Jawsmon had just rescued Naturemon from a life threatening attack. Taylor, who was riding on Jawsmon's shoulder, looked over in Martin's direction. She was now wearing her "land clothes" which were her usual aquamarine T-shirt, blue shorts, and red sneakers with aquamarine socks. As opposed to her "sea clothes" which consisted of a black tube top and a tattered miniskirt which Aqualians called "Loin Cloths", which, although technically incorrect, they did cover the loins, so…..yeah. Taylor adjusted the goggles on her head and flashed him a smile. "I'd say that was purrrfect timing, eh cat boy?" She said. "Cat boy?" Martin said, a bit confused at the sudden nickname.
Their attention was turned back to more Gizumon XT turning from around the corner. Martin ran up to Naturemon and grabbed her hand. "Naturemon, you have to stop fighting! You need your rest!" Martin said. Naturemon scowled at him. "I'm not tired! And my wounds are gone as you can see! Why can't I fight!?" Naturemon demanded. Martin was silent. Truth is, he didn't tell Naturemon not to fight because he thought she needed more rest. He was afraid of her getting hurt again. Especially going up against a Gizumon, where the stakes are so high, she might not even have the chance to be reborn from a DigiEgg. "Because I said so, that's why!" Martin responded in an angry tone.
Taylor looked over at the arguing partners. "Jawsmon. Naturemon and Martin aren't focused for some reason. We need to be sure to pick up the slack for them." Taylor said. "Understood." Jawsmon responded. Taylor hopped down off of Jawsmon's shoulder, and Jawsmon lunged at one of the Gizumon XT. "Radical Ripping!" Jawsmon shouted. This attack was when Jawsmon bit down into his opponent over and over and ripped him apart like a shark stripping its prey. Jawsmon destroyed a Gizumon XT with this attack and then jumped over onto another one. They were floating quite high in mid-air, probably around 50 feet. "Radical Ripping!" Jawsmon shouted again before ripping off all the metal of the Gizumon XT and reducing it to a pile of scraps. Jawsmon then jumped onto another Gizumon XT. There was one nearby that was about to shoot a DigiCore-destroying laser at him. Fortunately, Jawsmon noticed it and dodged the laser just in time! The laser hit the Gizumon he was on top of and destroyed it. Jawsmon had used quick thinking and reflexes to cause one Gizumon to destroy another via friendly fire!
"Way to go, Jawsmon!" Taylor cheered. Naturemon just stared at Jawsmon fighting the horde of Gizumon XT by himself and looked sad. "Martin…please let me fight." She didn't use her usual nickname for him.
"Why do you want to fight so badly?" Martin asked.
"CoalGolemon and I hurt many Digimon in the process of freeing them from the Red Marks. I tried to heal them with my Motherly Love, but whenever I tried to heal one that I freed, I left myself wide open for an attack. I couldn't ease the suffering of any of them. Now, these Gizumon are killing them." Naturemon explained.
Jawsmon jumped from one Gizumon to another, "Titanic Bite! Power Pummeling! Titanic Bite! Power Pummeling!" Jawsmon shouted as he attacked. Taylor noticed that Martin and Naturemon hadn't joined the fray. She walked over to Martin and placed her hand on his shoulder. "Hey, what happened? Why aren't you helping?" Taylor asked. Martin was silent for a moment. Then he said "Naturemon got hurt really bad a while ago. The Ganvivormon at this hospital restored her pretty quickly, but….I've never seen her that badly beat up before." Taylor held up her digivice in front of Martin. "I get it. Really, I do. But don't forget that all our Digimon are parts of Harmonymon; created by the Yggdrasils for the purpose of saving the entire multiverse someday. Until their mission is fulfilled, you can't forbid her." Taylor said. Martin reached into his pocket and brought out his Digivice. He was very reluctant. "No! I can't!"
They then heard a voice shout "What are you doing!? They're helping us! These purple machines are trying to save this town!" They looked over to see a man and an angry crowd. "We heard you were destroying Gizumon. Don't you know they're ridding the city of our Digimon problem?" Said an old lady. Another in the crowd protested, "Digimon are pests! Crusade Against The Digimon!"
"My business was burnt to the ground!"
"My house was completely destroyed by a Digimon! Where am I going to live now!?"
"My brother was killed by a raging Ogremon!"
"So was my sister!"
"And my house was burned by a group of Tyrannomon!"
The crowd was getting angry and more riled up. Taylor and the others couldn't believe what they were hearing. Taylor stepped forward and tried to shout over the crowd, "But those Digimon weren't in control of themselves! They were being controlled by the Red Marks!" Taylor shouted. But her voice couldn't be heard over the cacophony the crowd was creating. Back at C.A.D HQ, Rumiko was laughing evilly as she watched and listened to the crowd. The Gizumon all had streaming footage that linked back to the computers at C.A.D HQ. "Excellent. The population is beginning to turn on Digimon just as planned." She said.
