The current leader of the Red Ribbon
army was having a meeting with General Garth, Colonel Legstrong,
Dr. Izumi and Mr. Kuoto. There was also a screen in the room showing
General Magenta's face on it. The leader of the Red Ribbon was
angry at General Magenta.
"Why hasn't Jayne been taken
yet!? We have no time to lose."
General Magenta looked pretty
scared "I'm sorry sir, there was a terrible mistake with
the magitek pilots, and then there was those strangers that happened
to be there. We couldn't attack yesterday because Jayne warped
into a very advance state preventing us from making our move,
but today is gone back to a more primitive state so we'll have
that city occupied in no time!"
"Do you understand what will
happen if you fail?"
"Yes sir! that's very clear."
"Just yesterday Teromon was
THAT close to getting his hands on Sailor Moon, had it happened
things could have been... unpleasant."
"I'm sorry sir!"
"Quit apologizing and get
back to work!"
"Yes sir!"
The screen that was showing general
Magenta had turned off.
"Colonel, have you positioned
your men in the second point of impact?"
"Everything is sit sir! Unlike
the first point of impact the second will happen in a desolate
area."
"General Garth?"
"There's only a small village
near the point of impact, we don't even have to worry about them."
"General Magenta was just
as sure of himself and look what happened, you better not be coming
back with just excuses."
"No sir."
"What about General Bronze?"
The Colonel looked a bit nervous,
he wasn't sure about Bronze. "I'm sure Bronze and her men
will have possession any moment now."
"Send the Turks there to keep
an eye on her."
"Yes sir! what about the last
point of impact?"
"I'll take care of that one
personally."
"I see."
Dr. Izumi let out a small laugh.
"What do you find so funny
Dr?"
Dr. Izumi adjusted his glasses
"By the time you have everything setup, Teromon will have
become to powerful to be destroyed, even by your precious weapons."
"This had gone by more smoothly
had we kept that creature and controlled it's growth, I'll never
understand why you told my men not to retrieve it after it got
stolen."
"You could have never controlled
him, not in a million years. It has been better this way."
"Because of this our schedule
has been thrown off balance, time has now become our enemy."
"Why did you have this man
do such a dangerous thing?" asked Mr. Kuoto. "He's nothing
but trouble!"
"The good Dr. might be a bit...
special in his way of working, but there was no other man capable
of performing such a task."
"Made me spend a lot of money,
much more than what I had initially agreed."
"Once this is over, you'll
have no use for money, you'll have everything you want."
Dr. Izumi thought 'Once this is
over, it's over for all of us.'
Teromon had spent the night somewhere
in the jungle north of New Alexandria. He was still hurting because
of last night's battle. "They, like all the others before
them abuse their power and number to obtain what they want. They
refuse to accept the to torture that I've endure, but in the end
they'll have no choice. I'm sure the very nature of all the worlds
will do it's best to stop the revolution, but it will all be for
naught. They'll know what it feels to be left behind, to be powerless
when others rise above them and crush them just because their
very existence is unimportant to the ongoing process. A process
which has not purpose in the first place, just to continue itself.
I must rest my wounds and then continue my raise of power."
Teromon hid in the darkness of the jungle.

Sora was standing on the streets
of what looked like an old British city, people were walking around
minding their own business. Biyomon was nowhere to be seen and
Sora looked a bit more serious than usual.
"Welcome to the Ultimate Challenge,
the show that... may not be just a show anymore. Things got pretty
wild last night with the fight against Teromon. The Yellow Team
is here in the town of Jayne, yes this is Jayne, this place has
something weird going on in it. Anyway, the Yellow Team may not
know of last night's incident, but the way things are going it
won't be long before they are caught up in it as well. The Red
Ribbon army is just outside the city and they might attack any
moment now. Anyway, let's see how they are, this has been Sora
reporting for the Ultimate Challenge."
Ash was trying to wake up Ryoga,
but he wasn't waking up.
"Ryoga! wake up!"
"zzz..."
Ash shook him to get him up, but
he was a heavy sleeper.
Pikachu was right by Ash's side,
he wanted to help. "Pika?"
"Sigh.... we have no choice."
"Pika! PIKACHUUUU!!"
Pikachu shocked Ryoga with all his might.
"AHHHH!!!" Ryoga leaped
out of bed in an instant. "I'm up! I'm up!"
"It's about time!"
"What's the matter?"
"Don't you see?"
"See what?"
"Where are we?"
Ryoga looked around, they were
in a room with a wooden floor, yellow walls and a wooden ceiling;
in it was only two beds and a small table. There was a window
and a wooden door in the far end corner. "Looks like an ordinary
room to me."
"Yes, but we weren't in an
ordinary room last night!"
Just then Ryoga remembered, the
room they had been last night was kind of circular, almost dome
like, there were no door or windows, one would kind of just walk
in, plus the upper part could be transparent if they wanted it
to be, letting them see the sky. There were no beds but some anti-gravity
fields that held them in the air, it had been weird at first but
were actually quiet comfy once they got used to them. Ryoga wondered
what had happened to that place.
"Where are the others?"
"I don't know, I've just woke
up and haven't searched outside."
"Let's go look for them."
Last night the team had gone into
3 different rooms. Ryoga, Ash and Pikachu had gone into one; Goku,
Izzy and Tentomon had gone to the second and Freya to the third.
When Ryoga, Ash and Pikachu opened the door they saw a corridor
with 2 other doors and a stairway leading down at the end. They
walked towards the door and opened it, the first thing they saw
inside was Izzy still sleeping on his bed, Tentomon was by his
side and his laptop was laying on the ground besides his bed.
Just then they were startled by a voice.
"Good morning!"
They looked around and saw Goku
standing by the window.
"Goku!" Ryoga said.
"Ryoga!" Goku responded.
"What is going on?"
"What do you mean?"
"What? can't you tell what's
wrong?"
"Ryoga..." Ash said "a
moment ago you couldn't tell what was wrong."
Ryoga had a sweatdrop, but other
than that ignored Ash.
"Yeah, the place is a bit
different no?"
"A bit?" Ash asked.
"Well, I woke up a while ago.
I've done a little exploring, everything looks different, but
in a way still the same."
Both Ash and Ryoga looked at Goku,
their faces showed that they didn't have a clue what Goku was
talking about.
"It's hard to explain, remember
how our rooms were close to each other last night, yet are still
close now? The whole city is like that, everything is kinda in
the same place."
"Are you saying we're still
in the same place, but this place has changed?" Ryoga said.
"I don't know, but I think
so."
"Maybe we should ask Izzy."
Ash suggested.
"Please don't do that."
said another voice, it was Tentomon who had woken up. "Izzy
was awake almost all night, once again he started to check that
disk Tai gave him, but I can tell you that Goku is right."
"Pika?"
"How do you know?"
Tentomon flew towards Izzy's computer,
he pressed a few keys (which was a bit hard without fingers) and
then showed the screen at the guys. The screen showed their map
of the island, and like Goku had said, they were still in the
same place.
"Then what happened?"
Ryoga asked.
Everybody was silent for a moment,
the silence was broken when Freya walked in. "There you are!?
Where are we?"
They took a moment to explain
to Freya what they know, which wasn't much.
"I see, well the only thing
we can do is have a look around and see if we can find anything.
If by noon we don't find anything we wake up Izzy and leave this
place."
