Ch 8
The agents from Hypnos were running as fast as they could. Running through the hall as fast as three soldiers could when running an obstacle course. The commanding NCO, a sergeant, was at the middle while a cameraman tried to point the camera at their purser. The men were legitimately terrified as they were being chased by the angel.
"I will smite thee!" Nami Asajimon threatened the perverted deviants. "I shall put you on a cross!"
"Haul ass!" the Sergeant ordered running. He clicked a walkie that was connected to his mask. "Tsujita! Break out the P90! Be ready to use it!" the man said while running.
"What is that sir? Over," the soldier's confused reply came over the radio.
"Just do as I said!" the sergeant barked to the soldier on the radio.
The men had just reached a stairwell as the transformed teacher shouted. "Let me make you meet your maker!" yelled an enraged Asajimon chasing after the men. "I will send you to hell and then purify you!" she said forming an arrow made of lightning. "Eat my Celestial Arrow heathens!"
"Duck!" The men leaped down the stairwell and were worried they'd get killed when another teacher, the one who had been with the one that was chasing them now, tackled her. Asajimon grunted as she fell to the ground.
The Sergeant and his men proceeded to run down the stairs and out of the building. The cameraman got some good shots of the teacher as they left. "Move! Move! Move! Move!"
Asajimon was not happy, she glared at Morimon. "You fool those Heathens defiled me and made comments that are unbecoming of my type!"
"And that gives you the right to kill them?" Morimon said, his arms looked stronger and his hair was longer than earlier today.
"They are heathens and idiots that gives me more than enough right to kill them!" she shouted.
"It does not! They just upset you. Our type must not kill them Asajimon as murder is a crime, even if they are perverts. We're teachers, not killers. We need to set an example for the kids. Also, if you're in prison, I can't visit you. I actually like you. And I don't want you to be in jail." the teacher said quietly. Asajimon was taken aback by Morimon's confession.
Asajimon was not sure how to reply to the confession of love from her coworker. "Well, I guess we can try…" Asajimon then realized something, the perverts escaped!
She pushed off Morimon and groaned. "You let them escape!"
"Because murder is a crime." Morimon told her. Asajimon sighed. He had a point and she did not want to go to prison. She threatened government agents. They could report her to the principle or worse the school board! She'd be out of a job and be kicked from her apartment by the end of the month. She was not going to be some homeless woman.
"Oh, gods and the Sovereign. I could be out of work!" Asajimon sweats nervously at that thought.
"And in jail for murder charges killing government agents, even if they were heathens, would deprive you of your students and me." Morimon replied to Asajimon he helped her up.
"Come one. Let's go get some coffee." Morimon offered.
"Alright." Asajimon nodded in agreement. The two human Digimon left the pursuit of government agents to get some coffee. "I am beat. These kids are sure stubborn today."
"Tell me about it. They kept asking me about my hair today." Morimon walked with Asajimon.
Asajimon left with her fellow teacher. While leaving to get coffee, a third-grade student sneezed as they passed. This little girl did not notice her hair becoming redder or the fact she had little pointed-teeth poking out from her lips.
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Henry was walking back home nervously. He was trying to cover his ears with his sweatshirt, he had a sweatshirt with today for the cold weather, for Tokyo standards anyways, and he had the hood up over his head. He felt it was best to hide his head from view due to the changes that his ears had undergone.
Henry was rightfully scared of being found out. Henry was scared he'd be thrown in a cage and transported to some army base. There he could not imagine what would happen. He did not want to be thrown into a lab and poked and prodded by a grown-up version of his sister.
"Don't worry Henry, I'll put you back together." Henry shivered at that thought, as the shiver went lower than it should.
The daydream of that was broken by the crowd moving across the street as Henry walked home on autopilot. He was scared out of his mind. He did not know how this was happening but it was. This was like some bizarre Kafka inspired disease that was now afflicting him he had to be careful.
He was waiting near a major intersection his way home Henry heard a loud tone for a news broadcast on a gigantic television screen at this intersection. He looked across the street and saw a news headline for Nichiuri TV. The anchor shuffled his papers and smiled at the audience from the giant screen. The screen put up an image of the American and Russian flags.
"Promising reports from Lucerne this morning as American President James Lawrence and Russian President Konstantin Sharapov are extremely close to signing a mutual agreement regarding nuclear weapons in the Middle East and further nuclear security. This comes after a session late yesterday and both Presidents having a long private meeting late last night. Many people think this private session put off the edge both men have towards one another. The Lucerne scene is busy as many world leaders are in that Swiss destination. The hope is nuclear proliferation will be squashed greatly and the tensions both the US and Russia have been having lately are reduced greatly." The report showed footage of the two leaders meeting, having idle chatter and being rather friendly.
"Here in Japan, While Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura has been in Lucerne for several days, the opposition is saying that he should return soon. He needs to be ready to return home for his preparation for his China summit in a week." The screen showed Eiji Kubo, a man Henry's mother praised and showed the PM not being involved much in Lucerne.