Naturemon took a few steps forward and motioned her hands to quiet the crowd. "Please! Listen! The Digimon who are rampaging have no control over their own bodies! They are being controlled by the Red Marks! They're being controlled by an organization called Crusaders Against Digimon!" Naturemon said, but her voice was drowned out too. One guy threw a glass bottle at Naturemon's head. "You're one of those filthy Digimon too, aren't ya!?" He shouted. Dark blue blood came down the side of Naturemon's face. Naturemon looked like she was ready to burst into tears. And then she did. Little Marnie Neptune ran up to Naturemon and took some tissues out of her pocket, and lifted the tissue up to wipe Naturemon's tears away. "Please don't cry. I know not all Digimon are bad." Marnie said. Marnie had likewise switched to her "land clothes". In the ocean, she wore a small golden tiara, a dark green tube top, and golden arm bands. Now she wore a dark green tank top, a blue skirt, and golden shoes with yellow socks.
"Get away from that child!"
"Little girl, get away from her! She's dangerous!"
Taylor grunted. "YOU FREAKING IDIOTS! Does Naturemon look like a threat to you!?" She yelled angrily.
Elsewhere, Zai's LadyDevimon was destroying Gizumon XT left and right with her Darkness Wave and Darkness Spear attacks. And Evander's MetalGreymon, TankBugmon, and Rapidmon were also taking some down. At some point they had digivolved to their Ultimate levels. "Giga Blaster!" MetalGreymon shouted as it fired large gray missiles out of the metal casing on its chest. Boom! A Gizumon XT got shot down. "Bug Spray! Bug Spray! Bug Spray!" TankBugmon shouted as it fired big balls of energy from its arm cannons. Boom! Boom! Boom! Three hits and another Gizumon XT failed. MetalGreymon looked over to his fellow Digimon Partner. "Three hits? Seriously?" MetalGreymon teased. "Shut up!" TankBugmon responded.
"Golden Triangle!"
"Giga Blaster!"
"Hyper Cannon!"
"Darkness Wave!"
Even more Gizumon XT were taken down.
In Akihabara, Emmett and Harpymon were also attacking Gizumon XT. "Wind Seeker! Wind Seeker! Wind Seeker!" Three hits and a Gizumon XT went down. "Great job, Harpymon!" Emmett cheered.
The fighting went on for a couple of hours. Eventually, every Gizumon XT was defeated, and every Red Marked Digimon was freed. Taylor, Drusilla, Martin, and Emmett eventually met up again together and gave a group congratulatory fist bump.
Back at C.A.D Headquarters, Rumiko slammed her fist down hard on her desk. She was fuming! "HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!? I expected them to take down some of the Gizumon, but they took down ALL of them!? Just how strong are these brats!?" Rumiko shouted. She had said "Brats" referring to the four children with the four parts of Harmonymon, but then she remembered that their parents who were Digidestined before them were also helping out in various parts of the city. Rumiko got up from her desk and stood over it. She looked over to a picture of Junichiro and Kota on her desk. She grit her teeth hard. "I can't give up. I have to win. I have to make a world where we don't have to fear these creatures anymore." Rumiko said. Rumiko ran out of her office and into the large airplane hanger sized room where the Gizumon XT were previously stored. She ran up to one of the many doors aligning all sides of the room.
This was C.A.D's secret underground headquarters and it was massive! She opened the door and went into a room that looked like a high tech laboratory out of a sci-fi movie. There were test tubes, beakers, computers, notebooks, tablets, and diagrams everywhere. Rumiko ran over to the scientist who ran the lab. He looked surprised to see her. "Oh! Mrs. Shinigaku! How goes the war on Digimon?" He asked as though making casual conversation.
She looked him in the eyes and said, "The serum. Inject it into me, now!" The scientist looked surprised at the request. "But, Mrs. Shinigaku, it hasn't been tested yet! We don't know what effect it will have on your body!" He said. "I don't care! Those Digimon butt kissers have just eliminated every single Gizumon I sent out! I need to turn up the heat on them and crush them totally!" Rumiko said. The scientist frowned. "Has….has it really come to that?" He said. "Yes, it has." Rumiko replied.
