The Moon comes over the Tower [PLOT] [5/5]

"So this giant lizard's got something to do with that big pointy thing?" Wormmon looks around at all the different Rookie Digimon. Surely their strength in numbers could subdue one Champion, with the right game plan. Guilmon offers the group a nice meal for completing this task. Wormmon is hungry now, but he decides to tough it out and deal with business first. "Well, I may be hungry, but if you'll give us food later, then let's kick some lizard butt!" As if Wormmon was ever not hungry unless after already eating a few servings. Guilmon and Dracomon seemed to know more about what was going on with the tower, so Wormmon decides it is best to listen to them.

The group starts preparing to ambush the unsuspecting Champion. Whatever this collar was, it was preventing Dark Tyrannomon from being sent down to Rookie like the others. "Hey, wait a minute... If that collar is allowing him to stay as a Champion, why don't we try to break it, you guys?" The Worm King might be on to something here. Far be it for Wormmon to be the one coming up with plans, that was something Dante would likely do. Maybe unlocking the memories from his past life gave Wormmon an insight into battle that he previously lacked. Or maybe it was just a case of a broken clock being right twice a day, and a simple solution being seen by an airheaded worm.

The Worm King prepares for battle. Amongst the anxiety of getting ready to fight, Wormmon is excited to see what the other Digimon bring to the table. "You know, K, I don't think I've seen you fight before. You must have all sorts of cool powers, being a Renamon. Not that I'm jealous. It doesn't get any better than being the Worm King after all." Wormmon knew from experience that Marshall and Coronamon were more than capable. Even fighting at the Rookie level, their experience assured their skill. Wormmon crawls up on top of a hillside overlooking Dark Tyrannomon. He shoots a few silk threads, making a small web to maneuver around, as he prepares to attack DT from above after other Rookies make their first move. (Thinking) "Just gotta wait for the right time. I'm not used to battling without Dante around. At least I'm in good company. When I find Dante, I'll tell him all about how we took on a Champion and demolished that tower."

By some turn of fate, it seemed that many of the individuals in the area knew each other, and better still, seemed to be pleasant with each other. That was good, at least in the sense that perhaps they could have a more coordinated effort in order to take down the dark tower.

Dracomon confirmed what the girl was saying. "Yes, that's right. The tower's jamming evolutions and it seems to be defended by the Tyrannomon. And as you can see, a lot of us dragons have wings, so, a lot of digimon could, well, crash if forced to de-digivolve mid-flight".

What she would have to do? Guilmon looked curiously at her. "Ah... sorry, miss, do you have a partner or anything?" he asked. "I'm not sure there's much a human by themselves can do here..."

Dracomon then gasped as one of the humans and his partners decided to distract the Tyrannomon right away. It seemed that they were going to attempt to get right into it. As Luke approached, the Tyrannomon would turn his head, a deep rumbling noise coming from his throat. As he tracked his movements, he was struck on the side by the power of the Renamon's Saberk. The energy attack barely managed to graze his thick dinosaur hide, but at the least it drew his attention. And he replied with a glowing stream of fire, aimed straight at her.

"Oh no, watch out!" Guilmon cried.

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Field Effect: Control Spire
- Evolutions above Rookie or Armor Champion/Human Fragment will be sealed.

- Digimon under the effect of Dark Rings have Defense increased by 50% and do not have their evolutions sealed, but lose control over their bodies.


Enemy Digimon: Tyrannomon

Level: Champion


Combat Passive 1: Dino Hide - Tyrannomon's hide is thick and difficult to penetrate. Attacks without piercing properties will have damage reduced by 50%. Furthermore, the hide is resistant to fire, but weak to ice.

Combat Passive 2: ?

Attack used: Blaze Blast - Shoots a stream of fire at a target, aiming to damage them and those standing close to them for an AoE range of 5m.

Well, that had been a pretty quick start, at least for pretty much everyone else. Seemingly, they already knew what they had to do way too well; that was a relief, wasn't it? If anything, Amelie could just sit down and watch as the fireworks went off; easy enough right?

Heh, she wished. The lizards and the fox's various explanations were good enough at promoting something within her to act. Or maybe it was just the fact that she heavily disliked the vaguely condescending tone directed at her. Anyhow...

