Episode 13 - The Battle For Survival.

Chibi-Koushiro walks up. "The characters are properties of Toei
Animation Inc., Saban Entertainment and others. They are used without
consent. Archive is only borrowing them for an indefinite amount of time.

"Strict Japanese spelling for all names when possible. If an English
name for a digimon or his attack is used and you know what the name
is supposed to be in Japanese-- please tell Archive so it can be corrected."

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"While Koushiro-sempai was studying the Digital Code language at
the temple and Unimon's troops were out getting supplies to begin
the next stage of the war, a boy appeared saying he was a Chosen
with Meramon as his partner," Miyako said sadly.

"However, that was just a plot to find the safe entrance into our
base. The boy was really a Bakemon and the Meramon was being controlled.
They nearly killed Koushiro-sempai but he was able to get both Tentomon
and Gomamon to evolve for him and was able to defeat the two digimon.
However, now we have to fight our way through our base to meet up
with Unimon and take down Devimon once and for all."

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Ogremon waited in the hallway in front of the portal room. With
two Monochromon, there wasn't much room to move. However, the first
to come through the portal would be blasted to bits. However, he
could expect to be killed if he wasn't careful.

Ogremon prepared to fight as the room flashed. His jaw dropped as
a giant crystal spiked ball rolled from the portal and right over him.

The Monochromon opened fire at the portal but were countered by
fireballs thrown by Fladramon and Meramon.

"Go for the Black Gears!" Daisuke ordered as he ran through the portal.

Shurimon bounced in after him and attacked one of the Monochromon.
His shuriken bounced off the armored back. "Easier said than done," he commented.

"Fox Fire!" Flames shot out of Garurumon's mouth.

"Shooting Star!" Pegasmon flapped his wings sending dozens of small points of light.

Both attacks struck the closer of the two Monochromon, breaking the Black Gear on his back.

Togemugomon devolved.

"Digimental up!" Daisuke called out.

"Wormmon armor evolve!" An orange sphere surrounded Wormmon. It
exploded with fire. A black scaled dragon like digimon with flaming
butterfly wings and a helmet that looked like an insect's head.
"Exploding with courage, Shadramon!"

"Fire Rocket!"
"Flare Buster!"

The armor digimon of courage cried out in unison, their flaming
attacks striking and freeing the other Monochromon.

"Ogremon, you have failed for the last time!" boomed through the air.

"NO! I was only surprised. Please don't do this boss!" Ogremon cried out in fear.

Suddenly several Black Gear zoomed down the hall toward them. Two
embedding themselves into the freed Monochromon, the remaining dozen struck Ogremon.

Ogremon screamed in pain as his body began to shift. His head took
a bull like appearance, a metal device replaced his left forearm,
and he was covered in brown fur.

"What the hell?!" chorused many of the Chosen and their digimon.

"I evolved into a much more appropriate form," he snarled. "Face
death in the form of Minotarumon." He slammed his metal forearm
into the ground. "Darkside Quake!"

The entire temple began to shake.

"Everyone retreat!" Taichi ordered.

"Go through the Monochromon!" Daisuke shouted.

Shurimon, Shadramon and Fladramon attacked the re-imprisoned Monochromon, freeing them again.

Both Monochromon collapsed to the ground, unable to deal with being
freed twice from the Black Gears.

Most of the Chosen and their digimon ran over or around the slumbering digimon.

Minotarumon snarled. "Why didn't you run away?"

Koushiro stood at the far entrance to the portal room. "I can't run very good."

"Why don't I put you out of your misery then?" Minotarumon questioned.

"Because I just shut off all power to the portal room, which means the floor..."

Minotarumon looked down at cracking floor which collapsed sending him into a black abyss.

"...is false." Koushiro closed his laptop. "That handles him."

Tentomon looked over the edge. "Where did he go?"

"A random point in the Digital World. He could be anywhere." Koushiro
sighed. "Too bad this world is three-quarters water, he probably
drowned... if he didn't end up embedded in solid rock."

"That's evil," Tentomon remarked.

"War is evil, I'm just a soldier," Koushiro retorted. "Now, if you'll
evolve, you can fly me to the other side."

"This'll be tricky. I'm kind of too big as Kabuterimon," Tentomon remarked.

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"Out of the frying pan and into the fire," Yamato groaned seeing
Panjamon and six Bakemon waiting for them.

"Try a more frigid comparison. Ice Beast Fist!" Panjamon punched
the air sending out an icy wave at Fladramon.

