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Chapter Four The Protector
It was another day in the digital world as the younger group of DigiDestined alongside their partners as well as Tai and Agumon who were helping out had stumbled upon a prison full of digimon.
"Come on you guys lets go." Tai said as he lead the way into the prison followed by everyone else.
"Over there." Agumon said as they found several digimon behind bars.
"Who are these guys?" Yolei asked.
"These are Gotsumon they aren't very bright most of the time." Hawkmon said hovering beside his partner.
"Don't worry we are here to help you guys." Ken said as the Gotsumon nodded.
"Stand back!" Agumon said as the Gotsumon backed up to the wall.
"PEPPER BREATH." Agumon fired a fireball at the bars destroying them as the Gotsumon climbed out of their cell.
"There's more over here." Cody said as Armadillomon curled into a ball.
"Stand back DIAMOND SHELL." Armadillomon barrelled into the cell door as the Gotsumon moved outta the way.
"Come on let's get going!" Tai shouted as the digimon freed a few more Gotsumon as they fled the prison. Later they had finally made it out of the prison everyone kept running towards the portal followed by the Gotsumon but Tk stopped running and looked back at the prison in worry.
"Tk come on!" Kari cried to him.
"What's wrong Tk?" Patamon asked him.
"Don't you find it strange that there wasn't a single guard at all back there?" Tk asked his partner .
"Now that you mention it yeah that was way to easy." Patamon said thinking it over.
"It's almost like she wanted us to rescue those Gotsumon but why?" Tk asked his partner who shook his head.
"I'm not sure but lets worry about it later Tk." Patamon said as they caught up to the others. Later after the two catching up to the others who were waiting by the tv for them.
"About time you got here Tk come on we need to get home." Tai said.
"Yeah but what about these Gotsumon we can't just leave them." Ken said as everyone nodded in agreement.
"We can take them with us until we can find a safe pace for them out of the emperors grasp." Cody said as everybody thought about what he proposed everyone was silent for a while until Ken spoke up.
"Alright but I have a feeling that Izzy is not going to be pleased about this." He said as everyone walked up to the tv and were sucked into the computer. Meanwhile the empress was watching what they were doing and she chuckled.
"I gotta say Tk really is smarter then I had thought." The Empress said smiling taking a sip of her drink that she had as Veemon looked at her.
"Don't tell me you like him boss." Veemon said as she choked on her drink. She then glared at Veemon who was smirking.
"I do not like him I just find him a worth foe." She defended as she looked away.
"Sure you do." Veemon joked as the Empress groaned shaking her head as she stood up from her chair and walked away as Veemon laughed quietly.
"Argh are you guys nuts bringing the Gotsumon back here!?" Izzy shouted staring at the Gotsumon in shock as everyone just smiled sheepishly at him scratching their heads.
"Sorry Izzy but what were we supposed to do?" Tai asked him.
"He's right we could not leave them to be captured by the Empress again." Kari agreed with her older brother as Izzy sighed holding his head in his hands.
"Alright now that's settled what are we going to do with the Gotsumon? I mean we can't leave them here where someone can find them." Tk asked as everyone thought about what to do.
"Don't worry about it I can just say that I'm taking an art class and these are my first attempts." Cody said as he nodded at the Gotsumon who each struck an individual pose making everybody laugh at their silliness.
"Or you could say that they are early rejects." Yolei joked as Izzy recomposed himself.
"Say Yolei do you think I can borrow you digivice for a while I would like to examine one of the new ones." Izzy asked as Yolei nodded handing him her digivice. Later that day Tk was in the back of a concert hall talking to his brother Matt.
"I'm sorry Tk but I can't take the Gotsumon with me." Matt apologised to him.
"Come on Matt they could be your back up singers or something." Tk pleaded with him.
"No way they sound to gravelly." Matt said sadly.
"Tk is that you?" The two blonde haired blue eyed boys turned to see Daisuke walking up to them.
"Hey Daisuke what are you doing here?" Tk asked her.
"Oh well I was just walking by when I heard you talking about somebody sounding gravelly." Daisuke explained smiling shyly as Matt looked at her curiously.
"Hey Tk who's this?" Matt asked his brother.
"Oh right Matt meet Daisuke Daisuke meet my brother and lead singer of the Teenage Wolves Matt Ishida." Tk introduced as Matt offered his hand to her.
"Nice to meet you Daisuke." Matt greeted her.