The scientist walked over to a beaker filled with a purplish reddish liquid and he picked up a syringe. He filled the syringe with the purplish reddish liquid in the beaker and walked over to Rumiko. Rumiko took off her long sleeved office shirt and held it in her lap. The scientist stuck her in the arm with the syringe and injected the reddish purplish liquid into her vein. A few moments passed and nothing happened, but then, Rumiko Shingaku felt a burning pain coursing through every inch of her body. She screamed in pain and dropped to the laboratory floor. She braced herself and rolled around on the floor, screaming and writhing in pain. Rumiko's skin turned a pinkish red color, the whites of her eyes became blood red and her pupils became yellow. On her shoulders, red circular markings appeared that glowed. Several markings of other patterns appeared on her forearm on the left and near her shoulder on the right. Her bra ripped as a purple metal breastplate ripped through her skin and coated her torso. Then gray metal began showing up on her legs all the way up to her thighs. She screamed in agony during this entire transformation process. Her ears then became extremely pointed like elf ears, and the black office skirt she was wearing turned into a metallic, metal skirt armor type of clothing like you might see a character wear in an MMORPG.
Once the transformation was complete, Rumiko stopped screaming. She lay on the floor. The scientist who was in the room with her looked terrified. He thought he might have killed her at first when she first started writhing. "M-M-Mrs. Shinigaku?" He said. Rumiko looked unconscious, but she was actually just lying there with her eyes closed, recovering from the initial shock of the transformation. She opened her eyes, sat up, and started laughing menacingly. She looked over at the scientist, glaring him dead in the eyes with her red and yellow eyes. "Rumiko Shinigaku is the name of a weakling. My name….is RumikoGizumon." She said. RumikoGizumon looked down at her body, much of which was metalised. She looked at the red marking on her left forearm. "Ah yes, the power of the Red Mark manifests. I wonder what all I can do." She said. She looked up at the scientist who had injected her and just glared at him. Her eyes began to glow bright red before lasers shot out of them and instantly vaporized him! A pile of ash remained where the doctor was before. RumikoGizumon initially laughed, but then was horrified at what she had done.
She crawled over to the pile of ashes and scooped them up in her hands, her eyes widened with her horror. "Doctor…." she said. She turned to her left and vomited. "What have I done? What have I done? What have I done?!!?" She screamed in horror. The Red Marks on her body suddenly lit up. She stood up and blasted through the ceiling, digging through lots of Earth and eventually exploding through the floor of the Attorney office building that served as the organization's cover. There was no one in the building. This area had been evacuated due to the rampaging Digimon. She walked towards the door and muttered "My husband, Junichiro. My son, Kota. I….will reshape this world."
Back in Suburban Nakano, the four children were walking home with their Digimon. Besides, Emmett, the three of them lived all on the same street, in houses right next to each other. It was so convenient, but in no way accidental. The parents purposefully all moved in the same neighborhood so they could be near each other. Naturemon was walking with an angry look on her face in front of Martin.
"So, I wonder just how many Digimon were killed by the Gizumon." Taylor said.
"I don't know, but I don't want to think about it. I'd rather think about that yummy leftover curry you promised me, Taylor!" Sharkmon said.
"Oh yeah! I forgot about that." Taylor said.
"After a huge announcement like that, plastering her face all over the country, no way Rumiko won't get caught now, don't you agree, Naturemon?" Martin said.
Naturemon just kept walking, silent, not answering Martin. Martin frowned. He knew she was upset with him. "Naturemon, umm….spring break is about to start, which means I won't have school for a while. How about you and I go for a camping trip in the forest? It could be just the two of us, or my Mom and Dad, and Guilmon, Agumon, Palmon, and Gatomon can come too. It's up to you." Martin said. Naturemon turned around and glared at him. "Please stop talking to me." She said. Martin frowned. "You're mad because I wouldn't let you fight the Gizumon, aren't you?" He said. Naturemon again glared at him. "I told you not to talk to me." She said in an increasingly irritated tone. Taylor and the others looked at the Demi-Felinicus and plant covered girl Digimon. This was not normal. They never fought before, and Naturemon would normally be perky and chipper, and showering Martin with affection whenever opportunity struck. "Boy, she's mad." Sharkmon observed.
"My theory is that Martin sees Naturemon as a sort of daughter figure. As such, he 'parents' her the way he's been parented; by being overprotective like his mother, Flora." Taylor said. Martin shot Taylor a glare. He was about to chew her out when they all simultaneously got alerts on their phones. They clicked the notifications on their phones to pull up live news streams. "This is Shmorpagorph Gorphakellyba with a news alert! A mechanical woman has been seen running around Tokyo blasting Digimon with lasers from her eyes. These laser appear to have the same effect as the Gizumon that Crusaders Against Digimon have unleashed upon the nations to eliminate the rampaging Digimon. Local officials are urging people to stay inside."
Everyone looked at each other and gave each other a knowing nod. Taylor, Drusilla, and Emmett all ran off with their Digimon. Naturemon just looked over at Martin with the most hateful glare. If looks could kill, Martin would be completely annihilated. "I know you won't let me fight, so I'm not gonna ask. I'm going to go to our room and take a nap. You can wake me to tell me if our friends won." Naturemon said. They had all just made it to their houses when they got the alert, so Naturemon turned the corner, and walked up to the front door of the Soleman residence. She opened the door, but before she walked in, she looked over to Martin who had followed behind her and said, "I wish someone else had partnered up with me. Why did YOU have to get the digivice?" Those words deeply hurt.
