The Great Binary Archipelago All Out Race [Kath/Amy][Career]

A mixture of relief and fear. That was the only way Liquid could describe this sensation. On one side, the fog seemed to be dispersing, which was definitely good. On the other…

“Amy-sis…” The candle shifted his gaze to his partner for a second. The blue-eyed seemed to be slowly recovering from everything that had just transpired. “I think we are. At least for now.” What in the world could have made a Mega digimon scream like that? “Y-Yes!” He abided to Amelie’s words.

“Ooi-sis, do you have any sight on Spinning Records team? What happened to them?” He inquired about that Jumbogamemo’s situation, while the boat approached the shore. They didn’t even have to wait, Liquid's eyes immediately caught sight of both Katherine and Jazz (?) coming out of the thicket. After some seconds of looking around, the raven-haired teenager spotted them, pointing at them from the shoulder of a pig-girl-digimon.

“There they are!” Katherine yelled from the other side of the beach. Jazz started running their way, even though she would be promptly interrupted by the sensation of the ground moving again, this time it was harder than ever. “Again…!?”

The palms, the sand, even the sea around the island. Everything was trembling with such intensity it was even hard for Jazz to remain standing. “Look!” with her chubby right hand, the Chohakkaimon pointed up, staring back at the jungle. From the center of the island, a giant, truly massive tower was slowly rising. Attached to its peak, a round metallic ball with a counter could be found. The number ‘120’ could be seen all around the sphere, so it basically could be spotted from every side of the island. Even the once sunny sky had turned gloomy and cloudy now.

“Ooi… what’s going on?”

Back at the announcing table, Delu was as confused as everyone else. “W-What is this, Sofia!?” He asked, clearly getting back on track with the correct way of pronouncing his partner's name, even though the situation wasn’t helping for him to concentrate on anything else but this strange scene developing right in front of his eyes. As announcers, they were supposed to be aware of every event taking place during the race. However, the Delumon was completely clueless this time.

“Look!” Once again, the bird pointed at one of the screens. There, a Thunderbirdmon was flying above the jungle of Joy’s Island. The crowd immediately cheered. “It seems like Seduction Team is still alive! But…!” Right behind him, swinging from one branch to another, A Team’s Octomon kept shooting the bird digimon, who barely managed to dodge these attacks. The zeal from the spectators had immediately turned into a wave of booing. The Thunderbirdmon seemed to be trying to gain some height, but he was clearly wounded and having trouble to even remain on the skies.

Definitely, the most interesting part of this scenario for anyone watching would be the fact that Seduction Team’s member had a purple flag on his beak. However, Octomon was holding a purple flag on one of his tentacles too!

“But… why!? Octomon seems to have a flag already, yet he insists in taking Thunderbirdmon out too! Maybe he’s the one responsible for so many wounded teams inside of the island?”

The jungle had reached its end and the Octomon had run out of branches to swing from. Landing on the sand, the octopus glanced at how the Thunderbirdmon reached the skies over the sea and began his escapade in the distance, heading towards Borderland Island. Slowly, the Octomon lifted his gun, aiming at the bird, only to put it down. His eye had caught something else.

“This can’t be good Sofia! Octomon has found them again!”

Right at the shore, Katherine and Jazz were running towards the Beer Flag Team’s boat, getting ready to board. At that time, the group hadn’t noticed they had been spotted from across the beach by the evil Octomon. Luckily, they had a technical supporter looking at the screens, right?

What they had noticed was Ebidramon coming their way, swimming above the sea. The brief stop Amelie and Liquid had taken to pick their partners up had given the aquatic digimon the time to catch up.

Troubles just never ceased to appear, right?

With a beeping sound on each second, the counter on the giant sphere standing over the tower and above the island, started decreasing.

“120… 119… 118…”

Even if Jazz couldn’t explain that burst of energy flowing throughout her body, she definitely knew what she had to do now. “Let’s go!!” She yelled, prolonging the last vocal, while she lifted Katherine and placed her above her shoulder, once again. From there, the Spaniard was able to see the menace behind them. “O-Octomon!” She squealed. Ooi’s insights regarding their current situation had, of course, give them a heads up about this. The octopus had his weapon raised, charging up a red blast, just like the one they had seen earlier.

Before they noticed, Katherine was being thrown into the boat by her partner, landing next to Amelie and Liquid. “Let’s get the hell out of here!” Jazz yelled, jumping into the ship. Liquid abided immediately, getting the motor running, while they left the shore to head to Borderland Island. However, not too far away, Ebidramon was following them.

