The silvery creature tilted her ears
upwards and she observed her friend move on her sleep, the red haired girl
stood up, her black eyes widdened and sweating all over her pale skin, a cold
sweat, -holy pentium Mizzy, what happened?- the silvery cat asked,
-dragespemon, i have a very bad feeling- the girl answered, the little digimon
looked at the digidestined completely worried, -Mizzy, go to sleep, you will
see how everything will be all right- dragespemon said, Mizzy turned arround,
-i hate this country, why did we have to come? I miss Japan, i miss Taito-
Mizzy said mumbeling, -Taito? You mean Taito Yagami?- dragespemon said, -yes,
he is my friend- Mizzy said, then dragespemon ignored her and went to sleep. A
soft smeel touched the digimon noselaps, she stood up, oppening her purple
eyes, and then woke up the girl, but Mizzy wrapped herself in the covers,
-Mizzy, come on, wake up- the digimon said pushing her slightly, still the girl
refused to wake up, only one solution, the digimon left and came back minutes
after, her mouth slightly swollen, then she spitted the water contained in it
over the girls face, Mizzy flashed up with amazing speed –OW, ITS COLD! – she
yelled, dragespemon only laughed, -not funny- Mizzy said with her eyes
narrowed. The little red haired, who must be in her early 14, rushed torwards
the kitchen, she sat by the table and greeted her mother and father bowing her
head –konnichiwa, mom, konnichiwa dad- she said, the adult red haired that sat
in front of a laptop looked up, he observed the girl and smiled –konnichiwa
Mizzy- he said, the adult brown haired woman placed a plate in front of the
sleepy girl, -konnichiwa Mi-Heyong- the woman said, she turned her amber eyes
torwards the red haired man, and stared right into his black eyes, -Izzy, do
yourself a favor and come here- she comanded, he looked at her, -but Mimi, i
gotta finish this before i go to work- he complained, the woman sighted,
-Koushiro Izumi, over here- she comanded once again, like a general, Izzy
rolled his eyes, closed the laptop and sat by the table.
Mizzy giggeled slightly, she started
nibeling on her pancakes –so mom, did Kenji already leave?- she asked, -yes
Mizzy, he left earlier today, he had an important exam- Mimi answered her
daughter's question, -oh well, good bye family- Izzy said standing up, he took
his laptop and left through the door, Mizzy had that horrible sensation again,
she felt something bad was going to happen. Mizzy walked torwards the window
leaving her pancakes almost intact, she looked at the two great towers that
stood in front of her, -magnificent arquitecture- a voice said behind her,
Mizzy looked and saw dragespemon standing behind her, -yes, thats where my dad
works, in the highest floor on the north tower- Mizzy explained, dragespemon
nodded understandingly, and stared at the colossus.
Izzy went inside the elevator, and after
several minutes he arrived at the top of the building, he moved torwards his
working spot and turned on the computer and his laptop, then conected both
machines with a universal link wire and transfered some archives from one to
another, -ok, just a little bit more, i will take some fresh air meanwhile- he
said and walked torwards the window, he saw a plane flying very low, -boy, that
plane does fly low- he comented to himself, but the plain lowered height per
second, he started sweating as he became aware of what was going to happen, he
looked at the people who walked arround doing their everyday stuff, -everybody
under cover, a plane...IS HEADING RIGHT FOR US- he yelled, everybody looked at
him like if he was crazy, then there was a rumble underneath, and a cloud of
smoke started floating up from the stairs, everybody ran arround frantically
and yelling for help, he rushed torwards his laptop and disconnected it, he took
it and ran at the other side of the building crawling on his four to avoid the
smoke, he opened the window and stared through it at the street, more than 400
metres stood proudly under his feet, he was afraid, but remained calm, -damn,
where is my digidevice when i need it- he comented to himself.
