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[dive_npc]

Who: Various characters
What: The Last Stand of the Royal Base
When: September 13th
Where: Royal Base/Dokako

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Phase 03 - The Heart of the Weapon [tactical]

[masterandhound]

Touma stood, at the point where he and the rest of the tactical squad members that had been selected were waiting. They'd been given a specific window of time for when they could move in... all there was to do was wait for the signal from the heavy brigade that their "distraction" had begun, and hope that Koushirou had managed to disable the security.

Touma was nervous. He was also afraid. Not of what he was going to face in there... but of what could happen if he failed.

Over these last few years... the Royal Base had become like a home to him.

And he wouldn't let it go without a fight.

Sighing, he turned to Sally. "Are you ready?" he asked his co-captain. "It won't be long."

[masterandhound]

Touma looked around, covering their entrance. If anyone came after them from outside the base, it would be through there.

Then he realized something.

There were no engineers. In fact... the room was dark. Not pitch dark, but darker than he expected a place like this to be...

Something could easily hide in here. Especially if it were... dark colored.

Eyes widening, he ran for the nearest switch on a wall. The lights suddenly flared on, and in so, revealed...

[dive_npc]

Ten BlackPeckmon, all of them clinging to the cieling of the powercore room, staring down at them with kunai in their wings.

Seeing full well that they'd been discovered, they rained down their sharp, explosive weaponry on the tactical squad members below.

[sclassedge]

"Ahhh, that's about right," was all Zero got out before he spun around, flicking on his Z-Saber. He did not swing with it, but instead brought up his other hand, now converted into a buster. "No melee! They explode!" he spat out before releasing a volley of shots to try and deflect the kunai.

Ryuudamon flashed with a bright light, evolving into Ginryuumon, and spitting a spear up towards one of the BlackPeckmon.

[notanalchemist]

Zero's warning had good timing--Maes's gun came up to blow the kunai away instead of deflect them like he'd planned. The man had his back to the wall, Labramon huddled at his feet, whining at the fact that he couldn't smell the BlackPeckmon through the scents of metal and grease.

In a brief pause between volleys Maes's eyes caught on the weapon. Hmm.

Without giving himself much time to think he reached down, grabbed Labramon by the scruff of the neck and launched them both towards the weapon. If the kunai could explode, then maybe either the BlackPeckmon would have to stop using them while aiming in the weapon's direction--or they'd do the team's job for them.

[princesstomboy]

Sally worked on defense instead, activating her D-Comm's shield and looking through her D-Reader, realizing a Licht Kugel gauntlet while Pawn Chessmon evolved to Knight Chessmon. The shield fell and they both attacked, Sally with a burst of holy energy and Knight Chessmon with a flying dart.

[variabletamer]

X dodged to the side for the few seconds it took to charge up his buster, then unleashed a fully charged shot at the cluster of Peckmon clinging to the ceiling. Any explosive kunai in the path of the blast would either disintegrate, or explode harmlessly out of range.

Veemon yelped and dove for cover under Ryuudamon's belly. As he crouched there, gripping his charges tightly, he eyed the distance to the weapon core. If he evolved, he'd be a bigger target, and he'd have more trouble setting the charges. They still needed to plant the charges before more guards showed up, and if everyone else was fighting, then he'd have to make sure at least his charges got set.

[dive_npc]

With the attacks leveled against him, the Peckmon scattered, which caused the attacks to hit the cielings and send dust and debris raining down. Amidst the chaos, the creatures jogressed...

Five became a large, armored black lion. The other five took the form of an Orochimon. Together they lashed out, with the lion digimon attacking Touma with its chainsaw, while the Orochimon breathed out a burst of alcoholic fire.

[masterandhound]

Touma's eyes widened, and Gaomon had to pull him to safety as the chainsaw came down.

"What... what the hell is that?!" Touma exclaimed, as he stared at the digimon. "I've never seen that digimon before...!

"Master!" shouted Gaomon. "We can't worry about that now!"

Touma nodded... and evolved Gaomon straight to MachGaogamon, who attacked the lion with a high speed punch.

[sclassedge]

"Whatever it is, it's not gonna be there long!" Zero shouted, light flashing briefly around him as his crimson armor turned black. Another flash of light and Ginryuumon evolved into Hisharyuumon.

Zero rolled to the side, avoiding Orochimon's fire, while Hisharyuumon darted towards the lion Digimon, trying to wrap his body around its legs.

[princesstomboy]

"Knight Chessmon!" Sally yelled, signaling the evolution to Rook Chessmon. Immediately, again going the defense route, Rook Chessmon put up a Castle Wall shield, to lessen the effects of Orochimon's attack, hopefully. "Everyone definitely unable to escape the attack, behind here!"

In the meantime, she searched her D-Reader for another upgrade. They were going to need the big guns here, especially since the Castle Wall would not last long.

[variabletamer]

X dashed to the side, then leaped into the air and air-dashed to avoid the liquid flame attack. He fired off another charged shot at one of Orochimon's nearest heads before dashing again.

As Ginryuumon evolved, Veemon made a break for the bulk of the core while everyone else kept the two massive digimons' attention.

[notanalchemist]

Hughes had more trouble avoiding attacks and retaliating than his teammates, and ruefully the man reflected that he was getting old.

Even so, he and Labramon managed to avoid the fire by dropping and rolling to take cover behind the weapon, where the man gave Labramon a little head-ruffle. "Let me know if they start directing attacks our way, okay, pup?"

With that the man turned to start laying the charges at the base of the weapon, while Labramon whined, half-hidden behind the man, to watch the battle.

[dive_npc]

Seeing X's movement, two of the snake heads lashed out and extended, trying to catch the reploid. Meanwhile, the snake's tail reached out and slashed the blade at the end of it at RookChessmon's swords. Finally, three more of the heads bit down at Zero, and the remaining ones breathed more fire straight at Hughes.

Meanwhile, the lion had its own challenge to deal with. It was struck back by MachGaogamon's punch, leaving Zero's partner free to coil around it... but it recovered quickly, and attempted to slam its chainsaw blade into the dragon's skin.

[sclassedge]

Power and Digi-Soul surged around Zero's blade as it nearly tripled in size, briefly, when he swung in a wide arc to try and deflect the oncoming heads. Still, the force knocked him back, as he was sent sliding backwards across the floor.

"Okay, THIS could be going better!"

Hisharyuumon's eyes widened... before he gave a shout.

"SEIRYUUJIN!"

In a flash, the Digimon's body transformed into a sword, the blade of which deflecting damage that would have tore him in half... but he found his blade caught in the chainsaw, and then flung spinning up into the air.

[masterandhound]

MachGaogamon recoiled in surprise, but a shout from Touma told him he needed to take advantage of this opening. He opened his mouth and launched a... "HOWLING CANNON!"