The team agreed and left Tentomon
with Izzy, once outside they noticed something peculiar, people
were still dressed the same way that they did yesterday, at least
that hadn't changed. They divided in two groups. Ryoga, Ash and
Pikachu were going to look around the city while Freya and Goku
were going to search near the center of the city.
Goku and Freya noticed that there
were a lot of people gathering in the center of the city, there
was a platform set up in the very center and everyone was sitting
in front of it.
"What do you think this is
about?" asked Freya.
"It could be a show!"
said Goku excitedly "Let's watch!"
"Goku we don't have time for
this."
"It could be a clue!"
"Um... alright."
They walked up and found a couple
of available spaces not too far away from stage, they waited for
a couple of minutes and saw that many more people were arriving.
Just then a man walked up to stage and everyone applauded, the
man look very extravagant, he was wearing a black suit with a
purple cape, he had a short brown beard and was bald on top. After
the applause had ended he spoke to the people. "Greetings
my dear citizens of Jayne, now we all know why we're here. We're
celebrating the 130th anniversary of the holy battle."
There was an instant cheer, everyone
was happy.
"Now, let us proceed with
our annual tradition."
Another man got on stage and handed
a scroll to him, he then left the stage quietly.
"I have here the only copy
of the diary of my great great great great grandfather, Gustav
the first!"
There was another loud cheer.
"Now, like I've done in the
past years, and like my ancestors did before me, I'm going to
read to you the events of what happened that very day written
by my great great great great grandfather. So that we shall not
forget the terror lived by the citizens of Jayne on that very
day, and the heroic actions of our heroes as well."
Once again there was a loud cheer.
"I have to warn you that if
you have small children that you held them tight, as horrible
as this sounds this is a part of our history that they must learn.
Now, without delaying things any more, I shall begin."
Everyone became silent at that
very moment, Goku and Freya wondered what was going on.
"I'm writing the events of
today so that they shall never be forgotten, I am the only man
brave enough to relive the events of today. Yet, I do not blame
the people of Jayne for trying to forget about today's events,
I myself had my doubts before deciding to write this. May the
heavens have mercy on our peaceful town.
>Today started like any other
day, the great townspeople of Jayne began their daily activities
like we always did. Hard working and honest has always been our
way of living, and I hope it remains that way. Nothing had prepared
for what happened on that very day. I was taking a walk through
my peaceful town, feeling proud of the society that we had created
together, when suddenly I saw him, the evil lord Vivi!!"
The moment the word Vivi had been
said there was a small commotion in the crowd, some children started
to cry and their parents tried to calm then down. Freya was confused,
was he talking about the same Vivi? Even though they had they're
problems with the Blue Team, she still considered Vivi her friend
and he was not the type to scare people like that. It took about
a minute for the silence to return.
"Terror spread across our
town faster than I could ever imagine, yet I still feel proud
about my people who acted bravely. The women led the children
to the safety of they're homes, the men grabbed anything that
could have served as a type of weapon, ready to defend Jayne,
even at the cost of their lives and maybe their very souls.
>I took a good look at lord
Vivi, he was at least 3m tall, his face was covered in complete
darkness, yet his eyes reflected the very deeps of hell, I had
to turn away to protect my very soul. He looked at our people
and began to laugh, he was ready for a feast of souls, he hungered
for carnage, and enjoyed our terror. What was worse was that he
came with his servants, forgive if my handwriting becomes somewhat
messy but I can't stop my hand from shaking while I remember their
looks. Two of them seemed to be their main henchman, both had
female forms, and both had a snake hanging from the back of their
heads. One of them, had a white long snake on her head as if born
from the very hair on her head, those who got close to her were
completely frozen to their very soul, I pray for them. Her look
showed hate towards everything, yet she was probably the hungriest
of them all. The other one had a smaller red snake coming out
of her hair, yet I feel sure it was more poisonous of the two,
that demon had a passion for destruction, anything that we built
over the years was to be undone by this monster who's thirst for
destruction was unlimited. There were two other smaller demons
with them as well, both female as well, they're purpose were to
control the monsters they brought with them. Although they were
small they were no less terrifying, the smallest of them all had
nails as long as my fingers, and sharp enough to cut metal easily,
her teeth were sharp and she probably used them to rip away the
flesh of her victims after they were killed by her monsters, her
eyes were black, like bottomless pits. The other one was even
more horrid, her skin was white, like a ghost, her look seemed
sad but was it was just to fool those with a kind soul, the moment
they let their guard down she would stick out her tongue that
extended endlessly until it hit her victim and proceeded to suck
his soul without killing him. The poor victim was left without
any feeling or thought, doomed to an eternity of darkness. The
monsters they brought with them were just as horrible, one of
them disguised as ordinary pokemon called ponyta, it almost managed
to fool us but his flames gave him away, they were the same flames
found in the very pits of Hell!!"
A small commotion started again,
Goku and Freya just looked at each other.
"How would he know?"
Goku said "has he been there? I don't remember any pits of
fire, there was this lake of blood though, and it was actually
very cold at the bottom."
Freya was left wondering if Goku
had actually been there, but decided to keep listening instead
of asking questions. Once everyone calmed down the man continued
reading.
"This monster tried to burn
the whole town by itself, chaos was its specialty. Another monster
looked like a cat, white as snow, but there was nothing pure about
it, it had claws of a lion and used it to shred everything and
everyone that got in its way, nothing but death could be found
where she had been. And lastly there was a green monster that
was the worst off all three, it looked small and less powerful
than the other two, but suddenly grew until it reached the skies,
covered in needles she started stomping and destroying everything,
and her needles would shoot out of it's body killing those who
were around. With all of this it appeared the town of Jayne was
doomed, we had no hope left. Yet we were determined to keep fighting
to the very end, even if it meant our very souls, we were no cowards.
It looked like it was the end until suddenly our heroes Jessie
and James appeared!"
There was a loud cheer, everyone
started to chant the names Jessie and James repeatedly for about
a minute and then became quiet again to continue listening.
"Yes, a couple of knights
sent from the very heavens appeared, our prayers had been answered.
Light coming from above fell upon them, showing them off as the
holy knights that they were. They stood against the terrible Lord
Vivi and showed no signs of fear. The demons attacked the knights,
but using their holy powers they quickly defeated them, yet Lord
Vivi would not return to the deeps of hell so easily. The holy
knights captured him and his execution would take place immediately.
The demons were sent to our dungeons to follow, and the holy knights
finally showed themselves to us. I had the privilege to meet the
heroes face to face, and I'll feel proud about it till the day
I die. James, with short blue hair and a smile as white as white
could be, heroic like no man has ever been, handsome, strong,
intelligent, noble, that's the true James. Then there was the
beautiful Jessie, who's hair was long and red, her kindness was
un limitless, her aura felt like being heaven, so pure, so innocent,
yet so mighty. The two heroes asked for a couple of things, things
that were so unselfish that we acceded without hesitation, they
only wanted one of the demon's monsters, they probably wanted
to try to save it's soul, even in the depths of evil they wanted
to try to find a bit of hope! how noble! They also wanted the
Red Ribbon army to establish itself here, they were probably an
army sent by heaven to protect us from any other demons that would
try to invade our peaceful town. We wanted to give them everything,
yet they only gave us more. But then, the unimaginable occurred!
the demons escaped!"
Once again there was some commotion
in the crowd, but it ended quickly.
