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Death Battle: Lucario vs Renamon

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NOTE: This Death Battle has been done over a year before Screwattack has officially announced it, so be respectful with your opinion, and know that I'm sticking to whatever results I have, regardless of what Screwattack says.

Lucario vs Renamon by vh1660924
Void: All right, the combatants are set, and we set the fanboy-proof barricades. Let's end this debate once and for all.

Temporal: It's time for a MON DEATH BATTLE!!!


A girl with red hair and long denim pants runs across a grass field. Following her is a golden, bipedal fox wearing two purple sleeves and is leaping across the trees. The girl takes out a handheld device from her pocket, and it shows a holographic compass of some sort. The compass points towards south-east, the girl then follows the arrow, not even stopping for a moment.

"Got you," said the girl, "let's go Renamon!" she shouted to the yellow fox. Renamon nods and lands near Rika, deciding to run alongside her just rather than just hide in the branches. Eventually, Rika and Renamon stop at an open field, surrounded by trees in a large circle. Renamon turned her gaze and saw a large metallic dinosaur stomping across the field. Rika looks over her Digivice and analyzes it.

"MetalTyrannomon. Ultimate-Level. Cyborg Digimon. Signature Attack is Giga Destroyer ll."

Rika smirked after she finished analyzing. This is going to be interesting, she thought. She pulls a card at the same time Renamon takes a fighting pose. MetalTyrannomon turns around and notices the duo. Bearing its teeth and claws, the cyborg dinosaur gives out a loud roar and charges at the two. The Digimon Tamer and her partner braced themselves to prepare for the upcoming fight. Just as MetalTyrannomon was about to trample them, a bone flown out of nowhere and tapped it in the head. Groaning in confusion, MetalTyrannomon stopped in its tracks and looks to the direction the bone came from. Also confused, Renamon and Rika turn to see the source of the interruption.

"As always, we're in top form today!" said a cheery, female voice. A girl wearing protective gear appeared while grinding on roller skates. She jumps upward and lands after doing a 360 degree turn in mid-air. Korrina looks at MetalTyrannomon and says one thing, "You look pretty strong, let's do this Lucario!" Soon after she gave out the order, a bipedal blue and black jackal ran through the trees and leaped high into the air.

"Aura Sphere!" shouted Korrina.

Following his trainer's order, Lucario cups his hands together and creates a blue sphere of energy between them. He thrusts his hands outward and the sphere rockets towards MetalTyrannomon. The metal dinosaur got struck by the Aura Sphere, the explosion from the impact made it take a step back. Renamon watches in awe with the scene, "What power..."

Rika on the otherwise seems unamused, "W-what's going on? I called dips on that!" Renamon leaps up into the air and puts her arms in front and throws them outward.

"Diamond Storm!"

A hail of glass-like shrapnels appear in the air and fire upon MetalTyrannomon, hurting the metal monster even more. Feeling overwhelmed, the MetalTyrannomon ran off, disappearing into the forest. "Hey!" shouted Rika, who attempts to run after the dinosaur. But Renamon and lands right in front her and stops her. Avoiding her partner's stare, Rika rolls her eyes and obliged.

"That was so cool!" shouted Korrina, who does a high-five with her Lucario. "That makes it our 105th victory in a row! We're on a roll, Lucario!" Lucario responds with a happy grunt. Renamon and Rika walk up to the two, to which Rika asks "Hey, you back there, what did you think you were doing?" 

Korrina and Lucario looked at Rika with confused looks on their faces. "Uh, we were just doing a battle, I guess." Korrina explained, while scratching the side of her helmet. Lucario stares at Renamon while eating a Sitrus Berry, Renamon looks back with a straight look on her face. Rika looks at Renamon for a second and then looks at her Digivice. The analyze screen shows up, but it says "No Data", Rika raises an eyebrow at this and turns it off.

"Thanks for the help, but we really didn't need it." Korrina and Lucario blinked, Rika continues ranting, "So who are you guys anyway? And what kind of Digimon is that?" she points to Lucario, who in turn points to itself in confusion. Korrina responds, "Oh, him? This isn't a Digimon, he's my friend, Lucario" Lucario smiles and folds its arms with pride "and I'm Korrina, the Shalour Gym Leader. Rika and Renamon don't look impressed, Rika in particular didn't interested with this "Gym" Korrina is talking about. "I've never seen anything that looks quite like this before" commented Renamon, referring to Lucario.

Korrina and Lucario both froze in place and hung their mouths open. "H-how, how is that Pokemon talking!?" she points frantically at Renamon, who maintains a cold expression. "First off, she's not a Pokemon, she's a Digimon," said Rika, resisting the urge to face-palm, "and second of all, can't your partner talk?"

Korrina and Lucario calmed down but are still are bewildered, "Oh, no. Lucario can't talk. Well, maybe a few members of his species can, but not him." Lucario nods and gives out a wordless grunt. Renamon speaks up, "Well, whatever he is, he must bear such great power. Being capable of warding off that MetalTyrannomon..." Korrina rubs her hands, "Well, speaking of which..." to everyone's surprise, Korrina walks up to Renamon and begins to circle around her in excitement, "What kind of species are you? I haven't your kind around here. What special moves do you know? What's your lifestyle like?"

While Renamon is caught off guard with all the questions, Rika face-palms and Lucario sweatdrops in embarrassment. Korrina finally stops asking and ponders to herself, finally giving Renamon time to catch her breath. An idea popped in the blonde's head and she came to a conclusion.

"I know!" every looked at her wide-eyed. "We'll have a battle. My Lucario, vs your Renamon!" she points to Rika, thinking that she's Renamon's trainer, or at least the equivalent to such. Rika responds, "So what your saying is, you pit your four foot mutt, against my Renamon? What's the deal in all this?" she folds her arms. 

"By battling, we'll get to know each other better, and I'll get my 106th victory in a row. Come on, it'll be fun!"

Renamon narrows her eyes, feeling a bit insulted that this fool concluded she's gonna win before the battle even started, "Do you really wish to battle me? You have no knowledge of the creatures I have slain throughout my time." She puts up a claw and points it at Korrina to get her point across. Lucario sees this as a threat and clenches his fists, growling at Renamon. "So it's settled!"