Naturemon walked inside and went upstairs to their bedroom. A sense of guilt washed over her. She didn't mean what she said. She was just angry. She actually was still glad that she was Martin's Digimon. She knew that what she said probably hurt him. She made her way to Martin's bed and curled up in the fetal position.
Martin had followed her into the bedroom. "I'm only doing this to protect you, you know." Martin said.
Somewhere in Tokyo, RumikoGizumon rampaged, shooting down Digimon after Digimon and loading their data. "97, 98, 99, 100! Hahahahaha!" She said. She was keeping track of how many Digimon she killed. "This world will be rid of Digimon even if I have to do it all by myself!"
"Not if we have anything to say about it!" Came Taylor's voice from off to the side. RumikoGizumon looked over to see the four Gen Alpha Digidestined. Their parents and their Digimon were behind them. Nearly all of them; Evander, Jessica, Mario, Flora, Zai, Taylor, Drusilla, and Emmett. The only ones not among them were Emmett's mother and Martin.
"I'm really good at math because I'm like, really smart and a bit nerdy. Just a quick glance tells me that we have 14 Digimon in total ready to take you down, many of which can go Mega!" Taylor said confidently, with both hands placed on her hips. Sharkmon looked up at Taylor and said, "Telling the villain you're smart and nerdy is kinda cringe." Taylor looked annoyed. "Shut up!" She barked. Evander chuckled. "It may be cringe, but it is true. Who else has an 11 year old who reads Aristotle and Hawking as a pleasure reading?" Evander said.
RumikoGizumon looked worried at first "14 Digimon, huh? The numbers aren't on my side."
Flora noticed that she looked different than before. "What….did you do to yourself?" She asked. RumikoGizumon cracked a creepy smile and held her metallic hand out. "You like my makeover? Digimon aren't the only ones who can digivolve. My top scientist created a serum from the data of the Gizumon as well as ground up minerals from the Red Stones. In the worst case scenario that C.A.D be backed into a corner; I would inject myself with this and gain the power of the Gizumon….and so much more." She said. Then the Red Marks on her body began glowing. "I feel power surging within me, and the more Digimon I kill and absorb, the more power I feel coursing through my body! I might just be able to rid the world of Digi-filth once and for all single handedly!" She said, the look on her face becoming more and more psychotic looking the more she talked.
"You are a few fries short, lady!" Coalmon said.
Everyone; adult and child, took out their digivices simultaneously. "Let's end this quickly!" Evander said. "Before any other Digimon get hurt!" Taylor finished.
"DIGIVOLUTION" scrolled across the adults' D-Smartphones.
"Agumon digivolve to…"
"Terriermon digivolve to.."
"Ladybugmon digivolve to…"
"Gabumon digivolve to…"
"Leormon digivolve to…."
"Pawnchessmon digivolve to…."
"Guilmon digivolve to…"
"Agumon digivolve to…"
"Palmon digivolve to…"
Nothing happened! Evander and others looked confused. Agumon looked down at his claws. "Greymon?" He said, expecting to shout out his name when he became Greymon, but obviously that didn't happen. "Gargo…mon?" Terriermon said, doing the same thing as Agumon. "Where are my boxing gloves? I want my boxing gloves! Where are they!?" Ladybugmon shouted. "Shouldn't I be a big cactus right now?" Palmon asked, confused as the rest. Flora looked over to see RumikoGizumon holding up her metal hand and emitting some kind of signal waves. "What's wrong? Having some performance issues?!" RumikoGizumon taunted, still grinning like an absolute psycho. Why was she so psycho looking? Could perhaps the serum be affecting her mind?
Taylor looked down at Sharkmon. "Let's try it ourselves! Maybe we'll have better luck!" the goggle headed girl said with a determined look on her face.
"DIGIVOLUTION" scrolled across the childrens' D-Eco digivices.
"Sharkmon digivolve to….Jawsmon!"
"Coalmon digivolve to….CoalGolemon!"
"Dovemon digivolve to…Harpymon!"
Somehow the childrens' Digimon were able to digivolve, but the parents' Digimon couldn't. Agumon looked up at Evander with a baffled expression. "Maybe we're getting old?" Agumon said. "Maybe there's a pill for this. There's a pill for other kinds of age induced dysfunctions." Terriermon said.
"That's not it. Look at Rumiko Shingaku. She's emitting some weird signal out of her hand. It probably disrupted our digivices." Flora conjectured.
"But then why were the kids able to digivolve THEIR Digimon?" Zai asked.
