Digimon, Dr Kurata and digimon tamers is property of Bandai.
Nullspace, Matt, Exo-Gene inc and Balwak station are my property. Mark is the property of my co-author, Cydra.
C.P.S Chronicles: Digital Conspiracy
Chapter 7 'Most Wanted'
Osaka Park, Tokyo.
Matt had been stuck in Tokyo for a month or two now, mostly holed up in the warehouse district, trying to fix his ship. This wasn't the situation today, as Takato and Henry had decided that he needed a break to relax. He was leaning against a rock with his baseball cap over his eyes, as Veemon played with Guilmon and Terriermon. He was clearly tense though as he'd brought a blaster from the ship that was laying on his chest as he tried to relax.
Suddenly he felt something land on his head. He quickly whirled around and pointed his blaster up. He relaxed when he saw it was just Calumon. He clicked the safety back on as Calumon jumped down beside him. "I wish you wouldn't make me jump like that...could have been an accident." he said. Silently, Matt's jumpiness was partly due to the fact that Kurata had been suprisingly silent since Matt n co's visit to Lab One. "You okay?" asked Takato as he and Henry walked over. "Well, I'm just a bit nervous. Kurata's goons haven't bothered us in a while. It makes me think they're up to something."
Matt sat back, watching Veemon play around. "I doubt someone like Kurata would be happy that we strolled through his base and more or less trashed it on the way out." He said before adding. "You heard from Rika? I'd have thought she'd be taking time to relax as well." "She's fine, but she has a message for you in case you ever asked that question," said Henry. "What's that?" asked Matt. Then Henry said, with his best Rika impression, "'If you ever come near for any reason besides a wild Digimon appearing, Renamon will turn your body into a diamond mine'."
Matt stared then said slowly. "Sooo…not the type who relaxes then." He said nervously. He then seemed to remember something. "Oh…I did a search on that fake rig that Lab ones under…owned by some local company called 'Gaia Electronics'." He said. "Gaia Electronics? I know that place," said Takato, "There's a factory that opened on the other side of town."
Matt grinned. "Worth a look...if it's a front for Exo-Gene then maybe they have a nullspace comm...I could call the NSC, get them down here." he said, getting up. "Why wait?" asked Terriermon, "Let's go over there right now and kick their butts." Matt looked over. "A good idea...but they have more guns...I'd feel happier with some NSC troopers watching my back." he said, walking off before pausing. "Er...which way is it?"
--
Gaia Electronics automated Factory, Tokyo industrial region.
Endra Randas, a hawk antro and her men were looking at various security feeds. "Mr Kurata? My scout just reported in...contact with contracts 5 minutes...how do you want them delivered?" she said into her comm. Her group had been sent by the mercenary Company, Black Thirteen to aid the good doctor in finding a corporate thief. One of her men, a wolf anthro called Fang who was watching the feeds said. "Hold on...looks like some locals with em." Endra sighed and added "Looks like he brought friends...how do we handle the locals?"
"That depends, give me a visual," said Kurata. As soon as he saw Matt and the gang, he smiled and said, "Well, well, looks like my bounty hunters won't have to look very far after all." Endra glared. "Look...do you want them breathing or not?" she said. The doctor had been grating across her nerves since they'd met...with his 'humans are supreme' attitude. "Oh, in due time, in due time, but my other teams want to see them in action before they tried their luck. Think you can give it a shot?" said Kurata in his same gloating tone that Endra despised.
Endra slammed down the comm in anger. "So he thinks we can't handle a few kids and their pets, eh?" she said. "Fang? ell the tactical teams to move in...if the targets resist...shoot em in the kneecaps." she said and turned to watch the feed.
--
Matt peered at the factories large double door entrance to the loading dock. "Seem's easy enough." he said to Veemon. Veemon looked at the large padlock on the door. "It's locked." he pointed out and jumped as Matt blew the padlock...and the door part behind it off. "No it isn't" said Matt smugly. "I don't like the looks of this," said Takato, "we better have our Digivolution cards ready." "Guys, I doubt they'll have any Digimon here," said Matt as they walked through the doors. There was a large collection of rifles clicking and loading. "But a bunch of mercenaries, quite possible."
