"Gargo Pellets!"
"Gauntlet Claw!"
Turuiemon attacked with her clawed gauntlets, while her 'husband' fired away with his guns. The Fire Digimon fell under their attacks.
"C'mon, Henry!" Gargomon grinned and pointed towards the tunnel of black, volcanic stone. "The way is clear!"
"Yes..." Yui nodded. "I can feel it... the heat he is radiating... it's the same as back when I met him. SkullMeramon is in there, all right!"
"I don't know, Henry..." Suzie frowned. "Are you sure you want to come with us? You can't fight, and it's going to be pretty dangerous in there."
Henry raised an eyebrow. "Suzie... I hate to say it, but I haven't been able to fight before I became a Hybrid either. That is, before Harmony became one... you know what I mean. And maybe we need the powers of my new body..."
"I still think you should stay back here, where it's safer," Suzie insisted. "I'm just looking out for you, you know?"
"Yeah, just like a Mom would look out for her child," Bimon smirked. Senshimon gave him a light bop against the head.
Suzie blushed. "I-it's not just the adult in me speaking. I would still be worried if I were younger... after all, you're my big brother. And even though I can only remember Harmony... you're still the same, just a boy... aren't you?"
Henry wanted to say 'Of course!', but that didn't quite sound right to his ears, so he instead said: "Listen, Suzie... I'll stay behind the lines, where it's safe. And I'll be careful not to get too close to SkullMeramon and his attacks... is that okay?"
Suzie still felt unsure of the whole thing, but she sighed and nodded.
Alice put her gloved paw on Suzie's arm and smiled up at her. "He'll be fine. We'll protect him, so don't you worry. Ya know, you remind me of someone..."
"I do?" Suzie wondered. "Of who?"
Alice smirked. "Of myself, kiddo... right after I became a Hybrid. You know, the first time my pals and I faced our first battle, I was worried for our safety. Unlike Kouki and Ivan, who were seasoned street fighters even before they became Digimon, I had never been in a battle before. But Kouki always told me: 'Don't try to think about it too much. When you're in a fight, just fight! And when you're getting your ass kicked, get the hell out of there! That's all there is to it!' You see what I'm getting at?"
"Yes... I think I do," Suzie nodded and smiled. "Thanks, I will keep that in mind."
"If you're finished, can we go already?" Senshimon asked. "The sooner I can get back to being a Rookie, the better..."
"What?" Alice was surprised. "I never knew I'd hear these words coming from you, Nonaka... aren't you glad to be an adult again?"
"Again?" Bimon wondered.
Romi ignored her little brother. "Well, of course I am, but at least as Fuchsmon, I'm not wearing a girly outfit like this!" She grimaced when she felt her short skirt, the ribbons and her tiara. "As a Rookie, I could at least be mistaken for a young boy..."
Gargomon snickered. "A young boy with ribbons in his tail?"
"That's not funny!" Romi snapped. "You try and walk around with these things for once!" And she hefted her breasts.
"Romi!" Suzie yelped and covered Bimon's eyes. "Not in front of the child!"
"I didn't see anything," Bimon said. "But yeah, those boobies of yours really look silly, sis."
Henry cleared his throat. "Excuse me, but if the conversation goes into the direction of boobies, I'd stop it now, before we get even more sidetracked. Why don't we go in there and kindly ask Mr. SkullMeramon to stop his geothermic operations of the terroristic kind?"
"Yeah, let's..." Senshimon nodded with a sigh.
"Uncle Shibumi, I'm hungry!" Mayumi whined as she pulled on the adult's pants.
"Me too!" Janyu nodded. He looked down into the bowl he was holding. "The cookies are all gone..."
Shibumi sighed. If Janyu used to snack on so many cookies back when he was a child, it was no wonder that he had become as pudgy. He opened the fridge and looked inside.
"There's not much in here, I'm afraid," he told the two. "I'm sorry..."
Mayumi winced as a loud rumbling came from her stomach. "But my tummy's rumbling..." she whimpered.
"Hungry!" Janyu shouted again. "I wanna have more cookies... and ice cream! Lotsa ice cream!"
