-Origin Space, Arceus-

“Now you see, I think it is quite interesting what Sami has just turned into.” Mew was once again fairly intrigued by the capabilities of Digital Monsters. “Kind of surprised she’s so self-conscious about looking like a dragon head with a tilt rotor cargo plane grafted onto its neck. It’s a good thing she can return to being a cute little commando lizard… I can’t imagine being stuck as a living transport for the rest of my life.”

“Well she did just triple her overall size and gain the ability to carry allies… so yes, some level of self-conscious is to be expected.” I stated solemnly. “I’m also quite glad that you aren’t as self-conscious about being a vehicle for ‘Genesis’ to feasibly repopulate the world… should everything go horribly wrong.”

Pom was, again, extremely outside the realm of whatever I could have expected of her. Her soul shines bright… it’s also running her head first to an inevitable self-destruction and even one as mighty as I cannot stop her if she chose to continue down that path.

If she dies before said full destruction occurs, I will gladly protect her soul from Moon Cell’s machinations. Though I’m quite certain Pom wouldn’t want to be anything like a Wooloo… a Furfrou would certainly be fairly fitting, but that’s only if death occurs under my watch. Also note to self, do not let any being ever try to drain any form of planetary soul energy for power and prevent Ghost Types from trying… we don’t need more Spiritomb incidents.

“…” Mew now started looking self-conscious at themselves once it was pointed out that they were technically a vehicle for worldwide rebirth and has been for the entirety of their life. They carried far more in that tiny innocuous looking frame than most would expect, like how I’m actually far more than I appear.

“Now you truly know how Sami feels in this moment.” It was something I had to sometimes remind Mew of, as most Mew tended to be exceedingly carefree, playful and affectionate to the point they might forget what they are truly capable of.

“As a genetic backup vehicle for all Pokémon kind, I’m currently glad I don’t have to spin my tail or flail my arms to fly.” Mew stated while gazing up into my eyes floating next to me. “Say… can you make some chocolate covered biscuits with strawberry jelly, please?”

“Of course.” They also had a sweet tooth a mile wide, they would never get any bigger biologically… all that energy gets compressed and at least five percent of that goes into their defensive abilities and the ability to use almost every Pokémon move in existence… and the rest is stored away for their ‘Genesis’ ability. “I’ll make enough for everyone, if Bahamut and Tiamat want some as well they are welcome to try some… provided they are not off selling tacos or noodles.”

“Yes, there are some mortals I need to ‘taco cart’, but I have plenty of time.” Bahamut certainly gets enjoyment from running a taco cart as much as Tiamat gets from running a noodle cart.

“Nope, no noodle incidents that I need to be a part of for a while.” One of Tiamat’s heads stated pleasantly. “And there will be noodle incidents, I’m a major purveyor of them after all. Remind me to tell you the marmalade story, it’s a very good one.”

-Moon Cell Realm, Midgar, Upper Inner City, Shinra Tower, Dormarch-

Several things exploded nearby, Rokusho and Metabee were absolutely swamped with Crawler, Drones, Guard Hounds and Troopers… they were also showing quite well why Digibots were close to being on par with Champion and Ultimate level Digimon in some capacities.

“How long is this going to take again?” Metabee grumbled as he continued to rush into battle in a blaze of projectiles firing from both arms and rockets from his split horns at the top of his head. He and Rokusho were working in perfect harmony.

For all of Metabee’s hotheadedness, he tended to back off to let Rokusho handle things while his ammo cycles.

“As long as Dormarch needs us to protect him.” Rokusho stated blandly as his power fist and pincer blade tore through the enemies with a destructive precision I kind of wish I had in melee combat.

“You see that countdown timer on screen, that’s exactly what mom is hoping I can circumvent and stop… which is going to be extremely hard to do from here.” I never said it was impossible though, I was cracking data throughout the networks and was happy to work with what Sami left to me in the systems. I just had to finish the plan to deal with the Eaters, because they were starting to break the inner cities defenses through sheer attrition alone and that was quite a horrifying thought. “I can already feel mom flagging pretty badly, the potions can only do so much to hold her together and…”

Something exploded nearby in the building and taking a moment to access some cameras I saw… a cargo plane with the face of a dragon and vertical flight capability? That had to be Sami, nobody loved orange and stars quite that much to have it painted on their bodies. She has obviously hit her ‘Ultimate’ phase evolution, given how long she’s been alive and suppressing her evolution for the sake of her sanity… well I would be the first to congratulate her on becoming a flying gunship currently ascending to assist mom.