Korrina turns around to face Lucario, "Let's have the next battle of our life!" Lucario happily grunts. 

Soon afterwards, Rika and Renamon stand on one side of the open field. While Korrina and Lucario stand on the other end. Renamon and Lucario leap from their positions and into the battleground, taking a fighting stance. The wind blows hard in this season, plowing across the trees and the grass as the two pairs prepare to battle. 

Which side will win?

FIGHT!



Renamon and Lucario dashed toward each other at the same time. With a yell, both mons threw a punch and collided fists. The force behind the blows canceled each other out. Quickly, Renamon lashes out a roundhouse kick at Lucario's side. The Aura Pokemon winces from the hit, but then he quickly grabbed Renamon's leg and used it to toss her overhead into the ground. Lucario leaps up into the air and attempts a dropkick onto Renamon, but the Digimon quickly rolls out of the way.

Using this small opportunity, Renamon sweep kicks Lucario's legs, knocking him off balance. She then lunged at Lucario, the two wrestled for dominance as they roll across the ground, using every muscle in their body to overpower the other. Lucario came out the winner and had Renamon pinned to the ground. "Power-Up Punch!" ordered Korrina, Lucario's fist glows with orange energy and struck Renamon in the face. After enduring the blow, Renamon puts up her arms to block an incoming barrages of Power-Up Punches.

It might just be her imagination, but with every hit, it feels like Lucario's punches are getting stronger and heavier, dealing more damage to her in the process. "Renamon!" Seeing her partner is in trouble, Rika takes out a card out of her deck and prepares her Digivice. "Alright mutt, no more Ms. Nice girl." Rika slashes the card through the card reader in her Digivice, "Digi-Modify, Armor Activate!"

An object materializes over Renamon's hand, soon revealed to be a pile-bunker in the style of a gauntlet. Lucario stops his assault as he sees Renamon pointing it directly into his face. "Take this!" Renamon yelled. The front of the bunker shoots forward, stopping just an inch away from Lucario's face, and fires a powerful gust of air that blasts the Aura Pokemon off of Renamon.

"Lucario, are you okay!?" shouted Korrina, who looks over at her closest friend and Pokemon. Lucario lies there, rubbing his face and trying to force some air out of his eyes. Renamon, bearing the pile-bunker on her right arm, walks up to him and sneers, "Come on, don't tell me that's the best you can do." Bearing his teeth, Lucario stands up and gives out a snarl. "Lucario, use Power-Up Punch!" shouted Korrina, "Finish this, Renamon!" shouted Rika.

Listening to their respective partners, Lucario and Renamon prepare their fists against one another. Lucario charges up his right fist with energy. Both Pokemon and Digimon dashed forward and collided their fists again, this time Renamon adds up the pile-bunker in addition to her punch. The bunker fires off a blast of air just before hitting Lucario's Power-Up Punch in order to counteract the increased force behind the Pokemon's punch. After a brief stalemate, the resulting collision caused a big explosion, swallowing up both combatants. The force was enough to sent both Lucario and Renamon flying several meters back. Their landing broke by hitting a nearby boulder.

"Renamon!"

"Lucario!"

Rika ran up to Renamon while Korrina ran up to Lucario. Both mons struggled to get up as their trainer/tamer comes to attend their wounds. "I'm okay, Rika" said Renamon. Rika puts her hands on her hips, "Good, 'cause I can't be a good tamer without you." Renamon smirked in response.

"Lucario, are you okay?" Korrina carefully picks up Lucario until he can stand on his own two feet. After dusting himself, Lucario gives out a smirk and a thumbs-up. Lucario does stretches in place while Korrina smiles to herself.

"Hey!" yelled Rika, to Korrina, "I believe we were in the middle of a battle." She pulls out another card while Renamon stands forward, bearing her claws. Lucario and Korrina look at each other for a second and nod, "Alrighty, Lucario let's finish this!" Lucario gives out a affirmative growl.

Rika slashes her card into the card reader, "Digi-Modify, Devil Chip Activate!" Renamon's body begins to glow in white luminescent light. Her strength now increased drastically. Upon seeing this, Korrina decides to get serious. "Let's go, Quick Attack!"

Lucario listens to Korrina and dashes toward Renamon at blinding speed, leaving a white glowing trail behind him. Acting on reflex, Renamon blocks the incoming charge. In return, she shoots her knee up to Lucario's chest, but the Aura Pokemon blocks the hit. Renamon balls up both of her fists and unleashes a barrage of quick punches at Lucario, who dodges them with ease due to Quick Attack's speed. "Force Palm!" shouted Korrina.

Lucario thrusts his hand outward onto Renamon's chest. After a second of delay, the blow created an explosion of energy that blasts Renamon backwards. Renamon recovers in mid-air does a three-point landing. She dashes forward in an attempt to punch Lucario. Korrina gives out another order, "Quick Attack!" Lucario disappears from Renamon's sight and her fist ends up hitting nothing but air. She looks around her and see Lucario racing around her at incredible speeds, speed that she can barely keep up with. 

Desperate, Renamon looks to Rika and asked her, "Rika, I need a way to keep up with him!"



"Got it!" Rika pulls out another card from her pocket. "Digi-Modify, Hyperspeed Activate!" Renamon feels her body vibrate at intense speeds, signifying her the card is in effect. Lucario runs toward Renamon behind her and lashes out a punch. To his surprise, Renamon easily moves out of the way by side-stepping. "Spin Kick!" Renamon uses the momentum to deliver a powerful roundhouse kick onto the back of Lucario's head. The blow was so strong that Lucario's face hit the ground like a 2-ton rock. 

Renamon leaps into the air and unleashes her signature attack, "Diamond Storm!" The first few wave of shards hit Lucario square on his back. The Aura Pokemon screeches in pain until he thrusts his hand to create a barrier made of Aura. The Diamond Storm shatter upon impact with the shield, not one making even a inch close to getting past Lucario's barrier. After Renamon finished her attack, Lucario let down the barrier and jumped back to his feet.