"I don't know. Their digivices are different from ours. Maybe that has something to do with it." Flora conjectured.
Evander placed his hand on Taylor's shoulder and looked her in the eyes. "We'll have to leave it entirely to you and your team. Lead them well, goggle head." He said. "Right" Taylor said.
Jawsmon, CoalGolemon, and Harpymon all took fighting stances. Flora noticed MotherNaturemon wasn't among them. She reached into her pocket and texted her son on her phone. "Martin, where are you?" A little checkmark at the bottom showed her that he saw her message, but he didn't respond. "WHAT!? YOU IGNORING MY MESSAGE!? YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" She shouted angrily. Then an ellipsis appeared and the message said, "I love Naturemon too much to allow her to get hurt again. Please understand." Flora got mad because her son didn't respond…because she didn't give him enough time to! Flora responded "We might need you. The grown ups' Digimon can't Digivolve for some reason, but your friends' could." Another ellipsis appeared. Then Martin's response came; "I'm sorry, Mom. But I couldn't forgive myself if this sweet girl got hurt again because I made her fight." Flora looked irritated. "That little brat! What, does he think he cares about his Digimon more than we do!? What nerve! I ought to slug him when I get home! No, I ought to drag him around the house by his tail!" Flora ranted. Mario sweat dropped like an anime character and gave a nervous smile while raising his hand, "You really ought to calm down. At your age…" Mario said, before Flora gave him a glare "At my AGE!?" Mario looked frightened. "We-we are in our 40s! Cholesterol! Heart problems!" Mario blurted out. "You uhh…..you don't look a day over twenty, honey!" Flora reached over and punched him in the head, leaving a big gnot.
While Flora was texting with her son, the three Digimon belonging to the children went after RumikoGizumon. "Rumiko, you're going down!" CoalGolemon shouted. "I told you. I digivolved! I'm RumikoGizumon!" She responded. Jawsmon shouted "That's….a stupid name!" He threw a punch at her, but she caught it with her hand. The black haired cyborg woman, who was no taller than about 5'4, threw the massive bi-pedal shark over her shoulder and slammed him down on the ground. She then kicked him, and with one single kick, sent him flying into a nearby building. Everyone looked shocked. "No way!" Taylor shouted.
"That lady would be REAAALLY good at soccer! Soccer mocker focker locker." Syn said.
Jawsmon got up and ran over to RumikoGizumon, "Power Pummeling! Power Pummeling! Power Pummeling! Power Pummeling!" Jawsmon shouted as he threw a whole bunch of powerful punches towards the cyborg woman's way. RumikoGizumon avoided taking damage by blocking the punches with the palms of her hands, or jumping off to the side to dodge. "Is that the best you can do!? Hahahaha!" She taunted. She then jumped, did a flip and kicked Jawsmon in the jaw, sending him high up into the air. RumikoGizumon then glared at him, eyes glowing red! "DigiCore Laser!" She shouted before firing a red laser at Jawsmon. Before the laser could hit, Jessica got in the way and blocked the attack by twirling her trident around like a baton. "No one hurts my daughter's Digimon!" Jessica said. Jessica was glowing with a golden aura as she always did when she called upon the powers of Poseidon. RumikoGizumon grit her teeth in frustration and growled. "Darn! I forgot about your powers!" RumikoGizumon then jumped up and punched the Jessica in the face, sending her down to the ground. Jessica got up and aimed her trident at RumikoGizumon. She was trying to summon shards of ice, but suddenly, she found herself getting dizzy. Jessica wobbled a little and held her head. RumikoGizumon let out a psychotic laugh. "Gotcha! I didn't forget about those sea goddess powers of yours at all! Remember the merman who met you at that Aqualian fast food place? He didn't go there just to threaten your daughter. He went there to infect you with a virus my scientists created specifically to counteract your Poseidon powers. It had an incubation period, so you were still able to use them for a time, but it looks like it's just starting to kick in!" RumikoGizumon explained.
Jessica held her hand over her head. She buttoned up the denim jacket she was wearing because she was starting to feel very cold. She started shivering. "A virus…to neutralize my powers? What a hell of a way to nerf me." Jessica said.
"It's not permanent. I'll be sure to absorb more Digimon and get strong enough to take you on by the time you recover." RumikoGizumon explained.
