Episode 9 - Call for Support

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"I don't know how things can get worse." Daisuke sighed. "Abducted
to another dimension to fight in a war sounds like some anime or
video game. Actually I think there were anime series like this. But that's hardly the point."

"The point is we're running out of the gates with minimal forces
against armies that are vastly superior to us in every way. And
I'm supposed to lead us to victory. But unlike anime and video games,
we already met one of the end bosses, Metal Seadramon. If I hadn't
gotten him to blow up the oil rig to cover our escape, he would have vaporized us."

"Unfortunately that will cause us another problem. The oil rig contained
the Digimental of Seijitsu. Which if it wasn't destroyed, is now
deep in the ocean and out of our grasp."

"I don't want to be leader of this group. Everyone is starting to
blame me for everything that's gone wrong. Takeru's jibs are losing
their playfulness. Before, I knew it if he called me stupid, he
was joking. Now I'm not sure. Taichi-sempai mocking me is the worst.
I know he should be the leader, but he lost his confidence along
with Koushiro's friendship from that fucking Yakuza bastard."

"I'll have to turn this team around and get us fighting as one.
If I fail, we're not all going to come back alive."

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In a darken roomed filled floating screens, a lone figure sits.

A new screen appeared showing a woman with white hair. "My lord, there's a problem."

The figure, a teenaged boy with eyes that should never be on one
who looked so young, glanced over. "What now, Archnemon? Has Mummymon
let out Chimeramon again? If he did, kill Mummymon and capture Chimeramon."

"No, sir." Archnemon smiled. "I wish that was the case now. However, we seem to have intruders."

He blinked. "Intruders? In Rail Town? How is that possible?"

"We are not sure." Archnemon bowed her head. "They just appeared
and went straight to the Yuujou Cliffs."

"They're after that power source." He leaned back. "Have Mummymon attack them."

"We think they may be Chosen," Archnemon added.

He waved her off. "So give Mummymon some heavy fire power, but not Chimeramon."

Archnemon bowed. "Yes, sir. I'll release the Monochromon and Snimon
and place them under his command."

"Make it so." He turned off the screen with Archnemon and activated
a few more. "Let's see who is foolish enough to challenge the Digi-Kaiser."
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"So this is the Digimental of Yuujou." Daisuke shrugged, looking
at a nut shaped black and purple egg with a crooked blade sticking out of it.

"That yin-yang figure might mean Yuujou." Takeru pointed at the
cliff face where the odd looking symbol was carved.

Miyako pushed up her glasses. "Actually, that's precisely what it means."

"Let's just get it and go," Taichi said harshly. "I don't trust this place."

"Why?" Sora asked.

"There's something wrong about those dark towers." Taichi motioned
toward the hundreds of towers around them.

"They are evil," Hikari said simply.

"How can you be sure about that?" Yamato questioned.

Hikari shrugged. "That's what I feel when I look at them."

"Oh, I can assure you they are quite evil," called out a mummy standing
on one of the towers, wearing leg braces and holding a bazooka of
some kind. He hefted his gun up. "Time to say good-bye, kiddies. Necrophobia!"

The kids and digimon scattered as an energy beam shot out of the gun and ravaged the ground.

"Everyone, evolve!" Daisuke ordered. "Digimental up!"

"V-mon armor evolve!" A sphere encased V-mon and shattered in a
fiery explosion that caused no damage. The lizard now stood over
two meters tall and had flaming red armor on his knees, arms and
head. "Burning with courage, Fladramon!"

"Digimental up!" Miyako called out.

"Hawkmon armor evolve!" A light green sphere encased him, and exploded
causing no damage to anything. In Hawkmon's place now stood a two
meters tall, white robed ninja with shurikens for hands and feet.
"Bursting with purity, Shurimon!"

Mummymon fell off his tower from shock. "The Kaiser and Archnemon
said that evolution is impossible near a tower."

"Agumon evolve!" cried out the dinosaur.

"Piyomon evolve!" shouted the pink bird.

"Palmon evolve!" the plant called out.

"Gabumon evolve!" the fur covered lizards added to the chorus.

Daisuke sweat-dropped. "Why'd you guys flub?"

Piyomon seized up and then sagged. "Something is preventing us from evolving."

"That mummy guy just said something about that," Miyako pointed out.

"That's Mummymon, and don't you forget it. Still none of you are
supposed to evolve." The mummy digimon hefted his large gun. "I'll
just have to kill you first. Necrophobia!"