Korrina thinks to herself and comes up with a strategy, "Lucario, Swords Dance!" A ring of swords appear around Lucario as he powers up with a orange aura. His attack now is increased by 100%. "Now, use Metal Claw!"

Lucario listened to Korrina and creates three claws of steel over each of his hands. Lucario runs up to Renamon and lashes out one claw at her, Renamon leaps over Lucario, avoiding the claw. Not allowing himself to be outdone, Lucario twirls around and swings another claw at Renamon. The golden fox only avoids the hit by a hair's width. Using her superior speed and agility, Renamon continuously dodges each of Lucario's claw slashes, sometimes throwing a kick or jab in between. Rika pulls out another card, this time with the picture of a green, mantis-like creature. "Alright, two can play that game."

"Digi-Modify, Snimon: Twin Sickles Activate!"

Snimon's attack gets downloaded into Renamon, and she developed two large sickles in place of her hands. Renamon blocks one of Lucario's claws with one of her sickles, "Twin Sickle!" She slashes her other sickle upward and Lucario jumps back trying to avoid the hit. However, Renamon's real intention was shooting out a pink-colored crescent beam of energy from her sickle which hits Lucario dead-center. Lucario screams in pain as he gets sent flying by the energy wave, and gets slammed into a tree.

Korrina gasped upon seeing this, "Lucario, get up! Use Bone Rush!" Lucario forces himself off the ground and creates two bone-constructs in each of his hands. He leaps forward and strikes one of his bones downward onto Renamon, at the same, Renamon swung one of her sickles at Lucario, the two attacks colliding as a result. The two mons exchange a flurry of swift and powerful blows as neither side appears to achieve true dominance into one another. 

"Lucario, Close Combat!"

"Digi-Modify, Crystal Fire Activate!"

Lucario surrounds himself in red aura and lunges at Renamon. Renamon's feet and hands get coated in blue flames and she dashes towards Lucario. "Kosengeki!" Renamon throws a kick at the same time Lucario throws a punch. The hits collided, canceling each other out. Then, with a loud yell, Renamon and Lucario unleash a flurry of lightning-fast punches and kicks onto one another. Disregarding defense, the two go at it while sustaining hits from the other. Despite his earlier power-ups from Swords Dance and Power-Up Punch, Lucario appears to take as much damage as Renamon from the barrage. This is due to one of Lucario's weaknesses, fire. The Crystal Fire card Rika activated imbued Renamon's attacks with fire, unintentionally playing at Lucario's weakness. The tension rises to the air, as both human and mons alike have their hearts beating fast. Who's going to win this struggle?

Having enough, Korrina called for one last order. "Lucario, finish this with Force Palm!" Lucario prepares his right palm to strike Renamon. Also in desperation, Rika commands her Digimon to end this, "Renamon, now!" Renamon's whole body becomes engulfed in blue flames. She concentrates all of her power into one punch, "Power...PAW!!!" Both mons unleash their last attacks, fist meets palm, Fighting vs Fire. The two attacks remain in a stalemate of equal force, not willing to give in. Lucario grits his teeth as he tries to endure the feeling of his hand being burned by Renamon. Renamon meanwhile, tries to draw out every ounce of strength she has left in her body. Finally, after several seconds, a massive explosion happened, sending both Lucario and Renamon flying.

(music stops)

They impact the ground, seemingly unconscious. Both Korrina and Rika look on with shock, unable to comprehend what happened. "L-Lucario..." said Korrina, she stands there, watching the dearest friend she had fighting till he can no longer stand. "R-Renamon..." said Rika, she watches as the friend she almost lost again lies on the ground. Before calling quits to the match, both trainer/tamer caught something in the corner of their eye. Lucario gives out a weak growl, and slowly pushes himself off the ground. Renamon digs her claws into the dirt, bearing her fangs, as a sign she's still willing to fight.

"Lucario!" Korrina runs up to her Pokemon and gives him a big hug to the neck. Lucario blushes in return with a smile.

"Renamon!" Rika runs up to Renamon, putting her hand over her shoulder. Renamon looks over to her Tamer and smiles, "It is okay, I'm alright, Rika." Rika nods. She pulls out another card from her pocket, and holds it up for Renamon to see. Renamon looks at the card and gasps, "Rika, this is-"

"Renamon, let's finish match and go home." She said with a genuine smile, Renamon nods. Getting up to her feet, Rika faces Korrina, "Hey, you!" Korrina stops playing with Lucario and looks at Rika. Rika continues, "I admit, I was impressed with how your Pokermon, whatever, is this strong. However," she holds up the card for Korrina to see, "now I'm through with playing games." Rika prepares the card by placing it dangerously close to her Digivice, "Let's go, Renamon!"

Renamon quickly gets up to her feet and gives out an assertive "Right!" Smiling, Rika slashes the card.

"Digi-Modify, Digivolution Activate!"



DIGIVOLUTION!

A sphere of digital energy surrounds Renamon, obscuring everyone's view of her. Renamon feels her wounds disappearing as power rises within her being. "Renamon, Digivolve to...!" The digital sphere explodes, revealing not Renamon, but a nine-tailed fox with same fur as Renamon. She has a scarf over her neck and a yin-yang symbol embed into her forehead and the top of each of her legs. The new entity reveals herself in just one word, "Kyubimon!"

While Lucario looks on with complete shock, Korrina looks with absolute awe over her face, "Ah, oh my gosh! That's so cool! Let me guess, that's her evolved form, right!?" Rika laughed to herself for a second before answering, "Ah, no. This is digivolution, not evolution, big difference. Now, let's see who's canine has the bigger bite." Kyubimon jumps forward, ready to face Lucario and finish this battle, once and for all. Korrina looks at Lucario, and sees he has a determined look on his face. "You ready Lucario?" she asked her Pokemon. Lucario nods, Korrina smiles and commands him, "Lucario...Aura Sphere!" 

