Chapter 19

"You're kidding me." Ruki deadpanned, looking at her new pig that was currently happily flitting about the air with his ear wing...things. ".."Right?" she turned to you and there was uncertainty in her eyes.

"There's gotta be some trick to this," she shook her head before asking another question, "How did you digivolve your Garurumon to the Champion level?"

It seemed to be pretty important to her.

"I loaded him up on tons of data," you responded, "And to actually trigger the digivolution I fed him the data of two extremely powerful champion digimon."

She bit her lip, "T-thats-"

"Destruction Grenade!" an echoing voice rang throughout the area and suddenly there was a pair of high pitched whistles cutting through the air.

"Boss!" Garurumon howled.

Turning, your eyes went wide as you took in the form of a golden Guardromon at the other end of the large platform, and two missiles slicing through the air towards you and Ruki.

Your digivice came out and you returned Salamon in an instant. And then you thrust your hand out, pushing Ruki with all the enhanced strength you had on this server, sending her flying into Tukaimon and throwing both out of the way.

You threw both arms up over your head to guard your face, having no time to dodge. A massive lupine shadow threw itself into the air above you though and took both missiles, blocking the attacks.

Garurumon howled loudly in pain and the ensuing explosion threw him up over your head and sent soaring for dozens of feet before he crashed hard against one of the platform walls dozens of feet away, cratered it and fell to the ground.

"My brothers," the Guardromon began, another pair of missiles loading atop its outstretched arms, "I have lost communications with my brothers, what have you done to them!?"

Usually you would feel bad. This thing seemed to genuinely care about those two digimon you just killed. But you aren't the good guy. You aren't even the anti-hero type.

And this thing not only nearly killed Ruki, but also hurt YOUR Garurumon.

"YoU.." you snarled at it, blood pounding in your ears and rage beating in your heart. "Black Greymon, KILL IT!" you roared, swinging your digivice through the air and calling forth your second champion.

Black Greymon burst into existence a roar of rage that shook the world around you and flames already pooled in his mouth, "Mega Flame!"

The torrent of compressed flames smashed into the golden robot digimon before it could react and pushed it up against a wall, burning away at it.

But after taking a moment to regain its balance, it actually waded through the sea of flames like it was actually water and raised its arms up, "Destruction Grenade!" it called again, firing both missiles.

At you.

Black Greymon roared and stepped into the path of both, taking them both in the chest. But even as the explosion rattled him, the massive dinosaur was already using his giant and heavy frame to push through and rush towards the robotic digimon.

Seeing your digimon managing for the moment, you turned to Garurumon already lumbering to his feet, a snarl leaving his lips.

You thrust your digivice and activated the newest digimon skill you obtained from Socerimon, "Crystal Heal!" you declared, and a cyan blue light covered Garurumon, some of his wounds fading.

"Help Greymon!" you shouted at him, and it was a testament to how much your digimon obeyed you that he didn't even bother aknowledging the command and just blitzed towards the fighting duo of digimon.

That done, you turned to Ruki who was tightly griping Tukaimon to her chest, eyes wide and arms trembling. "If that hit us.." she trailed of despondently.

"Ruki, use that skill I gave you and go!" you ordered her.

She looked at you wide eyed, "B-but-"

"Go!" you barked, cutting her off, "I don't wanna see you get hurt here, let me handle it!"

Her lip trembled for a moment, before she bit a lip into it and settled on nodding. "F-fine!" she grunted. She brought the digivice up about to activate the skill and paused, pinning you with violet coloured glare, "Don't go dying on me gogglehead, I'm looking forward to shooting you down when you ask me out."

You rolled your eyes, "As if I'd die to a weakling like this." you shot back easily. She huffed, sending you one last concerned look, before activating the Gate skill and disappearing from the Kowloon server.

You turned back, just in time to see Garurumon release a wave of ice along the floor, freezing part of the ground and Guardromon's legs, forcing it to get stuck as it tried to turn and fired its missiles at Black Greymon.

"Grey Claw!" Black Greymon roared, taking advantage and slamming a glowing clawed hand into Guardromon's side and ploughing its back into the ground so hard even you almost got thrown off of your feet.

But he wasn't done there. As soon as he smashed the robot digimon down, flames were already spilling from his mouth, "Mega Flame!" he followed up with, basting the golden Guardromon in a point blank devastation of flames.

They spilled out all around them, Black Greymon even burning himself in the attack he was that intent on attacking and Garurumon was forced to retreat backwards.

Perfect, this was your chance.

Lifting your digivice up, you aimed it at the downed Guardromon and activated the Copy and Paste program. A program of your own making that took you months to get done and based on the digimon's ability to load data of defeated foes and obtain their skills.

A moment later, it was done. If there was one thing the digivices were good for, it was their sheer speed.

Looking into the screen, you were a bit disappointed to see that the only thing it managed to copy and create though, was a slimmer pair of the Guardromon's armored arms, a pair of golden Chrome Digizoid gauntlets.