Mizzy stared at a plane flying scaredly
low, she was instantly aware of the metallic bird's destination, the World
Trade Center, and her dad worked there, -dragespemon, we gotta do something-
she comanded, dragespemon nodded, she jumped out of the window an started
digievolving, -dragespemon armordigievolves in...armorarticdragomon from the
sparking wings of knowledge- the big metallic dragon yelled, she flew right
under the window and Mizzy jumped on her back, the creature flew as fast as her
electrifying wings could carry her, although the speed could blind her, Mizzy
openned her eyes wide, atonished at the sight of a second plane crashing
against the second tower, -hurry up armorarticdragomon- Mizzy comanded, the
digimon nodded and flew faster. They were right at the feet of the tower but
instead of going up, the flying dragon landed with a thund, scaring the people
on the streets away, Mizzy looked at her, -what are you doing? My dad is there-
Mizzy yelled, the digimon nodded, -i know, but im going alone, its way too
dangerous- she said, her voice echoing in the golden armor, -no, i will not let
you- Mizzy said hugging him, armorarticdragomon shoved her away, -im going
alone- she said in an angry tone, then flapped her wings and flew up, Mizzy
felt tears stream down her cheeks, disapointed, feeling worthless and unable to
help.
The great creature flew up, hopelessly
avoiding the cloud of smoke from both buildings and the crystals falling over
her armored back, she finally spotted Izzy waving at her, he had seen the
digimon land and expected her to come, armorarticdragomon smiled and flew up
torwards the window, she stood next to it, -Izzy, climb- she commanded, the red
haired genius didnt think twice, he leaped on the dragon's back, and the
creature started flying, she passed between both buildings trying to avoid the
clouds of lethal smoke that arose in the air, Izzy heard a big noise, and he
saw the building at their left collapsing, armorarticdragomon flew as fast as
she could dogging the stones that fell between them, but unluckily one of them
hit the dragon's wing, and she lost the grip, gravity defeating her, she fell,
Izzy held tightly against her neck, and right before they smashed against the
floor, the dragon recovered fly power and flew across the ground, but she
looked up, flew upside down making Izzy fall, and then flew right over him,
protecting with her body, Izzy covered his head as he felt the floor shaking
and his lungs fill with dust, he opened his eyes and looked arround,
armorarticdragomon was dragespemon again, and they were inside a very small
space, inside the rubble of the building.
Mizzy saw her digimon and father get
swallowed by the humongous building, she covered her mouth and ran torwards the
rubble, -DAAAAD, ARMORARTICDRAGOMOOOOON- she yelled, running across the dust,
blinded from tears and dirtyness floating arround her, she ran into a man,
-hey, stop- the man said, -no, sir, leave me, my dad and my friend are trapped
in there- she yelled, -Mizzy, calm down- the man said, at the sound of her name
she looked up and saw a handsome blond man with blue eyes, -Wallace- she said
soflty, -Mizzy, whats wrong?- Wallace asked, -my dad and dragespemon are
trapped inside the building- she yelled getting rid of the grip Wallace arms
formed arround her, -no Mizzy, wait- he yelled holding her hand, the floor
started shaking and they both looked up in time to see the second tower falling
down, Wallace held the girl in his arms and ran trying to outrun the cloud of
dust and the shower of pieces of glass, still getting cut in several places.
Once they were far from the building Mizzy looked back, she couldnt see
anything, just a cloud of dust moving quickly arround Manhatan, -dad,
dragespemon- she said, she looked at Wallace whose forehead was full of blood,
-do you think the will be all right?- she asked, Wallace looked at her, his
eyes stated fear and pain, -i dont know Mizzy- he finally answered, oviously
not to hopefull.
Inside the ruins Izzy tried not to move
much, hoping the walls that formed the little space where he and dragespemon
were would not collapse and squish them, he turned on his laptop and circled
arround a bit until he caught a telephone wave to contact with the outside
world, he searched across the web and saw his son Kenji connected, he wrote:
-Kenji, you gotta run, get help
The young stared at the screen, his eyes
were amber and his hair light brown, he was totally puzzled at the message his
dad send him, and rushed to write.
-Dad? Where are you?