"Our great heroes went into
battle, but the first fight had drain some of their power. This
time the powers of hell were a bit too much for our heroes, they
even lost their armors during the battle. They left towards the
sky, probably back to the heavens to send us more help. The demons
freed their lord and the monsters. Chaos engulfed our peaceful
town again. We were doomed, the demons were destroying everything,
and to make things worse three more demons arrived from the air.
The new demons started to dance with the first ones, creating
destruction everywhere, they celebrated the fall of us, the noble
people of Jayne.
>But another miracle happened,
the great Red Ribbon army, the defenders that Jessie and James
told us that would come arrived! We would surely be saved! The
demons fought the army, but the many men of heaven fought bravely
and with honor, not giving in to the powers of all the demons.
The battle was fierce, but the heavens would not allow the fall
of it's army, an angel appeared above the battle, might as mighty
could be. It had 6 wings on it's back, showing off it's great
power. The Red Ribbon army retired at the sight of this mighty
angel, feeling confident that evil would finally be vanquished.
The angel started to fight with the 3 demons that had arrived
later. Mighty as he was, the demons were strong and outnumbered
him. Our defender would not fail however, he called upon the powers
of heaven which granted him even more power, he opened a gate
and sent them to oblivion!
>Seeing the power of our mighty
guardian, Lord Vivi and the rest of his demons decided to run
away, never to be heard of again. The mighty angel disappeared
as suddenly as he had appeared, but we're sure that he's still
watching us, along with our heroes Jessie and James, protecting
our city from the forces of evil. Let's us never forget this!
for as long as the people of Jayne remain pure and noble, we shall
never have to fear the evils from hell. Written by Gustav the
first."
Everyone applauded and cheered,
everyone stood up and suddenly a big celebration started, people
started dancing, others sang a dedicated song to Jessie and James.
Freya and Goku stood up, they
were very confused. Freya had to ask "Is it only me or did
the description of the demons sounded a lot like the Blue Team,
in a horrible demonic way."
"Um... I dunno," responded
Goku "I didn't understand anything, I don't remember heaven
being in war with hell, good guys just get sorted to heaven and
bad go to hell, and I don't remember a lord Vivi in hell. Freezer
and Cell probably wouldn't allow anybody to rule over them."
Freya didn't really understand
what Goku was talking about, she decided that this story wasn't
really important and started to look for any clues as to where
a badge would be.
Ash and Ryoga where looking around
the city, they both noticed the surroundings where not as 'perfect'
as they had been yesterday. It was still a pretty sight, actually
more normal than it had been yesterday.
"You know I don't think we'll
find anything outside." Ash said.
"Pika!"
"Well you never know."
Ryoga said "Let's at least have a look around."
"How could everything have
changed so much overnight?"
"In this island nothings sounds
weird anymore."
"Mew?" said a voice from
behind.
Everybody turned around but didn't
seen anything, Mew was floating right by their side, just barely
outside of their field of view. As they moved he continued to
float around them.
"But you know..." said
Ryoga "we should admire the view."
"Yeah, it is kinda pretty."
"I mean look at all there
is to appreciate. The mountains at the distance, the green grass,
the tall trees, the blue sky, the giant robots, the flowers..."
"The giant robots?" Ash
said, just then they noticed that a group of robot like tanks
were placing themselves in strategic points around the city, and
a group of soldiers were walking toward the city. They quickly
hid behind a couple of trees.
"Who are they?" asked
Ash.
"Can't you see?" said
Ryoga "They have carry the emblem of the Red Ribbon."
"Damn! What are they doing
here?"
"They must want to attack
the city"
"How are we going to stop
them?"
"Not hiding, that's for sure."
Ryoga looked around "Let's try to get back in town without
being noticed." He started to slowly walk back towards the
city, Ash and Pikachu quickly followed.
They were about to make it back
when suddenly they heard a metal clash near them, they turned
around and saw one of the robots standing right behind them. "Hehe,
those heat sensors did come in handy."
"Pikachu!" Ash yelled
"Thunder shock."
"Pika!!" Pikachu attacked
with all he had. The robot was hit and it's system went crazy,
it started to shoot beams everywhere.
"Ack! This thing is out of
control!"
Ash, Pikachu and Ryoga quickly
got out of the way before a beam hit them, unfortunately for them
the crazy robot caught the attention of many.
Many soldiers went to check on
the crazy Magitek Armor, shortly after they arrived they went
to look for Ash and Ryoga, who didn't have many places to hide.
They all lifted their guns and one of the yelled "Come out
or we'll shoot you."
Ash and Ryoga didn't have a choice
and left their hiding place. Ash left Pikachu behind hoping they
would forget about him. No such luck, since they also told Pikachu
to leave it's hiding place.
General Magenta didn't take long
to arrive, he took a good look at them and recognized them as
the two of the members of the Ultimate Challenge, he had been
informed about the incidents in the desert fortresses.
Ryoga yelled "What are you
doing here!?"
"None of your business!"
yelled General Magenta "shoot them now!"
Ryoga, Ash and Pikachu closed
their eyes expecting the worst, but suddenly they heard many shouts
of confusion and shock. They opened their eyes and saw all the
soldiers' guns floating in the air. The Magitek armors were dancing
around while their pilots yelled in panic.
"What is going on?" asked
Ash.
"Don't ask! Act!" Ryoga
immediately ran to attack a soldier and kicked him on the face.
When the others saw this they attacked Ryoga together.
"Pikachu!" Ash yelled.
"Pika!! PIKACHUU!" Pikachu
used his electric attack on all the soldiers surrounding Ryoga,
Ryoga himself had to leap out of the way to avoid getting shocked.
Many soldiers then took their
attention to Ash and decided to attack him. Ash took out three
pokeballs and threw them in the air "Chikorita, Squirtle
and Dragonair! I choose you!"
"Chiko!!"
"Squirtle!"
"Dreeee!!"
"Chikorita! Razor Leaf! Squirtle!
Hydro Pump! Dragonair! um... Twister!"
Chikorita attacked with his deadly
razor leaf attack, leaving many soldiers with cuts all around
their body. Squirtle leaped into the air, got in his shell and
spawn around throwing water in all directions, preventing soldiers
from getting near Ash. Dragonair spawn around until she got dizzy
and fell stunned.
"Dragonair!" Ash had
to recall her, he looked around trying to figure out where the
help had come from. Then he saw him floating above them, it was
a Mew. Ash had only seen Mew once when Mewtwo had planned to take
over the world, but his memory of the events had been erased and
he thought it was his first time watching a Mew. "MEW!! WOW!!"
General Magenta also saw Mew,
he thought about the events that happened the day before yesterday
and realized what had stopped their bullets from killing Togemon.
He had received orders that they were to capture the chosen ones
if they were to find them during their assign missions. Unfortunately
it was floating above ground along with their weapons, he didn't
have anything to catch him with. His thoughts where interrupted
when he realized his men were being beat up by one man and a couple
of pokemon.
Ryoga continued to dodge punches
left and right, he noticed a bunch of soldiers got together and
were about to charge at the same time. Ryoga got his hands together
and yelled "Shi-shi-hou-kodan!!" but only succeeded
in making a small green ball of energy that popped on the palms
of his hands. This confused Ryoga and gave the soldiers an opening,
luckily for Ryoga Pikachu shocked them before they could attack.
He then continued punching and kicking all those who got close
enough.
