Digimon Story: Rainbow Traverse -- Chp 24

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(“Just hold on tight!”)

Returning his attention to the Road Map, he would move the road in a spiraling ribbon shape as he attempted to loop it around the intruding creature like a sort of cage.. giving Kyubimon and the Wives ample angles to maneuver and attack from.

(“Let’s see how this works!”)

More comets fell upon the node, and with every strike towards the road, the strange apparatus moved of its own accord to avoid being struck. Unable to look away for even a second, Al wrangled with the road's layout, as if pinning a worm down with his fingers and thumbs as it flailed. He could see Kyubimon as an orange dot on the screen, the ninetail's speed stymied by the continual shifts. That is, until she leaped across one section towards another within reach.

("I have eyes on the digimon!") she thought. ("It's some sort of dragon!")

[Roll Computers with a -6 penalty]

[Rolling= 5,6,4 + 9 - 6 = 18]

Al would grunt in annoyance as he glanced back and forth between the display and the action above him as he wrangled the road. (“Well we’re gonna have to convince it to Skadoodle back the way it came, cuz it’s now trespassing on sovereign virtual soil..  and as Commander-In- Chief of Almanastan, I leave it up to you, Vice-President Kyubimon, to deal with this foreign threat!”)

("Mhmh, yes sir, Mr. President.")

While Al stretched and bent his fingers into pretzels over the map, Kyubi and her entourage took to their new leapfrog strategy. Through her eyes, Al saw the enemy far clearer than what he'd found on the camera feeds. It was armored in jet-black scales, a glow like the heat of a furnace burning and at the edges. Its arms were wings tipped in fire, whilst ash and soot seeped out to form an illusory fullness. The horned countenance of the digimon was made out by the brightness of its maw, its tongue like molten rock behind tusks of gloaming metal. It was from this maw a brilliant light condensed, and in an instant, a ray of shimmering heat fired towards Kyubimon!

[Rolling: 5 6 2 2 2 3, 3 3 6 6 6 6, 5 4 4 2 3 = 7 suxx, 6 4 1 5 = 9 suxx]

[rolling: 5,4,1,5,1,5,3,4,6,5,3,1
Rerolls: 5,5,6 = 8 suxx]

[Hits = [(DMG +1) - (11 - 4 from Armor Piercing 2)] = 10 damage total. Kyubimon suffers Burn 3.]

[Do you wish to intercede with one of the foxwives?]

[Yes]

Her thoughts racing faster than the attack, Kyubimon willed Jennifer to grab her hindleg, enabling the ninetails to springboard into a backflip. It gave her enough time to watch as the elemental was turned into raw plasma before detonating, sending the airborne Kyubi even further from the heat ray. The blast was far easier to endure than what the ninetails just witnessed. Indeed, where the attack had landed, the tarmac of the road bubbled and sloughed. A moment later, the ruined section of road pixelated, splitting apart to form two separate segments, neither of which fell towards the ground, instead staying in place as Al kept a grip on the map.

("Definitely an ultimate,") thought Kyubimon, resuming her sprint alongside Kirsten. ("Al, we might have to digivolve again, but your idea to use the road still sounds like a good call!")

(“Damn it.. you might be right. Okay Kyubimon, Super Digivolve! I’ll keep fiddling with the road, see if I can’t help you out. If this thing is so lava based.. maybe we do need to try hitting it with some water.”)

Al would hold up his Digivice with one hand as the other remained on the Holoscreen in front of him; the neon-red sprite of Kumon’s Ki’i appearing on his Digivice!

"Kyubimon digivolve to--!" In that moment, a fireball flew straight at the bridge, and though the living road moved to evade, it did so straight into a collision point with another comet. Kirsten charged forward, exploding on impact, and from the smoke of her conflagration -- as it enveloped Kyubimon and the path ahead -- emerged the divine dancer. "KAHUNIMON!!"

A roar like the eruption of a volcano blasted through the air above both tamer and partner. The dragon digimon, wings stretched wide, followed Kahunimon's progress as the road continued to stretch and grow mere inches ahead of her. From behind her mask, the dancer's eyes narrowed. Not on the dragon, but the flecks of light that shimmered around it. She could feel them, and through her, so did Alemana. Like pin-pricks of heat popping across the skin.

("Those embers,") thought Kahunimon. ("They're bits of combustive mineral dust. Getting too close would be like running through another minefield like back in Hotel-Alfa, minus the relative gravity effect.")

Al grimaced as he heard that, watching as both Ultimates stared each other down. (“Well then.. if those embers explode on contacted.. let’s wash everything away! Let’s see how the  Kentucky fried bitch likes that!”)

And she would swirl, her oceanic skirt flowing around her like a whirlpool. ”Wave Crash Dance!”

[Rolling= 2,2,5,6,2,6,6,5,3,6,6,6,4,5 = 9 suxx!]

[Dodge: 3 4 2 5 4 2, 3 2 4 6 4 6, 2 5 1 3 6 = 4 suxx, ...5 = 5 suxx = Hits = [(DMG +4) - 14] = 4 DMG Total]

Sweeping her arm to one side, mid-spin, the dancer channeled her senses through the current, the water lashing out like a whip towards the dragon. Yet as the attack spanned the distance between the two digimon, it detached from Kahunimon, and in doing so lost form, the whip spreading out as it turned into a liquid veil. Both tamer and partner felt it bubbling from the heat, as if something were dappling at the forefront of their minds. They watched the pure water darken as it soot and ash contaminated it. Seconds later, muffled crackling popped around the dragon, the water veil turning into volcanic grey steam.

The dragon roared, the scalding vapor now enveloping it. Sparks of lightning flickered through the cloud, and though Kahunimon hit the road running, she near lost balance as the stench of sulphur assaulted her nose. Her eyes narrowed. The cloud, it was swelling. Through fire and water, she sensed its true nature. Bracing herself, she watched as the cloud burst to the thunderous sound and motion of the dragon's beating wings.

[Rolling: 4 4 1 6 1 4 1, 6 4 4 5 2 1 5, 2 1 6 = 5 suxx, ...1 4 4 5 2 6 5 = 8 suxx total]

[rolling=4,5,6,2,6,1,5,3,1,5,5,6,2,6,2,4,2,2= 8 suxx= miss]

The burning ash-steam would wash over Kahunimon, but she spun on her heels as her skirt of water cut through the gloam like a knife through butter. Grinding her feet into the road she then launched herself into the air- Al giving it enough of an elastic characteristic to essentially catapult her towards the dragon: fist cocked back. "Pele Punch!"

[Rolling:6,6,2,5,2,4,6,2,6,2,3,3,5,2,2,1= 6 suxx]

[Dodge: 4 3 5 3 6 6, 6 2 5 6 1 1, 5 = 7 suxx, ...4 4 = no additional = Hits = [(DMG +1) - (14 -2)] = 2 DMG. Burn has no effect on fire derg]

The dancer's molten fist hammered into the black steel armor of her quarry's hide, its scales cracking into a web around the impact zone. A deafening howl sent Kahunimon reeling, but not before she dug her claws into the space between her foe's burning plates.

“Damn it!” And Al would frown, scanning the holoscreen (“Hold on, I’m trying something!”) and he would try to take a section of the road and whack the dragon creature with it— and a moment later he tried to scan it with his digidex app.