A eagle anthro with a sergeant insignia walked out, a symbol of three black lines on the uniform. "Great. Black thirteen. Why'd Kurata hire you losers?" said Matt. The sergeant glared. "I heard CPS hired idiots but this is too much...you realise we don't have to recover you alive?" he said, his beak clicking weirdly. Matt shrugged. "Don't Matter...You're not giving Veemon back to that nutcase." The avian frowned. "Bad life choice." he said and aimed at Matt...only for a knife to hit him in the back.
The gang to see a Digimon leap down from the rafters. As it landed in front of them, they saw it resembled a reptilian humanoid dressed in Native Amercan clothing with two axe blades on his gauntlets, a cleaver-like sword in his hand, and an even bigger sword strapped to his back. One of the mercs screamed "Shoot that smeghead." and the group all fired, only for the digimon to vanish again with a chuckle, causing a few mercs to shoot each other. "Time to go." said Matt and turned to leave to see a merc coming in and aiming at Henry. He drew his blaster and shot the merc down as a few more of the surviving merc squad began to decide that the tamers would make good targets to vent their anger on.
When the group felt the attention switch to them, they quickl slashed their Digivolution cards through their Digivices and the mercs found themselves facing two Champions and an Armor digimon. The mercs stared for a second. "We don't get paid enough for this smeg." One merc said before attempting to shoot at Growlmon to little effect. Another group of mercs ran in through a side door, led by a female avian with the nametag, 'Capt Randas' on it. "This is not worth NS20 mill." she said before aimnig several guns strapped to her wrists at a compressed air tank on a forklift, causing a ton of mist to escape.
Matt looked around until he spotted Capt Randras' silhouette. "Time to go bye-bye, birdie," he said and jumped at her. He wasn't quite what happened because of the mist, but he soon found himself on his back. Endra was pointing one of her wrist guns in his face. "Er...was the birdie comment too far?" he said. Endra just glared. "Least I'll get some bounty for killing you, you...ape." she said before listening to a comm. "Guess you're more interesting alive to the boss...catch you later, contract." she said before running off just as Flamedramon came out opposite. "Matt...are you ok?" he said, before de-evolving back to Veemon. Matt nodded, getting up. "I'm fine...you look knackered." he said before turning to bump into the lizard man digimon from earlier. "Oh...er, Hi again...can I get past?" he said.
"I'm afraid not," said the Digimon as he entered a fighting stance, "LIZARD DANCE!" Matt had to dodge very quickly to avoid being sliced with the Digimon's gauntlet blades and the smaller sword. "Who is this guy?" said Matt. His Digivice projected a hologram to answer him. "Let's see, Dinohyumon, Champion-level Dragon Man Digimon, big sword called Akinakes. That doesn't sound good." Matt pulled out the digivolution card and swiped it again. This time however nothing happened. "Sorry...no energy." panted Veemon. The fight with the mercs must have drained him. Matt simply pulled out his blaster and fired a few shots over DinoHyumons head. "Lets do it the old fashioned way then. Look up dude." he said. The blasts had burned through a girder and it fell towards the digimon, causing him to have to throw himsefl to avoid being flattened. He got up in time to have a blaster pointed at his face. "You wouldn't fancy a surrender, would you?" he said.
"You're a better opponent than I expected, but I came prepared," said the Dragon Man Digimon. He put two fingers to his lips and whistled loudly. There was a responding bark and a window shattered. Through it leaped what Matt first thought was a doberman with a spiked color, but then he realized this Doberman was a lot taller than those he's seen before. His Digivice showed another hologram. "Dobermon. Animal Type Digimon. I always liked dogs." said Matt and switched his aim. "Well, two is harder...but...I can do two." he said before he heard Veemon yell "Look out!" and a fist hit him in the back of the head.
--
Meanwhile, Growlmon and Gargomon were busy trying to keep Takato and Henry from being hurt. But the mercs were pretty tough and were hard to keep away. "Takato, I think we need to Digivolve," called Growlmon. Suddenly the mercs turned and ran for various exits, good timing as it turned out as the exhaustion caught up with terriermon and Guilmon, just as a bark and a smash was heard from the other side of the factory. "What was that?" asked Henry. "It came from where we left Matt," said Terriermon. "We have to go back," said Takato. "Wait a minute!" called Henry, but before he could say anything more, Takato and Guilmon ran back. "Those two will never change," muttered Henry and started running after them with Terriermon.
