[centre][b]Daichi & Dozer[/b][/centre]

Daichi shouted for Dozer to wait as he sped, full track into the fog. While he understood that he was going to rescue Herald, he was going headfirst into a situation that he knew nothing about. The authorization to use Mega forms still weighed on Daichi’s mind as his Digimon partner was fully swallowed up by the fog. Daichi was considering running after the giant tank, only to stop when he heard something shout: Spiking Strike!

There was a flash of purple light as Dozer rapidly emerged from the fog. In front of him was a Stingmon, one who was pressing his stinger toward Dozer, who had managed to grab it with his two gun hands. But the Stingmon was still pressing down strongly, still pushing Dozer back.

It became obvious to Daichi that Dozer was struggling to hold back the stinger, as he was still tired from fighting Airdramon just minutes before. But the Stingmon seemed to still be at full strength as he forced down more and more on his arm stinger. Realizing that Dozer was about to lose his grip on the stinger, Daichi did something dumb.

“Hey, bugboy! I bet you couldn’t even sting a regular old human like me!” Daichi shouted, regretting it before he even finished the sentence.

This did manage to get the attention of the Stingmon, his eyes narrowing. In the next second, Stingmon disengaged Dozer, flying up into the air, disappearing in the fog. Daichi’s eyes panned across the skyline, looking for the Digimon. But the fog was far too thick and nothing was visible.

“Spiking Strike!” a voice shouted.

For a second, Daichi thanked the fact that Digimon had a habit of announcing their attacks, before realizing that it meant that Stingmon was directly above him. Daichi barely saw the bright purple flash as Stingmon rapidly descended from the sky. With all of the reflexes he had, Daichi fell backward, tumbling across the pavement as Stingmon made contact with the ground of where Daichi had just stood. His stinger cracked the sidewalk, shattering it a full foot and a half down.

Taking a second to remove his stinger from the second, Stingmon’s eye narrowed at the prone form of Daichi. But as he began to dash toward him, a voice in the fog boomed: Sub Vulcan!

Stingmon barely had time to stop as a hail of gunfire created a barrier between him and Daichi. Dozer then emerged from the fog pointing his gun hands at Stingmon.

“Get your stingers away from Daichi!” Dozer said in his best Batman impression.

Stingmon decided that Dozer was the bigger threat, pointing his stingers at him and shouting: Moon Shooter!

The stingers launched out from his arms, speeding toward Dozer. With all the agility and aim he could muster, Dozer opened fire on the flying stingers. The hail of bullets was enough to break up one of the stingers, but the second one was merely knocked off course, slicing through Dozer’s left shoulder.

Dozer hissed in pain at the graze, unaware of the venom he had just been injected with. By now, Stingmon was once again flying around in the fog. Daichi had managed to get to his feet, and ran over to Dozer, taking cover under the tank Digimon. Above the pair the sounds of insect wings flapping quickly were very present.

[@mattmanganon]