Sami would be capable of hitting Mega level should we all survive this, most digital destined troubleshooters are and her current form was quite ridiculously armored even if it looks like it could be easily shot down were it a normal vehicle.

As far as Ultimate forms go… I wondered just exactly how much Merak was going to have to throw at her to keep her, Canard and Krosserdog from helping mom.

Sami current form focuses heavily on armor and mobility, her weaponry was no slouch but not the main apparent focus of the evolution. A multi-machine cannon was her primary mode of attack, for what else would I call something that was spraying several thousand projectiles in the forms of bullets, grenades and ludicrously fast missiles with a ludicrous amount of variation between each projectile all from the same gun?

The bullets flew straight small impacts but numerous and relentless. The grenades arced due to the idea of gravity, generally in the form of high explosive, sticky explosives, shrapnel explosives, napalm explosives and so on. As for the missiles, they could minutely change direction to avoid being shot down.

She was using said chest mounted gun beneath her head to great effect having taken out an entire floor of the building in seconds and she hadn’t even tapped into using the six heavy missile launchers, of which there were three to the left and right of the machine cannon.

The only problem I can see for Sami is that most of her weaponry was all forward facing leaving her back end somewhat defenseless if more heavily armored, I also noted that her tilt rotor propeller blades were insanely flexible. Probably improves flying… or could be used as a melee weapon regardless of how absurd a cargo plane intentionally having a melee attack would sound.

Merak’s aerial forces were already intercepting the incoming Rider Zealots using Flying Magitek Armors, Skein Flyers and the new vehicles called Scouts.

I went back to focusing on my work, hopefully I can surpass the rest of Merak’s internal security… which wasn’t going all too well at the moment with me getting distracted by everything going on.

-Pom, Dolly and Lit (Peppercat DIA, Destroyed in Action) vs. Finished Air Buster Ultimate with Lazy Laser Merak, Continued-

Pom saw Merak’s air forces move to intercept the incoming Skein Flyers from Castle Alexander. She wouldn’t worry about them as they turned into a cloud of dog fighting, she was too busy dodging lasers, explosives and what had to have been millions of bullets firing from all kinds of odd directions thanks to the ten portals that Merak could generate.

Merak knew how to use them quite efficiently for all the laziness he portrays in getting a machine to do all the fighting for him while he slacks off. Portals appeared and disappeared quickly flickering in and out of existence and Pom was incapable of doing anything but dodge or block.

Dolly could move away from Pom, but that would mean leaving the ewe without a secondary form of defense since Peppercat lost her body trying to protect Pom with Dolly.

Lit was taking his sweet time with building up for another drone destroying attack.

“Is this the best you got, is two lost hands all the trouble you brought, you should seriously consider running now~.” Merak was obviously just toying with his opponent now, like a cat playing with a mouse battering Pom and Dolly about the arena with explosions.

“Which is why you should pay attention to your back, since we’re now going on the attack, let’s see you take on more of our pack~!” The two on the roof looked up as a large vehicle with a dragon shaped head rose up and the voice coming from it was the familiar voice of the Puckworld Duck, Canard’s team finally showed up and not in the way Pom expected. Considering the stairs to the roof were destroyed by all the bombardments, this was the best possible turnout for Sami’s current form and very much appreciated in the given situation. “If you think you’ve already won, then we’re clearly not quite done, so Sami show him how much you can do~!”

The barrier drones were hit with a solid wall of projectiles coming from Sami’s gun as she hovered and, the drone didn’t last seconds under the onslaught of explosions, piercing bullets and a random shotgun spray among all the strange expulsions coming from the multi-machine cannon Sami was equipped with.

Pom mentally likened it to Sami firing her rifle, bazooka and throwing grenades all at the same time with an excessive amount of power behind them.