-im inside the WTC
-thats nothing new
-the building has collapsed, me and
dragespemon are trapped under the rubble, you gotta come and get some help
-dad, please hold on, i will be there
in no time
with that the conection was broken, Izzy
hopped it had helped, Kenji ran out of the class without giving any
explanation, the rest of the students ran torwards the PC and read the message,
they could not believe their eyes, the two highest buildings in America had
collapsed, they ran torwards the window and saw the cloud of dust easily
visible from their school, covering Manhattan. Kenji ran across the corridors
at full speed, not stopping for catching a breath, he bashed the doorkeeper and
ran outside, not listening to the ferocious screams of the man. The young 17
year old man ran across the streets, almost getting run over several times, his
bag started moving, so he stopped, opening it and letting the little bug type
digimon come out, -hey Kenji, what is wrong?- the creature asked after his digipal
started his frenetic run again, - we gotta hurry tentomon, my dad is trapped
inside the ruins of the World Trading Center- Kenji explained, tentomon nodded
and flew to his side, -why dont i fly you over? I will be much faster- tentomon
offered Kenji smiled, -good idea tentopal, digievolution- he said, stopping on
his place and pointing at the bug with his digidevice, the red bettle
digievolved into a much bigger bug called kabuterimon, Kenji crawled on his
back and the digimon took off, torwards the ruins of the once momunents and
symbols of power to a great nation.
Under the rubble dragespemon had started
moving from left to right slightly worried, -Izzy, are you sure you wont let me
use my baby beam to get us both out of here?- dragespemon asked, the red haired
man sat there with his knees pressed against his body, he looked at the worried
digimon, -no dragespemon, we dont know how deep we are, a bad move and the
weight of 400 metres could fall on us- Izzy explained calmly, he had wanted to
yell at the digimon, but this would only worsen their actual situation,
dragespemon stared at him understandingly, -maybe you should try contact
someone with the laptop again- she said, Izzy sighted, -unluckily the laptop's
aditional battery broke when the building collapsed on us, and there is none
left, i didnt even have time to tell Kenji our original coordinates- Izzy
explained, dragespemon tilted her head but appeared to understand, she sat next
to Izzy and knew their only hope was wait until someone rescued them.
Kenji and kabuterimon landed inside the
cloud of dust, kenji covered his mouth with a piece of cloth, and coughed
several times before his throat and lungs were slightly accustomed to the dust,
he walked torwards the collapsed building, stepping over the rubble carefully,
trying to keep the chambers inside from collapsing too, -DAD, DRAGESPEMON- he
yelled, his voice echoed in the emptiness of the surrounding space, inside the
rubble dragespemon tilted her ears, she smiled at Izzy ecitedly, -Izzy, did you
hear that?- she told him, Izzy looked at him, -hear what?- he demanded,
dragespemon sighted, -that, it was Kenji, im sure- she said, in a hyperactive
state and about to jump across the diminute place, Izzy's eyes werent too
hopefull –oh dragespemon, as much as we wanted it to be him, is probably
someone trapped in here and yelling for help- he explained, dragespemon's smile
disappeared, -Izzy, have some hope- she told him, Izzy smiled fakely, -i do
dragespemon- he lied. Outside Kenji tried again, he yelled at the top of his
lungs, choking at the effort from the dust, he yelled two more times, walking
arround the rubble, hoping his dad could hear him, the sound waves traveled
weakly across the uniform building, until they finaly reached the chamber where
his dad and his sister's digimon were, -now i heard it dragespemon, it is him-
Izzy said excited, -KENJIIIIII- both of them yelled several times, Kenji heard
the voices and ran torwards the place tripping over the aluminium pieces and
cutting his hands with the glasses, -dad, dragespemon, you guys are all right?-
he yelled, -yes, we are, but get help, we dont really enjoy it here- Izzy
yelled, his voice echoed and Kenji laughed slightly, -dont worry, i will be
right back- Kenji said taking a hold of kabuterimon's claw and flying away.
Mizzy could see a shape in the cloud of
dust, it was a big animal and it flew torwards them, she started to become
excited and hoped it was her father and digimon, but her hopes went away when
kabuterimon landed in front of her, Kenji hopped down and hugged his sister,
-its all right little sis, daddy and dragespemon are all right- Kenji said, she
looked at him in tears, -how...how do you know?- she asked in between sobs,
Kenji smiled, -ive talked to them- he said, Mizzy hugged his brother so
strongly he almost suffocated, Kenji got rid of the grip and he saw Wallace
with his face bleeding plentyfully, -man, you need a doctor, come on, lets go-
Kenji said wisely, the owner of the crest of courage rode on his digimon
helping his little sister up, and then took off torwards the nearest hospital.