With a roar, Lucario gets up to his feet and gathers up Aura energy in between his hands, and fires it outward at Kyubimon. Kyubimon casually dodges the sphere and performs her own attack, "Dragon Wheel!" She spins in mid-air, covered in blue flames. Eventually, the flames form into a shape of a dragon, staring down at the frightened Lucario. The dragon flies forward onto the Aura Pokemon, attempting to burn him to cinders. Korrina stares in awe at the attack, watching it racing towards her and her Pokemon. Out of concern for his trainer, Lucario pushes Korrina out of the way, saving her life. However, in turn, Lucario himself gets struck by the full force of the attack, his screams haunt Korrina as he gets sent flying into the nearby lake. 

SPLASH

When he opened his eyes, Lucario quickly finds himself submerged underneath water, the flames of Kyubimon's attack have been put out, but the burns he sustained from protecting Korrina still stung him. Despite his watery death being apparent, Lucario smiles, knowing that at least he allowed Korrina to live. He'll never forget all those times him and her have played and battle together. He especially liked the part where they met Ash and his friends.

Back to the surface, Korrina runs up to the lake Lucario fell in, "Lucario!!" she shouted, hoping to get an answer from her Pokemon. Suddenly, the Aura Sphere that Lucario fired earlier flew itself right back, nailing an unsuspecting Kyubimon in the back. "Kyubimon!" Rika runs up to her partner as he fell to the ground. "Are you okay?"

"I'll live, Rika. That attack just now, it was the same one he used against MetalTyrannomon." Kyubimon said, getting herself back up to her feet. Rika and Kyubimon look on to see a moping Korrina sitting near the lake where Lucario had fell. Feeling a bit sympathetic, Rika asked her opponent, "Hey, do you need our help?" Getting up from her sitting position, Korrina softly said one "No, no I don't need your help, thank you." Rika and Kyubimon look on with confusion. Tightening her left glove, which contains her Key Stone, Korrina declares to Rika and Kyubimon, "No matter the kind of opponents me and Lucario face..." Rika and Kyubimon listen closely "we'll never turn our backs away! We'll continue battling until the very end. Isn't that right, Lucario?" she said, her last sentence directed towards her Lucario underneath the lake. 

Rika raises an eyebrow, "What's she gawking about?" she asked Kyubimon, who, if she can still stand, shrugged her shoulders. "She does know he's underneath the water, right?" Kyubimon decides to answer for her, "Well sometimes, friends hold each other dear to the bitter end. Guilmon and Takato have taught us that." Rika initially stared at her, surprised with her philosophical answer, before nodding to herself. "I guess, or maybe she's just being delusional."

Korrina cups two fingers around her Key Stone, "Lucario! We'll keep fighting even if it kills us!" Several strings of energy spill out of her Key Stone, all of which enter the lake Lucario is in. Still submerged, Lucario's Mega Stone begins to react. Feeling the power of further evolution, Lucario's eyes snap open. Korrina shouts out three major words, "Lucario, Mega Evolve!"



Energy poured out of Korrina's Key Stone, the light of which was so bright that Rika and Kyubimon had to shield their eyes to keep themselves from being blind. Lucario's Mega Stone now radiates with rainbow light, he can feel incredible energy entering his body as his physical begins to transform. His strength now back, Lucario swims his way back into the surface.

After his transformation is complete, an explosion of energy caused the water to jet upward and make an opening for Lucario to leap out of. Rika and Kyubimon look at the scene in total awe, "You got to be kidding me" said Rika.  Kyubimon didn't seem much less awed, "Such...power!"

The new form of Lucario lands safely onto the ground. His new, powerful form is finally seen in full view. The appendages on his head now have become much larger and with red-colored tips. The black patterns of his body have become more spread and connected through his body. Spikes have grown on his paws and feet and two smaller spikes appear next to the larger one on his chest, making his appearance more intimidating looking. The fellow fur of his torso has now grown the extend that some hanging in the backside resembles that of a jacket flowing along the wind. 

Lucario opens his eyes and gives out a powerful roar, his Aura sending waves of force over everywhere around him. Rika and Kyubimon brace themselves as they feel the waves pushing them like a gust of wind. Even Korrina herself has difficulty anchoring herself without falling over. Lucario stops and gazes at Rika and Kyubimon with his crimson-colored eyes. Mega Lucario, has arrived.

"Woohoo! I'd knew you'd do it Lucario!" shouted Korrina. "I'd knew you'd be able to get yourself out when you Mega Evolve!" Mega Lucario gives out a goofy smile and rubs the back of his head. Rika and Kyubimon, on the other hand, just stand in shock. They were trying to wrap their heads around the scene.

"W-what is that?" asked Rika.

"He digivolved!" cried Kyubimon. Didn't Korrina say that Lucario wasn't a Digimon?

Korrina heard what Kyubimon said and corrects her, "Wh-no! This is Mega Evolution!" she points at Mega Lucario. Rika raises her eyebrow, "Mega Evolution?"

"Yeah, Mega Evolution! It's where a Pokemon who's fully evolved evolves again to a stronger form. It's done by Pokemon and Trainer having a strong bond with one another." She shows her Key Stone to emphasize her point. Rika and Kyubimon sweat drop upon hearing her.

"Mega Evolution", said Kyubimon "that sounds...similar to when a Digimon reaches their Mega Form."

Rika looks unamused, "Wow, what a rip-off." She snarks, Pokemon becoming Mega to her sounds a lot like Digimon going Mega. That is a rip-off.

Korrina gives an offended look, "It is not! Let's go Mega Lucario, Copycat!" Mega Lucario's body begins to glow and he jumps into the air. He spins in mid-air just like Kyubimon had and uses her Dragon Wheel move. The fiery beast lunges toward Kyubimon, bearing its "fangs". Rika and Kyubimon narrowly dodged the attack, where it instead scorches the grass they were on instead of them. "How'd you like your own attack being used against you?" Korrina sneered.

Rika grit her teeth and called out to Kyubimon, "Kyubimon, finish him!" Kyubimon listens and holds up her nine tails, each generating a white ball of fire above each tip. "Fox Tail Inferno!" She fires them as nine individual projectiles. Korrina knew the attack would be super-effective on Lucario, so she wants him to avoid it, "Lucario, Extreme Speed!"