Gazing at her right palm, she noticed that those familiar ribbons of fractal code were already adorning it; the rest would be simple, wouldn't it? As soon as she brought those into her D-Tector things would... change. Well, she would change. "Is that ring-thing on the dino's neck supposed to be part of it? Because otherwise... that might be a clue to defeat it."

Or maybe it was just a red herring; not like that mattered for her anymore. The brunette brought her D-Tector with her spare hand, both colliding as the fractal code began to undo and expand, enveloping her whole body and triggering the evolution.

That resulted in... nothing? If that was a disappearing act, it had been quite good.

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—Spirit evolved to Stridermon

—Stridermon's advancing towards the Tower's direction.

—Stridermon's using Reality Spasm
Reality Spasm: Vanishing from sight and from mind, this digimon becomes completely invisible. This effect ends as soon as she attacks. Duration: 2 posts. Cooldown: 2 posts.

And so it was on. Part of the group would distract the Tyrannomon while Amelie heads to the tower. K attacks the rampaging Champion with her Saberk attack. This was Wormmon's chance to catch Tyrannomon off guard. "Look out below! Here I come!" Wormmon shoots a thread over towards the hill on the other side, and swings across heading right towards Tyrannomon. Wormmon fires a few threads of silk on the way down, but they barely scratch the Champion. Apparently this dark ring also increases his defense, widening the gap they already had to overcome fighting a Champion at their Rookie levels.

Wormmon keeps swinging down, heading right towards the dino Digimon before smacking right into his side like a fly on a windshield. Wormmon bounces off Tyrannomon and tumbles to the ground. He slowly gets up, his head still spinning. "Oww, my game plan backfired." The Tyrannomon fired a scorching attack at K for attacking him earlier. Wormmon tries to get away from the fiery blast, but is caught by the edge of the attack. The fire burns Wormmon on the bum, sending him into full out panic mode as he hops around in agony. "Ahh hot hot hot hot!!" Finally Wormmon puts the fire out by rubbing his backside in the dirt. "Ahh, much better."

The Worm King now found himself within range of the menacing Tyrannomon. Luckily he was more focused on the other Digimon attacking currently. Wormmon slowly crawls backwards, coming up with a new strategy. If only they could slow him down long enough to get that dark ring off. "Ya! Come on, K, kick his lizard butt! Let's go, Iko and Coronamon!" It was tough enough going up against a Champion, but with that dark ring, most of Wormmon's attacks were ineffective. Maybe if he could use his silk thread to trip him up, he could help stall Tyrannomon. Then again, if they take down the tower or deactivate the ring, maybe this was a nice Digimon after all, only acting evil because of the ring controlling him.

"Yeah, that might be it!" Dracomon answered the human. "The ring could be controlling him! After all, why would a proud dragon digimon like him defend such a monstrosity of his own free will?"

Tyrannomon was barely affected by the fire of Coronamon's attack, but he did feel the impact of his punch. Even though his skull was thick and strong, he growled, turning his head to the fire lion.

Curiously, one of the humans promptly disappeared. Tyrannomon didn't seem to notice, but Dracomon and Guilmon saw, then looked at each other with wonder. Was this human one of the fabled spirit wielders? They had never seen one before...

The two dragon digimon then saw that Luke was running in an arc around the Tyrannomon. They immediately followed him, running as fast as they could. They knew they had no chance against the Tyrannomon, but maybe they could help to take down the tower?

Then, the Wormmon came swinging in hard at Tyrannomon, who felt about as much pain as he did from the Coronamon's attack. As for the Renamon, it seemed that she had been hit hard with his Blaze Blast. But now there were two digimon nearby that posed a threat to the mind-controlled dinosaur. And multiple digimon that needed to be dealt with? The dark tower glowed momentarily as data written on the black stone lit up from bottom to top, relaying its orders, and conversely, the dark ring on Tyrannomon's ring also glowed.

And so he attacked, aiming to hit the Coronamon, Wormmon and everyone else standing within range, his feet glowing orange as he stomped several times on the ground. Then, the earth was rendered asunder with shockwaves, the rocky battlefield shaking so violently that those standing within fifty metres would surely lose their footing.

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Field Effect: Control Spire
- Evolutions above Rookie or Armor Champion/Human Fragment will be sealed.

