I woke up. My head was spinning and I felt the need to puke all over the golden floors. Gold? I jumped up and looked around and before I knew it I had started laughing. It had reminded me of when I first got in the digital world. Except this time I wasn't alone. Dorumon was sleeping on a bed that was so big that even the arena would look small in comparison.
I sat down on the edge of the bed and found myself thinking about what had happened in the last couple hours. I looked at the window and found myself glaring at the sun that was barely making his way up into the sky. All the citizens of File City would be waking up and setting up shop. Except Gekkomon who had given up his life and warned people of the attack. Greymon would be the most upset, they had become close friends before he had been deleted. But at the same time it was protocol to protect the city at all costs.
It was the only law that hadn't been enforced until recently. Hannah and I talked about it once and we agreed on something. If we were to die protecting the ones we loved we would make a signal. She would have Lunamon create bubbles and send it to me with her lop-ear Ripple. And I would have Dorumon make it rain metal balls using his Metal cannon. Looking back on it now Hannah and I always talked and a day never went by where we didn't talk.
If she was sick I would be sitting by her side waiting to see if she needed something and it was the same for me as well. If she was sleepy after a day of training I would carry her to her bed. If Etemon was trying to peek I would beat him up and have Metal cannons shot so far down his throat that he would taste metal for years. It now only dawned on me that my face was warm and a quick look at the golden floor where I can see my reflection I noticed my face was red as well.
I would have to remember to ask about that. A quiet knock at the door brought my attention back to reality. I looked up and saw Angewomon looking at me with her blue eyes not covered by the visor.
"Kenji! It good to see you're awake." She rushed in the room and for a second I had to wonder what had happened to the serious and scary Angewomon.
I had no time to think afterwards because I was brought into a tight hug from the Goddess of the Digital World herself.
"You've grown so tall Kenji. And Dorumon as well. You must tell me what you have been doing these past years! I trust your eating well. And training by the looks of it." Okayyyy something weird was going on and it was confusing the hell out of me. I never remembered her to be like this when I met her. But I don't think I cared that much because I returned the hug as best as I could.
"It's good to see you too Angewomon. I have been doing fine and Hannah is doing fine as well. If I can ask a question?"
Angewomon smiled and shook her head yes before separating from me, "you already asked a question."
"Since when have you been a comedian?"
"The same day you left File City."
I froze and stared at her with my eyes wide and my mouth open, "I'm sorry. I had some questions that needed asking and answers I needed to know. You were the only one that could answer those questions." Angewomon's smile faded and she lowered her head. She knew something! I knew it! All these years of living in the digital world and I would finally have my questions answered!
"Are the true answers always the answers you want to hear? Did you come here expecting all good things and no bad things?" I was confused now. What was she mumbling about?
"What do you mean? What bad things?"
She shook her head and I thought I could see a few drops of something fall from her eyes. She was crying and I was to blame. Kyo once told me a man should never make a lady cry, human or digimon.
"You can't tell me can you? That's why you're crying."
She shook her head yes and was about to open up her mouth when the door flew open. A tall digimon with blue skin and shiny golden armor stepped in the room and all hopes of answering my questions and of pressing the matter farther flew out the window. This digimon radiated power like no other one I had seen before. I knew at once that this was a mega level digimon and an important one at that.
I knew from all the lessons that I've been taught this could only be the famous Magnamon, a Royal Knight. If he was here then that meant that I was in a deeper hole then I imagined.
"Angewomon, I request that you leave the room immediately. At my leaders' request." He didn't even look at her when she said this he only stared at me and looked at Dorumon who I now noticed was waking up.
I jumped on the bed and grabbed Dorumon, his leg was healed up and all evidence of the battle was gone from his body.
"Dorumon! Come on wake up already! We made it, we're with Angewomon now!" At this he opened his eyes and took a quick look around the room but his gaze focused on Magnamon and he held his gaze a moment before getting up and jumping off the bed.
"Kenji and Dorumon, you are required to attend a meeting with the leader of our organization and a representative from the Olympus Twelve at noon today. If you try to leave this palace then we will be forced to stop you. Even if we delete your partner and you in the process."
I didn't think he deserved a response, especially since he ignored Angewomon and acted like she wasn't even in the room. I noticed however that Angewomon left the room but Magnamon never left the doorway. So where had she gone? Another question to ask I guess.
"Did you hear what I said, Kenji?"
I looked at him and sort of waved him off, "I heard you but I don't really care much." Which was a lie I just didn't like him much.