Wallace stayed in the hospital while Kenji and Mizzy made it torwards the
nearest police station, Mizzy stayed with tentomon while Kenji reported about
his father. The conversation was not very pleasant, -listen officer, the WTC
has collapsed, there are people under the ruins that are still alive, one of
those people is my father, you have to believe me- Kenji said with a quick but
calm voice, -listen Mr Izumi, we have no reports of such a thing happening- the
officer said, Kenji's nerves got out of hand, -listen man, why dont you take a
look through the window and tell me where in the world are the towers, dont
tell me that nothing has happened or that you need a fucking report to comfirm that
the towers have collapsed, ive been there, damn it, ive heard the yells for
help under the rubble- Kenji yelled, the officer looked at him with a weird
look, but didnt move, Kenji was about to leap on the passive officer but a
second policeman entered the room, his face pale and he seemed very altered,
-my officer, oh geesh, my officer- he said moving his legs like wanting to run
for it, -calm down Dawson, tell me what happened- the officer said very calm,
-its the WTC, my officer, the towers have collapsed- the policeman named Dawson
yelled, the officers face turned pale, he stood up and walked torwards the
window, he saw the clouds of dust covering Manhattan and the towers were
nowhere to be seen, he sighted and turned arround, -call the recue bodies, the
ambulances and the fireworkes, come on, hurry up, dont stand there, we dont
have all day- the officer comanded, -yes sir- Dawson said running out of the
room, the officer turned torwards Kenji –kid, i owe you an apology- the officer
apologized, -oh its ok- Kenji said with a proud pose.
Mizzy saw the workers run up and down the
street, like women in low price season, she looked at tentomon and hugged him
strongly, -do you think dragespemon and daddy will be all right?- she asked
him, tentomon shrugged but nodded, letting the girl hear what she wanted, -im
sure they will, dragespemon is strong, and so is Izzy- tentomon said, Mizzy
smiled, Kenji came out of the building and held the teenager girl's hand, -come
on Mizzy, we gotta go help daddy- Kenji explained, Mizzy smiled, and they both
flew on the bug digimon, when they got there the workers had just arrived,
Kenji walked torwards them, he pointed at an area, -right here, you are
supposed to start digging here- he explained wisely, the workers nodded without
waiting for any order from their boss, they knew a human life was far more
important than the boss giving orders. They unloaded the equipment from their
trucks and moved carefuly across the rubble, trying not to destroy the chambers
under their feet, however, the job was very delicate, and any little mistake
could mean the doom of anyone in there. One of the workers kneeled down and
started touching the remains of the metallic building, bits of glass tearing
the protection suit and his flesh, blood pouring down, but the man didnt stop,
it was his job, he finally spotted a hollow chamber, he stood up slightly,
-over here guys, lets start digging here- he comanded, the workers walked there
and started pulling some metallic saws, then started cutting through the
aluminium wrinkled pieces that blocked their way in.
Under all that terror, Izzy and dragespemon
rolled restlessly arround, dragespemon looked at Izzy's eyes, and sensed fear,
Izzy was afraid and although he was good in hiding it, dragespemon was a digimon
of knowledge and sensed it, -Izzy?- she asked, -hum?- he answered, -why are you
afraid?- dragespemon asked, his question was out of place, but Izzy sat up and
looked at her, -because i dont want Mimi to take care of the children herslef,
i dont want my children to be orphans and most of all, Mizzy needs you- Izzy
said, dragespemon smiled and rubbed against him, -Izzy, we will get out of this
one, i promise- the little cat, and dragon digimon answered, Izzy patted her
head gently. A roar like sound was heard, both of them looked at each other,
their eyes widdened at first, -come on guys, just a bit more and we will have
the aluminium removed- a rought voice said, both, human and digimon looked at
each other again, their eyes watered, and their faces drew a smile, -they are
going to save us- they both said in unision, then they jumped into each other's
arms and hugged, crying tears of happiness, joy and hope, then Izzy cleaned his
tears and looked up, -OVER HERE- he yelled at the top of his lungs, with a big
smile across his face.
