"A champion of the Devas, is that so?" SkullMeramon asked while narrowing his eyes. "Well, I know the Devas are nearly all dead... and besides, this isn't the Digital World. So your laws have no power here."
"You are still a criminal who risks thousands of lives just to satisfy your own urges," Shaochungmon proclaimed while pointing at the metal Ultimate. "I will not let you get away."
"Oh, I'm not planning on fleeing..." SkullMeramon grinned. Blue fire surrounded his head and hands as he slowly approached her. "I burn everything that gets in my way..."
"So be it..." the Hybrid warrior grumbled as she went into a battle pose.
Suddenly, she heard the voice of her brother: "Hey! Listen! You can't face him alone! You need to bring the others on this side of the lava river."
"Oh, right..." Suzie nodded, evading one flame that SkullMeramon threw at her. "I guess I can jump across and carry them over with one single leap... but that'd leave me open to attacks."
""No problem at all!" A whip made of red, blazing flames wrapped itself around the fire terrorist's body. Yui glared at SkullMeramon as she stepped out of the lava. While SkullMeramon had been distracted by Shaochungmon's transformation and attack, she had used the chance to wade through the lava. "I will keep him busy."
"You break my heart, you lovely being of fire," SkullMeramon grumbled. "So be it... show me how brightly your fire burns!" He grabbed the fire whip and yanked hard, but Yui didn't let go. Instead, she simply leapt over his head. "FIRE METEOR!" she shouted and threw a fireball at his head.
SkullMeramon growled. "That just fuels my fire, my dear... face it, as hot as you are, you are still a Champion. You can't face me like this... not by yourself!"
"Well, maybe she doesn't need to face you all alone." SkullMeramon looked around and saw how Gargomon was standing behind him. Shaochungmon had just put him down on the solid floor on the other side of the lava river and leapt back across to get Turuiemon.
Gargomon brandished his guns. "Get ready to rumble, hothead! GARGO PELLETS!"
The Ultimate winced when the projectiles hammered against his metal breastplate. "Pesky flies..." he grumbled. "What can you do when faced with the wrath of a volcano?"
"We let it snow, let it snow, let it snow," Turuiemon chuckled as she appeared next to her 'husband'. With one swift motion, she hurled a sparkling powder at the fire Digimon. "There you go, Snow Powder, take it while it's fresh!"
"GAAAAAAH!" SkullMeramon roared. "Snow... how in hell... how could you have brought it down here, into the furnace that is my lair?"
"By doing what every smart adventuring party does," Alice smirked when Shaochungmon landed back next to her friend, putting the black-furred Gaomon to the ground as well. "Preparing, gathering Experience Points and stocking up on items. Although I think there's one thing I forgot to mention..."
"Simple!" Shaochungmon said as she came jumping back with Senshimon. "We haven't saved our game, something you always should do when a boss battle comes up."
"Hey, that reminds me... you wanna save before the battle gets really started?" Henry asked.
"What... what in the name of the flaming pits are you fools talking about?" SkullMeramon roared.
"Take a guess," Senshimon said. "While you were out of town, all of Japan has turned into one single role-playing game... and you're playing the part of the villain." She raised her wand. "So, in the name of the Digital World, I will punish you." She then blinked. "What... why did I just say that?"
"Stereotypical magical girl speech," Turuiemon shrugged. "I was forced to watch enough Sailor Moon episodes back when Suzie was a kid that I know much about them."
Shaochungmon blushed a bit at the memory, but she didn't let herself get distracted from the battle. "Last chance, SkullMeramon... surrender!"
SkullMeramon ripped Yui's whip from his body. "Never!" he hissed.
Shaochungmon shrugged. She didn't expect anything else. That was typical villain behavior. "Your loss... WAVE FESTIVAL!" Without a warning, she struck the ground and released colorful energy waves in pink, magenta and a pearly white that surrounded SkullMeramon's body. The attack was powerful enough to knock the Ultimate backwards, against his throne.
