"Okay, we've waited long enough," d'Arcmon proclaimed and turned to the communication officer on her flagship's bridge. "Inform the fleet: Fire as the ship's captains see fit!"
"Wait!" Compsomon shouted. "What if Impmon manages to bring her back?"
"I can't depend on a little imp who has once been a Demon Lord himself, Mie! My daughter... she isn't there anymore."
"But... but you can't just..."
"I can't?" d'Arcmon snapped, turning around to face Mie with furious eyes. "I can't? This is war, Compsomon! Sacrifices have to be made. Magnadramon knew that when she sent me and the Heavenly Fleet to take care of Lucemon. Now let me do my work... or get off my ship!"
The MagnaAngemon sitting at the communication console spoke into the funnel-shaped intercom in front of him. "Attention all ships! Get ready to..."
"HEAVENLY CIRCLE!"
The adult angel gasped when a ring of pure light zipped through the air right in front of his face, destroying the intercom.
The ring of light flew a circle and returned back into the hand of the little angel girl who had thrown it. Next to her, a boy of the same age and size was hovering.
"I'm sorry!" the girl smiled. "But Ai said we can't allow you to do that."
"Get them!" d'Arcmon ordered, and all around her, the adult angels moved to capture their childish counterparts.
The ChibiAngewomon took her harp. "I guess it's time..."
"...to teach them a lesson!" the TinyAngemon smirked while reaching for his wand.
Before the adult angels could reach them, they began to work their powers. Mai's music twisted their minds while Toshi's wand transformed their bodies.
More angels entered the bridge. "General!" an Angewomon gasped. "What happened?"
"You didn't really think Ai would allow you to end our fun like this?" Toshi grinned. "Now be good and surrender... or we have to order our new pets to attack you."
The transformed angels fell down to all fours. The MagnaAngemon were sprouting fur and long muzzles, until they looked like huge, grey-furred wolves with white wings. The few Angewomons that had been on the bridge, on the other hand, had become sleek, winged cats of prey with yellow fur and a pair of sabertooth fangs that protruded from their muzzles.
"AngeLeomon and AngeGarurumon..." Mai smirked. "Sic'em!"
With loud barks and growls, the four-legged angels attacked their former comrades.
"Fight back!" d'Arcmon commanded. "Don't let them take over the bridge! Fire the holy ray cannons at the Blimpmon!"
Just then, an AngeGarurumon (her former lieutenant) leapt for he throat, and she drew her staff with her right hand, and her sword with her left hand to defend herself against the furious attack.
'Okay, Mie, you're getting old if you weren't able to prevent this,' Compsomon thought to herself as she drew her own daggers and tried to fight a way through the winged beasts. 'If I only could reach those two kids...'
Suddenly, a Piddomon, a lower-ranked Angel Digimon, came swooping in. "General!" he shouted. "The enemy has appeared on the bridges of all ships and transformed the..." He gasped when he saw what had happened to the bridge crew of the MAGNADRAMON'S GLORY.
Toshi grinned. "Look, my pets! A new toy to chew on!" With savage growls, two AngeLeomon leapt at the unfortunate messenger.
'They're systematically eliminating every threat,' Mie thought. 'They know what our ray weapons are capable of.'
"d'Arcmon, we have to leave," Mie shouted.
"Abandon ship? Never!" the general yelled. "A captain always goes down with her ship!"
"And risks her only chance to win this battle," Mie yelled back, kicking an AngeLeomon against the wall. "If you still want to beat them, we have to use the weapons manually."
d'Arcmon grimaced. She hated to admit it, but Mie was right. "All right..." she grumbled. "Attention!" she shouted to her remaining warriors. "Keep them at bay! We will try to reach the main cannon!"
"Roger, ma'am!" most of the MagnaAngemon and Angewomon shouted back, well, those that were able to at the moment."
"Ember Ball!" Compsomon shouted, firing a round ball of fire out of her mouth to clear a path for herself and d'Arcmon.
Mai and Toshi watched how the two adult women were leaving the bridge.
"Shouldn't we stop them?" Ai asked uncertainly.
Toshi shook his head and grinned. "Nah, let's see how far they can come. It's much more fun this way, don't you agree?"
In the meantime, the Blimpmon had begun to open fire themselves. Missiles, cannonballs and bombs were being shot at the Heavenly Fleet. The cannoneers of d'Arcmon's ships were confused how to react, since the communication was out and they still hadn't received the order to use the holy rays. On top of that, they were being attacked by their transformed crewmates and were now fighting a two-sided battle. But even though the holy rays weren't fired yet, the normal cannons of the fleet returned fire, and soon enough, the Hybrid Tamers, who were still fighting their own battle, found themselves in the middle of an intensive sky skirmish.
