Day 21.
Pierre the Hercules-Kabuterimon, my first Ultimate Digimon and defeater of the final boss was on the last legs of his little insect life. At the balmy age of 18 days, he was pretty damn well ready to die a living hero's death. Which meant old age unfortunately, because that's how you pass down techniques. Anyways. The heavens had doted well on him and his training had paid off in mass dividends. In battle, he had no equal. But there was one last challenge to overcome. Every 22nd day, there is a tournament held in Beetle Land. It is regarded as the toughest tournament in the game, and only Insectoid Digimon are allowed to compete. Being a giant beetle of death, Pierre was in the running to have one last hurrah before breathing his last.
But there was a problem. Pierre is old as hell. Come the midnight hours before the match, Pierre dies of old age. I glared at the screen. No. I refused to allow him to die on the eve of his greatest triumph and savescummed. I spent the next hour or so trying to finagle a situation where Pierre had just a few last hours of living left. This entailed a desperate fishing trip to get Digiseabass; a life-extending fish that would supply those few necessary hours of life. But I caught the fish before time ran out. But at this late in his life, no amount of fish would sustain him forever. But it would last until he would go to sleep that morning. I position him and I in front of the arena door and wait for evening to arrive.
The minute I'm given back control, I rush the door before the game has any second thoughts about his age and whether the amount of fish ingested with enough. Pierre has entered the tournament. The first two matches are easy enough. They are against two Rookies, ableit, very strong Rookie Digimon. Mercifully, there were no other Hercules-Kabuterimon in attendance because Pierre probably took that slot himself. Instead, his last opponent was a younger, but not necessarially weaker Kabuterimon, his pre-form. In essence, old man Pierre was taking a younger, stronger, and faster version of himself. But this young'un had never met the likes of Pierre.
They clash in a flurry of poisonous claws and bugs of death. Pierre is only just fast enough to keep up with his young foe; their attacks either match each other or his young foe barely gets a shot out. Damage is done. Both parties end up poisoned. Pierre charges up his Finishing Attack first and massive damage to the Kabuterimon. It immediately counters with it's own finishing attack. Both fighters are now on their last legs. Unfortunately, Pierre is injured enough that he can no longer run. This gives his young foe the advantage of initiative. He blasts Pierre's face with fireballs before Pierre can get up close and personal. Things aren't looking good. The fight clock starts to click down. Neither party is wimping out in this match and fainting mid-battle. It's clear that the game clock is going to decide this one based on who dealt the most damage. And with Pierre being so injured, I began to fear. 0 Seconds.
Kabuterimon lurches forward and collapses to the ground. The point screen shows up showing that Pierre had dealt a paltry 300 more damage than his foe. But regardless of how low the margin of victory was, he had done it. The Beetle Cup was claimed by Pierre, Ultimate Digimon, Lord of Insects, and best damn partner of the run.
He immediately perished afterwards. But I shall nary forget him.
Digimon World, on the PS1
I'm playing around with the ideas of going another round and doing a Text/Picture Let's Play of the adventure. There were some pretty epic moments beyond just Pierre. Pierre just happened to be the most recent example.
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