“It doesn’t seem like a participant’s doing, Sofia! Even though we can’t really tell right now.” Even a bit preoccupied, Delu kept staring at the screen, giving some other thoughts regarding that giant tower. “Could it be the organizers hid something from even us, the announcers!?” His attention would quickly shift to the A Team’s situation. Their approach to the race was rather interesting. “Well, if everyone else is eliminated, there’s no way they can lose, right?” The bird cleared his throat. “Right now, it seems like this race is being shortened up. We can’t see any other team but Beer Flag, A-Team, Toxic, and Seduction up. And the team of Snake doesn’t even have a flag! However, they’re pretty far ahead! They have actually reached Borderland Island already and are about to start going back!”

“Just… who are these guys?” Garmore stared at the screen, pretty much as focused on the current development as everyone else in the crowd.
“Furthermore, Sofia…” The Delumon intended to add something to his initial insight. “It doesn’t seem like Beer Flag is out of harm’s way! Octomon is getting ready to take them down!”

The male part of the two announcers was not wrong, the evil digimon kept charging his blast, ready to shoot against Liquid’s team.

Katherine and the rest of Beer Flag were aware of this too now. While the boat moved, the curly-haired girl observed the octopus in the distance, getting ready to shoot. Given the speed that laser seemed to travel with, it didn't seem like it would miss. Was it a good idea to assume the boat’s shield would be able to withstand this? Probably not, after what it had gone through recently, which Liquid was very much aware of. “We may need to use the last bit of nitro we have left to get away from this one” The Candlemon clenched his teeth. Running out of nitro before even starting the going back part was definitely not good news.

“I really would like to have some of that for when we come back, but…” Katherine was interrupted by the splashing sound of two creatures next to the boat, moving above water level, not too far from them.

“Would you look at that Sofia! They are the Mambomon brothers, from Blink Team! They are here!” The crowd exploded once again, upon the sight. Even if Blink Team was not a fan favorite, the spectators seemed to be happy to see a familiar face that hadn’t been wiped out by A-Team. “It’s amazing! Even though Whamon, their biggest member, was defeated by A team’s Octomom at Route Island, they have managed to catch up!” Delu’s eyes widened, upon seeing what one of them was gripping tightly in one of his red-glove-hands. “Look! They even have a flag!”

Jazz just stared at the duo of Mambomon, going past them. Such a determination. Such a will to keep moving forward, no matter what. It made her soul burn with fire. “Woooho! You go Mambomon!” Maybe she shouldn’t be cheering for their rivals, but their resilience had definitely motivated the ChoHakkaimon. One of the brothers turned at Jazz, with a pretty neutral stare, while they all kept moving. “Even though I appreciate your words, it doesn’t mean we’re going to let you win.” He declared, with an almost robotic way of speaking. His tone of voice was rather high, so the members of the team could hear him even though the sound of splashing water produced by both them and the boat
“Well of co-“
“However.” The pig-girl was interrupted by the fish. “There is someone else who’s making a comeback.” He uttered. “And he wants revenge.” He added, his eyes drifting for a second back at the shore of Joy Island.

“Huh?” Katherine’s green eyes couldn’t help but follow Mambomon’s, staring back at the shore, where Octomon kept charging the blast, about to shoot them from the distance. Liquid's hand was already over the Nitro button, assuming they had no other choice but to use that. Until...

From the water next to the shore, a serpent-like digimon emerged.



“OCTOMON!” This intense shouting echoed throughout the whole island.
“That voice…” Garmore, Katherine, Liquid, Delu, and Jazz said almost in unison.

Raising and slamming against the octopus, what seemed to be a new form of Inra, had appeared. Without giving him any type to react, he shot a blast of purple energy at the monster. It traveled quick, but it was so powerful it even raised the sand around it, impacting Octomon fiercely and sending him flying against a tree back inside the jungle. The flag the A Team’s member was previously holding, had fell over the sand. Inra swirled his tail around it, picking it up and diving into water almost as quickly as he had come out, heading towards Borderland Island.

“That was…” A bit dumbfounded at what had just happened, Delu was having trouble to start speaking. “It was Inra!” The loudest roar ever echoed throughout the Archipelago, coming from the crowd at the stadium.

Meanwhile, the clock at the top of the tower kept ticking.
“101… 100… 99”

Borderland Island had proven to not be that far away. Beer Flag Team boat was almost there. It was probably a good time to think of a strategy, giving the characteristics of this island. Ebidramon was still following the boat, not too far behind.