Mew was enjoying the show, he
didn't notice something coming to him and lightning fast speed
and grabbing him. Before Mew could realize it he was inside some
type of crystal ball. He saw a short man with black hair that
stood straight up. Vegeta had caught him, he had a smile on his
face. "You know, I thought you were going to be harder to
catch."
"Mew?"
"Don't look at me like that,
I'm actually doing you a favor!" Vegeta looked down, he saw
the guns falling down and the Magitek armors stopped dancing.
"What are those bastards doing here? What do they want with
Jayne?" He then saw Ryoga and Ash regrouping because the
soldiers where starting to pick up their guns. "Those two
were going around with Kakarot, I'll let him do the dirty work.
Right now I have to take you with me."
"Mew..."
"I'll just make sure they
don't finish them off at this moment."
Ash recalled his Pokemon, and
along with Ryoga and Pikachu started to run away. The soldiers
had picked up their guns and were aiming at them when suddenly
blast of energy started to rain from the sky. Soldiers screamed
in agony as many where hit right on and evaporated on the spot,
others where still wounded by the attacks. With all the commotion
Ryoga, Ash and Pikachu where able to run back to town.
They ran until they reached and
alley and walked in to catch their breath.
"What was that all about?"
asked Ash.
"I don't know, but we sure
were lucky."
"We have to find the others!"
"Right, just give me a sec."
Ryoga had to rest a moment, but he then started thinking about
his technique, why hadn't it worked? He was in a very dangerous
situation and was definitely scared and resentful towards his
enemies, what went wrong then? but then he started thinking, was
he really being resentful? no he hadn't, he felt confident battling
along Ash and was feeling pretty sure of himself at the moment.
Was that like Goku felt when he fought? no, Goku's feelings were
probably a lot more passionate, but something had changed none
the less. It was good and all, but the Shi-shi-hou-kodan had become
useless to him for it.
"Ryoga?" Ash said "are
you ok?"
"Pika?"
Ash and Pikachu's words brought
Ryoga back to reality. "Oh... sorry. Let's go."
They got out of the alley, they
looked back and where a bit surprised that the Red Ribbon army
had not marched into town, they probably where re planning their
strategy because of them. They ran towards the center of town
looking for Goku and Freya, they didn't run for long for they
were leaving the town center.
"Ash! Ryoga! what's wrong?"
Freya asked.
"The Red Ribbon!" yelled
Ash "they're outside town and are ready to invade?"
"What!?" yelled Goku.
"It's true!" Ryoga said
"we barely escaped."
Freya and Goku looked at each
other, they were both thinking the same thing. Somehow the story
they heard had something to do with was happening. The Red Ribbon
had been mentioned as an army from the heavens but they, especially
Goku, knew they were far from being heavenly. Freya felt an awful
feeling in her stomach, visions of the invasions of Burmecia and
Cleyra appeared in her head. She remembered the pain that brought
to her heart, because she had been powerless to stop it. She couldn't
let something like that happen again. "We have to defend
Jayne!"
"Freya?" Ryoga said,
he noticed her expression had changed "are you ok?"
"I won't allow the innocent
to suffer because of the ambitions of others."
"You're right Freya!"
Goku said.
"Goku?"
"We won't allow it, you can
count on me to the end!"
"Me too!" Ash said "I
can't just stand still while this town is destroyed."
"I can't stand it either."
Ryoga said "it's an unforgivable crime."
"See Freya?" Goku said
"we're all as determined as you are. We've all learned a
lot from each other during our travels, and right now I feel like
we can do anything together."
Freya looked at Goku, then at
Ash and Ryoga, and finally at Pikachu.
"Pika! Pikachu!" Pikachu
look just as determined, despise his size he was willing to fight
along Ash and his friends.
"You're right, I...we won't
fail Jayne."
Suddenly they heard a voice yell
"Guys!!" they looked around and saw Izzy and Tentomon
running their way.
"Izzy!" Ash said just
as Izzy was joining them "the Red Ribbon is about to invade
Jayne!"
"Already?"
The rest of the Yellow Team said
at the same time "Already??"
"Izzy?" Freya said "Did
you know that the Red Ribbon was about to invade Jayne?"
"I learned some things last
night."
"Do you know why they want
to invade Jayne?"
"Sorta, but not exactly why."
"What about Jayne?" Ryoga
asked "do you know what happened since yesterday?"
"I have an idea, let me explain.
Ryoga, would you please hold my laptop for a moment?"
Ryoga nodded and Izzy put the
laptop on his arms, he opened it and turned it on. When it was
ready Izzy started to type some commands and suddenly there was
a graph on the computer. Izzy drew a straight horizontal line.
"Imagine this is time, running as a straight line for us,
this is not really how time works, but for the sake of simplicity
let's imagine it like this."
Everyone nodded, but where not
sure what he meant.
"For some reason unknown to
me, time is Jayne is completely deformed." Izzy started to
twist the line in a crazy manner, making all sorts of curves and
intersections.
Ash said "It looks like my
Christmas lights right after I take them out to put them on the
tree, all tangled."
"Yeah, something like that."
Izzy said "time in Jayne is non linear." Izzy drew a
new line, once again straight "Our time is still straight
and only follows Jayne's time line for brief moments, this moments
last a day, and then our time line then skips to another point
in the time line of Jayne, so to us while it has only been a day
to them it may have been hundreds or thousands years of time,
and it could be in the future, or as in today's case the past."
"So what are you saying Izzy?"
Freya said "that this town changes time period every day?"
"Exactly!"
"But why doesn't it appear
on the map?" Ash asked "at any time this is Jayne."
"Time is unlimited, Jayne's
existence is not. Tomorrow Jayne could even disappear, and we
could find dinosaurs instead."
"What's weird about dinosaurs?"
Goku asked.
Everyone looked at Goku, they
didn't know that where he came from dinosaurs were as normal as
regular animals.
"This explains a lot."
Freya said "the Blue Team has been here before us, that's
why they're in Jayne's history."
Izzy nodded "Exactly, they
must have been here when Jayne's time was even earlier than it
is now."
"But I don't get it."
Goku said "the Blue Team is not as they say, and the Red
Ribbon coming from the heavens?"
"Well, history can be distorted
by man. After all, it's a matter of perspective."
"Why is the Red Ribbon invading
Jayne?" Ryoga asked.
"We've already spent to much
time." Freya said "We can hear that later, right now
we must plan or counterattack."
"Right!" Goku said.
"Luckily this town is on the
northwestern tip of the island, half of Jayne is surrounded by
water. That leaves us less flanks to cover."
"So what will we do?"
Ryoga asked.
"How are they armed?"
"They are mostly armed soldiers,"
Ash said "but they have some odd looking tanks that look
more like robots, those must have some mayor firepower."
"Don't worry about it."
Goku said "just let me use a badge and I'll take care off
all of them."
"Goku..." Freya said
"instead of relying on the power of the badge why don't you
rely on us? we need to save the badges for when we're left out
of choices."
"I guess you're right."
Sora's comment: "Notice that
while the Red and Blue team are running scarce of working badges,
the Yellow Team is doing a good job of saving them?"
"We need to get the town folk
to safety."
"But how will we make them
listen to us?" Ash asked.
"Ash, I don't know, but I
ask that you do it."
"Me!? Why?"
"I think you and Pikachu may
have the best chance to reach them."
"Ok... I'll try." Ash
said.
"We don't have much time,
luckily almost everyone is gathered at the center of town, get
going."