"Nice to meet you as well Matt. So Tk you never told me you were the brother of somebody famous." Daisuke teased the younger blonde who rolled his eyes but smiled at her.
"He's not that famous." Tk said as Matt glared at the younger blonde who was smirking at him just as Matt's Digivice beeped making all three of them look at it as Daisuke's eyes widened as Matt took it out and looked at it as his face became worried.
"Sorry Daisuke we've got to run I'll catch you later." Tk said as he and Matt ran off as Daisuke's smile vanished as she scowled and turned away. She then heard a second beeping she then pulled up her sleeve to show on her wrist something similar to a D-Terminal but it was dark blue and black she pressed a button on it as a voice came through.
"Yeah boss?" Veemon answered from the other end of the line.
"Veemon the DigiDestined are coming soon be ready for anything I'll be there soon." Daisuke said as she walked away. Meanwhile Matt and Tk had just arrived at the computer lab where they found the others already there.
"What's going on?" Matt asked the group.
"We just got a message from the digital world telling us to go right now." Yolei explained to the two new arrivals.
"Well what are we waiting for lets get going!" Tk said as the others nodded agreeing with him.
"Alright lets go. Oh that's right Izzy's still got my digivice." Yolei moaned as Ken put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry Yolei you'll just have to stay behind this time." Ken said as she nodded.
"Okay is everybody ready?" Kari asked
"Yeah lets go Digi-Port open!" Tk said as everybody but Yolei and Poromon were sucked into the computer they then found themselves in a clearing where they saw a town in the distance.
"Lets get going guys maybe we can find who sent us that message." Matt said as everyone set off towards the town. After several minutes they arrived at what looked like it used to be the gate to the place.
"What happened here?" Ken asked as everyone looked at each other before they ran into the village. What they saw next surprised them what they saw was several Gazimon and Vegimon talking and fixing the place up after what looked like a massive battle.
"Whatever it was its gone now." Cody said as they all saw a blue dog like digimon with a horn walk up to them.
"Gabumon!" Matt cried as he ran up to the digimon.
"Matt good to see you again." Gabumon smiled at his friend.
"What's going on what happened here?" Matt asked him.
"Well you won't believe this but this is what happened." Gabumon said as he started to recall what had happened.
FLASHBACK
Gabumon had come here because he had heard it was a peaceful town that had been left untouched by the Empress. He was humming to himself when he saw several Gazimon run past him in a frenzy.
"Hey where is the fire?" He asked one who stopped running to explain.
"There's a digimon just outside the village and he's heading this way!" The Gazimon said as they heard an explosion.
"He's about to breach the gate!" Another Gazimon shouted as the two of them ran towards the gate to see a lizard like digimon covered in black flames banging on the gate.
"It's DarkLizardmon!" A Gazimon cried as DarkLizardmon continued to hit the gate before it shattered into splinters.
"He's broken through!" Gazimon cried as Gabumon looked at the Gazimon.
"Quickly everyone with me!" He said as the Gazimon looked at him.
"What!" They shouted.
"We need to drive him back outta of here now!" He shouted as the Gazimon all looked at each other before they all nodded.
"Alright fine lead the way." One of the Gazimon said as Gabumon ran down the stairs towards DarkLizardmon followed by a few Gazimon while the others stayed behind.
"Come on let's get him. Don't hold back!" The Gabumon shouted as he and the Gazimon attacked DarkLizardmon who turned and looked at the several rookies attacking him.
"BLUE BLASTER." Gabumon fired out a blue stream of flames at the lizard digimon but the attack had no effect on him.
"ELECTRIC STUN BLAST." The Gazimon fired balls of electricity at DarkLizardmon as well but again they had no effect on the digimon who just snarled at all of them.
"DARK FLARE." DarkLizardmon said as he fired black flames at the rookie levelled digimon who all ducked under the attack.
"We need to get outta here before we get fried!" A Gazimon said as the others nodded and ran away leaving the dog digimon all to himself.
"This is bad I wish I could digivolve but I need Matt to do so." The Gabumon thought to himself as he closed his eyes and waited for the end.
"I'd stop right there if I were you." Gabumon opened his eyes to see the Digimon Empress standing there and glaring at DarkLizardmon.
"What is she doing here?" He asked himself as the Gazimon were all wandering the same thing.
"Are you going to answer me or are you just plain stupid?" The Empress taunted as DarkLizardmon roared in outrage and turned away from the digimon who was watching the current events unfold before him.