The announcers kept dwelling on the subject of the giant clock that had appeared at the middle of Joy Island. It was pretty much the topic of the moment, so no surprise there.

“I’ve got no clue, Sofia! But all of the teams seem to not want anything to do with it.” The bird turned at a small screen on his desk, showing some message. “Oh! Some news just got in, Sofia!” It was not related to the giant clock tower, but it was definitely shocking to an extent. “Our judges had sent the info of the teams that have been declared unable to continue in this race.” A sudden silence took over the crowd. Everyone was expectant of the news. “The following participants cannot continue and they will be picked up by our team of Mojyamons, Sofia:” Delu cleared his throat as his voice acquired a serious tone, even sounding a bit fretted.

“Both Toucamons from Dazzling Stars Team are unable to continue. Since Peg the Toucamon was the captain of this team, Dazzling Stars is, in fact, eliminated. The same goes for every member of the Spinning Record’s team; none of them can continue, therefore, they are eliminated. Ruka from the Seduction team can’t compete any longer, but Seduction Team is still on the race.” The bird made a short pause, to then go on and read the rest of the message. “Other teams that hadn’t been very relevant in the race so far had also been eliminated in Joy Island, Sofia. This due to all of their members being laid out. SOS Team, Wai Team, Rocky Divers Team, BQ Team, and Power Princesses Team are all out. To these, we must add Dazzling Stars and Spinning Records, which we just mentioned. Of course, all of these teams join Water Racers, who were eliminated right when the race was just beginning.”

Except for the small group of fans every team had and for Ruka, who was widely loved by almost every spectator, no one on the crowd seemed too affected by these names being out of the race, but more about the fact it was A-Team who had taken all of them out.

“There are a lot of teams out, Sofia! Can you help me think who are still in the competition? We’ve got TOXIC, of course, Waru team, Beer Flag, A-Team, Seduction, a very damaged Ricky’s Crewmates team, Blink, and…?” The bird tilted his head. “Why do I feel there’s someone missing?” The announcer, and even the crowd, seemed genuinely confused. “Who’s missing, Sofia?” He asked, even sounding a bit desperate.

Regarding the next island, well, Beer Flag was about to face whatever peril it might bring, since they were right in front of it.

A giant square-shaped isle with water on its center floated highly above the boat, just some meters away, imposingly. They couldn’t see what was actually on the island from there, but… “I think there’s a pedestal with a button we have to push there. Then, we can go back.” Katherine’s head pointed upwards, staring at the giant piece of surface. This was based on what she remembered from the initial explanation given by Delu.


Back to the stadium, a deafening cornet-like sound echoed throughout the arena.

“Did you hear that, Sofia!? That means a team has pressed their button and they had started their way back!” The cameras showed a Morishellmon cheering, in front of a pedestal with a red button and the name TOXIC written on it. From there, it could be seen that there were sixteen pedestals (one for each team) scattered around the water, that was 50 meters over water level itself. “And as you might have guessed, it’s Kaku! The member of TOXIC Team! Now it’ll be fun to see how he gets down from up there.” The announcer stifled a quiet laugh behind his hand.

Katherine remained silent, trying to think on how to get there. The green-eyed kept her arms crossed and her eyes close, elucubrating. Was she cunning enough to figure this out?

“They said that Liquid couldn’t willingly fly at any minute of this race, right? So it has to be one of us who pushes the button, while he stays down here.” Jazz looked at Amelie, trying to get any kind of insight.

“I think I’ve got an idea on how to get there.” Katherine finally broke her silence. “But I think we need a strategy regarding how to proceed; who's staying and who's going.” She added.

"77...76...75..."

The fact that the participants assumed the clock wasn’t good news wasn’t at all surprising. No one wanted to be there to find out what it did when it reached zero. “It is indeed very intriguing, Sofia! But it’s just one more of the surprises this race brings us every edition!”

“You’re right!” His eyes wide open, Delu pointed at the Ranamon with his wing. “I hadn’t seen Deep Sea Team since Joy Island! Where are they?” He then started watching the screen he had in front of him. “If the judges hadn’t communicated with us about it, it means they had not been eliminated. Or… could it be that even our judges can’t find them, Sofia?” He then turned towards his partner. “Tell me, do you have any info on them? Maybe if we inquire further on their members we can give our fans some insight about their situation!” The bird knew they held a register for the members of each team, and it was very likely those watching were interested in this mysterious ensemble.