While RumikoGizumon was talking, Harpymon had come up from behind her. "Wind Seeker!" She attacked. RumikoGizumon got hit with the attack and fell down on her face. When RumikoGizumon picked herself back up, she turned around and held her hands out, "Blazing Flames!" She shouted before firing multiple fire balls out of her hands. Harpymon dodged the fire balls. "Wind Seeker!" Harpymon shouted, flapping her wings and sending out a gust of wind that could cut the opponent. RumikoGizumon jumped off to the side to dodge. She held her arms out forward again. "Sunshine Beam!" She shouted before beams of solar energy shot out of her arms in Harpymon's direction. Harpymon dove down to dodge. While RumikoGizumon was attacking Harpymon, CoalGolemon came up from behind her "Mega Coal Clobber! Mega Coal Clobber!" She shouted as she threw punches with her large arms made of coal. CoalGolemon's punches made contact, but before they did, RumikoGizumon's red markings on her arms and shoulders lit up. RumikoGizumon simply stood there and took the hit. She didn't look like she took much damage, but some dark purplish fluid came down the side of her face. "Impossible!" CoalGolemon exclaimed. RumikoGizumon reached up and wiped the fluid away. It was going in her eye. She looked down at the liquid that was now coating her fingers. "Purple blood, huh? Well, human blood is red. Digimon blood is blue." She then looked back at the CoalGolemon behind her with the facial expression you'd expect to find on the face of a serial killer. "I'm not good at poems, but I'll kill you." She finished.
RumikoGizumon turned around quickly and raised her hands up into the air. "Galactic Flash!" Suddenly, large meteors began forming in the air from rocks and minerals on the ground nearby. When they got big enough, she caused them to rain down on CoalGolemon. CoalGolemon shouted as the large fast moving burning rocks bombarded her.
She then turned to Harpymon. "Galactic Flash!" Suddenly, large meteors began forming in the air from rocks and minerals on the ground nearby. When they got big enough, she caused them to rain down on Harpymon. Harpymon managed to evade every hit by flying around gracefully in the air. "Wind Seeker!" Harpymon retaliated. "Hyper Heat!" RumikoGizumon shouted before raising her hand and blocking Harpymon's attack with a large burst of hot firey air.
Jawsmon and Harpymon both ganged up on her. "Titanic Bite!" "Silent Symphony!" This attack of Harpymon involves her sending out supersonic waves at the opponent. RumikoGizumon jumped up into the air to dodge, and since Jawsmon was behind her and Harpymon was in front of her, the two Digimon ended up hitting each other with their attacks! RumikoGizumon laughed maniacally before landing a few feet away from Harpymon and Jawsmon. She opened her mouth and shouted "Howling Blaster!" before spewing streams of blue flames at them. They both got hit and grunted in pain. Jawsmon ran up to attack again "Titanic Bite!" Jawsmon bit down hard on the cyborg psycho's shoulder. The red markings on her lit up. She raised her hand on the other side of her body than the side Jawsmon was biting. "Diamond Storm!" She shouted before sending out white sharp jagged stones out of her hand. They hit Jawsmon and he took a few steps back, grunting in pain.
Taylor was watching the fight, looking deep in thought, finger and thumb over her chin. "Blazing Flames, Galactic Flash, Hyper Heat, Howling Blaster, and now Diamond Storm. These are all attacks from other Digimon! Meramon, Meteormon, Cyclonemon, Garurumon, and Renamon!" Taylor observed. RumikoGizumon looked over at the goggle headed girl and started clapping. "Very good! But do you know how I can use these attacks?" She asked. "If I had to guess, it's because you're fused with Gizumon's data, and your Gizumon absorbed lots of Digimon after they killed them." Taylor said. "Good guess, but not quite. See, I killed 100 Digimon myself and absorbed them before you even got here. When I did, I learned how to use their attacks. I am part Gizumon!" RumikoGizumon explained.
RumikoGizumon then jumped into the air, HIGH into the air. "And I've got 95 more attacks you haven't even seen!" She said before raising her hands above her head. She then started forming a ball of energy above her head. "Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood BlackWarGreymon….TERRA DESTROYER!" She threw the large ball of red energy at the three champion Digimon! They turned around and tried to run, but the ball of energy consumed them! They cried out in pain, taking a lot of damage! This attack was from a Mega level Digimon after all! RumikoGizumon laughed maniacally as she descended back down to the ground. Jawsmon, CoalGolemon, and Harpymon all moaned loudly in pain, struggling to stand up. They managed to get up though, despite being hit by a powerful Mega Digimon level attack.
All of the Digidestined, adult and child, had the same shocked expression on their faces. "You mean to tell me…" Evander began. "That she killed a BlackWarGreymon…" Mario continued. "...and….absorbed its data?" Flora finished.
Drusilla looked over to Taylor with a worried expression on her face. "If she's strong enough to take down a Mega like BlackWarGreymon, how do we stand a chance? Our Digimon can only digivolve to the Champion level right now." Drusilla said. Taylor was beginning to sweat. "I….I don't know. But I'll think of something." She said. Her brain was racing at 90 miles per hour trying to think of a strategy.