"Fire Rocket! Fire beats ice," Fladramon lost his smirk as the frosty
attack struck him. He fell to his knees and devolved.

"You'll have to be a lot hotter than that," Panjamon retorted.

"Then let's all warm your pants! Burning Fist!" Meramon fired off his attack.

"Flare Buster!"
"Fox Fire!"
"Baby Flame!"
"Magical Fire!"
"Star Shower!"

The digimon added their attacks, igniting the air around Panjamon.
The Bakemon exploded, while the giant lion digimon only flinched.

"What's this guy made off?" Mimi asked in fear.

"Pure evil." Panjamon smirked as he pulled out his sword. "Anyone care to put up a fight?"

"Kusanagi!" Shurimon threw his large shuriken, which Panjamon deflected.

"Everyone outside!" Daisuke ordered as he picked up V-mon.

"Going somewhere?" Kentarumon, a half-human half-horse digimon,
questioned a short distance outside of the new 'backdoor' to the
temple. Above him hovered two Kuwagamon, giant red insect digimon.

"This just gets better," Takeru moaned.

"Don't lose hope yet," Pegasmon took to the air.

Then the ground began to shake violently with many of the Chosen
and their digimon falling into the ground.
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"Oh, shit," Kabuterimon commented seeing Panjamon waiting for them.

Koushiro relieved himself of bodily waste when Panjamon's sword
nearly beheaded him... if he hadn't fallen off Kabuterimon at that moment.

Panjamon raised his sword for the kill, but Kabuterimon plowed him into a wall.

"Join the others," Kabuterimon said. "I'll hold him off."

Panjamon punched the giant blue insect in the head. "You wish. That
boy might be the smallest, so he must die."

"What does being short have to do with anything?" Koushiro wondered.

"Koushiro, run!" Kabuterimon yelled.

Panjamon kneed Kabuterimon, then head-butted him, punched him, and
then called out, "Ice Beast Fist!"

Koushiro's digimon partner was Tentomon when he struck the wall from the last hit.

Koushiro moved as fast as he could as he picked up Tentomon's unconscious
form and struggled through the hole in the hole with his lame leg.

Panjamon chuckled as he walked casually after him.

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Yamato stared at the gapping hole in the ground. "What happened?!"

Taichi growled and gripped his digivice. "We've got other things to be concerned about."

"Agumon evolve!" A pillar of light surrounded the tiny dinosaur,
and when it sub-sided a full sized and well fed looking Tyrannosaurus
Rex stood there with a horned mask over his head. "Greymon!"

"Piyomon evolve!" A pillar of light erupted where the pink bird
stood. Suddenly a gigantic pair of fiery reddish-orange wings stretched
forth, and the light subsided to reveal a couple stories tall bird
that had a flat beak with crocked teeth growing out it. "Birdramon!"

"We'll see to our friends, here. You check on the others," Garurumon suggested.

Kentarumon raised his right arm, which look like his forearm had
been replaced by a ray gun. "Hunting Cannon!"

Garurumon howled as his wounded shoulder was struck again, he devolved.

"Mega Flame!" Greymon fired off his attack.

Kentarumon dodged to the side. "Jet Gallop!" He charged at a blinding
speed as his back thrusters shot him forward as he shoulder checked Greymon's wounded leg.

Greymon's leg wobbled badly as he grabbed Kentarumon and then placed
his gapping mouth over him. "Mega Flame!"

Kentarumon cried out in pain as he was engulfed in flames. The Black
Gear exploded as he collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Greymon devolved as he could no longer support that form. Agumon
looked to the sky and saw the dog-fight that was occurring between
Birdramon and Pegasmon against the two Kuwagamon.

"What the fuck?" Koushiro questioned as he limped through the opening in the temple wall.
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"Just great! Now what?" Daisuke asked angrily.

"Controlled Drimogemon," Palmon almost whined seeing three large
purple fur covered mole like digimon with drills for noses.

"Let's just make that uncontrolled." Shadramon took aim at the Black Gear. "Flare Buster."

"Drill Spin!" The Drimogemon attacked the ground, raising a shield
of dirt to block the flaming attack.

Shurimon hummed to himself. "Autumn Wind."

Miyako blinked as her digimon disappeared, the closest Drimogemon
didn't seemed bothered as he advanced toward her.

"I wouldn't do that," Shurimon said standing on the Drimogemon's
back. He then punched the Black Gear, freeing the mole like digimon.

Meramon stared down the last Drimogemon. Neither would attack knowing
that it would only be countered.

"Flare Buster!" Shadramon called out, blasting the Black Gear from the flank.