“Well what a surprise this is, my drones I’ll surely miss, that surprise attack is still a little fish~!” Merak retorted and was about to turn the Air Busters chest bound laser cannon on the flying support, then beam was interrupt from charging as he redirected a lot of his projectile fire onto Sami while ignoring Pom and Dolly for the moment.

“Hey little buddy stop that attack, hit him in the lower back, then we’ll see who among us should be talking smack~!” The barrier was down and Dolly decided to get Lit involved, the little bug landed on the lower torso and then blasted it with as much lightning as he could output which was quite a lot.

The jets all along the Air Busters lower torso immediately faltered and it started to fall. It had steered itself to crash into the roof of the tower and cratered the top of the roof to fill a small portion of it with water.

Sami was about to use her gun to start attacking the Air Buster directly when several Manufactured helicopters showed up firing missiles and distracted her from attacking Merak, she shot down the missiles and managed to dodge some bending lasers from the fallen machine. She started a fight with the two manufactured as Pom took advantage of the downed Air Buster to launch some attacks into it.

Pom rapidly jammed her spear into the right arm of the Air Buster, trying to do some damage and was slowly succeeding to punctured the heavy armor. She knew it was not from her own efforts that was doing the damage, but because the paralance was just that powerful. Also she wanted to try and destroy one of the lower arms as Merak might detach and enlarged them too, instead of going for something more easily damaged like the machine cannons.

Dolly was the attacking the machine cannons and the short range artillery bomb hatch as she lightly dented the pipes sticking out of the lower torso, her ability to add momentum to her strikes was quite helpful in dealing damage her small frame normally wouldn’t be capable of as she repeatedly whipped her board around in a series of wild and rabid strikes between throwing the stone bone.

The Air Buster still definitely combat viable if it was still firing the curving orange laser beams into the air after Sami, who was avoiding them and firing back missiles from the left and right side of her machine cannon.

A small round shape fired from Sami’s side and something exploded and one of the flak cannons on the Air Busters back took quite a bit of damage and looked to have become inoperable. Canard and Krosserdog were both attacking the Air Buster too, from inside Sami when she could give them time to do so from her frantic aerial fight.

Moon Cell Watchers flooding into the air around the rooftop arena, alongside several more manufactured helicopters that were flying better than Sami was. Given it was Sami’s first time being a living transport she could be forgiven for not having a hang of all of her capabilities yet. Rider Zealots could be seen lending their shields and Skein Flyer weapons in assistance, the Magitek Armor using Zealots were slower and dealing with the faster enemies.

Starting to move, the Air Buster lifted itself up using its two lower arms and pulled the jets of its lower torso in and retreaded its lower half with the hovering belt again to go back into hovering mode. It blasted fire from its right hand forcing Pom to back off and then lashed out at Dolly forcing her out of the way of flames that were redirected back at her from another portal in an increasing amount until she managed to get back to Pom who blocked a powerful stream of incoming flames with the paralance.

“I know this might not mean much to you, but Baa-Ram-Ewe, I plan on taking you down too~!” Pom stated as the machine was focused on her once again, she was quite upset that Merak tried to torch Dolly and she was about to let him know she wasn’t letting him get away into the air again if the Air Buster could fly… because she would actually go after it if it did.

“Oh wow so scary, I’ll make you more wary, your situation gets more hairy~!” Merak launched the two lower mechanical hand into portals and now the two large flying mechanical hands for Pom to deal with and she didn’t have any way to deal with them and avoid Merak’s barrage of constant fire at the same time. “I’m going to box you in, then fire my laser for the win, for this beam will rend~!”

The enlarge mechanical hands slapped down and tried to grab at Pom as she dodged and hopped they fired lasers from their fingers, flesh burnt and cooked as Pom tried to stay ahead of both of them. While Pom was trying to not die the Air Buster hovered back towards one of the edges and started charging up its chest beam.

