Spear Pillar - A Hollow Victory...

[Ninetalesuk]

The portal leading to the Distortion World was still open...

Still open until...

@miragegaoga@

With a cry, he flew out of the portal, carrying Thomas...

@thomas@

"Just hang on!!!" He yelled. "A little longer!!!"

@miragegaoga@

"Sir.... yes... SIR!!!" He roared.

@shinegreymon@

"Hold on, boss!!!" He cried, coming out of the portal.

@marcus@

"ShineGreymon, you can do it!!!"

@shinegreymon@@miragegaoga@

They both landed on the ground and placed their partners down...

@marcus@

"Thomas!!! You gotta find a way to fix Missingno's damage!!!"

@thomas@

"I'll try!" He said, looking at his Digivice.

@shinegreymon@

"Boss... I can't hold on..." He grunted, falling to his knees...

@miragegaoga@

He held his shoulder. "I'm losing energy... he... he cut off your flow of Digisoul that gives me strength..."

@thomas@

"What...?"

@marcus@

"No... I'm not letting Missingno win!!!" He roared in fury. "ShineGreymon!!! MirageGaogamon!!! Fight this!!! You can do it!!!"

@shinegreymon@

He rose to his feet and clenched his hands, focusing. "I... won't... give... up!!!"

@miragegaoga@

No other choice... he did the same... "Rrr..."

@thomas@

"Marcus... they can't stay in Mega-level forever..." He muttered.

@marcus@

"B-But..."

@shinegreymon@@miragegaoga@

They both shone with energy...

@marcus@

"GAH!!!"

A few seconds later... while it was still bright...

@@

"BOSS!!! I DID IT!!! I'VE RESISTED MISSINGNO'S VIRUS!!!"

@marcus@

He grinned. "Really?! Great! You did it, ShineGreymon! You did it! You're the mon, Shine-"

The light vanished and...

@marcus@

He sweatdropped... "Shine... Shine..."

@risegreymon@

"What's wrong, boss?"

@marcus@

"..............." He fell to the ground. "DAMN IT!!!"

@gaogamon@

"Tch..." He looked over himself. "We reverted to the forms we were able to access for now in Missingno's little block field..."

@thomas@

He scowled before glancing up at the portal... "And the others..."

[AnT]

@cyrus@ "Argh....argh..." Cyrus, far in the forest by the foot of the mountain, was busy dragging his feet against the grass. Though his feet still haven't reformatted themselves; up to his ankles, they were pixelated.

But just as soon as he regains his feet, he'll flee to his craft, hidden in these woods, and fallback to Ishuu. He has a little something, but he needed time to plan on how to use it. Charon should-

Suddenly, someone grabbed his collar and pulled him up...

@casualjenny@ Right to the intoxicated eyes of Jenny, who was breathing so hard, like she could barely stay conscious.

@cyrus@ "Curious. Junsar, Number 23-"

POW!!!!!

A hammering slug to the face slammed Cyrus to the ground.

@casualjenny@ She marched up to him with such ill balance, like she could fall over any moment. But her fury refused to let her conscious drop, not while she has him.

"Why?" Grabbing him back up, "WHY?!?"

[YolkaEd]

@rosemon@

Soon, Rosemon emerged from the portal as well, Yoshi in her arms. "Yoshi... I can't..."

@yoshi@

"Listen, Rosemon! You can hang on, right?" Yoshi pleaded, as she looked at her partner. "You can't let that virus win!"

@rosemon@

In spite of Yoshi's words, Rosemon soon landed by Marcus and Thomas, before collapsing onto her knees. "...I... can't..." she uttered, before she was engulfed by a glow...

@lalamon@

...and when it faded, she was Lalamon again.

@yoshi@

"...n-no..." Yoshi uttered, as she knelt by Lalamon. "...how... how could he do that?"

[Candescence]

Both Ikuto and Ravemon hit the ground right outside the portal, the latter groaning in exhaustion.


"Hang in there, Ravemon... We can fight it! We..."


"No... I'm sorry, Ikuto... I can't hold on..." Ravemon exhaled, as he devolved...


Peckmon looked at his partner sadly.


"Peckmon..." He hugged his partner. "Don't worry. You did good, partner. You did good."

[Ninetalesuk]

@marcus@

"DAMN THAT MISSINGNO!!!" He roared. "I'LL GET HIM BACK FOR THIS!!!"

@risegreymon@

"Same here, boss!" He grunted. "Next time we fight him, he's going to get a taste of my gun... FACE FIRST!!!"

@thomas@

"Everyone, just calm down..."

