Digivice Meltdown

"Are we almost to Cherrymon's forest?" Marcus complained as the group trekked.

"Who knows." Yoshi replied.

"But I thought we were supposed to hurry up and find Kurata, Boss." Agumon pointed out. "Why are we wasting all this time going to see Cherrymon first?"

"Cherrymon is the oldest and wisest. He may have some good advice for us." Falcomon remarked.

"What happened?" Marcus gasped when the group entered the demolished forest. "This is bad, real bad."

A Mushroomon came running into the scene, as if fleeing from something.

"Hey, it's Mushroomon!" Falcomon noted.

"It's Gizumon XT!" Marcus hissed as the said man-made Digimon chased after the fleeing Mushroomon. Firing its energy beam at the unfortunate Rookie level Digimon, it turned the mushroom Digimon into a digiegg and absorbed its data.

"Permanently deleted." Thomas remarked.

"Gizumon…" Keenan hissed. "Me get."

"Revenge time, Falcomon." He told his partner, his D.N.A Charge flaring up.

"Right." Falcomon replied, throwing off his bandages.

"D.N.A Full Charge!" Keenan called forth Falcomon's Ultimate form.

"Falcomon digivolve to Peckmon!" Falcomon declared as he evolved.

"Peckmon digivolve to MegaSeadramon!" Peckmon announced as he evolved once again.

"River of Power!" MegaSeadramon fires a energy cannon from his snout.

"He's too strong!" Keenan noted after Gizumon XT merely blasted away the attack with two shots.

"It's even faster and stronger than the last one!" Marcus added as Crowmon dived into engage Gizumon XT.

"There's a whole bunch of those Gizumon XTs now!" he remarked as three more Gizumons appeared.

"Okay, you know how I said before was the worst? Now this is really the worst." Yoshi commented.

"It's fighting time, Agumon!" Marcus told his partner.

"Yeah!" Agumon replied and the two charged.

"D.N.A Full Charge!" Thomas and Yoshi chorused as they called forth their D.N.A Charge.

"Us too, D.N.A Full Charge!" The other six exclaimed.

"D.N.A Charge, Overdrive!" Ami followed suit, calling forth her D.N.A Charge.

"Go Angewomon!" Yoshi instructed.

"Machgaogamon!" Thomas told his partner.

Ami merely gave Ophanimon a nod and the Celestial Digimon headed into battle.

"Your days of pushing Digimon around are over!" Marcus declared.

"Heaven's Knuckle!" Angewomon released her attack.

"Gaoga Tornado!" Machgaogamon fired his attack.

Using the cliff as leverage, Marcus leapt onto the Gizumon XT.

"Hey Boss, you missed." Agumon noted when Gizumon XT dodged Marcus' punch.

Marcus growled at his partner, giving Gizumon XT the chance to kick Marcus off.

Machgaogamon looked around trying to find his opponent when the Gizumon XT he was fighting suddenly appeared behind him, knocking the Ultimate level Digimon away.

Angewomon could only try to block the third Gizumon XT's spinning attack, before she was thrown off her feet by the whirlwind.

"Gaomon!" Thomas gasped.

"Lalamon!" Yoshi exclaimed as the two ran to their devolved partners.

"Boss!" Agumon cried as he tended to his partner.

"Gaomon." Thomas picked the blue wolf up.

"I'm okay, sir." Gaomon assured him. "I'll be fine."

Strange, all those Gizumon XTs are here on their own without any sign of Kurata or those thugs of his we ran into in the Digital Gate. Thomas wondered.

"Great, not only are they getting stronger, they're also getting smarter." Ami muttered.

"Sefirot Crystals!" Ophanimon fired her attack, causing the Gizumon XTs to reel under its barrage.

"Keenan!" Ami called to the boy.

Keenan nodded, "MegaSeadramon, now!"

"Thunder Javelin!" MegaSeadramon released his attack.

"They're alright!" Keenan gasped in horror when the smoke died down and the Gizumon XTs were unscathed.

"They have some sort of new defense shield." MegaSeadramon noted.

Just then, one of the Gizumon XTs fired its eye beams at the sea serpent, only to have Ophanimon use her 'Beauty's Golden Shield' to deflect the laser. However, the sheer force of the laser pushed both Digimon against the cliff.

"Falcomon!" Keenan gasped rushing to his partner's side when MegaSeadramon devolved.

"Don't worry, I've got you." Ami remarked, catching the devolved Tailmon in her arms.

"Kurata must have made some adjustments. Whatever weaknesses they had before are now gone." Thomas noted.

"That doesn't mean we still can't beat him!" Marcus retorted.

As the Gizumon XTs prepared to finish the group off, a voice called out.

"Flame Dragon Attack!" The first of the Gizumon XT's was destroyed.

"That voice." They looked for the source and then spotted someone standing a few feet away.