Fladramon and Shurimon jumped out of the way. They bounced off the
dark towers as they approached their prey

"Fire Rocket!" Flames shot out of Fladramon's armored fist.

"Kusanagi!" Shurimon threw the large shuriken that was strapped to his back.

Both attacks struck Mummymon hard. He flew into a dark tower, shattering it.

"We did it!" Daisuke called out.

Mummymon stood up and pouted. "Archnemon will be so upset at me.
I destroyed one of her towers." He glared at his opponents. "You'll
have to pay. Monochromon attack!"

A dozen beams of fiery death streaked out, laying waste to everything
in their path, which were mostly dark towers. The kids and digimon
hugged the ground as the attacks passed over them.

The first attack ended and the dust settled revealing a dozen armor
plated, horned, four legged dinosaurs. They opened their mouths to unleash another volley.

"Retreat!" Taichi called out.

"Fladramon, Shurimon, lay cover fire for us," Daisuke ordered.

The Chosen with their digimon save Miyako and Daisuke ran from their attackers.

"Daisuke, what are you doing! We've got to get out of here!" Miyako called out.

Daisuke ran to the digimental. "We've come too far to back out now.
I won't fail my friends again." He grabbed the digimental and it moved easily.

A blue and green light spiraled from where the egg lay. Daisuke
blinked as a large caterpillar with long ears or antennae formed in the light.

The digimon opened his eyes. "Hello, I'm Wormmon. I guess I'm your digimon now," he said sadly.

Daisuke nodded. "Sure. Um, I need your help to protect my friends."

Wormmon nodded.

"Digimental up!" Daisuke called out.

"Wormmon armor evolve!" A blue sphere encased the digimon. It shattered
revealing a two meter long porcupine like digimon with black armor
over his paws and head. He didn't have quills but what looked more
like crystal shards. "Protector of friendship, Togemugomon!"

"Three armors aren't going to be much help," Miyako commented. "We need to get out of here."

"I know that. But we need to make sure everyone gets away first," Daisuke called out.

"Hail Gun!" Togemugomon called out and the crystal shards on his back shot forward.

"Flame Rocket!" Fladramon added to the attack.

Shurimon devolved. "Holsmon would be better."

"Right." Miyako nodded. "Digimental up!"

"Hawkmon armor evolve!" The hawk was encased in a glowing ball,
which somehow exploded without any force. A half-lion, half-hawk
griffon stood before her wearing a large winged silver helmet. "Flapping
with wings of love, Holsmon." He glared. "Red sun!" Beams of energy shot out of his eyes.

The attacks collided from those of the Monochromon. One of Togemugomon's
crystals struck a black ring on a Monochromon's leg, shattering the ring.

The Monochromon shook its head, and then head-butted the ring on
another Monochromon breaking that one.

The four Monochromon around them turned and attacked the ring-less
digimon. The remaining attackers continued their bombardment.

"Ah, a weak spot." Fladramon smirked. "Attack the rings."

"This is no good." Mummymon glared. "Necrophobia!" He fired his gun.

"Crystal Guard!" Togemugomon curled up into a ball just before the
blast would hit him. It was deflected by his crystalline back, crashing harmlessly into the cliff.

"Shit. Snimon attack!" Mummymon ordered.

A dozen giant green praying mantis like digimon flew in overhead.

"Ah, I think it's time we retreat as well." Miyako stepped back.

"Yeah. Let's go." Daisuke devolved Fladramon and Togemugomon.

"Mach Impulse!" Holsmon spun in the air pulling up all the debris
the fighting had created to hide their escape.

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The Kaiser punched his chair. "That's not possible! That's not possible!"

"I don't understand how they evolved either, sir." Archnemon said over a view screen.

The Kaiser snarled angrily. "Track down those Chosen and kill them.
Lead them personally. Use even Chimeramon. Just make sure they're
all dead. Especially their leader and his new digimon partner."

Archnemon blinked. "But sir, you've yet to perfect Chimeramon."

The Kaiser glared. "That's only because of the shoddy materials
you bring me. If I have to remake him, I've got my years of research
on him saved. Perhaps I'll be able to control the next one better."

"As you wish, my lord." Archnemon bowed and the screen went blank.

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Holsmon was once again burden with passengers as he tried to find
where the other Chosen had run to.

"Well, this isn't fair," Miyako commented. "I've got two eggs and
one digimon, but you got two digimon with your two eggs."

Daisuke shrugged. "Just lucky I guess."