@marcus@

"CALM DOWN?!" He roared. "CALM DOWN?! HE TOOK OUR DIGIMON'S ABILITY TO REACH MEGA!!! HE'S A F(BEEP!)ING COWARD!!!"

@thomas@

"He's only taken our Digimon's power to reach Mega in this world only!" He said.

@gaogamon@

"So, what do we do now?"

@thomas@

"Despite what Missingno believes... despite what he says... I refuse to believe that this virus will stop our Digimon from reaching Mega!" He said, clutching his fists. "Nothing is perfect... including Missingno. Even if I can't destroy this virus, I'll find an alternate way for our Digimon to reach Mega!"

@risegreymon@

"Hopefully, in time for us to beat that evil creep!"

[YolkaEd]

@lalamon@

"...but even if we can't reach Mega..." Lalamon uttered, as she looked at Thomas. "...then at least we can support the others, right?"

@yoshi@

"...Lalamon..." Yoshi said, before sighing. "...we're going to get all of you back to Mega somehow." she said, trying to crack a smile, before glancing at Thomas. "Alright, time to put that Nobel Prize brain of yours to the test, Thomas!"

[AnT]

POW!!!!

@cyrus@ Again, his bloodied face met the ground.

@casualjenny@ Breathing, uncontrollably and unsteadily, Jenny barely could approach the man. "Prototype...*hck*...for perfect humans?! W-Wha are...?"

@cyrus@ Pushing his head up, Cyrus wiped the blood off his face, glancing at her with his usual emotionless mask. "My new world needed beings superior to the imperfect ones. We slowly, and subtly planted the clones of the original Jennifer Junsar and Paige Joy; last dated the Dark Day."

@casualjenny@ "Wh---wha...." Holding her temples, her vision became blurry.

@cyrus@ And Cyrus simply stood up, now that his feet returned. "But the testing is under a hiatus; for my god powers would've created more fitting perfect species."

And suddenly, a large craft sailed over the forest, blowing those that weren't solid and stiff.

@cyrus@ "You and your colleagues are expandable." he said, grabbing a rope ladder that pulled him up to the craft.

@casualjenny@ And leaving Jenny to fall to the ground, where she lost conscious.

[Candescence]

Ikuto began to smile, as Thomas spoke up. "Yeah... YEAH! We're back together again, there's nothing we can't do at this rate! We can beat it! We just gotta figure out how!"


"But what about the others? Are they coming?" Peckmon looked towards the portal.


"Don't worry... I think they can handle themselves.

[Ninetalesuk]

@thomas@

"Agreed... we all can't leave just yet." He said. "We should wait for the others to come..."

@marcus@

"And after that?"

@thomas@

"I'll examine my Digivice and look at this virus carefully," He said. "With any luck, I'll find out how we can avoid it and get our Digimon's Mega-levels back..."

@risegreymon@

"Great! I'm looking forward to it!"

@marcus@

"Meanwhile... you three better start training to get your Ultimate forms back!"

@gaogamon@

He nodded. "I feel I'm closer of becoming MachGaogamon again, sir... but, we have to wait..."

@thomas@

"Agreed..." He looked at the portal.

[AnT]

If they were to look out in the landscape, they would see a particular craft lifting out of the forest. While it had the Galactic logo, it would be too far to see.

[Ninetalesuk]

@thomas@

He glanced over his shoulder and saw the strange craft leaving in the distance. "Hmm?"

@marcus@

"What's up, Thomas?"

@thomas@

"It's nothing..." He said. "We'd better wait for the others to leave... Missingno has no intention of fight them right now, so they'll be spared...

@marcus@

He nodded. "OK..."

@thomas@

He looked back at the craft and frowned. I have a feeling that we should follow that thing... whatever it is... it might be... him...

@risegreymon@

"Whhhhhhhhy are we waaaaaaiting?" He sang.

@gaogamon@

"....where did you hear that?"

@risegreymon@

"Dunno... I thought it should catchy..."

@gaogamon@

"Ugh..." He groaned.

[Candescence]

"Hey, dudes, what-Oh, godammit, what are you guys just standing around for?" Kouki asked, as he emerged from the portal, and landed, before changing back to...


"Seriously, you guys are heroes or something. Aren't you gonna go other places and beat up bad guys?"


"Oh, for the love of-wait, Kouki, what're you doing here?" Ikuto raised an eyebrow.


"Ah, that? Some chick offered me my Bio-Hybrid powers back in exchange for helping save the world, but she forgot to give me my BioThunderbirdmon form, so now I'm stuck with turning into a Champion-level." Kouki was now sticking a finger in his ear, twisting it. "Maybe the other two might turn up. Who knows."