CoalGolemon lifted her arms again, "Molten Blast! Molten Blast! Molten Blast! Molten Blast!" She shouted as she shot four consecutive streams of magma at the opponent. Four consecutive streams that RumikoGizumon all managed to dodge! Harpymon flew up and attempted to claw her face with her talon. RumikoGizumon grabbed Harpymon by the leg and threw her over her shoulder, slamming her down hard on the ground. Then a large drill grew out of RumikoGizumon's face and it started spinning! "Drill Spin! Courtesy of a Drimogemon!" She said. She leaned down to drill into Harpymon's body, but fortunately, CoalGolemon had run up to her and grabbed the drill with her hands before she could be impaled. Given that CoalGolemon's hands were made of coal, it didn't hurt much. But there were lots of sparks. CoalGolemon managed to stop the drill nose from spinning, and she threw RumikoGizumon over her shoulder and slammed her down on the ground. Then she went to punch her in the face before she could have a chance to get back up. "Mega Coal Clobber! Mega Coal Clobber! Mega Coal Clobber!" She punched over and over.
Any ordinary woman would be a bloody pile of mush from having her face pounded by a massive golem, but RumikoGizumon was no ordinary woman. She was now a half human/half Digimon, empowered by the Red Stones! The worst she sustained was a pounding headache. RumikoGizumon got back up and black Dramon Destroyers appeared on her hands. She started spinning around rapidly. "Grey Tornado!" She shouted before drilling into CoalGolemon. CoalGolemon grunted in pain as the twirling mechanized lady bore into her like a drill! It wasn't long before CoalGolemon had a huge hole in her torso! RumikoGizumon had gone through her body!
Drusilla looked horrified. She dropped to her knees and began trembling. Did her Digimon just get killed? "COALGOLEMON!!!!" She shouted. CoalGolemon just stood there motionlessly for a moment before her head fell off and rolled some distance. The rest of the body disintegrated into tiny pixels. The head of CoalGolemon started glowing white and turned into Coalmon. Coalmon rolled over to Drusilla, who was beginning to have tears stream down her face. "Drusilla! I'm fine! I don't think I'll die as long my head is intact, but boy did that hurt!" Coalmon said. Drusilla embraced her Digimon. "Oh Coalmon! Scaring me like that is so not cool!" She exclaimed.
Agumon and the other Digimon of the previous generation Digidestined looked frustrated. "This sucks! We can't do anything if we can't digivolve!" Agumon said. "If we could turn into Omnimon, we could blow her head off with a Garuru Cannon." Gabumon said. Jessica had made her way back over to the main group. She was huddling up to Evander. She was shivering violently. Evander looked concerned for his wife. "Honey, we should take you to a hospital." Evander said. "No! No. We can't leave our daughter." Jessica said. "But it's not like we can do anything anyway." Evander said. "It doesn't matter." Jessica said.
Jawsmon bit her shoulder again. "Titanic Bite!" He shouted. Again, the Red Marks shielded her from damage. She punched the bi-pedal shark, and hit him with a "Mega Claw!" Another BlackWarGreymon attack. She slashed upward and caused slash wounds on the front of Jawsmon's torso, causing dark blue blood to flow down. Jawsmon grabbed his bleeding chest and fell to one knee. He had already sustained considerable damage just from the Terra Destroyer. He wondered how much longer he could keep fighting. He wondered if he could even win.
Back at the Soleman Residence….
Naturemon and Martin watched footage of the battle on the news on the TV screen in Martin's room. Naturemon stood up and turned to Martin. "We have to go help our friends!" She said.
"Did you see what happened to CoalGolemon!? That could have been you! And unlike CoalGolemon, you'd be dead! You'd be a DigiEgg, and even if you hatched, you'd likely forget about me and the times we've shared! You're not fighting!" Martin told her.
"Don't you care about what happens to Jawsmon and Harpymon!? And Taylor! I thought you liked her…like…in a special way! What if something happens to her because we weren't there!?" Naturemon argued.
Martin stood his ground. With his fists clenched, he said, "Yes…I do like Taylor, and all my friends. But you're special to me too. I'll never be able to get those images out of my head! Those images of you burned, with all of your beautiful flowers scorched off, leaving you almost naked. Those images are burned into my brain. I love you, Naturemon. You're like a little sister to me. Don't you know how much it hurt me to see you get that badly beat up?"
"Don't you know how much it hurts ME to not be able to protect our friends?" Naturemon rebutted.
Martin considered what Naturemon said, but then shook his head violently. "No! You'll just have to deal with it." He said.
Back on the Tokyo Battlefield…
RumikoGizumon punched and kicked Jawsmon over and over. "Hahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" She laughed. She had gone truly insane. The serum was indeed messing with her mind. Jawsmon fell over onto his back! He couldn't take it anymore!