"I would do well to respond to your superiors if I were you."
"But you're not me. Also you wouldn't delete Dorumon and me. We mean too much to you even I can see that. Really, why else would I be here?"
Magnamon seethed with anger, "that friend of yours can do the job well enough without you around."
I smirked, he really didn't know much, go figure, "But would Hannah be willing to fight for you if she found out what you did to her friend? I don't think so."
"I swear to the sovereigns, I come to tell you of a meeting and I end up wanting to destroy you. Anything else you want?"
"Ummmm I wouldn't mind some of Kyo's wives food. She makes the best…chicken I think it was called."
Without responding he left the room and didn't even bother closing the door after him. Did that mean I was free to roam free? I looked at Dorumon and shrugged. But when we tried to go through the doorway a strange force blocked me, it felt like the same force that had kept me from going through the entrance to the human world. I realized at once what was going on. 1) I was a prisoner, 2) I was here for a reason and they didn't care if I wanted to do what they needed or not, they were forcing me, and 3) they are the ones responsible of keeping me in the digital world since I was six. I was not going to have fun.
A couple digimon scurried around Kenji's tent looking for clues as to where he could've gone. Jijimon had called for Kyo and he was set to be here soon but it wasn't soon enough. Kuwagamon, Airdramon, and Kabuterimon had gone off towards Gear Savanna with Greymon leading the way. Apparently he had heared a loud screech and recognized it as Gekomon's warning sound. All of our digimon were on alert.
Lunamon had stayed by her side the whole time and she was thankful for that but she knew the only person that could calm her down was Kenji. Hannah had cried and cried until all that was left were dry tears and sobbing while trying to breathe. Where could that idiot be?
What if he was dead? What if he was taken by the enemy? What if…what if he…
She couldn't stand the what ifs and she knew they were all false. She would know if he was dead. She always had a feeling when he was even hurt. And she would know if he was taken as would the entire city. If he was ambushed he would make it as loud and flashy as possible to alert anyone for help. And that hadn't happened so what did happen?
"Lunamon, we have to find him."
Lunamon patted her partner's hands and smiled sadly, "I know we do but how could we find him when they can't?"
"I know we can do it! We just have to look harder!" She stopped and looked at Lunamon who backed away with her eyes wide and a few tears collected around them. She had never yelled at Lunamon until now and she felt like crap but with all that was happening she couldn't find it within myself to feel crappier.
She was about to say something when out of nowhere a loud exlposion came from the direction of Gear Savanna.
He didn't know why they did it or even when they found the time to charge such a powerful attack but he didn't seem to care. After he had found an area littered with digieggs and a green one in the middle of them all he knew what had happened. But then Kabuterimon, Airdramon, and Kuwagamon attacked him from behind.
"You will be another to fall, Greymon! You were all fools to deny us! You knew this would happen but you kept them around anyways!"
Greymon shrugged off the pain from the attack and started to charge his own; he had beaten digimon like them before he could definitely beat these fools. Airdramon rose to the air before falling into a steep dive towards Greymon who opened his mouth and let out a fire ball so big it left Airdramon with no room to dodge. A singed shape fell to the ground after the fire disappeared and a struggling Airdramon was all that was left. Kabuterimon and Kuwagamon rushed him and head butted him in the stomach and knocked Greymon back but Greymon kept his ground and grabbed both of their heads and smashed them in the ground. In strength he was stronger. In speed however he was slower but he knew ways around that flaw. He had a great defense.
"FIRE WALL!" and at that a wall of fire erupted between him and the other digimon and burning Kuwagamon and Airdramon who had just gotten back up but Kabuterimon surged up and over the wall before attacking him with his signature move.
"ELECTRO SHOCKER!" And several balls of electricity flew towards Greymon who braced himself and stood his ground once more.
"NOVA BLAST!" Fire met electricity and both were at a standstill until the fire overwhelmed the electricity and attacked Kabuterimon who was lost in a sea of flames. The attacks ended and Greymon stood panting while the other three digimon laid down and caught their breaths.
"You are a disgrace! Attacking fellow digimon like this! Where do you think we are? The South Quadrant?" Greymon was about to finish them off but a sound from behind stopped him. He turned around and before he knew it a long sharp spike invaded his view and impaled his head. All that was left was a egg, three hurt digimon and a pissed off fallen digimon.
"Now boys, who would like to help me kill a couple hundred fools?"
Airdramon, Kuwagamon, and Kabuterimon looked at one another and smiled, it was time.
The invasion had begun.