"Ok, I'm on it!" Ash
ran towards the center of town.
"My bet is that those tanks
Ash talked about hold most of their firepower, if we destroy them
the soldiers will not continue their attack. Our best chance is
to attack fast. We'll split up to try to cover as much possible
perimeter as we can."
Everyone nodded, they organized
themselves as fast as possible.
Ash and Pikachu arrived at the
center of town, the celebration was still going on and everyone
were enjoying themselves. Ash figured that maybe if the could
convince the leader of Jayne that it would be easier to convince
everyone else, he noticed a man who was dressed in the most extravagant
manner, he was talking to a small crowd about the greatness of
his family and how they had led Jayne to greatness. Ash figured
it was him, so he ran to tell him about the invasion, he pushed
some people out of the way because he was on a hurry, but before
he could reach the man an woman got on his way. Ash tried to go
around her but she wouldn't let him, he took a good look at her,
she was wearing a gray dress, it was probably the dullest dress
Ash had ever seen, the woman looked around her forties, she had
black hair but with many gray hairs scattered around, she wore
glasses and had a look of anger on her face, yet it was a calm
type of anger, Ash had never seen an expression like that. "Could
you please let me pass? I'm in a hurry."
"I can see that, were you
planning to talk to our great leader Gustav VI?"
"Yes! it's very important."
"The great Gustav VI is a
man of the people, he listens to all."
"That's great! now will you
let me talk to him?"
"Wait! My family has served
his family for 4 generations now, it is my duty to assist him,
if everybody walked up to him to tell him about his problems then
the great Gustav VI wouldn't have enough time for anything else."
"But this is an emergency!"
"That's what they all say!
Now now, I only have to ask you a couple of things before you
can see him."
"Oh.. ok, but please hurry."
"Very well..." the woman
took out a sheet of paper, adjusted her glasses and then asked
Ash. "Please choose the option the best describes your reason
for reaching the great Gustav VI, leader of the fast growing town
of Jayne. a) I want to congratulate the great Gustav VI for doing
such a wonderful job of leading the fast growing town of Jayne
b)..."
"ACK!! I don't have time for
this!!!"
"Pika!" Pikachu was ready
to zap the woman, but saw that Ash was against it.
"Do not interrupt, this is
how the procedure goes, if you don't follow it then you can't
talk to the great Gustav VI."
"But this is a matter of life
or death."
"We'll get to that, just follow
the procedure!"
"But... oh alright, but please
hurry."
"Ok... b)I want to tell the
great Gustav VI that I want his great son with my beautiful daughter.
c) I want to propose new ideas to the great Gustav VI to stimulate
the growth of the already fast growing town of Jayne. d) I want
to entertain the great Gustav VI with an act of mine. e) I want
to murder the great Gustav VI and take his place as the leader
of the fast growing town of Jayne, and finally f) I want to warn
the great Gustav VI about an oncoming disaster."
"F!"
Sora's comment: "It just
had to be the last one!"
"You've chosen F. Please chose
the option that best describes the nature of the oncoming disaster
that you want to warn the great Gustav VI about. a)I tidal wave
is about to crash on the fast growing city of Jayne. b) The people
of the fast growing city of Jayne are secretly planning to revolt
against the great Gustav VI. c) The evil Lord Vivi has returned
to cause chaos and terror in the fast growing city of Jayne. d)
Other..."
"Um... d."
"You've chosen D, please describe
the oncoming disaster that's about to strike the fast growing
city of Jayne."
"Their's an army just outside
the city and they'll attack any moment now!"
"Um... very well. Now, please
choose the option that best describes the urgency of your message.
a) I could wait for an appointment for about a month. b)It would
be very practical that I get this message before the end of the
week. c)He has to know today. d) He has to know NOW!"
"D!! D!!"
"Are you saying you are going
to answer D to the next question too?"
"Next question? NO! we're
running out of time!"
"In that case, it's only one
D."
"Ok ok! Just let me talk to
him."
"Follow the procedure!! Please
choose the option that best describes the method in which you
plan to communicate with the great Gustav VI leader of the fast
growing town of Jayne."
Sora's comment: "For those
of you who don't have the stomach for this, we'll gladly take
you back to the rest of the Yellow Team."
Goku, Freya and Ryoga were standing
on the rooftop of one of the houses that was on the border of
town. They were careful not to be seen while they inspected the
enemies's position.
"6 robot tanks," Freya
said "and many many soldiers. This is going to be complicated."
"Aw.. come on!" Goku
said "I was able to kick Red Ribbon butt even as a small
child."
Ryoga and Freya looked at Goku,
they knew what he meant but it still sounded funny.
"They seem ready to go, why
haven't they attacked all ready?" Ryoga asked.
"They are probably rethinking
their strategy." Freya responded "and we better make
our own quick."
"Um... I'm not good at this."
Goku admitted.
"Me neither..." said
Ryoga.
"They are spreading the robot
tanks along the perimeter of the city, and the soldiers are standing
closely behind, if we can destroy them quick I doubt the soldiers
will continue the invasion."
"But how can we?" Ryoga
asked "Those things will not go down in one blow, will they?
and even the robots tanks outnumber us."
"Goku, you could blast those
things faster than any of us could. You should destroy them while
Izzy, Ryoga and I hold off the soldiers."
"Ok, I'll give it my best
shot!"
General Magenta had contacted
headquarters telling them about the situation they had in their
hands. They had insisted that he hold off the attack until a special
messenger arrived. The General was getting impatient, luckily
the city had shown no response to their army placing itself next
to the town. The General was about to attack when suddenly a soldier
arrived in a small airplane. He got off and walked towards the
general.
"Thank your for waiting."
said the soldier.
"What do you have for me."
The soldier gave the general a
small device. "This will be useful for your invasion."
"What does it do?"
"I haven't been informed sir,
all I was told is that you should turn it on right at the beginning
of the invasion."
"Is that all?"
"Yes sir!"
"Very well.. we'll commence
our invasion right now."
Ash was now getting desperate,
this woman would never finish asking questions.
"Please choose the option
that best describes your sleeping habits. a)"
"What does that have to do
with anything!?"
"Procedure!! Follow the procedure."
Ash thought that the question
was at least good for something, it gave him an idea. "Bulbasaur,
I choose you!"
"What do you think you're
doing?"
"Bulba?"
"Bulbasaur! Sleep powder!"
"Bulbasaur!" Bulbasaur
sprayed some sleep powder out of his bulb right at the woman.
"This goes against procedure...
I'm.. afraiiiid... I caaaaan't... leeeeeet...zzzzzz..."
Ash caught her before she feel
to the ground, and laid her down on the floor and hoped nobody
would step on her. He then made his way to the leader of the town.
Gustav VI saw Ash coming his way.
"Sir!" Ash yelled "are
you the leader of this town?"
"Why yes, I'm Gustav VI leader
of the growing town of Jayne."
"We have no time to lose,
the Red Ribbon is just outside town ready to..."
"Did you say the Red Ribbon!?"
"Yes, we have to hurry..."
"We certainly do." Gustav
VI walked up to the platform where he had read his ancestor's
story and yelled "People of Jayne! The Red Ribbon has come
back!!"
There was an uproar in the whole
town, everyone cheered with all their might.
"What?" Ash was confused,
but then he remembered what Goku said about the people of Jayne
thinking the Red Ribbon was an army from the heavens. "Wait!