Taylor looked aghast. "Jawsmon! Jawsmon, no!" She cried out. Harpymon flew up from behind and tried clawing at her again, but RumikoGizumon just turned around and slashed her with her Mega Claw. Harpymon fell to the ground. She was at her limit too! Harpymon de-digivolved to Dovemon. Emmett ran over to the little bird Digimon and picked her up. "Dovemon!" He said. Dovemon groaned in pain.
"Why are you so against Digimon that you would kill so many of them? Even going so far as to turn yourself into this creature?!" Emmett asked.
Cue the villain's monologue; "Everyone at C.A.D has their reasons. I'm sure they've all told you. I agree with their reasons. But for me, personally, I had two very precious people taken from me by Digimon. My husband, Junichiro, and my son Kota. Junichiro was a good man. Hard working, very gentle, and compassionate too. And Kota. Oh, Kota was so full of wonder. He wanted to be an astronomer when he grew up. But alas, one day they were both shot to death by an Astamon. Astamon is an Ultimate level Digimon. He shot them both to death in our own living room. I came home to find them both pumped full of lead. He had to have shot them probably 50 times. Their faces were barely even recognizable. I later learned that my husband had been taking loans from Astamon and was unable to pay him back. I was driven mad with grief. I almost killed myself on more than a few occasions. I decided that Digimon were a plague upon this world, and that I would do anything to get rid of this plague. I voiced my concerns in a support group I had joined, and found that everyone else had grievances against Digimon too. Some IT workers had their jobs taken from them by Datamon who could do the jobs better and more efficiently. And there was one whose restaurant had been in the family for years but it had been shut down after everyone who ate there became sick…because Numemon and Sukamon don't wash their hands after handling their feces. That's how C.A.D was born. Once I'm done here, I plan on hunting down Astamon and not merely killing him. No, I'll lock him up in a dungeon and make him scream every day for months before I kill him! I have studied about various different methods of torture that have been used throughout Earth's history, and I plan on trying them all out on that evil piece of garbage! My husband and my son will be avenged! He will rue the day he robbed those wonderful people of their lives! And I will cleanse this world of all Digimon so that no one ever has to endure what I've endured!"
RumikoGizumon looked around at the beaten Digimon. She smirked. "Time to finish this." She said. She raised both of her hands above her head and started forming another Terra Destroyer. Jawsmon grit his teeth, awaiting his demise. It was over. Or was it? At that point, RumikoGizumon dropped to the ground and began screaming. The Red Marks on her body were glowing brightly…and smoking! They were burning her flesh! "Burning! It burns!" She screamed. She remembered the words of the scientist she had killed who said that the serum hadn't been tested yet and that they no idea what effects it would have on her body. RumikoGizumon writhed in pain. "BURNING! BURNING! BURNING! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOOOOOP!!!!!" She screamed.
Taylor realized that now was their opportunity to inflict a finishing blow; now while she was too busy writhing to focus on fighting. "Do it now, Jawsmon!" Taylor screamed. Jawsmon got up and bit down on RumikoGizumon's torso hard. "Power Pummeling!" He shouted before punching her hard rapidly in the abdomin. Jawsmon then jumped up 20 feet into the air and body slammed the cyborg woman! Finally, he picked her up, jumped up into the air and slammed her down on the ground like he was spiking a football!
Rumiko reached up into the sky. She could swear she could see her husband and son standing over her. "Junichiro…..Kota……what are….you doing here? I thought…..you….died?" A couple of tears streamed down her cheek. And then….her arm dropped….and she passed. Evander ran over to her. He took off his trench coat and draped it over Rumiko's body. After Evander had done this, the cyborg and mechanical parts on her body disappeared into digital pixels, meaning Rumiko had reverted back to normal. She was no longer part-Digimon….but she was no longer alive either. The reason Evander draped his trench coat over Rumiko's corpse is because he had deduced that armor that covered her had sprouted from her skin, ripped through her clothing and in fact, had replaced all of her clothing, so when the Digimon/Gizumon/Red-Stone part of her disintegrated, the armor would disintegrate as well, leaving her completely exposed. Evander had hastily thrown his trench coat over her in order to preserve her modesty and dignity. It turns out, he had inferred correctly and preemptively stopped Rumiko's body from being exposed. After he had covered her, and after Rumiko reverted back to normal, he knelt down and closed her eyelids.
Jawsmon de-digivolved to Sharkmon. Sharkmon looked over the deceased Rumiko with a concerned look on his face. "Why doesn't she turn into an egg?" Sharkmon asked, confused. Evander picked Sharkmon up and held him like a cat. "That's not how human death works." He said.
Evander walked over to Taylor and handed Sharkmon to her. He put his hand on Taylor's head and rubbed it, messing up her hair. "You did good." He said. Taylor was silent. She wanted to celebrate, but they had just killed a woman. She was evil and she hurting lots of innocents, sure, but still….that just didn't seem like something she could (nor should) be gleeful over.