything will be all right," Ai said in a sad voice. "They said they won't hurt you or Mommy if we do what they say."
"You bastards!" Impmon shouted. "You won't get away with this!"
"I'm afraid I don't have the time to listen to your irritating voice anymore," Barbamon said with a frown. "I would never bother to meet you in person, but you have something I need. I already extracted it from that worthless traitor Phascomon... and now you'll give it to me!"
"What do you want, old man?" barked Impmon.
Barbamon sneered as he pulled out a ring with seven crystals that were dangling down from it. "Your sin data, of course! I need it to create the new Lord of Envy! You are not worth my time. But if you obey me, I'll release the boy, you have my promise."
"Don't believe him, Impmon!" Kei hissed. "Barbamon is the Lord of Greed, he always wants more."
"And you should know, right, Kei?" a familiar voice chuckled. "After all, you created this new reality."
"Y-you!" Kei gasped in surprise when BioCalumon appeared next to Barbamon.
BioCalumon grinned. "To meet you here again, of all places... I take it you have no time to work on my little game anymore, do you? Oh, wait a minute!" He tapped his chin with his finger thoughtfully. "I guess there's no game left you could use anymore... now that's a pity. Where could it be?"
"Sh-shut up!" Kei shouted. "You are the one who cause all of this, not me! And that I met you here is nothing but a coincidence!"
"Oh, really?" BioCalumon smirked. "I beg to differ. Or why else would you have used that tracker to find the PC where my game is now situated?"
Kei gasped, then she realized that BioCalumon must know about the Maker Points.
Barbamon raised an eyebrow. "I don't really know what you two are talking about, and I really don't care. I just know that I have some data to collect." He held the Virus Circlet into Impmon's direction. "Impmon! Your sin data! Now! Or your Tamer is gonna die!"
BioGarurumon grinned as he made a motion as if he wanted to slice Mako's throat.
"Please, Impmon!" Ai pleaded. "Believe me, everything is going to be all right. Mako will be free, you won't have the evil data in you anymore, and they will never bother us again." She smiled. "All you have to do is touch the crystal."
Impmon hesitated. Could he trust her words? She was his Tamer... but then again, why should he do anything Barbamon commanded him to do?
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