You have it all wrong!"
But Gustav VI wasn't paying attention
to Ash anymore, he was overwhelmed with joy. "We have to
move fast, we can't receive the heavenly army like this."
"No! You have to hide."
Gustav VI wasn't hearing anything
Ash was telling him, people started to run everywhere, placing
even more decorations than there had been. Ash looked at his pokemon
as if looking for advice, but both Pikachu and Bulbasaur were
clueless. Luckily Ash got an idea.
"MR. GUSTAV!!!!!!"
That got Gustav VI's attention.
"What is it boy."
"You didn't let me finish,
I not only came to tell you about the arrival of the Red Ribbon,
I also have a message, there is a reason why they are here."
"What is it?"
"The Red Ribbon returned to
protect you, because Lord Vivi has returned."
Gustav VI's face became white
as flour and started to sweat.
"The Red Ribbon will fight
with all their might, but they want the people of Jayne to hide
in a safe place."
Gustav VI nodded, he faced his
people of Jayne and yelled "People of Jayne, this is no time
to celebrate. The reason why the Red Ribbon returned is because
Lord Vivi has returned as well."
All the noise in the town had
disappeared in an instant, it scared Ash. Then everyone started
to yell in panic.
"Calm down!" said Gustav
VI "as long as the Red Ribbon is here to protect us no harm
will come. We just have to hide in a safe place."
The people of Jayne calmed down
a little, but there was still a lot of commotion.
"Let's go to the shelters
built by our ancestors in case something like this ever happened."
Gustav VI lead his people to the
shelters beneath the city, the cry of women and children was deafening.
Ash sighed and left to check on the others.
Freya, Ryoga, Izzy and Tentomon
readied themselves for the battle. Goku placed himself in the
main street of town, just out of view of a Magitek armor, he waited
for the signal to attack.
"Ready?" Freya asked,
both Ryoga and Izzy nodded. "Let's do it then."
Izzy looked at Tentomon and raised
his digivice.
"Tentomon digivolves to...
Kabuterimon!"
Kabuterimon took the sky and towards
the Red Ribbon army, Freya and Ryoga ran in that direction as
well.
"ATTACK!!" yelled General
Magenta.
The soldiers of the Red Ribbon
where about to run into the city when they saw Kabuterimon flying
toward them, the raised their guns to attack. They were about
to fire when they were attacked by a storm of cherry blossom petals.
Many of them hadn't realized it but some soldiers were falling
among them. Many fired towards the sky but Kabuterimon didn't
even need to avoid the bullets.
"Electroshock!!" Kabuterimon
attacked a group of soldiers and many were sent flying by the
impact.
Freya and Ryoga were fighting
the soldiers in close combat, both were too fast for the soldiers
who fell before even realizing they were being attacked.
Goku stood in front of the first
Magitek Armor. "Kaaaaa...Meeeee...Haaaaaaa...Meeeeeee.. HAAAAAAAAAA!!"
His attack hit the Magitek Armor and it exploded in an instant.
Goku smiled and ran to where the next Magitek Armor was placed.
The second Magitek Armor was not
far from the first, it had started to attack and had already destroyed
a house. Goku reached it and was ready to attack again. "Kaaaaa...Meeeee...Haaaaaaa..."
but just then a portal opened behind the Magitek armor, and suddenly
a monster stepped out. Goku was confused and stared at the monster.
Izzy ran towards Goku yelling
"Goku!! that's a digimon!!"
"Izzy!" Goku yelled "Watch
out! This is dangerous."
"It's name is Skullmeramon!!
it's an ultimate digimon!"
"What does that mean?"
"It's real powerful!"
"Alright!!" Goku was
so distracted that the Magitek armor hit him with an ice beam.
He was frozen on the spot.
"Ohoh..." said Izzy.
For a moment he thought about helping Goku, but changed his mind
when a bolt beam barely missed him. He ran for cover.
The frozen Goku was hit by Skullmeramon
and crashed against a wall, he was freed from his ice prison but
it hurt him a lot. "Owowowow!! Hey that's cheating!!"
He leaped and threw a jumping kick right on Skullmeramon's stomach.
He only succeeded in pushing him a centimeter back, Skullmeramon
responded by pounding Goku and sending him crashing to the ground,
he then stomped on him.
Freya and Ryoga did great for
a moment, but after the element of surprise had ended things took
a turn for the worse. The soldiers had regrouped and Ryoga and
Freya had to avoid being shot instead of attacking, in the end
they had to run back to town to take cover. At that moment Kabuterimon
became target practice and also had to fly back to town.
Ryoga and Freya ran into the same
alley Ash and Ryoga had gone to earlier. "What is taking
Goku so long?"
"Those robot tanks must be
tougher than we thought."
Freya and Ryoga didn't have too
much time to think when a fire beam burned right through a wall
next to them, leaving a hole large enough to easily walk through.
They had no choice but to leave the alley and where suddenly confronted
with a Magitek armor. Freya leaped and threw her spear at it but
it just bounced off it's armor, Freya caught it in the bounce
and then leaped back. Ryoga tried to attack it but he barely avoided
a couple of missiles shot by it. The missiles hit a house behind
them and after an explosion left nothing but some ashes. Ryoga
and Freya regrouped, but then they noticed the Red Ribbon army
marching into town.
"Now what?" Ryoga said,
they had a Magitek Armor in front of them and the Red Ribbon army
behind.
"We have to go through that
robot tank somehow and then regroup at the center of town."
Just then something hit the Magitek
Armor from behind, the blast was powerful enough at least to make
it stumble forward. Freya and Ryoga didn't hesitate and ran right
past it, after leaving it behind they saw Ash, Pikachu and Bulbasaur
who was crouching in a way that his bulb pointed forward, meaning
he had just shot a solar beam.
"ASH!!" Ryoga yelled
"Good timing!"
"Thanks!"
"No time for this now!"
Freya said, let's run back to the center.
Skullmeramon had his foot on top
of Goku, who was trying with all his might to get him off. After
a while Goku was finally able to push Skullmeramon's foot away
and leaped away before he stomped on him again. After recovering
he saw the Magitek Armor walking besides him ready to attack.
Goku charged quickly at it, picked it up and turned it towards
Skullmeramon before it fired. Skullmeramon was hit with an ice
beam, but it only succeeded in making him angry.
"Heavy Metal Fire!!"
Skullmeramon destroyed the Magitek Armor, Goku had been quick
to get out of the way.
After that Goku readied himself
and said "Hehe, you're pretty strong. I'm going to enjoy
this."
Sora's comment: "Sure Goku,
ignore the fact the town is about to be destroyed and your team
will be annihilated. You go have a good time!"
The Yellow Team minus Goku regrouped
in the center of town.
Izzy: "I'm glad you guys
are here, I was worried you wouldn't make it."
Ryoga: "We almost didn't!"
Freya: "Where's Goku!?"
Izzy: "He's going to very
busy."
Ash: "Now what!?"
Freya: "We have to make our
stand!"
Ryoga: "That's crazy! we
won't stand a chance!"
Freya: "Are you giving up?"
Izzy: "Freya, you said the
badge was for when we ran out of options, I think this qualifies."
Freya: "We can still do it
without it."
Ash: "But Freya!"
Freya: "Never depend on a
bigger force to get you of a problem. Izzy!"
Izzy: "Yes?"
Freya: "Give us some time
to fight them, if you see that it is truly hopeless, then use
the badge."
