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Ryusenji cackles at the threat. 

Eiji opens a private chat. “Stay sharp Loogamon. We don’t know what he’s planning” Loogamon nods as he moves to a defensive stance. 

METAL CANNON

A cannonball flies towards the pair. Eiji jumps to the ground. Loogamon jumps out of the way, narrowly dodging the projectile. Dorumon stands at the source of the attack and glares emotionlessly at the pair. 

“What are you doing?” Loogamon shouts, but Dorumon doesn’t answer. 

Eiji turns to Kosuke for answers. Kosuke had broken under the weight of the professor’s revelation. He had become lost in his grief, but Durumon’s sudden attack slowly breaks him free. He lifts his head towards the commotion and mumbles, “Durumon? What are you doing?” He is on the verge of tears.

The Source Domain shakes violently. 

“What’s going on?” Kosuke shouts. Dorumon answers with an empty blank expression. 

“Dorumon can’t hear you now.”

“But how? We’re still mindlinked?”

“You don’t need to be mindlinked to control Digimon. How shall I put this?… I cracked your connection. Dorumon is mine now.”

Kosuke helplessly looks through this watch and attempts to take back control, but his efforts are fruitless. Words fail him as his world crumbles around him. The great Code Cracker Tartarus was powerless.

“Now Digivolve,” the professor barks. Dorumon nods and digivolves into Dorugoramon. 

Dorugoramon towers over the pair. Its blank emotionless stare remains fixed on them as it stands at attention, gripping its blade, ready to attack.

The professor smirks as he takes a step next to the Mega Digimon. “This is your last chance your chance Eiji. Join me, and all is forgiven. Work for me and I can promise you a nice apartment, great benefits, and a steady salary. Imagine how impressed Hatsune will be.”

“How did.?” Eiji becomes overwhelmed.

“You have ten seconds. Then I’m taking the offer off the table.” He begins counting down.

Eiji wrestles with the offer. This was everything he ever wanted. A steady job, a good college, and maybe even a girlfriend.

“You can’t be seriously considering this,” Loogamon snarls.

“It’s tempting..” Eiji crouches down next to Loogamon and begins petting its head. “You don’t know what it was like before all of this. I’d have stability…I mean I wouldn’t even have met you if it wasn’t for him…”

“Sure, but…”

The professor extends his arm. “I knew you’d understand. Now-“

Eiji shrugs, “But then again, I was never in it for stability.” Eiji stands and turns to the professors. “I came here to make my mark on the world because, at the end of the day, I’m still a code cracker.”

“Well said Eiji.” Loogamon’s tail wags as it perks up enthusiastically.

“How disappointing…”

“Shut up old man,” Loogamon growls.

“Don’t get me wrong,” Eiji adds. “I still respect you as a mentor, but I was wrong to put you on a pedistal. In other words…”

“Get out of our way!” Loogamon barks.

The professor remains silent. His smile had disappeared as he glared at the pair. “Well if you insist on losing, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

Eiji lifts his Digilinker and cycles through the commands. “You’re not stopping us.”

“Let’s fucking go!” Loogamon howls.

“Digivolve!” Eiji disappears into the Digicore as Loogamon digivolves into Soloogarmon. Bright flames pour out of his shoulders with great intensity. it groups at its mace and lets out an earth-rumbling howl.

PROMINENCE LASER

A white-hot beam of plasma erupts from Soloogarmon’s hands and washes over Dorugoramon. Dorugoramon takes the hit head-on without flinching. It remains unphased as its armor loses its red-hot glow. 

“What the?” Soloogarmon shouts. 

“Very impressive,” Ryusenji commends. 

“That was just the warm-up,” Soloogarmon scoffs.

“Careful Soloogarmon, we didn’t see their fight. We don’t know what we’re up against.”

“Durogoramon has a shockwave and charge attack that make it effective at long and short range. There are no obvious openings to take advantage of either attack. In your current form, one hit will likely fry your Digicore.” Yulin interjects.  

“It’s taking commands from a tool, there’s no way it can be that strong,” Soloogarmon rebuts.