At the highest speed he could possibly move, Mega Lucario dashes across the battlefield, evading each and every one of Kyubimon's Fox Tail Infernos. Kyubimon herself looks in shock at this scene. With a big grin plastered on her face, Korrina convinced herself that victory is assured with this next move.

"Lucario, Force Palm!" Mega Lucario stops just right in front of Kyubimon to deliver a powerful arm thrust at her. Kyubimon gets knocked off her feet and get sent flying. "Kyubimon!" shouted Rika, suddenly pain started to envelop within her. She grabs her forehead in pain. What's happening?, she thought to herself.

"Bone Rush!" Mega Lucario dashes behind the flying Kyubimon and uses Bone Rush to smack her into the air. Rika screamed in pain of the feeling her back being hit. 

"Now, Flash Cannon!" Mega Lucario gathers light energy into his hands and fires it, Kamehameha-style, straight at Kyubimon. A large amount of smoke appeared after the attack impacted. Rika couldn't even scream, instead she fell over from the sheer pain of the assault. Deep within the smoke, Renamon, now in her Rookie form again, fells to the ground. Appearing to be lifeless, Mega Lucario walks near her and senses her Aura. Korrina feels concerned for her opponents and asked Lucario, "Hey, are they okay?" After finishing, Lucario looks at her and nods. Korrina giggles and rubs her helmet, "Well I'm glad."

Unbeknownst to them, Rika lies on the ground, shuffling the thoughts and visions that appear in her head.




Rika's Mind

"Hello!" she called out, apparently trapped in a dark, seemingly endless void of nowhere. "Can somebody tell me where I am!?" Suddenly, Rika hears the sound of moaning, she stays quiet and listens closely. The voice of the moan sounds quite familiar. After a few seconds, she finally hears words.

"Rika...help me..." Rika's eyes widen, she would recognized that voice anywhere.

"Renamon!" As fast as she could, Rika dashes to the source of Renamon's voice. With all her effort, her legs carry her as fast as they could so she can see her partner. She wanted to know if Renamon was okay.

"Rika...where are you...?" said Renamon's voice again. She sounds like she is weakening.

"I'm coming, Renamon!" Eventually, Rika stopped in her tracks. The being in front of her is Renamon, standing alone on a pedestal 3-feet high. "Rika...where...?" she says. She was closing her fists tightly, her eyes squeezed shut, not being able to see anything.

"Renamon, I'm here!"

Upon hearing her voice, Renamon opened her eyes and sees her partner. "Rika!" she exclaimed, this time with a voice with a shred of life. Rika smiles at her partner, "Renamon, you're okay." Renamon smiles back for a second before looking down in shame. "What's wrong Renamon?" asked Rika, concerned for her partner again. 

Renamon speaks up, "Rika, I have failed you." Rika shakes her head, "No, you haven't failed me Renamon! You never would."

Renamon retains her expression, "When I first met you Rika, you and I both wanted something in common. I wanted to become the ultimate Digimon, while you wished to become the ultimate Digimon Tamer. But I see, I am unfit to fulfill my role in the end."

Rika couldn't believe what she was hearing. Is Renamon being delusional or something? "Did you hit your head!? That's over, we're through with becoming the strongest. Ever since that time we...I saw what IceDevimon did to those poor Digimon. Besides, is it even worth it to become strong?" Renamon turns and now has her back to her. She folds her arms, still being adamant with her reason, "Well, because I no longer wish to be the strongest, we are about to die in that battle with that girl and her Lucario."

Rika puts her fist down on her hand, now it makes sense. Renamon wants to become the strongest so that they wouldn't be in this situation. Gathering up all her nerves, Rika gives out her biggest speech to Renamon. "Well I'll tell you what!" Renamon turns around and looked at her tamer. "Even if you're not strong, even if you're not fast, even if you were just an In-Training Digimon, you're still my friend Renamon." Renamon's eyes widen, does Rika really care about her that much? "Even if the world dies, even if everything were to not go in out way, we are pals. I can't believe I'm preaching these stuff like goggle-head does, but it's true! Digimon aren't tools for battle, they are our friends!" Renamon's fist become unclenched, her morale is starting to go back to her. "Remember when we couldn't have you Digivolve, no matter how many Digimon we download into you? I couldn't even have you become Kyubimon until our bond got stronger."

Rika looks at her clenched fist, remembering all the past times she had with Renamon and the others. "When we became Sakuyamon, I felt warmth. I felt strength, power beyond what I could imagine. And power you alone couldn't have gotten. Neither of us could've been that strong, without each other." 

Renamon stands there completely blown away, her cynicism now down the drain from Rika's words. Renamon would never imagine Rika having words of encouragement this good. Regaining her composure, Renamon closes her eyes and folds her arms, pondering to herself. Rika sweat drops as see stares at her silent partner, I sure hope I got through. Cause if I didn't, then I just made up that stupid preach for nothing.

After what seemed like a minute of waiting, Renamon opens her eyes and made her decision. "Rika," she said to her partner, Rika listens what Renamon has to say very closely, "let's become Sakuyamon. Korrina said that Lucario can Mega Evolve because of the bond between the two of them. How about we show them the power of our bond?" 

Rika smiled, she admit it, it does sound like a decent plan. "Well, that's sound a plan." She gives out her hand to Renamon, who in turns grabs with her own hand. The two then share a friendly hand-shake.


Reality

Rika's eyes shot open, and she immediately forces herself off the ground. She looks around her surroundings till she sees Korrina and Mega Lucario examining Renamon. Gathering her strength, Rika limply walks forward to where Renamon is, Digivice in hand. "Renamon..." she whispered to herself.

Mega Lucario notices Rika and gives a grunt at her. Korrina notices and looks at the direction Lucario is looking at. She was surprised it was Rika, who's walking very slowly to where they are. "Oh, you're awake." Korrina walks up to Rika and tries to converse with her, "Listen, we gotta call quits to this match so that we can take you both to the Pokemon Center. Wanna go?"

