DAY 1 PART 2
As Gabumon and Palmon chased after the truck, they were completely unaware that they were being watched. The man watching them was the same man who was bald except for two streaks of light blue hair. There was one change in his appearance and it was that he now spouted what looked like black wings on his back.
"Hey gramps, I've found our next two targets." he said to his new companion behind him. The second person on the roof was an old man who looked like he was in his seventies. He was bald and had a long grey beard. He wore khaki green pants, a red shirt with a dark blue cloak. He carried a grey cane and also had wings on his back.
"C'mon gramps let's go get them already!" the younger man said.
"Before we do I must ask you something." the old man said in a deep foreign accent.
"What?"
The old man stroked his beard. "Thirty players have been erased so far and I have noticed that you seemed to be taking your anger out on them."
"Well of course I'm angry!" the younger man nearly shouted. "Why wasn't I picked to be this weeks GM? I should have been picked!"
"I know how you feel." the old man said with anger in his eyes. "I feel like I should have been in that position. I wanted all that power."
"Hey since we're both mad, let's just take it out on those two players we just saw."
"Very well. Come, let us go."
"Hey, I can see the site!" Palmon said as they neared a building that looked like it was close to being finished.
"Let's hurry up." Gabumon said and they overtook the truck. They reached the front of the site and stopped.
"Did we make it?" Gabumon asked. They looked at their timers and saw them vanish with nine minutes left.
"Looks like we did." Palmon said. "What should we do no?"
"Maybe we should find out what's going on exactly." Gabumon suggested.
"Yeah but where do we look?"
"How 'bout right here!" a voice answered. The two Digimon turned and saw the young and old man in the middle of the street.
"Wait, you two can see us?" Gabumon asked.
"You got that right." the younger man said. "Name's Levi Athens. Don't forget it."
"Manfred Barbers." the old man said placing a hand on his chest.
"So who are you guys exactly?" asked Palmon.
"Well since you're asking I'll tell you." Levi said with a smile. "We're...the DL's!"
"DL? So you guys sent that message!" Gabumon cried out.
"Correction. The one who sent that message is on of our colleagues-" said Manfred.
"Alright I thinks we've had enough chat." Levi interrupted. "The real reason we're here is to erase you two."
"What? But we did what the message said!" Palmon said angrily.
"Yeah but that doesn't mean we can't erase you guys." Levi said taking a fighting stance. Gabumon and Palmon did the same but after a few moments, Levi dropped his stance.
"It's a shame y'know because I can't erase you guys personally." Levi said. "So I'll just send some Noise at you!"
"Noise? What're Noise?" Gabumon asked and immediately got his answer.
Levi raised his hand and a strange glowing red symbol appeared in mid air. After a while, the symbol flashed and vanished and several green frogs appeared.
"These guys again!" Palmon cried out.
"Yup. Have fun!" Levi said and the frogs charged at them.
"Ready Palmon?" Gabumon said.
"You bet!" she said and they charged.
The battle was much quicker than Levi and Manfred had thought. In just a matter of minutes, Gabumon and Palmon were able to defeat every single Noise sent at them.
"Is that all you got?" Gabumon taunted. Levi growled angrily and raised his hand again but Manfred stopped him.
"No, you had you chance. I shall deal with them." Manfred said sticking his hand out. A different symbol appeared. It flashed and instead of frogs, several wolves with tattoo legs appeared.
"Yeah Garage Wolves. These'll be perfect." Levi said happily and he and Manfred vanished.
"Hey wait!" Gabumon called out.
"Uh Gabumon, we've got other things to worry about." Palmon said noticing that the Garage Wolves were circling around them like a pack surrounding it's prey.
"Blue Blaster!"
"Poison Ivy!"
Their combined attacks were only able to take out two Garage Wolves. The rest of the pack separated to avoid the attacks and charged at the two Digimon. Gabumon and Palmon tried to run away but they ended up scratched and bitten painfully.
"These guys are tough." Palmon said recovering from the many injuries she had just received.
"Well we can't give up now." Gabumon said and Palmon fired another Poison Ivy at the Noise.
The Garage Wolves however seemed to have developed a plan. While most of them scattered to avoid the vine, three of them only stepped sideways. The three Garage Wolves bit down on the vine and pulled causing Palmon to fly and hit the ground before them.
"Palmon!" Gabumon shouted but a Garage Wolf snuck up behind him and slashed his back. Palmon screamed for him but the three wolves rammed her and sent her crashing into Gabumon. Both of them lay slumped up next to each other with their wounds beginning to bleed as the Garage Wolves circled around them again.
"You alright?" Gabumon asked Palmon.
"Yeah but I think it's the end for us..." she said sadly.