"DARK FLARE." DarkLizardmon fired black flames at the Empress who rolled out of the way.
"Okay that's how you want to play then fine!" She shouted as she whistled and several winged dragons came towards them.
"Attack Airdramon." The Empress commanded as the digimon flew in towards DarkLizardmon.
"DARK FLARE." DarkLizardmon fired more black flames at the Airdramon who dodged and weaved out of the way of the flames.
"SPINNING NEEDLES." The Aridramon said as they shout several needles from their manes the needles flew towards DarkLizardmon who raised his arms as he tried to block the attack but all of the needles hit him making him roar in pain and stagger as he tried to stay on his feet.
"Ha it's no use the needles have enough sleeping toxin to knock out several elephants." The Empress said as DarkLizardmon fell to the ground knocked out. The Empress walked towards DarkLizardmon carefully she kicked him gently in the side to see if he would wake up but he didn't.
"Well that went better then I expected." The Empress said as she looked over at Gabumon and the Gazimon who just looked at her.
"Are you guys okay?" She asked them all as they looked at her with Gabumon walking up to her slowly.
"Thank you for your help we'd be goners without you." Gabumon said as The Empress smiled at him.
"No need to help me I was just helping my subjects." The Empress smiled as Gabumon nodded at her.
"Well anyway what are you going to do with DarkLizardmon?" One of the Gazimon asked her as she looked back at DarkLizardmon who was out cold.
"Don't worry about him I'll find a place far from here to relocate him so he won't trouble you anymore." The Empress explained to Gabumon and the surrounding Gazimon.
"Okay but how are we going to rebuild this place after what just happened?" A random Gazimon asked the Empress.
"Well I'll be going if you guys want I can leave some digimon here to help you all in the repairs." The Empress said as Gabumon walked up to her.
"We would appreciate it Empress." Gabumon said smiling up at her as the Gazimon cheered in agreement.
"All hail the Digimon Empress!" The Gazimon cheered as The Empress stared at them in shock and surprise but because of her glasses nobody could tell.
"Well alright I'll see what I can do." The Empress said as she climbed onto an Airdramon which then took off but not before the Empress looked back and smiled at the digimon before she commanded the other Airdramon to grab a part of DarkLizardmon and carry him away.
"Later." The Empress smiled as she flew away the Gazimon waving back at her as Gabumon smiled as he turned to the Gazimon.
"Okay lets get to work on fixing this place up." Gabumon said as the Gazimon nodded and split up to take on different jobs.
END FLASHBACK
"What!? The Empress helped you guys out!?" Matt shouted in shock as Gabumon nodded.
"Yeah and the Vegimon arrived about two hours ago." Gabumon said pointing at the Vegimon who were helping the Gazimon repair the village but the strange thing was they weren't wearing Dark Rings at all.
"Wait the Empress sent them but they aren't wearing dark rings at all." Ken asked pointing at the Vegimon.
"Yeah it was the strangest thing but the Redvegimon over there said that the Empress sent him and the others to help us rebuild the village." Gabumon said as the Redvegimon moved towards them.
"Oh your the DigiDestined the Empress told me to give you this message." He said as everyone looked at him.
"What message?" Kari asked him.
"She said to not judge a book by its cover and that's she is not all that bad she can be kind and nice every now and again." The Redvegimon said as he hopped away leaving the DigiDestined stunned as Matt looked at Gabumon sadly.
"Well Gabumon it was good to see you again maybe we can catch up sometime later." Matt said as the DigiDestined left for home when they got back they called an emergency meeting to tell everyone what had happened.
"So that's it guys." Matt said as he finished retelling the story to the others who were all silent.
"This is unexpected." Izzy said
"What do we do she's not like everyone else we've faced." Kari said
"Your right she's a human being like us not somebody like Devimon or Myotismon who wanted to destroy both worlds. She seems conflicted I think I mean she helped out defenceless digimon when they needed it she neutralised the threat without killing DarkLizardmon. She then offered to provide assistance to the Gazimon village and she didn't enslave them afterwards." Tai said
"Well we will just have to find a way to stop her without destroying her." Joe said as everyone nodded in agreement at what he said.
"Let's think more on it tomorrow right now let's all get some rest." Ken suggested as the DigiDestined all headed home.
What are the DigiDestined going to do about the Digimon Empress now that this new information has surfaced? Find out next time on Digimon Digital Monsters.
The End Of Chapter Four
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