Izzy: "Ok Freya, I understand."
Ryoga: "Here they come!"
Four Magitek Armors arrived in
the center of town, the Red Ribbon marched behind them. Freya
saw visions of Burmecia being invaded by black mages, killing
it's inhabitants without any mercy. She also say the citizens
of Cleyra dyeing meaninglessness, she was unable to protect them
and it was a burden she still carried today. Anger and frustration
reached her at the thought of the same thing happening again.
The rest of the Yellow Team saw
that something was happening to Freya, a bright light surrounded
her and waves of energy moved around her. When the light faded
Freya's clothes and skin looked like shiny silver.
"What's happening?" asked
Ash.
Freya didn't respond, she just
leaped into the air. She leaped higher than they had ever seen,
so high that in a second she was out of sight. They then turned
around to look at the Red Ribbon to strike and where ready for
the battle. All of a sudden dozens and dozens of spears started
to rain from the sky. The soldiers started to panic when many
got struck and where killed instantly. Unfortunately the attacks
where not strong enough to harm the Magitek Armors.
"Kabuterimon!!" Izzy
yelled.
Kabuterimon took off and quickly
attacked "Electroshock!!" He hit a Magitek Armor and
partially damaged it, but responded with a Bolt Beam, which Kabuterimon
barely avoided.
"Pikachu! Thundershock! Bulbasaur!
Solar Beam!!"
"PIKACHUU!" Pikachu attacked
a Magitek Armor, the attack didn't do much but it did affect it
in some way because it started moving clumsily and didn't attack.
Ryoga decided to take the opportunity
and attacked "Baksai Tenketsu!!" He buried his finger
on the ground right in front of the Magitek Armor and the explosion
made a hole right beneath it, it fell in and got stuck.
The two other Magitek Armors attacked
Ash and Izzy, one attacked with it's Fire Beam, but Bulbasaur
was able to shot his Solar Beam and the two attacks nullified
each other. The other attacked with an Ice Beam, but Kabuterimon
flew down and got them both out of the way.
Pikachu attacked the Magitek Armor
that Kabuterimon had initially hit, because of the damage it had
received from Kabuterimon the electric attack was a lot more effective.
Sparks started flying and the Magitek Armor then exploded.
The two remaining Magitek Armors
focused on Kabuterimon, they attacked with Fire Beams and gave
him a hard time. Ash yelled at Bulbasaur who the Magitek Armors
were ignoring. "Bulbasaur! Leech Seed!!"
"Bulbasaur!!" Bulbasaur
shot a couple of seeds from his bulb and hit the Magitek Armors
with it. The energy they absorbed was nothing to them, but it
did slow them down. Ryoga took the opportunity and jumped on one
of them. He destroyed the capsule that held the pilot and punched
him on the face, making him unconscious.
Kabuterimon took the opportunity
and attacked the last one. "Electroshock!!"
It was hit and clumsily stepped
back, Ryoga leaped and buried his finger on it. "Baksai Tenketsu!!"
there was an explosion and the Magitek Armor was left with a big
hole on it's chest. The pilot who found it hopeless hit the eject
button and was sent flying out of it's Magitek Armor.
Izzy and Ash saw that what they
had planned had been correct, once the Magitek Armors were destroyed
the rest of the soldiers ran away, he rain of spears also help
to motivate them. Once they were out of sight Freya came back
to the ground, despite the height she landed gracefully, she still
had the same color, but it was duller now, not shiny as it had
been. Freya was then engulfed in another bright light and after
it faded Freya was back to normal. Freya then fell on one knee
and used her spear to avoid falling completely. Kabuterimon landed
and went back to being Tentomon, everyone went to check on Freya.
"Freya!" Ash yelled "are
you ok?"
"I'm fine, just a little tired.
Tentomon must know how I feel."
"What was that?" Izzy
asked.
"It's called Trance, it draws
out all my power."
"Now I know what you mean
when you say I know how that feels." Tentomon said.
"See Izzy? We didn't need
the badge."
Izzy smiled "You're right,
but your trance was almost like if you had used a badge."
"Don't spoil my moment."
"Sorry, you were fantastic!"
"Hey! What about Goku!?"
Ryoga said.
"Oh I almost forgot!"
"Ash, stay here with Freya.
The rest of us will go help Goku!"
Ash nodded, he stood by Freya
as Ryoga, Izzy and Tentomon hurried towards where Goku was.
Goku was still fighting Skullmeramon,
both were showing signs of having fought a hard battle. Goku had
learned that Skullmeramon's attack and defense were both superb,
his flaw however was his speed. So Goku adopted a hit and run
strategy, his speed and strength were enough to hurt Skullmeramon.
Unfortunately Skullmeramon had at one moment surprised Goku by
throwing a chain and trapping Goku with it. Goku had spent a couple
of minutes being smashed against some walls and against the ground.
Goku eventually freed himself but the damage had been done, he
still had plenty of fight in him though.
Goku stood in front of Skullmeramon,
both took a moment to rest a bit and examine their opponents.
Goku heard Izzy and Ryoga arrived.
"Goku! we're here to help!"
Ryoga yelled.
"NO!" Goku yelled "I
want to finish him on my own!"
"But Goku!" Izzy yelled.
"I know the rest of the Red
Ribbon has left, and I'm proud of you guys. Please let me finish
this fight on my own."
Ryoga and Izzy looked at each
other.
"Let him finish," Tentomon
said "Goku like Izzy loves what he does, let him enjoy it."
"Tentomon?"
"Come on Izzy! as much as
you would appreciate someone helping you with a problem, you enjoy
solving everything on your own, I know you."
"You're right, we'll let Goku
handle Skullmeramon on his own."
Sora's comment: "Tentomon,
forever the diplomat. I've been making more comments than usual
no?"
Goku faced Skullmeramon again,
he charged and in an instant hit Skullmeramon right on the face,
but didn't stay still, he moved around and hit Skullmeramon several
times all around the body. Izzy and Tentomon had completely lost
sight of Goku and Ryoga could barely follow his movements. Skullmeramon
was having a hard time trying to hit Goku, but the blows Goku
was landing were not enough to stun him. Skullmeramon suddenly
heated up his whole body and he was engulfed in a blue flame.
Goku was burned and leaped back. Goku was ready for the big one.
"Kamehamehaaaa!!"
Skullmeramon was hit by Goku's
kamehameha and was pushed back a couple of meters, but then he
started to withstand the beam and started to walk against it.
Goku kept the pressure on but Skullmeramon was advancing steadily.
Goku increased the power but Skullmeramon was still advancing.
Goku was clearly sweating, but increased the power even more.
Izzy, Tentomon and Ryoga could no longer see Skullmeramon because
completely engulfed in Goku's kamehameha. Skullmeramon however,
was still advancing.
Izzy for a moment thought about
helping Goku, but then remembered what Tentomon said. He then
figured Goku would not lose that easily.
Skullmeramon was almost standing
right in front of Goku. Goku stopped doing the kamehameha and
leaped away right before Skullmeramon attacked, he pounded the
ground right where Goku had stood. Goku took the opportunity and
attacked again. He raised his arm and made a disk of energy appear
"Kienzan!"
The disk hit Skullmeramon right
on the right shoulder and went right through, it cut his right
arm off which immediately disintegrated. Ryoga, Izzy and Tentomon
cheered. Skullmeramon was angrier than ever.