"All right, all right, I understand... let's go to the market, then." He reached into his pocket and was relieved to find some money in there. He definitely didn't want to search the Wong's apartment for their own money.
'Hopefully, this currency is still accepted in Lucemon's weird, little world,' he thought.
He opened the cupboard, in which a hogtied, black ball with wings was lying. DemiDevimon threw a hateful glare at the human.
"You be good now, we'll be gone for a while, but we'll be back soon, so don't you try anything stupid!"
DemiDevimon mumbled something unintelligible into the gag that was in his mouth while he struggled to get free.
Janyu grinned. "Hey, Mayumi, you managed to tie him up pretty good."
The little dog-girl blushed. "Mommy always used to say that I can make the best knots..."
DemiDevimon thrashed around even more, and he actually managed to roll himself out of the cupboard, before Shibumi grabbed him, and shoved him back inside. "I don't like this..." he murmured. "I don't want him to get away while we're going to the store..."
"Leave that to me!" Mayumi smiled, still thinking that they were playing a game. The Cutiepupmon made a motion with her hand, and a little heart came floating at DemiDevimon. "Lovely Love."
The Rookie devil suddenly stopped struggling. 'Strange...' he thought. 'I feel happy for no reason.' And a big grin appeared on his face.
"Nice work, Mayumi!" Shibumi said. "Now, will you be a good boy and stay in the cupboard?" he asked DemiDevimon.
DemiDevimon grinned dreamily and nodded.
Shibumi sighed. 'Well, that's a load off my mind... at least until Mayumi's attack stops losing its effect.'
SkullMeramon glowered at the intruders that entered the cavern in which his floating throne currently was. They were on the other side of a slowly flowing river of lava, out of which his throne was rising. The leader of the Fire Digimon terrorists stood up and slowly walked through the lava, unaffected by the heat.
"You chose to break my heart by siding with these interlopers," he told Yui, putting as much emotion into his voice as he had. "I will never know if you lied to me about your relatives in danger, since I don't really want to know... but since you are the most beautiful Meramon I have ever seen, and I am not entirely heartless, I will give you one final chance: Be my bride, and I will overlook your actions!"
"Sorry, but you're not my type!" Yui shouted, brandishing her fire whip. "Tokyo is my home town, and I'm not exactly happy that you are planning to destroy it with a volcano."
"Besides, do you think Lucemon would simply watch and let you destroy her tower?" Turuiemon asked.
SkullMeramon frowned. "What nonsense are you babbling about?"
"She's talking about the tower Lucemon put in the place of Tokyo Tower, right above our heads!" Alice shouted, pointing up at the ceiling. "Don't tell me you didn't know that this was one of the first things she did after taking over."
"Lucemon? Ridiculous! That's just a Digimon fairy tale!" SkullMeramon shouted. "Don't try to scare me with such lies! My men and I have been down here for a few weeks, and last time we were on the surface, nobody knew anything about Lucemon or any other Demon Lord!"
"He really wasn't affected by Lucemon's bubble," Senshimon whispered. "He has no idea what's going on on the surface."
"Well, that doesn't matter," Suzie said. "I don't know if Lucemon would stop him or not... but we can't risk that. A volcano would destroy all of Tokyo, and along with it, all the children up there." She knew that there were also a few adults left, but basically, Tokyo was a child paradise/hell right now, and as an adult (even if only temporary), she felt responsible for the children's safety. She raised her Zodiac Shield. "Stop your actions, in the name of the Deva!"
Turuiemon frowned. Where did that come from?
"You heard her, hothead!" Senshimon shouted as she pulled out her wand. "It's over!"
"Never!" SkullMeramon roared as he surrounded himself with an aura of blue, blazing fire. "If you're in my way, then get ready to taste the flames of my wrath!"
Henry nodded to himself. "Yup, corny villain speech, the classic introduction to a boss battle..."
"YOU DARE TO MOCK ME? FLAME CHAIN!"
And one of the metal chains SkullMeramon had around his upper body came flying through the air, wrapped itself tightly around Henry's tiny little body and pulled him towards the flaming villain.
"HENRY!" Gargomon shouted, and Suzie gasped.