"My turn!" Senshimon shouted. "PINK BUBBLE REVOLUTION!" And her wand fired her magical attack at her enemy. "Man, I hate that attack..." she grumbled. "It's so... girly!"
She then caught herself staring at the pink bubbles. "But they sure are pretty..." she murmured.
"FLAME CHAIN!" SkullMeramon shouted, lashing at the bubbles with his fiery chain. He spun his weapon around over his head and threw it at the fuku-clad Digimon.
"Not bad!" Alice said, knocking the chain away with her fire-proof boxing gloves. "My turn! ROLLING UPPER!" And she smacked her fists multiple times into SkullMeramon's metal chin.
"Annoying Rookie!" he growled. "You're bothering me! Go away!"
"I'm just getting started!" Alice smirked. "GAOMON DIGIVOLVE TO... GAOGAMON!" And she dropped to all fours, grew in size and turned into a huge dog with a long, red scarf and claw-tipped gloves on his forepaws. She almost looked like a horse-sized husky, only with black fur.
"What, you never seen my Champion form before?" Alice asked when she saw the surprised looks of her friends. "Just because I can reach the Mega Level does not mean that I use it against every small-time villain I run across... SPIRAL BLOW!" And she shoot a spinning tornado from her mouth.
"GARGO PELLETS!" Gargomon added his own attack.
"NINJA FIST!" Turuiemon jumped into the air, assaulted SkullMeramon with a barrage of punches as she descended on him, and jumped back again.
"FLAME WHIP TRICK!" Yui flicked her whip at SkullMeramon's feet, the weapon wrapped itself around his ankles, and when she pulled, the Ultimate came crashing to the ground.
Alice grinned. "DOGPILE!" she shouted as she leapt upon the surprised Ultimate.
"NO! Anything but that..." SkullMeramon gasped when he saw the massive body of the dog Hybrid falling down on him.
Alice smirked as she pressed him down to the floor with her weight. "I love doing that..."
"Out of the way, Alice, I'll finish him!" Shaochungmon shouted. She spun her shield around, and the signs of the Zodiac began to glow. "ZODIAC SPIN!" Again, she threw her spinning shield, and Alice jumped away just in time before it hit its mark.
Back in the rebel base, Riley was pacing back and forth. Close to her, Ivan and Kouki were waiting next to the remaining, still active rebel fighters. There hadn't been an attack of fire Digimon for the last 30 minutes, and the security doors seemed to block off the lava for now.
Still, Riley was in a bad mood. "I don't get it... I really don't get it. Why is it that we always depend on the squirts? And when the squirts aren't there, we depend on OTHER squirts, even though these squirts haven't been squirts to begin with... why couldn't I go with them and help? You didn't really need my help against the smaller fries."
"Alice said we should wait," Ivan commented. "So we wait."
"Alice is my sister, not my boss!" Riley grumbled. "If I digivolve, I'm stronger than either of them..."
"It's really much safer for you to stay here," Tally said. She was hovering in mid-air, but looked as if she was sitting on a floating, invisible chair instead of thin air. "And what if Lucemon discovers the base in your absence?"
"Isn't that what we have our duo of former Demon Lords for?" Riley snapped. "I'm bored out of my mind. I came back here for some action... I know! Why don't we already go up there and see if we can bust into Lucemon's tower? Saves the squirts the trouble of getting in themselves."
"See, but that's not how it works," Kenta spoke up. He and Kazu were huddling in one corner, along with the other small kids. "This is a game, remember? And you're obviously not a playable hero."
"What the kid's trying to tell you is: This is their story! And you're not part of it!" Kouki grinned as he nibbled on one of his chips.
"Stop quoting video games and put away those chips already! You're driving me crazy!"
"Not much to do in those regards..." the Hybrid street fighter mumbled.
"I heard that!"
"Listen, Riley," Yamaki then said. "I think you're worrying too much. They're going to be fine. After all, Mr. Nonaka is with them. He's a seasoned cop and knows how to handle criminal Digimon."