Rika ignores and walks past her, Korrina looked on with confusion, "Hey, are you alright?" Lucario walks up next to her, he can sense Rika's Aura, it tells him that she wishes to heal Renamon. Rika stops for a second and tells the two, "Listen, we gonna continue the battle, so don't call quits yet." She continues walking. Korrina looked at her incredulously, "Are you sure you want to battle? With those injuries?"

Rika simply responded, "Yeah, I am. And you just watch me." Korrina and Lucario look on with awe with how much Rika pushes herself to help Renamon. The scene distinctly reminds Korrina of the bond between her and Lucario, as such she smiled at the young girl's conviction. She turns to Lucario, "You know Lucario, this girl here, I can tell she has a strong bond with her partner. Who knows, it may be as strong as ours." Lucario gives an affirmative grunt.

When she finally reached her, Rika crouches down to Renamon. "Hey, Renamon." Renamon's eyes began to open and she sees Rika right next to her. "Rika" she says. Rika puts up her Digivice and has it facing toward Renamon. A flash of glowing light envelops Renamon, and her injuries are all healed. Renamon instantly sits up and looks at herself in surprise, she then turns to Rika, "Rika, you healed me." Rika just smiled, "Of course, what are friends for?" Upon hearing those words, Renamon smiled back at her partner.

Just as Mega Lucario and Korrina were preparing to leave, Rika stops them. "Hey!" the former two turn to face Rika, carrying Renamon over her shoulder, "How about we finish what we started?" Korrina and Lucario look at each other, "Could we?" asked Korrina. Lucario nods and puts up a fist, readying for a fight. Korrina smiled, "Alright, this battle's a go!" she declared. Rika smirked in response to her agreeing. Renamon speaks to Rika, "Rika, do you remember what we speak off earlier?" Rika nods, "Of course, Renamon. I wouldn't be stupid enough to forget."

Rika looks straight at Korrina, "You said Lucario's Mega Evolution is created by your bond with him. I think it's time," she holds up her Digivice, "for me and Renamon show the power of our bond."

"Oh, really? I like to see." Korrina was genuinely excited to see Rika living up to her claim. "In hindsight, I kinda knew that Kyubimon wasn't your last form. It would be anticlimactic if it was." Rika just smirked, "Trust me, you won'd be disappointed. She and Renamon look at each other and nod. "Ready Renamon?"

"Ready!" shouted Renamon.



BIOMERGE DIGIVOLUTION!

Rika holds up her Digivice, "Biomerge Activate!" she and Renamon are coated in a bubble of digital energy. Inside the bubble, the fusion of her and her Digimon is taking place.

"Renamon, Biomerge too...!"

The digital bubble disappears and in place of Rika and Renamon is a tall, physically fit woman with a curvy figure, dressed in a skintight black suit adorned with golden armor styled after a fox, her long silver hair flows across the wind. In her hand, she wields a spiked staff with many rings connected to a larger ring on it.

The entity reveals herself. "Sakuyamon!" Korrina and Lucario watch in awe of their opponents apparently fusing together. Korrina has stars glittered over her eyes, "That's so amazing, Lucario, we gotta learn how to do that!" Lucario only scratches his head in return.

Sakuyamon tabs her staff on the ground and takes a step, "Enough talk" she talks in both Renamon and Rika's voice simultaneously, "I prefer if I defeat you now." She takes up a fighting stance. Lucario looks to Korrina and nods, Korrina in turn nods back. "Okay, Lucario, Flash Cannon!" Mega Lucario gathers light energy into his hands and fires it outward at Sakuyamon. The attack hits dead-on, creating a lot of smoke in the process, Korrina gets excited, thinking that she had won, "Woohoo! Yes, we did it! Huh!?" 

When the smoke clears, it was revealed that not only has Sakuyamon not even moved an inch, she didn't even have a scratch on her! "Is that the best you got?" she taunted. Korrina and Lucario both appeared shocked, "What? Lucario, Bone Rush!" Mega Lucario creates two bone constructs in his hands and dashes toward Sakuyamon. The Shaman Digimon takes a quick fighting stance. Lucario throws one of his bones downward at her, but Sakuyamon easily deflects the blow with her staff, staggering Lucario. The Aura pokemon recovered and thrusted his other bone at Sakuyamon. Despite it hitting her square in the chest, Renamon's final form didn't even flinch. Using her free hand, Sakuyamon pushes the bone out of the way, leaving Lucario wide open. Sakuyamon kicks Lucario in the chest, of which sent the canine-brawler flying backwards.

Lucario lands near Korrina's feet, grabbing his chest in agonizing pain. Korrina looks on and is shocked with seeing her friend get hurt, "Lucario!" she looks at Sakuyamon, who does a finger gesture that says "come and get me", feeling offended Korrina gives another order to Lucario, "Lucario, Extreme Speed!" Mega Lucario dashes toward Sakuyamon at blinding speeds. Just before crashing into her, Lucario warps behind Sakuyamon and attempts to use Power-Up Punch on her. To Lucario's shock, Sakuyamon casually turns her head, looking at Lucario, sending chills down the Fighting-type Pokemon's spine. Sakuyamon delivers a swift punch to the cheek which sent Lucario flying until he hits a tree. A large swelling appears over the right side of Lucario's face, bloods begins dripping from his mouth. Feeling something loose in his jaws, Lucario spits out a broken tooth on the ground. Seeing the tooth made Lucario have a feeling he thought he'd never have: Fear. Sakuyamon hovers next to Lucario and kicks the Aura Pokemon back to Korrina's feet. "Lucario, Aura Sphere!" Getting back to his feet, Mega Lucario gathers Aura energy and, instead of a single burst, fires an entire volley of Aura Spheres, all aimed at Sakuyamon. 