“Here I am dodging to the left and to the right, this is more of a massacre and not so much a fight, we’re down a friend and I’ll make up for her plight, because by the end of this I’ll hopefully be alright~!” Pom growled as she tapped dance around a flaming flying right fist punch that spewed flames in her direction lighting her wool on fire, it was quickly snuffed out as she rolled under the left hand trying to grasp her in a crushing grip. Dolly blocked hundreds of machine cannon rounds flying at Pom from the side as she deflected a missle up into the air with the tip of the paralance and kicked it towards the Air Buster. “I need to come to terms with the beast in my heart, because I’m going to very well still do my part, so this I scream to you, awwaaarooooooo~!”

Pom’s eyes started glowing gold and red as her body shifted into a more canine like nature with a quick grace, it had been about more than twenty four hours and lemming was on the menu. Her wool was now deflecting missiles as she attacked the right hand and dodged away from a back hand slap, then rolled to the side when the left hand tried to come down on top of her, it instead became impaled all the way through by the paralance left sitting balanced on the ground with its tip to the sky as Pom dodged away and started spitting bark blasts at the hand to damage it.

The left hand was a bit lethargic to act after taking the paralance through its internal mechanisms, but the right had no such problem and force Pom to back off and she used her wool to maneuver away from the spray of several lasers that narrowly missed her.

Dolly for her part was still attacking the main armless torso, which wasn’t going as well as one would expect when it still had working machine cannons, bending lasers, split lasers, redirected missiles and the small bomb artillery. She hadn’t stopped moving for even a second and was using her flow-motion ability to avoid what would be a quick death, her body having been clipped several times by the machine cannon fire whenever it took it’s time off from harassing an equally busy Pom and she couldn’t get her board into the path of the projectiles in time. Her helmet also saved her from being directly taken down with a powerful projectile shot to the head numerous times when her dodging wasn’t as good as it could be.

Several misty wolves of Pom’s fighting spirit started appearing and while they weren’t doing much too actually damage the Air Buster, they were at the least distracting it from firing on Pom. The flying mechanical hands were having a much harder time keeping up with Pom as the ability to lock onto her location became distorted with the movements of the various wolves around her.

The unfortunate problem with using the paralance as a nail was that Pom now had to get it back and getting on top of the hand to grab it was going to be hard to do while it was trying to kill her. She definitely did not want to jump into the palm of the thing that fired lasers from its fingers.

Merak was angry that he dropped his game console in the crash of the Air Buster hitting the roof, now had a hundred percent of his attention on Pom, Dolly and all the others. A lazy genius was one thing, but am incessantly mad and really angry genius was another thing entirely. The guy was now actively plotting the perfect Lazy Laser to end Pom as she dodged around in the strange mist that the rain was forming around her and the other misty wolves that showed up, the beams and bullets didn’t affect those wolves, but they could affect the hand or the Air Buster itself for minimal damage.

Minimal was still far too much for Merak’s ire right now and he considered the fact that Pom dropped her lance to damage the left flying mechanical hand of the Air Buster. A grin crossed the genius’s face as his mind came up with the perfect placement for the ewe to be before being blasted by a diffusion beam.

The left flying mechanical hand retreated and the right moved forward to take the lead on attack Pom who was successfully using the rain and the mist born wolves she created to avoid attacks. The left hand kept firing lasers in her general vicinity even if it couldn’t plot her exact location and her movements were all but unreadable.

“Fou-fou-fou, fou-fou-fou, fou-fou fou-fou-fou-fou-fou~!” Even when singing Fou had yet to say anything else other than what became his namesake as he clambered up onto the roof, having climbed all the way up the side of the building.

Fou attacked the right flying mechanical hand from behind before taking a swipe at here he thought Pom was, he avoided it trying to turn and crush him he and attacked it viciously with his claws.

“I’d be happy to never see you again, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be a friend, don’t you have someone else to bother to the end~?”” Pom asked as she leapt for the paralance impaled left hand and was quickly smacked out the air by a sudden slap from the right that sent her tumbling across the rooftop. She used her wool to catch herself and slide around a several beams firing from the fingers of the mechanical hand. “We’re kind of in the middle of something, we don’t have time for confronting, can’t even listen to your grunting~!”