"So, basically, everyone and the kitchen sink is turning up for this... Except Kurata."


"Eh, who cares, Kurata's dead anyway, we don't have to worry about him anymore." Ikuto crossed his arms.

Oh, how wrong he was. On another contient, a particular scientist sneezed from having his name mentioned...

[YolkaEd]

@yoshi@

Ignoring Kouki, Yoshi picked up Lalamon, as she glanced at the portal. "...hm... I do wonder what's taking them so long in there..."

@lalamon@

"...Kouki?" Lalamon uttered, as she glanced at him. "What happened in there before you left?"

[Ninetalesuk]

@risegreymon@

"Yeah! Are the others all right? Has Missingno done anything else after we left?! Tell us!!!"

@gaogamon@

"You can stop being over dramatic..." He grumbled.

[Candescence]

"That's right! What about the others?!" Ikuto asked.


"Jeez, calm down. The others are fine. Missingno didn't do jack." Kouki found the others asking if their friends were alright rather amusing. "He said something about your digivices being more vulnerable than the others and he wanted to make sure you didn't interfere with this plans. Then he started insisting that he wasn't evil. Nobody bought it. 'Really, I'm totally not evil, honest!' It's hilarious how deluded he is."


"Get to the point, already!" Peckmon snapped.


"Then he started saying something about other evils, before he got 'disconnected'. He just disappeared mid-speech. It was funny as hell. So, yeah, they're perfectly fine." Kouki chuckled. "By the way, there were two dudes named Davis and Ken back there with that Imperialdramon, they said something about a WaruSeadramon taking over an island of Pokemon. Sounds pretty serious to me."


"Why didn't you just tell us that earlier and got to the point?!"


"Because everything else was too funny to not mention, duh."

[YolkaEd]

@yoshi@

"Ugh..." Yoshi groaned, as she finally glared at Kouki. "You know, you're still wanted for a lot of felonies back in Japan, mister!" she said, as she suddenly grabbed hold of Kouki's ear, glaring at him. "We might not be in Japan, but once we get back, you can expect to sit behind bars for a couple of months!"

[Ninetalesuk]

@thomas@

"How did you hear them talk about that?!" He asked.

@marcus@

"Never mind!" He said, clenching his fists. "We have to go to that island and save those Pokemon! You ready?"

@risegreymon@

"Ready, boss.... for bed..." He groaned.

@marcus@

"Uh?!?"

@gaogamon@

"Ugh... I'm ready to drop down, sir..."

@thomas@

"Marcus... you and most of the others arrived in Sinnoh yesterday morning... we've been through many battles throughout the night and it looks like it'll be daylight soon..."

@marcus@

He looked at his hand, which is shaking. "Tch... this means that you and I will have to stay out?"

@thomas@

"I'm afraid so... it's a wonder that that Agumon and Gaomon can still stay in their Champion and Ultimate forms..."

@risegreymon@

"What about Keenan and Yoshi?" He asked. "Did you guys get any rest before you joined us in the party?"

[Candescence]

Kouki looked at Thomas. "Hey, when you're bored, you tend to eavesdro-OW!" Then Yoshigrabbed his ear. "JEEZ! I tell you this important information, and this is the thanks I get?! Are you still mad about the bike thing, Yoshino? Look, if I help save the world, maybe you can let me off the hook a bit, maybe like, I dunno, count it as community service?" He looked at RizeGreymon. "And I think I'm good for some more fighting."


Ikuto considered the question. "Uh... Well... Peckmon and I HAVE been chasing you guys around all day, but we've been taking periodic naps, and I learned how to stay awake for long periods back when I was living in the Digital World. I think we can handle it."


"Yeah, don't worry about us!"

[YolkaEd]

@yoshi@

"...you'll still have to answer to Satsuma when we get back, Kouki." Yoshi scoffed, as she let go of Kouki. "As for me and Lalamon... well, we were about to rest in a place called Cinnabar, until that weird portal took us here..."

@lalamon@

"So... if I can get my wounds healed, I can be of some help, I hope!" Lalamon said.

[Ninetalesuk]

@marcus@

"So, we know Keenan and Peckmon can go..."

@thomas@

"Yoshi and Lalamon... we don't know yet..." He added, crossing his arms. "However... like me at the moment, they can only bring out Peckmon and Sunflowmon... so, maybe this fight on Pokemon Island might help your Digimon gain some EXP to reach furthur to the Ultimate-level..."

@marcus@

"I've got a better idea! Calumon!" He said with a grin.