Meramon looked over and saw that Shadramon hadn't taken out his opponent. "Burning Fist!"

"Drill Spin!" The Drimogemon countered.

"Bone Crusher!" The Drimogemon Shurimon freed punched and destroyed
the Black Gear. "You okay, brother?"

The newly freed Drimogemon blinked. "Yeah... I think so."

"You guys okay down there?" Sora called out.

"We're fine," Takeru called out as he eyed a cave opening. "And
I think we've found a way to retreat. Get everyone down here."

One of the Drimogemon looked at the tunnel. "Um, don't know where
it goes, but we'll find a way out for you."

Sora looked up at Birdramon fighting against a Kuwagamon and Koushiro
staring at them with Panjamon walking up behind him. "Koushiro look out!"

Koushiro turned around in time to dodge the lion digimon's large sword.

"Shooting Star!" Pegasmon attacked Panjamon, who grimaced in pain.

"Retreat into the hole!" Taichi ordered.

Birdramon swooped down and picked up Koushiro and Tentomon and flew
into the gapping hole. Devolving once she set the two on the ground.

Pegasmon flew in after her.

Taichi helped Agumon and Yamato grabbed Gabumon as they all jumped
in with Sora just before the Kuwagamon would've attacked them.

Panjamon strolled over to the edge of the hole in time to see the
Drimogemon seal that end of the cave.

"You let them get away!" boomed in the air.

"And how do you propose I stop them with the way my troops are?"
Panjamon questioned. "A single hit can render your control obsolete.
If I'm going to fight them effectively I'm going to need soldiers
who are not weak like the Overdell Bakemon, nor easily defeated by removing your Black Gear."

The air seemed to growl. "If you weren't so useful, I'd have you killed."

"There is no room for the weak," Panjamon replied. "What happened to Ogremon?"

"Dead effectively. He fell into the portal room and can be anywhere
on the planet, and that was after I evolved him."

Panjamon snarled. "Damn. He would've been a good rival again."

"Find the Chosen and make sure the smallest dies!"

"I'll just kill all of them," Panjamon said.

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"There you guys are!" Piyomon called out as she found Unimon's troops.

Unimon looked up with concern. "Is something wrong?"

Piyomon nodded as she landed. "The base's location has been compromised.
We were attacked before we returned. We all made it, but we have
a few injuries. We also gained Meramon and three Drimogemon."

"Take us to where your group is. It's time to deal with Devimon," Unimon said angrily.

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Author's Notes:

And the first story-arc, The Digimental Quest, is over. Now begins the war against Devimon.

Episode 14 - Battle Plans
The Chosen, their digimon, and Unimon's army decide on how to continue this war.

Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake!

A glass door silhouettes two forms. Suddenly they jump on the door
causing it too fall, but miraculously doesn't break.

"Hi, everyone! I'm Taichi!" called out chibi-Taichi.

"And I'm Sora!" added chibi-Sora.

"Not it's time for what you've all been waiting for, the second part!" they chorused.

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"What the hell is that?" Taichi blinked staring at a metallic Tyrannosaurus
Rex that was a bit taller than Greymon would be.

"What you?" The metallic dinosaur sniffed Agumon.

"I'm Agumon. A digimon," Agumon replied.

The dinosaur scratched his chin. "Di...gi...mon? What that?"

"That's short for Digital Monster," Agumon answered.

"Monster? Grimlock kills monsters." His form then changed into a
giant robotic human and pointed a large gun at Agumon.

"I can do that too. Agumon warp evolve!" A brilliant orange light
flashed and when it subsided an armored reptilian humanoid figure
stood in his place. "War Greymon!"

"How do that?" Grimlock asked.

"I don't know. I just evolve," War Greymon replied. "How do you change form?"

"I just transform," Grimlock answered simply. "You good guy or bad guy?"

War Greymon nodded. "Good guy."

"Oh. Grimlock shouldn't kill you then." Grimlock put away his gun.

"That's a relief," War Greymon commented.

"Let's go get some energon cubes and talk over drink," Grimlock
put his arm on War Greymon's back.

"Man, this dimensional hopping is getting bad. When will I figure
out a way to go home?" Taichi sighed as he followed his digimon and the dinobot.

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"That was cute," chibi-Sora commented.

"Agumon should have kicked his ass." Chibi-Taichi crossed his arms.

Chibi-Sora giggled. "Can't have battles every time. Until next time..."

"Be seeing you!" Chibi-Taichi and Chibi-Sora chorus.

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