SkullMeramon chuckled as he let Henry dangle in front of his face. "You will be the first... to die!"
"NOOOOOO!" Suzie yelled. She ran at the metallic Ultimate, ignoring the river of lava that was between him and her. "DON'T YOU TOUCH HIM!"
"SUZIE, LOOK OUT!" Henry shouted. "THE LAVA..."
Turuiemon tried to intercept her Tamer's path, but she knew it was too late. Suzie had reached the edge of the lava river, she got ready to jump... and a blinding light came shining from Henry's forehead. It was reflected off the surface from Suzie's shield and engulfed her body.
"SUZIE HYBRID DIGIVOLVE TO... SHAOCHUNGMON!"
Suzie's body turned into that of a seasoned warrior. Purple fur covered her body, as her ears grew to those of a rabbit. Her hind legs grew strong and powerful, while a pair of angelic wings grew on her backside. Armor parts appeared on her arms and legs, resembling the armor most of the Devas wore. This armor was all she wore over her fur. Her hair was in a long ponytail that waved behind her, just like the long, magenta-colored scarf around her neck.
The humanoid rabbit warrior made one giant leap, and her hind legs catapulted her all the way across the lava. Standing in front of SkullMeramon's throne, she was now facing the Fire Digimon's backside. With one twirl, she threw the shield that was still mounted to her arm at SkullMeramon. "ZODIAC SPIN!" Sharp, triangular blades extended from its sides, and it spun like a buzzsaw as it flew at its target.
SkullMeramon cried as the spinning shield collided with his back, the spinning blades creating deep scratches in his metallic skin. The impact made him lose hold on his own chain, and Henry was freed from his entanglement. Spreading his ears, BioHenrimon floated back to the others, where he was safe.
Shaochungmon pulled at the chain that was connected to the Zodiac Shield, and it obediently came flying back at her, where it reconnected itself with her upper arm. She pointed her free hand at the injured villain.
"In the name of the Deva... and the four Sovereigns... I declare you an enemy of the Digital and the Human World! Surrender... or face judgement!"
Henry stared at the warrior-woman that was shouting at SkullMeramon. Was that really his sister? And she was a Hybrid, too? Did she only manage to digivolve because of Lucemon's transformative magic? Or was it because of the shield? Did Kei create a scripted scene that turned Suzie into a Hybrid? Or had she been one all along? Next to him, Turuiemon also looked at her digivolved Tamer with wide eyes. She couldn't believe how closely she resembled both her Antylamon and Turuiemon forms...
Shibumi looked around and scratched his head. "Toys... candy... more toys... children's books... yet another aisle of toys... is there actually any normal food in this market? Like, some canned food? Or microwave noodles?"
"Oh, that would be in the 'adult department'," a female employee smiled as she waded through the kids that were shopping, all of them without an adult supervisor. And she gestured at a very small, secluded part of the store, which was blocked off from where the children were allowed to roam.
Shibumi sweatdropped. "Adult department? This feels like I'm in a video store, and over there are the adult movies..."
The employee shrugged. "Rules are rules, and you wouldn't want to allow the kiddies to buy everything an adult would, right?"
Shibumi was about to reply: 'Well, that's why the adults are doing the chores,' but he realized that there were obviously not enough adults to do the shopping for ALL the children.
"But... all those sweets..." he protested and gestured at a little girl that pushed a little shopping cart full of candy and chocolate to the cash register. "Isn't that bad for their teeth?"
"Not these sweets," the employee smiled. "Didn't you know that Lady Lucemon gave these sweets as a present to all the children she wants to protect? They taste just like the ones that used to be in our stores, but with one big difference: You can eat as much as you want, and they will NEVER cause any damage to your teeth!"
Shibumi sighed. He would never get used to this crazy world.
Janyu and Mayumi came running, their arms full with sweets. "Uncle Shibumi? Look, we brought dinner! You think this is enough?"
"Maybe we should add a few dog biscuits," Mayumi suggested.
Janyu stuck out his tongue. "Yuck! That's dog food!"
The Cutiepupmon licked her short muzzle. "I know... yum!"
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