Even if she knew this was probably not the right time, Katherine couldn’t help but worry about her friend. She didn’t know what Amelie and Liquid had been through upon going around Joy Island, but it definitely had worn them off. If it was as tiring psychologically and physically) as what she and Jazz had to face, there was no doubt why. However, Katherine didn’t have to evolve. She didn’t have to put herself in danger by fighting. It was different, and not only did she know it; it made her feel bad it was. 

“Amy…” Katherine’s eyes looked for the blue in her friend’s. A tinge of doubt could be found. She wasn’t sure of being able to pull this off, but she was sure she didn’t want to risk her friend’s integrity any longer. “I need to take the boat. But you and Liquid must stay right here.”

Knowing her partner wouldn’t like this, she shifted her gaze towards Jazz. “You’re staying too. Without a boat, we need all the strength we can get to protect Liquid and Amy.” Before Jazz could even open her mouth, Katherine shut down any complaint. “I won’t let you go with me, so don't even try it.” There it was again. It had occurred at the train. It had occurred at Route Island. There was something about this world that made Katherine brave, even when she didn’t know what she was planning would even work.

“You can shoot wind, right? I saw you do it against those Agumons.”
“I-I think I can, but…”

“Would you look at that, Sofia!” Delu jumped off his seat, once again showing his excitement. “Beer Flag Team’s boat is… flying!” The biggest screen at the stadium showed Katherine flying aboard the ship. Down below, at sea level, Jazz was standing on a white platform, made by Liquid’s wax, moving her hammer from one side to another, blowing an immense whirlwind towards the boat, several meters above her, and pushing it towards Borderland Island. The wind burst moved upward, and the boat had deployed the ‘wings’ they had installed yesterday.

Delu placed his wing on his earpiece as he received some news. “Our judges inform us the team’s captain is not aboard the boat, Sofia! So this is completely allowed!”

Even if the roar of the stadium was not even close to the amount of noise they made when Inra or Seduction Team made a move, it was starting to get louder and louder, every time Beer Flag pulled one of these... shenanigans.

“Would you look at that Sofia? This team never ceases to amaze us. They are still behind Toxic, but they are not giving up!”

Jazz kept swinging her hammer as Katherine, and the boat, slowly approximated to the island, using Jazz’s wind like a giant fan pushing a balloon.

On top of the white, waxy platform, next to Jazz, Liquid and Amelie were standing.

“Shisei! Liquid!” Jazz addressed her partners, speaking loudly, in order to be heard, due to the noise the wind made. “Please, keep your eyes open. I need you to cover me as you can until I get Kath up there!”

"64...63...62..."

Incredulously, Delu rubbed his eyes with both wings, looking at the huge screen at the stadium, which showed a  fight about to break down. And could you blame him? it was pretty amazing to see Ricky’s Crewmates having such a high spirit to keep on fighting.

“Ricky’s crewmates are back and looking for revenge, Sofia! But… what’s that they’re standing on!?” The most amazing part of this development was the fact that, much like Beer Flag, the dinosaurs were also standing on some sort of platform, where they moved freely. “Even though Borderland Island is suspended above the sky, many teams with digimon that can’t swim have found their way into standing on the water below the island. Beer Flag is using Liquid’s wax, while Ricky’s Crewmates are using… ice!”

The camera clearly showed how Ricky, the Subarimon, had half his body above water, right behind the dinosaurs. Out of his front side, he could ‘spit’ ice, that the dinosaurs were using as a platform to walk on. After some brief moments, Liquid’s waxy island was surrounded by ice, with the dinosaurs approaching from all sides.

“That’s a very good strategy.” Leo pointed out, still surrounded by his brothers, fluttering around the disguised Garmore. The shipwright just rubbed his ‘chin’ and stared at the development.

Showing a new form was something that the crowd seemed to appreciate, A LOT. The roar was deafening. Much like Katherine or Jazz, these digimon loved the concept of a human turning into one of them. Even if it was a very strange one.

Deltamon seemed to have felt the power of Wimon right away with that pound. He managed to bounce back from it and attempted to bite Wimon with his right arm.

It was clear the objective for Beer Flag should be to protect Jazz, unless until her job of getting Katherine up there was done. While the Allomon tried to approach the pig-girl, Liquid threw a burst of fireballs at him, one right after the other. “Hey! Over here!” Would this be a good enough distraction to draw the attention of the dinosaur away from the Chohakkaimon? It remained to be seen. What would Tyrannomon do? Would it go help Deltamon in the fight against the spirit human or would he go after one of the other two? That was a mystery right now too.

Katherine could see the danger approaching her teammates down below. The thought of Amelie not feeling too good before all of this just worried her to her guts, and made the ride until the island much larger. Finally, her green eyes widened up, seeing that she had arrived. Jazz didn’t seem to be able to provide any more height. Which was understandable, since she had a battle to engage into.