"I don't think it's suppose to work that way." Holsmon commented. "Something has gone wrong."

"Someone broke his promise to me," Wormmon squeaked.

Daisuke blinked. "What do you mean by that?"

"I don't know. All I know was once someone made a promise to me,
but he broke it." Wormmon sighed. "I don't even know how I got into
that egg. Just that I lived before."

"Don't worry about it." V-mon patted the new digimon on the back.
"We're brothers now. And I won't let you die anytime soon."

Wormmon seemed to smile. "Thanks, niichan."

"I see the others, going in for a landing," Holsmon stated.

Miyako gripped her large digimon tighter. "Aw, geez. I hate this part."

"Why?" Daisuke questioned then instinctively clutched onto Holsmon's
feathers as they suddenly dropped altitude.

V-mon squealed in delight, while Wormmon hugged Holsmon rump in fear.

"Another mission down the toilet," Taichi groused as he approached them.

"It's not my fault we were attacked and we did get a new digimon
too," Daisuke stated defensively.

"Arguing what went wrong isn't going to help." Sora placed her hand
on her hip. "What we need to do now is figure out how to get to the portal."

"It's rather simple." Daisuke pointed toward the portal. "We rush
straight for the portal with Koushiro holding it open until we're all through."

"Rush straight into a trap, you mean." Taichi folded his arms. "They
probably know where the portal is by now and are waiting for us."

"Do you have a better idea?" Daisuke questioned. "We already are
deep into their territory. We have no clue where another portal
would be. We got LUCKY when we found the Digimental of Junshin and
its portal. How else do you think we'll get back to File Island?"

"He does have point," Yamato said. "That is the only portal we know
of and without Koushiro with us, it's the only one we can activate.
Besides, the other portals may be thousands of kilometers away."

"If we try for the portal, we do it now," Takeru voiced his opinion.
"We can't give them time to set up a proper trap."

Taichi sighed. "I can see I'm out voted. I still say this won't work."

"If you have a better idea, I'm all ears," Daisuke replied.

"Can you evolve?" Sora asked.

Piyomon tensed and then relaxed. She shook her head sadly.

Sora sighed. "Looks like we're down to your three digimon."

Takeru crossed his arms. "Hikari-kun and I don't even have one and
you have two, that doesn't seem fair."

"I already said that to him." Miyako huffed. "Koushiro thinks he
found another site with two eggs though, Kibou and Hikari. He should
have the translation and location ready when we get back."

"The Digimental of Hikari should belong to Hikari," Taichi commented.
"But who'd get the one for hope?"

Takeru shrugged. "Maybe I'll finally get one and a digimon."

"You can only hope." Daisuke grinned. "But for now, let's get moving.
It's time to go home. Miyako send Koushiro an e-mail letting him know of the plan."

Miyako nodded. "Sure thing."

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"Are you sure about this?" Mummymon questioned.

"The Digi-Kaiser wants them dead, and what the Digi-Kaiser wants,
he gets," Archnemon replied coldly.

"But we have no way to control Chimeramon," Mummymon reminded.

"That is why he's a trump card." Archnemon smirked. "I do so hope they fall for my little trap."

"Little trap?" Mummymon sweat-dropped. "If this is a little trap,
my precious, I'd hate to see what you'd consider a big one."

Archnemon grabbed him by the bandages under his chin. "How many
times do I have to tell you to stop calling me that? And I am not YOUR precious."

"Yes, dear," Mummymon sagged.

Archnemon growled and threw him into a wall.

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Author's notes:

Togemugomon is the semi-official evolution of Wormmon with the Digimental
of Yuujou (friendship). I'm not sure if I portrayed Hail Gun and
Crystal Guard correctly, but all I have are the names for it.

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

"Finally! Finally!" Chibi-Taichi called out. "The last part of Kamiya verses Kamiya."

"Go Kenshin!" Chibi-Sora cheered.

"You're supposed to cheer for me." Chibi-Taichi pouted.

Chibi-Sora smirked. "Says you."

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Tai stepped forward. It was finally time to fight his ancestor and
gain the power he needed to defeat the evil digimon who held Kari
and his friends captive. "Time to begin. Agumon go!"

"Agumon digivolve to...." 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!"

Kenshin nearly dropped his sword again. That lizard had gotten really
big. But it made no difference. "I won't go easy on you."

"The better you fight us, the more power I'll gain," Tai stated. "Greymon, take him down."

"Sure thing." Greymon nodded. "Nova Blast!" The large dinosaur spit out a huge fireball.