"Yeah so do I. Listen Palmon, I know it was short but I'm glad I met you."
"Yeah, I'm glad I met you too." Palmon said with a small blush.
The wolves now stopped and formed a ring around them. Gabumon and Palmon closed they eyes and held on to each other as they charged.
"Double Typhoon!"
Gabumon and Palmon opened their eyes just to see a green and purple tornado fly towards the Garage Wolves. While a few were able to run away, some were unlucky. They were caught up in the tornadoes and were destroyed instantly. As Gabumon and Palmon watched, the tornadoes moved in front of them and separated revealing a Terriermon and Lopmon.
Note: They are NOT the ones from Tamers and their NOT Willis' either.
"Wow Lopmon, look at all the Noise that's just begging to get killed!" Terriermon said joyfully.
"Don't get too over confident Terriermon." said Lopmon.
Terriermon just shrugged her and fired a Bunny Blast at a Garage Wolf and destroyed it. Lopmon did the same with her Blazing Ice and a second wolf went down.
The Noise got tired of loosing and charged at the two rabbits. They grinned and separated placing the wolves between them. They then used a combination of Bunny Blast and Blazing Ice on the wolves and all of them were destroyed except for one.
"There's one left!" Lopmon said jumping into the air.
"Time for our finale!" Terriermon said jumping also. They were both above the lone wolf and they launched their final attack.
"Double Typhoon!"
The dual tornadoes slammed into the garage Wolf who could do nothing but yelp before it was destroyed. After that, Terriermon and Lopmon landed and faced Gabumon and Palmon.
"Y'know, you two can stop holding on to each other." Terriermon pointed out. Gabumon looked at each other and saw how close they really were before blushingly parting.
"Um, thanks you two." Palmon said.
"It's no problem at all." Lopmon said.
Gabumon said: "Hey, you guys have got devices on your wrists too!"
"Huh? Oh yeah." Terriermon said holding up the device. "Lopmon and I got this message that said to go to the site. On our way, our timers vanished but we went here anyway and saw you guys in trouble."
"Your timers vanished?" Palmon asked. "Maybe it's because we got here first."
"So as long as someone else finishes everyone's off the hook?" said Lopmon. "That's good. Anyway, d'you guys know what's going on exactly?"
"No. We were hoping you'd know." Gabumon said.
"Well that sucks." Terriermon said sadly as he put his hands on the back of his head. "None of us know anything. I mean, that last thing Lopmon and I remember before receiving the message was this guy in shades shooting us in the head."
"Wait, you guys were killed?" Gabumon asked.
"Yeah. We think that's why no one can see us." Lopmon said.
"So could we be dead too?" Palmon said. "Ugh, I can't remember anything before today."
"You too?" Gabumon asked. "I don't have any memories either."
"Man, this is messed up." Terriermon said. "What's going on here!"
The answer came almost immediately. All of a sudden, the devices on their hands made a beeping sound which caught their attention. They raised their devices to their faces and on each device, the screen flashed and showed a man with light beige hair wearing sunglasses.
"Hey there players!" the man said happily.
"Hey, that's the guy who killed us!" Lopmon exclaimed.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to formally welcome you all to the Odaiba Games!" the man said. "And I'm your Game Master Billy Bubson!"
"At least now we can get some answers." Gabumon said.
"Ok, all of you're probably wondering what's going on so I'll just tell you." Billy said and he began to explain.
"First thing's first, there're about...fifty something of you guys left and every single one of you is DEAD! You're all probably from different countries but you were all gathered here in Odaiba. Some are dead by accident while others were killed by yours truly!" Billy proudly put his hand on his chest.
"Now each and every one of you is now a player in the Odaiba Games." Billy continued. "Here's what you should know: The game lasts a week and each day you're given a mission. Do it or you'll be erased but if another player finishes it, then you're off the hook. But on day seven, a special mission will be given where only one pair can do. And the lucky pair that wins that mission...I'll give them their lives back!"
"Now, all of you must feel like you're missing something. That's because when you entered the games, something very important to you was taken away as an entry fee. If you win the games, then I'll give it back too!"
"What? So we have to play so we can live again and get back what was taken? That's so cruel!" Palmon exclaimed angrily.
"OK, OK, I know you're all probably wondering why we DL's are doing this." Billy continued. "So why're we doing this?"
At this point billy took off his sunglasses and brought his face close to the screen. Then, with his red eyes willed with joy, he cried out:
"CUZ IT'S FUN!"
And with that note, the screen blacked out. The four Digimon looked at each other not knowing what to say.
"What do we do?" Palmon asked out loud. After a while, Gabumon answered her with a serious face.
"The only thing we can do: play their game."
And all of them agreed with him.