Matt opened his eyes again, his head throbbing from that blow he got. The first thing he noticed were Dinohyumon and Dobermon growling but slowly backing away. Then he noticed Veemon, who was looking really scared. Then Matt saw the scariest Digimon he's seen yet. It had a robotic body with a skull-like head and a sickle for its right hand. "Oh hell." He said. His Digivice beeped yet again and showed 'Reapermon. Mega Level. Cyborg type Digimon." Matt gulped. Mega level sounded very final…like bringing a bazooka to a fist fight. "Erm…so…why aren't we dead yet?" he asked, shielding Veemon. Reapermon just laughed, his voice chilling matt's blood. "Its bad business to kill a target." he said
"So Kurata's not fine with sending mercs after me, he's sending Digi-mercs too?" "Bounty hunters actually," corrected Dinohyumon. "I prefer to think myself as a judge," said Reapermon, the light catching off his Judgment Sickle, "and executioner." Matt gulped...But you said it was bad business to kill me." he said. He was mentally going through his options...while he had a few EMP grenades, they'd probably kill Veemon too and he doubted a blaster would hurt a mega level, but it looked like this digimon merc was in a bad mood...maybe over how Matt had kicked one of his teams butt...Matt knew he'd be just as angry were the roles reversed.
"True, but that was just in your case. Digimon, however, are not required to be brought back. And the lot of you here should whet my appetite for a while." "Wait a minute, you'd load your teammate's data?" Reapermon laughed and said, "Unlike weaker Digimon, I hunt alone. They are a separate team from mine, or should I say were?" The two digimon stared. "Wait...what do you mean?" said Dobermon. Matt shrugged. "I guess you guys never heard of teamwork?" he said, slipping Veemon one of his EMP lockpicks. "The red button." he whispered to Veemon. Veemon, not sure what he was doing, pointed the gadget at Reapermon and pushed the button. A red beam shot out and struck him. Reapermon flinched with pain as his data shimmered. "You think that puny effect could stop me?" said the Cyborg Digimon.
Matt shrugged, pulling a blaster put. "No...but it should soften you up." he said and blasted Reapermon in the chest. Reapermon was thrown back by the blast, but hardly damaged. He chuckled darkly and said, "What do you think I'm wearing? Tin foil? This is Gold Digizoid. You can't crack it that easily." Matt shrugged. "I guessed that…but the tamers will have heard that…know them?" he said as he heard footsteps approaching. The doors were suddenly thrown open as Wargrowlmon and Rapidmon stormed in with Takato and Henry following right behind them. On cue, Taomon came down through a skylight with Rika holding onto her robe. Matt pulled out a recovery card and swiped it and then the digivolve card, this time rewarded with Veemon becoming Flamedramon. Matt backed up to give the gangs digimon partners a good run up. "4 against 3...I like those odds. Nice to see ya, Rika." Said Matt.
Rika didn't reply but gave Matt a card that was almost completely blue. "Use this," she said. Matt shrugged and slashed the card through. "Flamedramon Matrix Digivolve to... Paildramon," called his partner as he went up to the Ultimate level. Matt couldn't have been more pleased if a NSC security team suddenly popped into existence as backup. "Oh, you guy are soooo dead." he said, before pulling out his EMP grenade. "And guess what? You're not blocked by my buds anymore." he added and threw it. Dinohyumon and Dobermon covered their ears in pain, their data shimmering like mad. "Okay! Okay! We give up!" called Dinohyumon. "Just call that thing off!" cried Dobermon. Reapermon was less effected. "Cowards," he said, "BONE DUSTER!" A turret of fire came out of the gun on his left arm and blasted the two Digimon out the window.
Matt was shocked. "You really don't do teamwork." he said, attacking along with Paildramon and the others to little effect. "Whats wrong? Are we getting tired? BONE DUSTER!" said Reapermon firing at the tamers digimon. The Digimon tried several attacks, but none of them seemed to work. Some of them actually bounced off of his armor. Reapermon threw back his head and laughed, "Is that really the best you can do? I was expecting a bigger challenge from your reputations." Matt hid behind a fork lift, slashed a giga cannon card for Paildramon and looked over at Henry. "Don't your digimon have a level like his? He's gonna pulverise us." he said as the digimon continued to fight.