“Why are we still singing~?” Dolly sang as she blocked a number of machine cannon rounds for Pom, they both took as much cover as they could get behind the board and the Dalmatian waited for a Potion from Pom to deal with the bleeding that was making her lightheaded. Thankfully Dolly wasn’t experiencing any broken bones and most of her wounds were flesh based, she grabbed the potion Pom hoofed her way in a paw as they both separated when a portal opened trying to hit them from the side or behind. “Makes it hard to do any thinking, this constant onslaught is stinging~!”

Then Dolly chugged another potion, she was wondering how she didn’t need to use the bathroom after drinking so much. Pom wasn’t going to say that was the last potion and that if they had anymore injuries she’d be relying on the one reviver seed she still had.

Fou was making an impressive nuisance of himself, being quite strong even if he couldn’t compare himself to something that wasn’t alive and trying to compare himself to the living being inside the armless torsos didn’t work in the slightest. Whatever was inside it felt too weak to bother comparing to, but the machine itself was quite a threat. He was currently on top of and tearing into the armor of the flying right mechanical hand with his claws.

Pom, Dolly and the spirit wolves tried to keep moving while under fire as in the background a helicopter was blasted by Sami the Cargodramon and went crashing towards the rooftop that used to be a landing pad.

Pom, Dolly, the flying mechanical hands and the Air Buster all avoided the helicopter, Fou just caught and broke the flaming wreckage in half with his bare claws and sent both halves of it sailing off the side of the building.

Pom and Dolly still had to keep avoiding the constant projectile fire coming from the upper and lower torso of the Air Buster, while Fou proceeded to attack the right mechanical flying fist immediately afterwards.

While Fou was destroying portions of the fingers where the laser came from on said fist that was having trouble with him, the left fist snuck up behind him and grabbed him from behind at the waist and lift his struggling form into the air.

The right mechanical hand clenched itself into a fist and started building up energy at its back and when Fou just about got himself free, he was tossed upwards and the right fist completely slammed into his body with wet crunching noise and sent him flailing away.

Pom figured Fou would survive this, be in a bit of pain, but he would survive it all the same and was thankfully not sent flying in the direction of the Eaters… said Eaters were much more visible now and were almost done breaking through the defenses into the inner city. No, instead Fou was sent flying in the direction where the Bombs were slowly getting their volatilely exploding bodies into the upper city from below.

Even if it was raining, most of the city lower and upper were on fire and the rain wasn’t putting any of those fires out.

“Now that that nuisance is gone, I find our fight long out drawn, let me show you my ‘Lazy Laser’ brawn~!” Merak had the left hand move close to Pom and she tried to leap at it and started maneuvering her through trying to retrieve the paralance sticking out of the back of the fist. He was keeping it out of Pom’s grasp and Dolly was trying to fend off the right fist.

Nine portals opened up around the roof and a calculating look entered Merak’s eyes from inside the Air Buster.

Pom managed to grapple the pointed top of the paralance with her wire wool, but couldn’t pull it out or manipulate it to spike outward without touching it with her bare hooves. So she tried to yank herself to it and then the entire left flying mechanical hand decided to start rolling in the air and smashed Pom into the ground and then quickly moved out of the way.

Only for a bolt of lightning to strike the left hand not too long after Pom let go after impacting the roof, probably directed by Lit still hiding somewhere on the Air Buster.

The Air Buster immediately tried to cleanse itself with flames covering its whole body, lower hovercraft torso, strange spinning midsection and the handless upper torso with the upper arms acting as shoulder cannons for the split lasers. All it did was make a large amount of steam for a few seconds from the rain, there was no sound of pained squeaking and it was unknown where Lit was.

Merak proceeded to fire the diffusion beam precisely into one of the portals around the arena at a specific angle as Pom and Dolly wondered why the large mechanical hands backed off. They both watched as Merak fired at one of the portals surround them.

From above the beam entered the portal and crisscrossed at various angles itself as it created a nine pointed star surrounding Pom and Dolly forcing them towards the center of the rooftop arena. One last huge portal opened up above them and a massive beam started falling towards them

Dolly’s skateboard wasn’t going to block this attack, there was simply too much energy to do so. Even then Dolly still tried some form of defense as to mitigate the incoming massive attack as she clambered up Pom’s back and held it above their heads.