"Crystal Sphere!" Sakuyamon creates a transparent barrier that easily blocked all of Lucario's Aura Spheres. After shutting down the barrier, Sakuyamon dashes toward Lucario. Lucario barely ducks under Sakuyamon swing her staff at his head, he then counters with a Power-Up Punch directly to the chest. The blow somewhat blown Sakuyamon back, but didn't do any damage. Sakuyamon swings her staff at Lucario again, who managed to block it with Bone Rush. It took literally all the muscles in Lucario's body to hold back the powerful blow of Sakuyamon, who just needed one arm to match Lucario's full body strength. Taking advantage of this, Sakuyamon kicks Lucario's shin, causing a howl of pain to erupt from the jackal. Sakuyamon twirls around and, with the tip of her staff, stabs Lucario in the stomach.

Blood drip down on Sakuyamon's staff, as Lucario has endured what has to the worst pain he ever endured in his life. Years of Pokemon battling is nothing compared to having a large spike piercing through your stomach! Sakuyamon pulled her staff out of Lucario, causing blood to spill out of the Aura Pokemon's guts. Lucario's knees fell to the ground as he attempts to stop the bleeding with his hands, his teeth clenching to deal with the sheer pain of being stabbed. "Lucario!" Korrina runs up to Lucario, horrified with what had transpired.

Sakuyamon flew into the air and prepared a sphere of blue fire, "Fox Drive!" She fires the sphere directly at Lucario. Lucario and Korrina look up just in time to see the ball of flame looming towards them. Korrina hugs Lucario in preparation of certain death. But Lucario isn't having any of that. With every last bit of his strength, Lucario creates a barrier of Aura that shields them both from the attack. Because of Lucario's injury, he can't put anymore power into the shield, but it was still enough to (barely) hold off the attack. 

Sakuyamon sees this and attempts to fix the problem. Flying higher into the air, Sakuyamon dive-bombs down into the barrier Lucario made. She puts her leg out, preparing for one mighty kick. "Flaming Fox!" The element of fire envelops over Sakuyamon's leg as she strikes the shield. Sakuyamon pours out all of her power pour into the kick, hoping to smash through the barrier. 

Unable to handle of force of two powerful attacks at once, Lucario's barrier shattered like glass after the Fox Drive dispersed, and Sakuyamon's fiery foot slams straight into Lucario's torso, breaking almost the canine's entire rib area. Lucario howls in pain at the top of his lungs, unable to bear the excruciating pain as well as contact with the powerful flames surrounding the Mega Digimon's foot.

Mercifully, Sakuyamon leaps off of Lucario, allowing him to rest on the ground, unable to move, unable to run. He had failed Korrina, he thought to himself. Korrina comes over and grabs Lucario by the shoulders, shouting, "Lucario! Please! Please be okay!" Tears form in her eyes as she watches her Pokemon and her friend in so much pain in front of her. Lucario's blood starts spilling all over the place, Korrina cries herself into Lucario's chest knowing what this means. Lucario is dying, and there's nothing she can do about it. The sound of his trainer's tears made Lucario feel sad, almost enough to be compared to the pain of his ribs being shattered. 

"Spirit Strike!" Sakuyamon finally finishes with her signature attack. She summons four fox-like spirits in the colors of blue, yellow, green, and red. Following her mental commands, the spirits rocket toward the helpless Lucario and Korrina. The spirits circle around the two before immediately jumping them. Korrina's screams echo across the entire forest as she and Lucario are being obliterated by the spirits. Because of her being less durable, Korrina gets vaporized first. Lucario's world completely shattered apart upon seeing Korrina die, and worst of all, he just witnessed her screams of agony. Despair feels Lucario as his vision begins to darken, along with his charred body being burned to cinders. 

The battle finally over, Sakuyamon lands feet first on the ground and changes back to Renamon and Rika, both in perfect condition. Renamon smiles at their victory, but when she looked at Rika, she noticed how she isn't smiling, but frowning, as though sadden by their victory. "Rika, what's wrong?"

Rika gazed at her for a sec before shifting her sight to Lucario's charred remains. "It's just... we didn't have to-" Renamon interrupts her. 

"Listen Rika; in this world, you have to do what you must. If you do not possess that will, you will be eradicated sooner or later. It's called Survival of the Fittest, for a reason." 

Rika's mood lightened up for a bit, but she still feels down.

"Rika." Rika turns to Renamon, "Huh?"

"Thank you, for not giving up on me." Renamon said with a sincere smile. A rare thing for her to do. Rika smiled back, "It was no biggy, I mean, what are friends for?"

Renamon nods, "True, I suppose." After a moment of silence, Rika and Renamon share a fist-bump with each other. Suddenly, Rika's Digivice started blaring. She immediately takes it out and the compass shows a wild Digimon in the east direction. With a serious expression, Rika says to Renamon, "Let's go, there's another Digimon running loose!" 

Renamon senses the wild Digimon and nods, "Understood." Renamon picks up Rika so the girl can ride with her. The duo immediately take off the find the Digimon. And delete it.

KO!


Winner's screen: Rika drinks tea at her house, while Renamon lays on the roof.
Loser's screen: A pair of Fearows try to eat Lucario's remains, but end up coughing.




Temporal: Goddamn, that was intense! I just sure hope the Pokemon fanboys would understand.

Void: They probably won't, so let's just explain the results. Ahem, at the start of the fight, base Lucario and Renamon were surprisingly even in terms of physique, with Renamon having a notable speed advantage. However, Lucario has had experience against faster opponents, such as Pikachu and Buizel (enhanced by Swift Swim), meaning he was able to hold his own against Renamon. And because of Rika's Modify cards, the versatility gap between Renamon and Lucario that would have been present was put out of the picture.

Temporal: So the fight is ultimately decided by the key differences between the combatants. While both Lucario and Renamon gain experience by fighting foes, Renamon gets an extra edge by absorbing the data of whatever Digimon she kills, adding their power to her own. And it's implied she and Rika have done this for a very long time.

Void: Well, not that long, probably a few months at best, but still impressive. Another key difference is how the trainers/tamers treat their respective partners. On one hand, Korrina and Lucario are undeniably best friends, and Korrina has even trusted Lucario to be on his own at times. However, at the core, their relationship is still Pokemon and Human which is equivalent to...I wouldn't say slave-

Temporal: Pet. Lucario's a pet to Korrina. Want to know why? Sure, Mega Evolving proves Lucario and Korrina share a very strong bond with each other, but other than that, Lucario is still the one doing all the fighting, while Korrina just sits back and tells him what to do. At least Rika has physically intervened in situations where Renamon was in danger, and allows Renamon to make her own decisions in battle.

