From midair, Tai saw the powerful-looking Leomon fleeing at top speed.
"Humans! Capture those humans!" Andromon spotted Tai and, completely ignoring Leomon's movements, ordered the Digimon to surround the two human boys.
"Beast King Fist!" After taking a wide detour to get behind Andromon, Leomon actually knocked him off balance with a punch. It failed to leave a wound, though.
"Weakened Super Missile!" As though he had been taunted, Andromon once again pursued Leomon relentlessly. The weakened Super Missiles were only a third the size of the originals, and they could not even shatter rocks. But the fragments on the ground revealed that each weakened Super Missile contained a tiny Black Gear, and Andromon was firing them at more than ten times the rate of his Super Missiles.
Leomon desperately dodged again. After Zheng Fan's one-on-one guidance, and having even reached the level of an Ultimate before, agility was no longer his weakness. Swaying from side to side, Leomon slipped past several Digimon. Those Digimon, their intelligence corroded by darkness, took a barrage of weakened Super Missiles for him in the next instant and died on the spot. Their bodies did not become data energy after death. Instead, they turned into Black Gears and flew toward the summit of Infinite Mountain.
"Leomon, get things under control! Don't let any more Digimon die!" Seeing this, Tai immediately understood where the endless Black Gears had come from. He had to warn Leomon, even if it meant putting his escape aside.
"Duck!" Hearing Joe Kido's voice, Tai lunged forward, feeling a gale sweep over his head. Joe swung in a semicircle around Tai's body and kicked Guardromon. Naturally, Joe's attack had no effect on Guardromon. With a shake of his head, Guardromon sent Joe flying back with terrifying force. But that was exactly