"Yeah, only that now his biggest worry is how to handle those pink bows in his fur..." Kazu snickered.
"What I mean is, everyone must do what he has to do. And attacking Lucemon's tower without a plan isn't exactly the wisest thing to do."
Riley reluctantly had to admit that her boyfriend was right. "Well, I still don't like waiting," she grumbled. She crossed her arms and leaned back against the cavern wall.
Then a small pebble fell down on her head.
She blinked and looked up. "What the...?"
And without any further warning, the whole ceiling collapsed. The children yelped in fright and the bigger humans and Digimon quickly shoved them back, so the heavy boulders that came raining down didn't hit any of them.
A shrill scream made Ivan look to the middle of the cave, where one of the smallest girls was crouching. Before the change, she must have been an adult like all the others, but now she was just scared out of her mind, since one of the bigger rocks was falling down on her.
In a flash of speed that belied his heavy body, Ivan was over the girl. "Stay where you are!" he shouted. "IVAN BIO HYBRID DIGIVOLUTION TO... BIOSTEGOMON!"
Turned into a big, armored dinosaur, Ivan was able to block off the rocks. They harmlessly bounced against his hard, scaly hide or shattered when they hit the sharp blades on his back.
The landslide was over as quickly as it had begun... but the danger wasn't over yet. Up above them, coming through a hole in the ceiling, the monstrosity that had caused the ceiling to collapse appeared. The huge, winged dragon with the serpentine torso and the Hazard icon on his belly let out a screech that made everyone in the room wince, and then he landed in the middle of the cavern.
A pair of small, winged dragon children came fluttering down, each sitting on the grisly dragon's shoulders.
"Yeah, well done, Sweetie!" LassDramon cheered.
"I told you, his name's Spike!" LadDramon complained.
Meanwhile, Kazu couldn't keep his eyes off the dragon. "Kenta..." he whispered. "That's Megidramon!"
"What?"
"You know, the rampaging thing that Guilmon had turned into..."
Kenta gasped. "You're saying... that this is Guilmon? But what made him turn back into this? And who are those dragon Rookies?"
LassDramon cleared her throat. "A-hem... we are here on behalf of our mother, the Lady Lucemon! She has learned of your presence here and wants you to know that all rebelling actions are to come to a stop as of now."
"Yeah, that's right!" LadDramon nodded. "Also, she wants you to come and pay her a visit." He pointed at Riley.
"What... me?" Riley asked. She huffed. "And why should I be interested in meeting her, short stuff?"
"Adults these days are always sooo stubborn..." LassDramon sighed. "Sweetie, you know what to do..."
And with one single swipe of his massive paw, Megidramon grabbed Yamaki and pulled him up into the air.
"What? L-let me go..."
"Oh no!" Tally gasped.
"YAMAKI!" Riley yelled. "You better let go of him right now, or else..."
"Tut, tut," LassDramon snickered as she wagged her index finger. "Our little pet is highly irritable, you know? If you do something that bothers him, he might do something to your precious man..."
"Mom wants us to tell you this," LadDramon said. "If you want to see him alive, then you better come and pay her a visit in our tower."
"Later!" LassDramon giggled. With a mighty flap of his wings, Megidramon reached the huge hole in the ceiling he had created while digging his way through the earth. Using his claws, he clambered back up to the surface.
After he was gone, a single ray of light was shining down through the hole, down on the head of a BlackGatomon who had tears in her eyes.
"Damn you..." she muttered. "Damn you..."
"Riley... please, don't do anything rash," Tally pleaded.
"Yeah, we should wait until Alice has come back," Kouki nodded.
"If she lays ONE HAND on him..." Riley yelled. With a burst of power, her whole body expanded, and a pair of black wings appeared on her back. A LadyDevimon once again, Riley flew up through the huge shaft Megidramon had left behind. "I'm gonna KILL her!!!"
"Dang, looks like a bad case of relapse..." Kouki sighed.
"Riley, no..." Tally murmured. "Oh please, not again..."
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