Void: Also, Mega Lucario once had his arm injured, and perhaps broken, by Ash's Pikachu, a physically weaker opponent. There's no doubt that Renamon or her Digivolve forms would eventually overpower Lucario.

Temporal: And before you bring up Lucario's Steel-typing giving him defense against Renamon's attacks, that logic just doesn't work. Why? Renamon has defeated Pteramon, when we translated Pteramon's Japanese profile to english, we learn that Pteramon's armor is composed of steel, the exact same material that Lucario is typed as. Oh, and Renamon just straight up killed Pteramon in two attacks. TWO ATTACKS! Goddamn!

Void: Another key difference: Renamon's types don't match up with the type-system in Pokemon, as such none of Lucario's moves will be super-effective against her. The same can't said be for Lucario, though, who's weakness to fire means that pretty much all of Renamon's forms can exploit this since they all have at least one fire attack.

Temporal: Except for Taomon, who even then would probably be too much for Lucario to handle. 

Void: Taomon can keep up with the likes of Rapidmon in battle, who moves near the speed of light, faster than any Pokemon, including Lucario. Since Sakuyamon is portrayed as being no slower, and perhaps faster, than Taomon, this kind of speed can easily be scaled to her. And that's not getting into the power difference between a Mega and an Ultimate.

Temporal: Speaking of Ultimates. MetalGreymon has already established that Ultimate-level Digimon fight on a level on par with nuclear warheads. And Sakuyamon, being a Mega-level Digimon, is leagues above him in power.

Void: And the final key difference: Evolution. Just like Wizard said, Pokemon evolution only improves them bit by bit, the only real improvement comes from their training and experience. Whereas with Digimon, the gap between levels is considerable and incredibly large. And no, Screwattack was not bullshitting when they said that. This reason is exactly how Ash's Pikachu was able to defeat a Raichu, Pikachu's evolved form, at two separate times. It's also the reason how Bulbasaur, a first-stage Grass Pokemon, was able to stalemate with a Meganium, a final-stage Grass Pokemon. Not helped by the fact that Renamon has three evolved forms, whereas Lucario only had one, his Mega Evolution.

Temporal: Mega Evolution may be decent, but it doesn't any heal of Lucario's wounds or injuries, something digivolving does for Renamon. This means Lucario would only get weaker as the fight goes on, whereas Renamon will keep coming back at full strength. (mock whining) Ah, but Void, shouldn't Lucario's Aura have enabled him to avoid all of Renamon's attacks? Neh~!

Void: Well, Lucario's Aura Sensing could probably present a threat to Renamon, if it weren't the fact it's limits have been clearly established several times. Such as how, in the eighth movie, Lucario somehow was snuck up on by a Registeel. Or in Korrina's Gym Battle against Ash, Mega Lucario couldn't even dodge a big huge electric attack coming right at him by the same Pokemon he has defeated twice! And before you bring up that time Lucario stopped a island busting explosion at one point in the anime. That Lucario needed Riley, a master Aura user's, help in order to stop it in the first place, and even then they can only contain the explosion just long enough for them to move it somewhere where it can't hurt anyone. Since it's implied that Korrina's Lucario is not as skilled as using Aura as Riley's Lucario, it is unlikely he can replicate shields of exactly the same strength, even while Mega Evolving. Especially not with all the damage Renamon had inflicted on him throughout the battle, and the fact Korrina cannot use Aura herself.

Temporal: Lucario's only real chance in the fight was to last until Renamon's energy ran out and she reverted back to her rookie form, which is unlikely since Renamon's Digivolve forms usually last for at least a day, and several hours at least, and it's unlikely Lucario's stamina could last him for that long. Looks like Lucario and Korrina just couldn't take the heat.

Void: The winners are Renamon and Rika.

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Winner: Renamon
+ Faster
+ Digivolving heals all of her wounds
+ Sakuyamon simply outclassed Mega Lucario
+ More durable
+ Renamon's bond with Rika, in the end, is stronger than the one Lucario and Korrina have
+ Digimon Evolution is more efficient than Pokemon Evolution
+ Has more destructive power
= Comparable base stats overall
= Modify cards help counter Lucario's versatility
- Initially, was going to be outclassed in raw power by Lucario and especially Mega Lucario
- Had no counters against Aura Sense

Loser: Lucario
+ Mega Lucario trumped Renamon's Rookie and Champion forms
+ Aura Sense could prove useful
+ Has dealt with fast opponents before
= Comparable base stats overall
= Versatility can help counter Renamon's Modify cards
- Aura Sense, his trump card, has shown to be flawed at times
- Has no ways to heal himself, not even with Mega Evolution.
- Mega Lucario is largely outclassed by Sakuyamon
- Far slower
- Has less destructive power
- His bond with Korrina, in the end, isn't as strong as the one between Renamon and Rika
- Pokemon evolution is far less efficient than Digimon evolution
- Weak to Renamon's fire attacks
- Close Combat, Lucario's most powerful move, lowers his defenses, making him more vulnerable for Renamon

Next time on Death Battle

Traitors to everyone they know...

(I long waited the day I can fight you all myself!)

...Masters of deception...

(...If he never came back...)

...Hated by friend and foe alike.
Starscream vs Ryugen Preview by vh1660924

Starscream vs Kamen Rider Ryugen


As per permission from CyberAgent369, this battle goes in honor to the late thetruth40.
Took me long enough to finish this. Let me know in the comments below. So, as it turns out, Renamon's evolution surpassed Lucario's, and she couldn't have done it without Rika. This Death Battle was created by permission from CyberAgent369, in my attempt to write my own version of the Death Battle.

And yes, I'm doing Starscream vs a Kamen Rider character. I got this idea based on someone doing a picture of where Starscream pats Ryugen in the back for being similar to him.
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This is a pretty badass fight!