"Looks like someone gave the order to attack..." Jackalmon growled while dodging another Heavenly Pitch. "If we don't find Ai quickly, things will get ugly."
"I'd say things have already become ugly as soon as these Blimpmon appeared," Excalimon proclaimed.
"Well, before we can do anything, we need to get rid of these annoying kids," FlareGuilmon said. "BLAZING COMET!" He engulfed his own body in flames, and like a living comet, he zipped across the battlefield. Whenever he hit one of the little angels, they cried out as the flames burned them. And when they looked down at their hands... they noticed that something important was missing.
FlareGuilmon came to a stop next to his friends and raised his right hand with a grin. In it, he was holding the wands and harps of the little angels. "Looking for something?"
"You meanies!" one of the kids shouted. "Those are ours!"
"Ai gave that to me!" a girl sobbed. "Give it back!"
"Sorry, you kids had your fun," FlareGuilmon grumbled and aimed one of his guns at the little trinkets. "Searing Heat!" And with his flamethrower, he incinerated the wands and harps.
Meanwhile, Sphinxmon had spread her wings. "Ancient Seal!" she shouted, and glowing portals of light appeared behind the angelic children. Tendrils of energy attached themselves to the kids' arms and legs and held them in place.
"Hey! No fair!"
"Lemme go! Lemme go!"
"Ai's gonna punish you!"
"I'd like to give every single one of you a good spanking," Sorceressmon frowned. "But there is no time. Jeri, can we leave them here?"
"Well, my Ancient Seal will hold them for a while, but not forever..."
"Good enough! Quick, let's find Ai before one of these ships is shot down. She said she wanted to hide on any of the ships, so we've got to split up. "Takato, Jeri, Guilmon... you go over to the Heavenly Fleet, and while you're at it, see if you can do anything to help them. Ryo, Renamon, Harmony, you're coming with me."
"Okay," Jackalmon sighed. "I just wish Terriermon was here..."
And then everyone flew to either of the two fleets. While riding on Sphinxmon's back, Bariomon frowned. "I don't like it if she acts like a leader..."
Sphinxmon smirked. "Why? Are you afraid she might take over your job?"
Bariomon decided not to reply to that.
After they had parted ways, the captured angel kids were left behind. A few of them tried to escape their bonds, but it was no use.
"So..." one of the boys then asked. "Anyone up to 'I spy'?"
"Ooooh, let me begin!" one of the girls squealed. "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with B."
"Blimpmon!" everyone replied at once.
By now, Impmon had already entered one of the Blimpmons and was searching the whole Digimon vessel for his former Tamer.
'Ai...' he thought. 'Where are you?'
When he came into a huge room that was filled with several machines, he suddenly found himself face to face with several Hagurumon. He couldn't know that these, like the Blimpmon, were a few of the criminals Ai had transformed with her magic.
"Intruder!" one of them shouted. "Get him!"
"Cog Crusher!" several of the Machine Digimon shouted and threw their cogs at him like boomerangs.
Impmon did a back flip to avoid them. "I really don't have time for you clowns..." he grumbled. "But if you insist..." He made flames appear on his fingertips and threw them at the Hagurumon. "BADDA-BOOM!"
A sudden explosion caused by a shot of the Heavenly Fleet made the whole Blimpmon tilt sideways, and the Hagurumon helplessly skidded along the floor. Impmon held on to a metal bar and grinned. "Well, it helps to have hands, you know?" he chuckled. He quickly leapt over to a window, threw a final fireball and clambered out of the window. "Later, losers!"
The outside of the Blimpmon was being whipped by strong air currents, and the little devil had to hang on tightly to avoid being blown off. But his determination to save Ai drove him onward. He winced when a missile fired by the Heavenly Fleet exploded just beneath him.
"Hey, watch where you're shooting this stuff, okay?" he yelled and swung his fist in the direction of the flying temple ships. "I'm one of the good guys!"
When he finally reached another window, he swung his body inside, landed on his feet... and was faced by an Andromon.
"Intruder located!" it said in a monotone voice. "Proceed with elimination!"
"This really isn't my day..." Impmon grumbled while the Andromon was raising his mechanical hand and turned it into a rapidly spinning drill.
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