- Digimon under the effect of Dark Rings have Defense increased by 50% and do not have their evolutions sealed, but lose control over their bodies.


Enemy Digimon: Tyrannomon

Level: Champion


- Tyrannomon is hit by Corona Knuckle and Wormmon's attack.


Combat Passive 1: Dino Hide - Tyrannomon's hide is thick and difficult to penetrate. Attacks without piercing properties will have damage reduced by 50%. Furthermore, the hide is resistant to fire, but weak to ice.

Combat Passive 2: ?

Attack used: Quake - Tyrannomon's feet glow with fiery orange energy, then he stomps on the ground several times, creating a localized earthquake that will knock down and deal small damage to all digimon standing within 50m of him Of course, has no effect on flying digimon. [Cooldown: 1 turn].

Obviously Tyrannomon is standing at least 60m from the tower.

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Ally digimon: Dracomon and Guilmon

Level: Rookie

- Dracomon and Guilmon decide to follow Luke, catching on that he would lead them to the Control Spire where they can work to destroy it.

Attacks flew by, most of them being utterly ineffective against the Tyrannomon. This was going to be a very drawn-out battle, wouldn't it? Right now, the options were mostly two.

One, try to attack the ring and hopefully bring the digimon back to his senses? Then again, the theory about it being related to that dark obelisk was just that, a theory; believing on that notion blindly could go badly for them... not to mention that red lizard seemed to be hella tough. Or to just attack the tower directly, hoping that some number of attacks would be good enough to eventually bring it down.

Stridermon kept advancing, her movements a silent glide through the field. For now, she would ignore the battle currently going underway, and instead would focus on reaching the tower as soon as she could. If anything, it was painfully obvious how resistant their living opponent was to being damaged, but... what about the construction itself? That was a question they didn't have an answer for yet.

And one she would be glad to find out about. If she had succeeded in closing the distance, one of her upper limbs would ball out in a mass of tendrils before colliding with the obelisk. It wasn't a particularly strong attack, but it would be a good starting point on measuring how solid this thing was.

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—Stridermon's trying to close the distance and get next to the tower.

—If she succeeds, she'll use a basic attack in the tower, ending Reality Spasm.

Stolen Memento's remaining cooldown: 2 posts.
Willful Desire's remaining cooldown: 2 posts.
Reality Spasm's remaining cooldown: 2 posts.

Wormmon's attack didn't do much, but against a Champion level, every hit helped as the group slowly chips away at Tyrannomon's health. Then the brainwashed dragon Digimon started stomping around, triggering a small earthquake around him. Wormmon bounces around as the ground below shakes and trembles. The Worm King had taken a few hits, but he wasn't about to roll over yet. "Settle down, ya fat lizard! You can't take us all on." As part of the group continues to distract the Champion level, the others have reached the dark spire. Now how to disable this strange device. 

Wormmon may be a lot stronger in his Rookie Stage than before, but he was still limited going up against a Champion. Tyrannomon would have no problem breaking free from his Sticky Net, and if he couldn't trap the Champion in his net, he was left with his Silk Thread, and Dark Seed attacks. Since Wormmon had been banged up quite a bit in the earthquake, Wormmon switched tactics. He stands up on his tail, and launches a seed from his mouth towards Tyrannomon. "Take that, courtesy of the Worm King! We won't back down, even though your breath smells like carcasses."

If the Dark Seed hits its target and burrows into Tyrannomon's scaly hide, it will slowly syphon his health back to Wormmon, both draining some health, and allowing Wormmon to stay in the battle longer. This technique would prove to be useful provided it lands, as they needed to buy more time to destroy the spire. They might not have what it takes to bring him down while they are still all in their Rookie forms, but if the dark spire is destroyed, they should be able to Digivolve just fine. Maybe this dragon wasn't so nasty after all. Just a pawn captured and manipulated by whoever constructed these bizarre towers.

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Dark Seed: Launches a seed into the target. Drains target's health by 50% normal attack damage and transfers health to user every post for 3 posts. 2 post cooldown. Does not work against Ultimate or higher.

Combat Passive:

Insect Agility: Wormmon can jump, dive, and dodge very quickly. This gives them an advantage against large opponents, greatly increasing their chance to dodge melee attacks from Digimon larger than an average Rookie.