Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 1 - A Time Honored Tradition ❯ Chapter 5

Chapter 5

"That's it pretty boy," Davis glared at Ken, "you're going down."

"You think so, huh? Bring it on. I'll kick your ass with one hand." Ken had an equally angry look on his face. The two glared at each other ready for the fight to end all fights. They picked up their joysticks and began.

It only took thirty seconds for them all to hear the word, "Fatality," to come from the TV. In a rare display of emotion, Ken jumped up celebrating.

"Ha! See that there? That red splotch on the screen Davis? That's you! Ba ha! I won!" Yolei silenced him with a mean look. "What's wrong with you?" He asked.

"Beating Davis at Mortal Kombat is like beating a three-year-old at a spelling bee."

"Hey! I'm not that bad!"

"Sorry Yolei, you're right. Davis, I'm sorry. We'll have a match again soon." Ken was trying to hold back his snickering. TK and Kari were just sitting on Ken's bed, watching the whole thing. Cody came in.

"Guys, I got an Email from Izzy. He says there's a battle going on back in Odiba. He says Tai and Sora are going to handle it, but we should be ready just in case." Cody was reading the email from his D-Terminal.

"Good," Gatomon said from on top of Ken's book shelves, "if Patamon beats me at this stupid game again Ken's going to be missing his chessboard."

"Anger is not the way, my student." Patamon was sitting at the other side of the chessboard with his eyes closed and paws together like some martial arts master. "You must see the calm, see your opponents move. And make yours."

Gatomon picked up a rook, and took Patamon's knight. "Ha! Beat that you little hamster." Patamon moved his bishop without opening his eyes.

"Checkmate."

"What?!?!" Patamon showed that angered cat how there was no way out of his trap. She glared at him for a second then swatted her king-piece of the board. It hit Davis in the back of his head, causing him to spit the cola he was drinking out his nose.

"Ow! My head and my nose!" Six digimon and five humans were rolling around laughing at Davis trying to deal with carbonation in is nose and a bleeding scalp.

* * *

Tai pulled his car to a stop at the corner. He and Sora could see a Meramon and another Owl-like digimon fighting at the other end of the block.

"Shall we, my dear?" Tai looked at Sora like someone ready for action.

"We shall. How about you two?" Sora turned around to check the small orange dinosaur and little pink bird.

"You bet. I'll get Meramon, you get the other one, okay Biyomon?" The little pink bird nodded in agreement, and they were all four out of the car ready for action.

"Agumon..." Tai held out his digivice.

Agumon digivolve to ... Greymon

"Biyomon..." Likewise Sora held out hers.

Biyomon digivolve to ... Birdramon

The large dinosaur and giant fire bird raced away to stop the others.

* * *

"Cera! They digivolved! What the hell happened?!?" Kovin screamed up at the second floor balcony of a restaurant were Cera was stationed with the rifle. Kovin and Nolan were on the ground directing Meramon and Feamon.

"The damn thing jammed! I don't know what it's doing!" The sniper was written off. Kovin now planned on using simple guerrilla tactics. Tai and Sora came walking up in front of Greymon and Birdramon.

"Okay guys, that's enough scaring the civilians today. Plus, there will be no killing if we have anything to do with it." This was one of Tai's usual opening lines. They always tried to use negotiation, but 99 times out of 100 it ended in violence.

"You guys the Ultimate Twelve?" Kovin asked.

"Who wants to know?" Tai responded, sounding tough.

"I asked first. Are you?" Kovin was in control now, and he was going to keep it that way.

"Yeah, we are. We're against fighting, the game, and taking lives needlessly. We'll stop you from killing each other if we have to kill you to do it."

"That's kind of warped." Kovin said. "But I make my own rules." With that Kovin had his two sidearms out laying fire in front of Tai and Sora.

Tai pushed Sora behind a car, while Greymon and Birdramon came in preparing to break up Meramon and Feamon.

"Now guys!" Nolan screamed the signal at the digimon while Kovin kept Tai and Sora pinned behind the car. Kovin missed them on purpose. But he aimed close enough to make them think twice about trying anything. Tai was trying to get to some other cover, but Kovin was good at keeping him down.

Feamon digivolve to ... Talomon

Meramon jumped on Greymon and brought him to the ground, a fairly even matched fight. Talomon brought Birdramon down easily.