The boss of the workers heard the man's
voice and looked at his mates, -guys, down here, the man is alive- he said
joining them in work, the men started accelerating their pace in removing the
rubble of the towers, trying to open a hole big enough to take the genius out
of the doom in wich he was, cutting through the metal, removing bricks and
trying to keep the walls almost intact so the weight would not fall on the
trapped alive people, it was a hard and delicate job that needed to be done
with much precition, but they were hopefull, they needed to be, a lowsy mood
would just worsen things.
Izzy and dragespemon sat in silence, almost
not breathing, holding up the nerve to push the wall up and finally get out of
there, but they needed to stay calm. Two hours passed by, two long hours that
seemed to never end, having to shout his position eventually, but finally, a
beam of light entered the little chamber, Izzy turned his face aside to avoid
the light, and so did dragespemon, but the workers started greeting each other
and cheering, -yeah, he is here, and he seems in good conditions- one of them
said, the other were heard cheering and laughing, but Mizzy ran torwards the
hole excited, she pushed her hand inside the hole, Izzy recogniced her hand and
held it, -daddy, it will be all right- Mizzy said, -yes Mizzy, i know- Izzy
nodded, holding the girls hand, dragespemon just smiled to herself.
Mizzy had to move aside, and the workers
widdened the hole, Izzy covered his face to avoid the somewhat still bright
sunlight that entered through the gap and hurted his widdened pupils,
dragespemon felt the scratchy and annoying feeling of dust entering her lungs
as the more dense matter floated lazily into the chamber. Both of them felt
some dust, sand and small pieces of stone entering the chamber and falling on
them, dragespemon shook the dust off, and then a pair of strong hands held her,
she was blinded and struggeled to move hopelessly, -here you go, young lady-
the person holding dragespemon said, she felt another pair of hands holding
her, but these were familiar hands, she felt this arms hug her, she oppened her
eyes slowly, blinking repeatedly, and recognized the strong, well built and
cool looking shape of a young man with slightly long hair, as the lines started
to thicken up, she could easily see who this man was, and who the person that
held her was, -Kenji? Mizzy?- she whispered softly, -im here for you,
dragespemon- Mizzy said, Kenji just waved at her.
Izzy couldnt see anything, but he knew
dragespemon was out, and smiled knowing she was finally safe, -hey, Mr Izumi,
hold my hand- a male voice said, Izzy blinked several times, adjusting his eyes
to the bright light that all of a sudden surrounded him, he saw a gloved hand
and hesitated a bit, but finally he took hold of his precious yellow laptop and
held the hand that was being offered, the hand pulled him out strongly, hurting
his elbow slightly, then once out, he coughed and searched arround for his
children, he saw them, Mizzy hugging the digimon, who scratched the girl's blue
shirt insistently, trying to breathe, and also kicking her legs wrapped in a
pair of black jeans, and Kenji a bit further, standing there, with his hands in
his pockets, wearing a pair of blue jeans and a soft, amber sweater, wich
contrasted with his eyes and hair, Izzy smiled and hanged the laptop on his
shoulders, jogging torwards them, and giving them a hug, dusting their clothes,
but happy.
Mizzy looked across his dad and smiled,
-Izzy- a female voice said, Izzy smiled to himself recognizing the voice, he
turned arround slowly, and stared at the woman dressing in a pair of tight,
white pants, a white, hippy styled shirt and plataform shoes, -Mimi- he
whispered and run torwards her, she jogged torwards him tripping several times,
but not caring about it, finally they hugged, and their lips met in a
passionate kiss, -i was so worried about you Izzy- Mimi said, -im here Mimi,
and im all right- he said, then he looked at Mizzy and shaped a "thank you"
with his lips, motioning torwards Mimi and kissing her again. Mizzy sat on the
floor and sighted deeply, dragespemon looked at her quizzed, -what is it
Mizzy?- she asked, Mizzy looked at her, -the bad feeling is gone- She finally
spitted, dragespemon smiled, and stared at the couple, feeling happy for making
this moment possible. Kenji was further away in a corner, staring at his
family, he sighted and smiled, happy, happy for his parents, who loved each
other so much, happy for his sister, who almost lost her best friend, and happy
for himself, feeling able to help, to make a difference, able to reach his goal
and become the leader he always wished he was, now he knew, for the first time,
that no matter what people say, he was capable of dreaming and making this dreams
true.