"We would go to Mega, but those guys used some sort of jamming device to keep us from Biomerging," said Henry. "Biomerging? What's that?" Before Henry could reply, Reapermon called out "GRIM SLASHER!" and a chain shot out of his launcher and wrapped around Matt. He was yanked forward until he was at Reapermon's feet. He lifted his Judgment Sickle and said, "I'm sure Kurata won't be me bringing you back without hands as long you're alive." Matt gulped as he was raised to Reapermons face. Reapermon looked at the other digimon. "Let him go, ya creep." said Rapidmon. Reapermon simply laughed. "You won't attack.,..you'd hit your friend." he said. Suddenly there was a zing from the supervisors office that overlooked the area and a railgun round shot through Reapermons arm followed by a second that blew through the chain holding Matt. Needless to say, Reapermon went ballistic...
"BONE DUSTER!" He shot a firestream at where the shot came from. Matt saw someone leap out of the way before the flames hit. He took advantage of Reapermon's distraction to run away from him. He hid behind some boxes near where he saw that someone jump. "This guy is nuts," said Matt. "Tell me about it." Said Henry. A stream of what energy rounds shot into the wounds caused by the railguns, the mystery savior obviously having never heard of fighting fairly. Finally a crack appeared in Reapermons armour. "Seems as good a target as any." Matt said, shooting at it. Reapermon roared with rage and called out "BURNING CYCLONE!" A tornado of fire appeared around Reapermon and started spinning very fast. The Digimon quickly got sucked into it. The Tamers narrowly avoided being roasted by hanging onto something.
As the tornado subsided, the gang could see their partners reverted back to Rookie. Reapermon looked smug before heading towards the tamers. "So...that wa your best was it? First I'll absorb your parnters...then...who knows?" he said. Matt was about to reply when a rail pistol fell in his lap...a final gift from whoever had tried to help. Matt aimed it at the crack in Reapermons chest armour and said simply. "Go to hell." before firing.
--
Endra watched from her cover as the rail pistol went through the crack like a hot knife through snow and grinned before turning on her comm. "Doctor? Some bad news..." she said, trying not to hide her glee when Kurata found out the bad news in question.
--
"You think that will stop..." Reapermon stopped when the crack on his armor expanded and radiated out to cover more of him. Then some pieces of the armor fell off. Reapermon howled with pain before he dissolved into data. Kurata banged his hand on desk in frustration. Matt shrugged before falling on his face from sheer exhausion. "You know...I get the feeling Kurata's a bit angry at me."
--
"Curses! How could they possibly defeat Reapermon? I gave them the jamming devices to prevent Biomerging. They should have easy pickings?" He calmed down and asked, "Has Reapermon's data been collected?"
Endra looked at the collector drone next to her. "All of its been collected," she said, peering down at the tamers as they got ready to leave.
--
Matt finally got up and was about to help Veemon to his feet too when he spotted a note on the floor. He picked it up, unfolded it and read it:
"Dear Matt,
Hopefully Reapermon's gone by now. In which case, it was me that shot at him. I did it because I didn't really like him, but mostly because I didn't want a cute face like yours to get hurt. I'll be seeing you again.
Endra'"
Matt felt his face warm up a bit, especially since Endra put a heart where most people put 'signed' or 'sincerely'. Matt carried the note in his hand all the way back to the ship...a bit of a mistake as Impmon was near the ship and grabbed the note off of him. "Aw...you gotta girlfriend, Lynch?" the digimon said with a snigger and was about to read it out loud when Matt grabbed him by the neck and started choking him. "Let me see it," said Terriermon as he snatched the note. "Terriermon, no!" said Matt as he let go of Impmon. Impmon strutted over to Terriermon, both of them had devilish grins on their faces. "Don't you dare-" warned Matt.
Then Impmon and Terriermon started chanting alternatively, "Matt and Endra," "Sittin' in a tree," "K-I-S-S-I-N…OW!" The two rookies rubbed their heads after Matt knocked them together quite hard. "I'll take that." He said, pocketing the note and walking into the ship. Once inside, he read the note again and looked at the rail pistol. "Wonder why she helped me?" he said to himself…
Seems that not everyone on Kurata's side likes what he's up to…But what else has he got in store for the tamers?
Please R&R!!