"Cera, do you have a gun?" Kovin asked her. She had climbed down and joined Nolan and Kovin opposite the car Tai and Sora were behind.

"No, why?" She asked.

"Nolan, give her yours. Cera, keep those two behind the car pinned down. It's easy, like those duck games at a carnival." Cera took Nolan's weapon and went to work. Kovin changed clips in both of his and ran over to watch Talomon.

Talomon made a critical mistake. He dropped Birdramon to circle around for a dramatic kill. It was all the time she needed.

Birdramon digivolve to ... Garudamon

Greymon kicked Meramon away. Meramon hit his head, and was stunned for a second. That was the time Greymon needed.

Greymon digivolve to ... Metalgreymon

Now they were in a little hot water. Talomon was evenly matched with Garudamon, being both ultimate level birds. But the champion level Meramon was going to have trouble against the ultimate level Metalgreymon.

Cera thought she'd try and tip the scales a bit and fired a few shots at Metalgreymon. That had two bad reactions. She actually hit Meramon. (The bullets just annoyed him, they don't do much to champions or better) And she allowed Tai and Sora to get away.

"Should we call in some cavalry?" Sora asked.

"Yeah, these guys are well organised and crazy, a combination I don't like." Tai got out his D-Terminal and was getting ready to send the email.

"Zodiac Arrow!" All five humans and four digimon looked into the sky when they heard that. A huge black shimmering arrow shot towards Metalgreymon. It cut across his back, and he screamed in pain. Magnareumon came into view. Similar to Angewomon, but her clothes were all black, she was virus type, and she had a cat-like rather than human in appearance. Metalgreymon faded away, and reverted back to Agumon, who ran over to Tai. A small bloody scar could be seen on Agumon's back. The new digimon was preparing to fire again, when Garudamon scooped up Tai, Sora and Agumon and flew off with them. A calculated retreat.

Nolan and Cera watched Magnareumon walk over to them. And they saw another figure coming out of the alleyway. Obviously the human partner.

"Thank-you, whoever you are!" Nolan was ecstatic, so was Cera. They were thanking the figure before they even knew who it was.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" Kovin asked behind them. Nolan and Cera turned and looked at Kovin surprised.

"Saving your ass," the figure's voice said, who they could now see was a female about Kovin's age. She was dressed like someone who knew how to survive on the streets and on her own.

"We didn't need you! You can just keep your goddamn nose out of my business for once!" They were walking toward each other now, it looked like they were going to fight.

"Fuck you! See if I help you again!" She was pissed off now, too. Her digimon reverted to its rookie level, Demireumon. Talomon was Ozlimon again.

"What are we going to do, Cera? We can't let them fight, she could be a good ally." Nolan whispered to Cera.

"Shh, pretend it's TV." She said quickly.

"I told you if I saw you again it would be the last thing you saw!" Kovin yelled and drew his guns.

"Bring it on, lover!" She had a pair of throwing stars out ready to dice him. About then Demireumon and Ozlimon pulled their humans out of it. They both reluctantly agreed. The girl went off with her cat kicking some stones. Kovin was just trying to calm down where he stood. Cera decided she'd stir up some trouble.

"So, a little tension here? A rough break-up? Why don't you two just kiss and make-up?" Kovin whipped around in one motion and dropped her to the ground with a solid hit to the jaw. At that moment a throwing star hit the wall behind them. It would have removed Cera's head if Kovin hadn't hit her. They saw the other girl in the position just after throwing the star.

"Kelryn, you still screwing around with those things?" Kovin asked.

"You still playing cowboy?" She said indicating Kovin's guns. Kovin shook his head and laughed. Nolan decided they should ally with her. He walked up to her slowly, trying to make himself not look like a threat.

"Kelryn? Is that your name? I'm Nolan, and the girl you almost decapitated is Cera."

"Sorry about that, Cera." Kelryn followed Nolan back over to the curb. "Kovin, can we have a truce? We can keep fighting later if you want, but now I think I'd like to get something to eat."

"I'm game if you are," he replied. Nolan and Cera were definitely confused about this. They could go from homicidal rage to old friends in just seconds. Whatever happened, they'd have to keep their eyes open and stay on their toes.