“You should listen to the captain on this one. Tools or not, the professor is on the other end of the terminal.”

Soloogarmon swings its massive mace as it readies for another attack. “We don’t have the luxury of being catious.”

“Right,” Eiji says, trying to psych himself up. “Let’s give him hell!”

The professor smirks. “I guess I need to start getting serious.” Dorugoramon absorbs Ryusenji’s projection. 

DORU-din

A shockwave of energy roars through the Source Domain, but the attack is too slow. Soloogarmon howls as the engines on its shoulders come explode with energy, and shoot him into the air. Soologarmon hovers over the battlefield with a smug smirk as it braces for the next attack. 

Dorugoramon stalls for a moment, searching the battlefield. It smirks as it turns its attention to the center of the circle where Pulsemon and Black Agumon remain suspended. It begins charging its next shockwave. 

SKOLL RAGE

Soloogarmon shoots toward Dorugoramon without hesitation, leaving a trail of hellfire in its wake. It closes the distance and takes a swing with its mighty Vanargand. 

“Predictable,” the professor says. Dorugoramon stops its charge to swing at the charging wolf. The strike sends Soloogarmon flying back. “You have to do better than that.”

Eiji felt the force of the strike, the sting lingers in his abdomen. He peers over his screens. Their levels remain in a normal range. 

“What an annoying prick,” Soloogarmon growls. 

“Lets try this,” Eiji says, imputing commands into his virtual console. 

Soloogarmon releases another laser, but Dorugoramon deflects it easily. Soloogarmon follows with a turret of blasts, slowly engulfing Dorugoramon in flames. The flames never catch. Smoke billows off Dorugoramon’s body. 

“Nice try, but you’ll need to be more imaginative than that,” Ryusenji sneers. “But I’ve wasted too much time playing with you, I have to get back to work.” 

The smoke around Dorugoramon’s body begins to clear, revealing an empty space where Yulin, Ryudamon, and Black Agumon stood. Only Kosuke and a Tyrannomon stand at the altar. 

“Tyrannomon? Where did you come?” The Professor asks incredulously. 

Tyrannomon stands next to Kosuke, looking concerned. Kosuke remains frozen in place. 

“Kosuke, you have to move,” Eiji whispers. 

“Using your little Tyrannomon under the cover of smoke, very clever Eiji.”

“Get out of there Tyrannomon!” Soloogarmon orders.

Tyrannomon doesn’t get a chance to react. An attack pierces through its shoulder and brings the Tyrannomon to the ground. It lets out a pain-filled roar. 

“Such a weak Digimon,” the professor says. Dorugoramon had refined the shockwave into a fine point, making it like a bullet. 

“Tyrannomon!” Eiji shouts. 

“Dorugoramon is too powerful.” The professor looks down at the trembling Tyrannomon. It is too terrified to move. “Poor thing. I think I’ll put it out of its misery.”

Dorugoramon launches a salvo of focused attacks. The Tyrannomon shuts its eyes, waiting for a hell of fire that never comes. It hears the attack connect but doesn’t feel it. Tyrannomon opens its eyes slowly and finds itself unharmed. Around it, the earth is filled with clusters of deep impacts. Soloogarmon hovers over the Tyrannomon, its arm hangs limp to one side. Scorch marks run up its arms like a sleeve and steam bellows from the injury. Soloogarmon gives the Tyrannomon a warm reassuring smile. 

“You saved my Tyrannomon…” Eiji whispers. 

“That’s what packs do.”

Eiji feels the pain running up his arm. Senses the heat of the thrusters from his shoulder. His lunges fill with the scents of the battlefield. Loogamon’s anger, frustration, and determination had become his and Saloogarmon felt the same. At that moment, all their remaining reservation melted away as they became determined to win. 

Energy begins to build within their core as the two become one. Soloogarmon begins to glow. 

 “Lets show this asshole what hell really looks like,” Eiji says.

A bright light engulfs the pair. Out of the light steps out a new Digimon, Fenriloogamon.