Digimon Adventure ND Book Two: The Terror of Tyranterramon - Chapter Seven

In this chapter the Digidestined keep fighting old people. It's kinda the whole wise old master thing, with the elderly Babamon and Jijimon passing on their knowledge to the young heroes, and it does help, though obviously Tyranterramon doesn't die anytime soon, since the book isn't even half over yet. Still, even though the powers that the heroes obtain here don't win them the day, the lessons that they learn eventually contribute to the climax.

Oh, and fun fact, it is canon that Babamon is the elderly form of Rosemon, as mentioned below, but Oberomon is my own creation. Internets to whoever gets the reference.

Chapter Seven

Trial of the Forest

Yu-Gi-Oh! DF Book Seven: Their Most Dangerous Enemy - Chapter Nineteen

 Now we begin a few of the less important duels, in that they don't involve a "main" character (mains being John, Karen, Sarah, and people like that), or an important story revelation or character building event. You could say that these duels are filler, and you'd be kind of right, but I don't think that it hurts to check up on all of the characters from time to time. And besides, Kris is really fun to write for.

Next duel, Jenna vs. Kirk Dixon, will also be only one chapter long, and then we'll get another big one. Before either of those, though, we have a chapter of Reaper where there is finally some action again! Yay!

Chapter Nineteen

Kris vs. Number Twelve

Digimon Adventure ND Book Two: The Terror of Tyranterramon - Chapter Six

In this chapter John get's beaten up by an old man. For plot!

Chapter Six

Flee to the Forest

Yu-Gi-Oh! DF Book Seven: Their Most Dangerous Enemy - Chapter Eighteen

And here we have the conclusion of Sarah's duel with the defensive Deschutes Lew. Anyone who has read Yu-Gi-Oh! R will recognize Deschutes' signature 'Castle Gate' card here. This card allows the Card Professor to really push Sarah into a corner, as her 'Tornado Wall' is useless against its cannon attack special ability.

But the duel itself isn't the most important aspect of this chapter. What matters is the end, where we get an idea of another aspect of the Mystery Man's plan. He has truly stacked the deck in his favor, and further ensured that John won't have any choice but to face him in whatever type of duel he wants.

Chapter Eighteen

Sarah vs. the Impenetrable Gate

Digimon Adventure ND Book Two: The Terror of Tyranterramon - Chapter Five

Now we get some more action. The Digidestined and their allies don't get to the Desert Core fast enough to do anything with it before Tyranterramon shows up, and they have to fight this immense force of nature even though they have no real chance. Then something happens which tips the scales enough that they actually manage to survive and make a retreat. This is a recurring pattern for a while.

Chapter Five

Miracle of the Desert Core; 

Legacy of Pharaohmon

Yu-Gi-Oh! Reaper - Chapter Eleven

Finally, finally, the two duos meet! Granted, I'm making you wait until the next Reaper update to find out what happens. That isn't the confrontation referred to in the chapter title, however. That confrontation is between James and Thompson, where we see just how far Thompson will go to keep from having to discuss his past, and giving us a pretty good look at his exposed berserk button. We'll hear more about this very soon, I promise. Oh, and there will also be an action scene. We're really overdue for one.

Chapter Eleven

Confrontation, Part Two

Digimon Adventure ND Book Two: The Terror of Tyranterramon - Chapter Four

This chapter, contrary to what I've said about this book so far, is light on action, but it does give the reader the opportunity to hear more of the legend which drives this story. An alternate version of the story that Mechmon briefly touched on. After the Digidestined meet up with their old friends, Dokugumon, Birdramon and Tuskmon, Dokugumon is able to recount the legend. She remembers it even though she really doesn't, as if her memories of the legend come from another source. This is a clue to something, but honestly there are, like, no other clues, so I don't expect anyone to get it.

Chapter Four

Reunited with Old Friends

Yu-Gi-Oh! DF Book Seven: Their Most Dangerous Enemy - Chapter Seventeen

In Yu-Gi-Oh! R, Deschutes Lew is one of the nicer Card Professors, which is, of course, why I pitted him against Sarah, who is emotional and rude. Okay, so maybe that wasn't too fitting. What was fitting, however, was making this the first duel we see of the Duel Force versus the Card Professors (I'm not counting John v Reiko, since she's kinda defected by this point), since the first Card Professor who Yugi fought was (drum roll, please!) Deschutes Lew!

Yeah, that's really all the reason I have for pairing these two up. As Sarah is a leader now, I could have had her fight Richie, the old leader of the Card Professors, but really Karen just has to fight him, ya know. I could have had her fight Depre, but I really wanted to write John fighting aliens. So Sarah is left with the opening duel of the conflict, with all of the exposition and stuff. Granted she does get some good exposition. Of course, that's mostly just in part two, in two weeks.

Oh, yeah, sorry again for another cliffhanger. Except not. You know the drill.

 

Chapter Seventeen

Sarah vs. Number Thirteen

Digimon Adventure ND Book Two: The Terror of Tyranterramon - Chapter Three

I hope that by now anyone reading this can see why I'm okay with the chapters in this story being a little short. For as short as they are, a lot happens. In this chapter, for example, we get the kind of revelation that it took us the entirety of Book One to come to previously. The Digidestined make some huge leaps in logic, but heck, even if the scenario that they come up with here isn't Tyranterramon's endgame, the possibility that it is is incentive for them to keep going and continue the fight. And it really says a lot about how far all of them have come that they are all so willing to go into such extreme danger, even given the possible stakes. Well, except in the case of Kris. She isn't as all there as the others, so the implications of all of this might not have hit her yet.

Also hurray for bullshit technobabble, because I know practically zero real quantum physics. You'll see what I mean. At least it sounds like science. Kind of.

Chapter Three

Tyranterramon’s Plan

Yu-Gi-Oh! DF Book Seven: Their Most Dangerous Enemy - Chapter Sixteen

Well, that escalated quickly, didn't it? One second Sarah is making fun of Nate, and everyone is being badass, and the next second the mystery man has them in a vice. On the bright side, we do finally get to see the mystery man again, and even though we don't learn any more about his motivations, we get a bit more about his personality. Like John, he projects an air of being sure of himself, and he clearly prefers a position of control. Unlike John, however, he's obviously selfish, and cares nothing for anyone other than himself. And this villain is a human being, not a demon, or the repressed dark aspects of a person's psyche given form. This reflects the fact that human beings have the capacity for the worst evil.

The confrontation clearly begins here, but the actual duels will begin next week when Sarah battles Deschutes Lew, a Duelist who attacks safely from behind unbreakable walls, bypassing all conventional defenses. Sarah is also skilled with combined defensive and offensive tactics, but is she adaptable enough to defeat a Card Professor? I guess we'll find out!

Chapter Sixteen

The Dark Factory