Kenshin sliced through the fireball and continued on. He swung and struck the lizard's leg.

Greymon howled in pain. It took a lot to hurt him, and somehow this
puny human had. He tried to claw the red-haired man, but he kept dodging.

"You'll have to do better than that to defeat me." Kenshin hit Greymon in the head for emphasis.

Tai gripped his digivice. "We've got to win. Greymon digivolve!"

Kenshin hopped back as light engulfed the lizard again.

"Greymon digivolve to...." The lizard had stood as tall as house,
but now it was as tall as a six story temple, and about as big all-around.
It also had a metal arm, chest and mask. Not to mention it now wore purple wings. "Metal Greymon!"

"Oro!" Kenshin stared in surprise.

Metal Greymon's chest opened up. "Giga Blaster!" Two cylinders shot out at Kenshin.

Kenshin dodged the missiles, which exploded far in the distance.
Kenshin blinked. That thing was too dangerous.

"Mega Claw!" Metal Greymon's metal arm stretched out to attack.

Kenshin hopped on to the back of the claw and ran up it. When he
got to the shoulder he leapt into the air. Tumbling in air, he repositioned
himself. "Ryu Tsui Sen!" He brought the sakabato sword down on the metal mask.

Metal Greymon fell forward from the blow. Kenshin continued to strike,
batting the humongous lizards head around.

Metal Greymon staggered back and devolved. Agumon held his held. "He's unbelievable."

Tai nodded. "But we have to win. Ready?"

Agumon nodded.

Kenshin sweat-dropped. "What now?"

"Agumon warp digivolve to...." The lizard glowed with golden light.
When the light faded, a two story tall humanoid lizard wearing some kind of armor. "War Greymon!"

Kenshin blinked. The other forms were slow. Somehow he doubted that would be the case now.

War Greymon reached above his head and formed an enormous ball of red energy. "Terra Force!"

Kenshin's eyes dilated as the ball rushed toward him. It was far
too large for him to dodge. He braced himself.

The ball of energy ripped up the ground and threw Kenshin many meters
into the air. He landed hard and some kind of energy shot from his fallen form and into Tai.

Tai sighed. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to kill you."

Kenshin moaned and sat up. "Guess I lost."

Tai sweat-dropped. "How?"

"Kenshin! Are you all right?" Kaoru called out with concern.

Kenshin smiled sheepishly. "I'm fine."

An evil laughter echoed through the air. "The master sent me here
to destroy your ancestor, digi-destined." A Skull Meramon held little Kenji in his large hand.

"Kaasan! Help!" Kenji cried.

"Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu Succession Technique Ama Kakeru Ryu no Hirameki!"
Two lights flashed across Skull Meramon's body. His body then exploded
into black dust that floated up. Before Kenji could fall to the ground, someone caught him.

"Soujiro?!" Kenshin called out in surprise.

Saitoh raised an eyebrow. "That boy can even mimic that move?"

Kaoru rushed over and took her son from Soujiro.

Soujiro smiled innocently. "Hello, Kenshin-san. I was just passing
through. Interesting fight, but hardly informative." He then glanced
at his sword. "No blood? Guess I didn't have to borrow the succession
technique to keep the blood off your son."

A hand was placed on Soujiro's shoulder. "I'm Soujiro Hiko, boy.
I think we have to have a little talk about who is the rightful
master of my school, Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu."

"Your school?" Soujiro asked.

Hiko nodded. "I was Kenshin's teacher. Now I shall have to teach you."

"Kenshin's teacher?" Soujiro nodded. "Perhaps you can teach me."

Kenshin blinked. "I feel sorry for him."

"Who? Soujiro or your teacher?" Sanosuke, er... 'Himura' asked.

Kenshin shrugged. "I'm not sure. Maybe both."

Tai scratched the back of his head. "Well, I'm glad you're not dead."

Kenshin smiled. "So am I."

"I've got to be going. It was nice meeting you." Tai faded away with Agumon.

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"I won! I won!" Chibi-Taichi celebrated.

Chibi-Sora folded her arms. "You had to cheat and send Agumon to 'mega' level to do it."

"Whatever works." Chibi-Taichi grinned.

>WHAM<

Chibi-Taichi fell to the ground while Chibi-Sora hefted a hammer
over her shoulder which had come out of nowhere.

Chibi-Sora grinned. "Remember folks. The strongest man in any fighting
series is the woman who puts the best male fighter in his place.
Be seeing you."

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