Drowning

Shadow- "I have a statement to make! I love Ibuprofen!"

Renamon- "...what is... Ib... whatever?"

Shadow- "It's a medicine that gets rid of headaches and fever. And it's the only reason I'm getting this chapter out today."

Renamon- "...o...kay... Shadow does not own digimon."

Shadow- "The story's almost over, so be sure to review!"


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Jake crept along closely behind the three scouts, followed by the digidestined and the other members of the strike force.

After a few minutes of creeping along through the dark caves, the lead scout stopped, and motioned at Jake.

Jake snuck forward, and peaked around a corner with the lead scout. After a moment, his head reappeared, grinning fiercely.

"We're here!" he said in a barely constrained whisper, and motioned them forward.

The digidestined moved forward, and got their first look at the city.

Below them, stretching across the faintly orange rock, was a city. Squat silver building dotted the landscape, mostly concentrated around the defining feature of the chasm: a giant lake in the middle. Its azure waters contrasted with the lifeless orange of the surrounding rocks, and was the obvious reason why the city was built here. Other buildings surrounded the lake, but nowhere were structures more concentrated then around the shoreline. In the center of the lake rose an enormous burnished silver tower, which split halfway up, forming two delta-shaped peaks.

Jake nodded at the building in the center of the lake. "That's got to be defense mechanism, somehow... and the building around the lake are military installations...perfect..."

He turned to the group, including the digidestined. "Okay! Listen up! Attack the surrounding installations before you attack the central spire. But make sure you do it thoroughly! If any of them escape, they could launch a counter attack!"

He took out his digivice, which looked very different from the digidestinds'. It had three stripes of color running down it, and had fewer buttons. Jake lifted it up high, and shouted "Go, Kaligamon!"

The black dragon digimon burst from the shadows and blasted fire upon the city, followed closely by the other digimon.

The digidestined hesitated for a moment, then took out their digivices as well.

DIGIVOLUTION

"Guilmon... digivolve to... Growlmon!"

"Windmon... digivolve to... Whirlwimon!"

"Hawkmon... digivolve to... Aquilamon!"

"Wormmon... digivolve to... Stingmon!"

"Inamimon... digivolve to... Lupamon!"

"Obscamon... digivolve to... Trigamon!"

"Canemon... digivolve to... Ferocanemon!"

"Aucemon... digivolve to... Magnaucemon!"

"Corrimon... digivolve to... Resocorrimon!"

"Basimon... digivolve to... Infibasimon!"

Their digimon joined the others, and Jake yelled "Come on! Let's get in the fight!", jumped on one of the skeleton birds, and flew off. The others soon followed suit, closely followed by the digidestined.

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As fire swept through the city, Alex and the group of nine digidestineds stood in shock.

Alex was the first to react. "What the hell?! We're under attack?!"

She quickly turned to the military base, but it caught fire moments later, screams echoing from all sides.

"Damn it!" she yelled, "They've taken out the soldiers! They'll kill everyone at this rate!"

"Umm... maybe we can help." Tai said.

Alex turned around. "Of course! You have digimon! You can fight on their level!"

Davis nodded. "Sure thing! You ready, Veemon?"

His digimon nodded.

"Agumon digivolve to... Greymon! Greymon digivolve to... Metalgreymon!"

"Gabumon digivolve to... Garurumon! Garurumon digivolve to... Weregarurumon!"

"Tentomon digivolve to... Kabuterimonmon! Kabuterimon digivolve to... Megakabuterimon!"

"Biyomon digivolve to... Birdramon! Birdramon digivolve to... Garudamon!"

"Palmon digivolve to... Togemon! Togemon digivolve to... Lilymon!"

"Gomamon digivolve to... Ikkakumon! Ikkakumon digivolve to... Zudomon!"

"Elecmon digivolve to... Centarumon! Centarumon digivolve to... Sagittarimon!"

"Veemon digivolve to... Exveemon!"

"Armadillomon digivolve to... Ankylomon!"

Alex cheered, as the digimon finished digivolving. "That was the coolest thing ever!"

Each digidestined hopped on their digimon, so they could help out in battle. Alex jumped on Exveemon with Davis. "Let's go!"

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Jake circled the lake again from his bird, watching the digidestined. A sudden noise startled him.

He turned around, and saw a group of digimon flying and running towards them. He frowned.

That's odd... I didn't call for reinforcements... hell, I don't even have any reinforcements... who is that?

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Exveemon flew around the burning city, circling the edges of the lake. Alex clung tightly to Davis to avoid falling.

Exveemon attacked one of the skeleton birds, sending it and its rider crashing into the lake below. Alex cheered.

Davis looked around at her, grinning. "You can yell pretty loud, but I bet I can yell louder!"

Alex grinned. "You're on!"

The two got into a yelling contest, and only stopped when Exveemon threatened to dump them in the lake.

Alex frowned. "You're no fun..."

Davis laughed, and looked back towards the center of the lake. "Umm... Alex? I thought you said that thing was just for show..."

Alex followed his gaze. The spire in the center of the lake began to glow at the top, emitting a violet-white light that pierced their eyes like daggers.

Alex yelled, and shielded her face with her arm, clinging to Davis with her other arm.

The light pulsated once, and the two humans felt Exveemon begin to be drawn towards the light.

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The same light also burned into Takato and the others. "What the hell?!" he yelled, as his skeleton bird bucked once, then was drawn towards the light.

He watched as the other digimon and humans were all drawn towards the light from the spire.

The air rippled once, and all the digimon suddenly disappeared.

The digidestined plunged headfirst into the lake below.

They sank quickly, as if the water wasn't there. But it was, and squeezed in on them, forcing the air out of their lungs, and leaving them nothing to breathe.

Just before passing out, they heard a voice.

You are close to what you seek... but you may not like what you find...