Something shadowy landed next to Pom and Dolly and then the energy beam collided with the roof and a blast wave rocked the entire roof, but one would expect the amount of raw energy to destroy the roof. Instead it seemed like all the energy was being deflected towards the edges of the roof.

“Sorry we’re late, but it’s great, to finally greet you~!” Said the red canine legendary known by the name of Mash stated pleasantly after she face tank the diffusion beam and seemed perfectly fine afterwards.

“Excaliburs blaze, will rise in these days, it’s time to sunder true~!” Artoria the blue canine legendary came down and much to her surprise Merak managed to block the blazing attack of raw energy using both the large mechanical hands.

“We’re Atoria and Mash, we’ll help in a flash, stop that guy before he does something brash~!” Mash sang pleasantly, Pom was a little confused to see the two and more importantly she noticed that the Artoria as Mash had motioned to was staring at the paralance with something approaching displeasure.

Pom wondered why that was, it was as if Artoria knew exactly what that weapon was, what it could really do and that its very presence riled her up somewhat. She’d ask later as they still had Merak to deal with.

“Am I up to the task, I’m biting off more than I can ask, where the hell did you two even come from?!~” Speaking of the genius boy he flew into the air again, going out of hover mode and entering jet mode while releasing four more barrier drones. Two of said barrier drones protected the enlarge flying mechanical hands that detached from the lower arms, the other two provided a protective barrier for the Air Buster once more.

“Glad you guys didn’t hear my blunder, but now I’ve got to wonder, what I’ll get when I ‘summon thunder’~!” Seeing as they had a moment to breathe thanks to the two that had attacked them before, but were apparently helping now, Dolly clutched at her head and the storm stilled immediately and the raining stopped. The Dalmatians magic immediately bottomed out and she felt more than mental exhaustion afterwards.

A lightning strike hit in front of all of them and Artoria and Mash looked defensive, but stopped when they saw what appeared. Artoria felt something of familiarity towards the figure and Mash was confounded by what was standing with them on the badly damaged rooftop.

Standing there with a brilliantly long beard and dark robes, was an elderly old guy with a large staff held in his right hand mumbling to himself. It was familiar kind of mumbling to Dolly and Pom, given it sounded like he was working on casting a spell.

Pom could hardly believe she would ever meet such a rare and unusual figure as the pterocentaur that just showed up, their race had kind of disappeared from Equestria entirely and were said to be the true lords of lightning. So in that case, Pom could understand that Shiva was an advanced Ice Sprite, where Ifrit was a powerful djinn or fiery lion like beast that could be seen as a demon and this guys…

Silently they learned the pterocentaurs name was Ramuh and just as he told them that, they were given magical skin tight barriers that would lessen the impact of the laser attacks Merak had been constantly spewing at them throughout this fight.

-Others-

Sami was still fighting off Moon Cell Watcher’s, Helicopters and Gunships had been added to the violent fight as she drove her propellers into drilling through several enemies as she past them by. At least she had the assistance of a few Rider Zealots that had made it through the deadly defenses intact. Said defenses were quickly falling to the Eaters and they were threatening to spread to the inner city.

Having already noticed the Air Buster bringing out more barrier drones, Sami wanted to get back into helping Pom and was glad to see that there were several figures standing the roof facing down the Air Buster together. The oddest one out of all of them was the winged centaur.

Inside the tower Quetal, Dazzle and friends finally caught up to Snake and Shine, finding the two supporting Metabee and Rokusho in protecting Dormarch who was neck deep into circumventing the coding and trying to stop the countdown to the entire city entering a meltdown state.

What had Quetal worried was that he hadn’t seen Elise since they left her in the streets.

-Artoria-

… Myrddin? No I must be mistaken, but that beard...

Author's Note

Myrddin has several meanings as a name.

Of many names. Since Merlin has shapeshifting magic this makes some sense.
Madman. Merlin wasn't exactly know for sanity in the things he got involved in.
Wonder man. As a magician this also makes sense.

A lot of curious things come about from the name, but Merlin was noted to be famous for being a shapeshifter or being good with magic.

Now if Fou were around and hadn't been 'handily' punched into next week, would he be able to identify Ramuh as being Myrddin or are they two separate beings?