Borderland Island was a pretty plain isle. It had the shape of a square, filled with water to most of its extent, surrounded by a ground border, that stopped the water from falling down. Wondering how this isle maintained itself floating on the sky was something the green-eyed would leave for later on.

However, the lack of height made the boat fall over the ground that surrounded the ‘lake’. It was not a very stretch border, luckily. Katherine could see the pedestals floating on the water, even though she couldn’t read the labels from there.

The teenager started pulling from the bow of the ship, trying to drag it to the water. Damn, that thing was heavy.


57...56...55

Great, now I giant dinosaur was chasing Liquid. The Candlemon leaped into the ice platform and then try to hop as fast as he could, getting away from Allomon, who kept chasing him from very close. One thing that was probably going to raise the trio’s attention was that the flag seemed nowhere to be seen. This, however, didn’t stop them from keep trying to eliminate Beer Flag.

“And there he goes, Sofia! Deltamon is now down and into the water. Do you think he can keep fighting, though?” Delu then shifted his attention to another member of the attacking team. “It seems like Ricky is having some trouble putting more ice for his teammates.” The Submarimon kept shooting ice to try to hold the platform the dinosaurs were fighting over, but it didn’t seem like it could quite withstand that much weight, especially while a battle was being held.

“I’m finally… free!” Jazz took a huge leap towards Allomon and slammed the creature with her hammer, sending him back. “Get away from him!” She roared.

On his side, Tyrannomon would start shooting fireballs at Wimon, trying to hit her. With those same movements, he tried to draw her away, attempting to hit her with his tail. He was basically trying whatever that might get her away from him.

Not too far away from the platform, and below Borderland Island, TOXIC Team seemed to still be waiting for the Shellmon who had gone up to the floating island. The amazing ‘ship’ Snake drove (a giant platform being pulled by the two mollusks) was currently missing a piece.

“Kaku managed to push the button for TOXIC Team, Sofia. But… where is him? He’s still not back with his teammates!” Delu noted, a bit confused.

Up above, Katherine was almost done. The boat was just some steps away from getting into the water, where she could finally drive it to look for the pedestal. From there, the sound of a horn got to her ears. When she looked into the water, a fierce-looking serpent, very similar to Inra, was floating in front of a pedestal, his tail pushing the button.


“Is that…? Oh my god, it is! That’s Seadramon. I think Betamon, one of the members of Waru Team, evolved into that!” And, of course, the crowd went nuts after hearing Delu declare this. “Without us noticing, he managed to get to the pedestal and push the button for Waru Team. I didn’t even know the rest of Inra’s team was still alive.” And then, another horn echoed. Thunderbirdmon was standing over one of the pedestals, pushing the button down with his weight. “And there’s another one! Seduction Team has pushed their button too! Ruka might not be in this anymore, but her teammates keep going!”

Just as she saw every team pushing their button, Katherine heard Ooi talking through her earpiece. After the Technical Supporter was done speaking, silence ensued. “Amy… had to evolve again?” This didn’t come as anything near good to her for the green-eyed. Even though she was exhausted and Katherine tried to keep her out of this, Amy just kept going. “N-No! I’m fine here. Please, just tell her to make sure Liquid is safe.”

She couldn’t be totally useless, right? If everyone was fighting so hard, she had to deliver. The girl dragged the boat into the water some final steps, finally getting it in there. Then, the sound of thunder and splashes of water got to her ears.

“It seems like a battle has broken lose, Sofia! Up there, near the pedestal he just pushed, Thunderbirdmon is fighting for his life. Against who? Well, someone who definitely had some pending debts with him, A Team’s Octomon is back!” By now, it should be pretty obvious to everyone in the crowd that Octopus just didn't know when to quit.

Katherine tried to keep herself focused on the task at hand, even if there was a fierce battle happening right behind her. Shouts, beams and thunder just kept going everywhere. The curly-haired got into the boat, and stared at the board, deciding on what to do, or more like thinking on how to do it. “Let’s see…” She should have really paid more attention when they drove that thing two nights ago.

Just like that, she almost could say she felt two eyes over her, even through all the fighting noises. She slowly turned her head back at the sand behind her, some meters away from the boat, right at the shore. Kaku was staring at her, with a very plain, emotionless look in his eyes. He was just standing there, staring.

Complete silence was Katherine’s response, just waiting on seeing what the MoriShellmon would do. Was she scared? Very much.

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