At this point Goku felt that he
had won the fight, he then had a 'fun' idea. He did a technique
that he hadn't done in a long time because any warrior with a
good training would not be fooled by it, but Skullmeramon was
probably not one. "Zanzoken!"
Skullmeramon was then surrounded
by dozen's of Goku's, many of them made funny faces at him, others
seemed to ignore him, a few looked like the were about to attack,
but when Skullmeramon tried to hit them they would disappear.
Izzy was completely fooled, he
and Tentomon thought Goku had cloned himself, but Ryoga wasn't
fooled, but was still impressed at Goku's speed.
"How did Goku do that?"
Izzy said.
"He's not multiplying himself"
responded Ryoga "he just moves so fast that our eyes trick
us into thinking there are several of him."
"Oh... wow!"
After a while Goku got bored and
decided to end the fight, an image of him attacked Skullmeramon
from the right, because he only had his left arm Skullmeramon
had to almost turn completely around to try to punch him. The
image disappeared and Skullmeramon was left without any leverage,
Goku threw a sweeping kick that knocked Skullmeramon off his feet.
Goku caught him and threw him straight into the air. "Kamehamehaaaa!!!"
Because Skullmeramon was on the
air and had only one arm left he couldn't defend himself correctly
and was destroyed by Goku's attack, he disintegrated on impact.
Shortly after the battle had ended
the guys were joined by Freya, Ash and Pikachu.
"Is everything ok?" Ash
asked.
"Yeah!" Ryoga responded
"how about you?"
"We destroyed the remaining
robot tanks." Freya said.
"But we let the pilots escape
first." Ash said.
"At Ash's request."
"Hey, we couldn't kill them
in cold blood."
"Pika!"
"We really should get going,
I had to tell the people of Jayne that the Red Ribbon appeared
to fight off Lord Vivi's demons. Let's get out of her before they
think we're those demons."
"That's a good idea."
Izzy said.
"But I'm hungry!" Goku
said.
"Goku, as much as I'd like
to please you, we really should get going." said Freya.
"Aw..."
The Yellow Team left the city
of Jayne.
The Yellow Team walked for a while
until they reached a river. Goku asked his team to stop so that
he could fish for them. Since everyone was really hungry they
agreed, but when Goku put his hands to do a kamehameha they all
stopped him and showed that they were against doing it that way,
especially Ryoga. Goku sighed, took off his clothes and took a
dive. While Goku did some fishing the rest of the Team sat down
to catch up on a few things.
Freya: "Ok Izzy, now tell
us, why did the Red Ribbon invade Jayne?"
Izzy: "Ok, remember the disk
Tai gave me?"
Ash: "Yeah, you made a weird
text file of it, it didn't make much sense."
Izzy: "Well I spent the last
night studying that weird text file, I made many corrections trying
to make sense of some sentences. There is still a lot of messed
up knowledge, but I was able to get some more info out of it."
Ryoga: "You sure work hard
on that sort of stuff."
Tentomon: "You have no idea."
Ash: "So what did you come
up with."
Izzy: "This disk belonged
at some point to the Red Ribbon, it is actually a log of their
scientific activity."
Ash: "That much we already
knew."
Izzy: "Let me continue, at
first I thought it described the research done to create Kyougumon."
Freya: "And it doesn't?"
Izzy: "Well yes it does,
but that's just part of the project, not the whole."
Pikachu saw that Goku was throwing
dozens of fish out of the water, he was impressed how fast Goku
could catch them.
Izzy: "The disk describes
the true intentions of the Red Ribbon on this island, and Kyougumon
is an important part of it."
Freya: "You still haven't
answered the question of why the Red Ribbon invaded Jayne."
Izzy: "Something is going
to happen in this island, and not just in Jayne, in various places
as well."
Ash: "What?"
Izzy: "That I don't know,
but I'm sure Kyougumon is going to cause it."
Goku yelled from the river "Hey
what's this!?"
Everyone turned around and saw
Goku holding a Magikarp. Ash yelled "That's a Magikarp! Throw
it back!"
"Why?"
Ash didn't just felt comfortable
eating a pokemon, but he figured Goku wouldn't mind, so he gave
a different, yet true reason. "Magikarps are just skin and
bones! they aren't good to eat."
"Oh..." That seemed good
enough for Goku so he threw it back, he resumed fishing and Izzy
resumed his explanation.
"I think the Red Ribbon is
looking for some source of great power, and maybe Kyougumon is
acting like some sort of tracer for it."
Ash: "But what about Sailor
Moon?"
Freya: "Sailor Moon?"
Ash: "The disk did mention
her."
Izzy: "Yes, but I still don't
understand that part."
Ryoga: "So what are we supposed
to do? drop the Ultimate Challenge and go stop the Red Ribbon?"
Freya: "As much as I'd regret
that, it sounds like the correct thing to do."
Izzy: "I also thought about
it, but then some questions started to pop in my head."
Ash: "Like?"
Izzy: "Let's face it, the
Red Ribbon's activity hasn't exactly been secret, they had this
really huge base in the desert, they had soldiers in the town
of Highthorn, I can't believe the crew of the Ultimate Challenge
didn't notice them, doesn't that sound strange?"
Freya: "It does sound awfully
suspicious."
Izzy: "And if we hadn't been
in the Ultimate Challenge how would we have learned or any of
this, traveling around this island we've learned many things.
I think the other teams may have learned other things as well."
Ryoga: "But come on Izzy!
do you think this contest was set up so that we would eventually
learn of the Red Ribbon's plans and stop them?"
Izzy: "I find it hard to
believe too, it's just that it all sounds so strange."
Just then something landed right
besides them. when they turned around they saw it was Biyomon.
Tentomon: "Biyomon! What
are you doing here?"
Biyomon: "Sora sent me, she
isn't allowed to talk to you, but nobody said I couldn't."
Freya: "Sora?"
Biyomon: "I have a message
from her. She wants to tell you that the host of the Ultimate
Challenge don't know what's going on either and are just as confused
as you are."
Ash: "Geesh... that can't
be good."
Izzy: "What about the organizers?"
Biyomon: "The hosts don't
know them, everything was done through e-mail, at first everything
looked so professional, but then it was just weird."
Ryoga: "You only came here
to tell us that?"
Biyomon: "No, Biyomon has
more things to tell. Sora wants you to know some things that have
happened to the other teams so that you're informed, that's why
Sora is continuing her job, to learn things you can't by yourself."
Freya: "What should we know?"
Biyomon: "Kyougumon has already
digivolved into Teromon."
Everyone: "!!!!"
Izzy: "HOW!?"
Biyomon: "He did it by absorbing
Queen Garnet, the Red Team witnessed it."
Ash: "What the!?"
Izzy: "I think I understand,
the file does talk about the qualities of certain people and how
the would benefit Kyougumon, but I couldn't understand it. I think
I understand know, just like the digidestined where scanned and
their digimon were created based on our information; Kyougumon
er... Teromon was also created with the information of other chosen
ones. Queen Garnet must have been one, but the process seems a
lot more aggressive than with the digidestined."
Biyomon: "Sora wants you
to know Teromon has already tried to absorb Sailor Moon in New
Alexandria, but the Red and Blue Team stopped him."
Freya: "Looks like we're
missing the action."
Ash: "We can't complain,
I mean we just stopped the invasion of a whole army, and everything
that happened in that cave was pretty exciting."