Henry began to walk as the road was now safe to cross. As he crossed with the crowd. The giant screen showed an airliner and a question mark. "Over the Pacific last night a Mid-West Cargo flight, a 747 had a minor collision with what pilots and Hawaiian Air Traffic Controllers say was a UFO. The Mid-West Flight sustained minor damage and landed in Oahu with only minor injuries to the crew. The pilot reportedly said the "Creature was a giant bird. This claim has many people claiming that this is connected to a string of other UFO incidents in recent days. Mid-West Airlines and the NTSB have refused to comment on the pilot's statements."
The headlines then went to commercials for Flu Buddy and Pressure Energy Drink. Pressure Energy drink shows a Salaryman having superman-human speed after taking a drink. He was able to get his work done fast he ran home and cleaned his house. Said salaryman then went to the club and partied. Henry looked at the ad and scoffed. "What a load of garbage."
"What's Garbage?" Terriermon poked his head out of his bag.
"This ad!" look at it." he said as they crossed.
Terriermon laughed. "I like that ad Henry it's funny and the Salaryman in it is able to get his work done and get his chores done. Then he can party all night! Sounds like my kind of drink! I don't get why you and I don't drink it, Henry." Henry sighed at his partner's insistence. It seemed like Terriermon forgot about the more pressing issue.
"Maybe later. I don't want to terrify the store clerk with my ears." Henry whispered to his partner, "They may chase me out with a baseball bat!" Henry hiss in quiet exclamation.
"Oh come on if you're turning into me you can fight them off with some attacks and scare them away."
Henry grumbled. He really did not want to hurt the convenience store worker doing his job or worse get hurt by a convenience store worker. Sure he knew some moves but still a guy with a baseball bat was still a guy with a baseball bat, you kinda ran away from that... As brave as Henry was metal or wood bats they would still hurt, a lot.
"Let's not tempt fate because if we get found we get thrown into a lab somewhere. I'd rather not be poked, prodded, examined, and dissected." He told Terriermon as he began towards his apartment.
"Oh come on we won't be in a lab but a zoo!" Terriermon laughed loudly. A gaijin tourist looked around for the laughter and Henry stuffed Terriermon into his bag. Henry smiled, in that not innocent but "I am totally innocent" style children did when caught doing something they weren't supposed to do.
The tourist sighed and said something in the line of "This whole country is nuts." At least as best as Henry's English language skills could tell him. He also had some pretty good understanding of English curse phrases from his mother, no expected a proper Japanese woman of cussing out a big tough trucker when she was mad.
Henry had to get home now. Heaven only knew…
Then he paled. What if the others were affected by this...ailment? Henry would have to go home and call from there. Henry began jogging as he headed towards his home. He prayed this was not contagious. He really did not want his parents getting sick too.
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The van the that had the Hypnos agents drove as fast as they could through the streets of Tokyo towards their HQ. The van was not a safe place to sit but the choice between death and following the traffic laws was one of priority. Though the sergeant had to be careful running the van's sirens and lights was something the bosses did not like. People thought the van was an unmarked van or something.
The sergeant was hoping the contents of the video recorder would persuade the bosses of what they had seen and that they were not liars. The story they would tell, their bosses would have every right to say they are lying.
The sergeant and his men were in shock what had they just witnessed? They were military or police officers but this was not something Digimon could do, at least according the eggheads. What they witnessed should not be possible. It was difficult to describe, his mind could not comprehend what had occurred which is why he was happy the camera had the lens cap off and was recording. Then he would be able to recount his story better.
Tsujita was confused as he was not present when the incident happened. But whatever it was it made the men in the vans pale from fear. They all inhaled and exhaled deeply in their facemasks.
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Takato was playing with Guilmon at the slide near the den. It was very fun to play with his Digimon friend. Takato was very happy.
"Come on boy! Chase me!" yelled Takato as they ran around the slide. The buskers at the park were playing a good song to play a game of chase. It seemed like Takato heard it before. Oh well, it was a good chase song.
"Feet don't fail me now!" laughed Takato as he ran around the park slide. The eventually got tired after fifteen minutes of playing. The running around the park was fun. They saw all sorts of people and play many games all over the areas of the park. One was an odd man. He was dressed all nice and in a suit with a surgical mask. But the businessman did not have a suitcase. He had a surgical bag. Like the one the doctor who visited the bakery when on local business would stop by.
Takato saw his odd man walk by them and he stopped. He slowly gazed at Takato and Guilmon. He began to approach the duo. "You are certainly very late for Halloween, aren't you?" the man questioned.
Takato smelled something off about the man. He could not place it. But the thing Takato did not get is why did the man think he was wearing a costume. He a human world Digimon. He was not in a costume.
"I am not in a costume." Takato said plainly.
The man gave Takato a quizzical look. "Son, your arms are red with dark markings and your skin looks like it is sunburned. I think it is a getup. You and your friend are apart of some tokusatsu that is on a break and there are no cameras are there?"
Takato twitched his ears and Guilmon opened his mouth and yawned it was beyond the ability of practical effects. The yawning Guilmon showed the man a moving tongue and saliva as it smacked its chops at some half thought.
The man gave both Takato and Guilmon a creepy smile under the mask. The smile unnerved Takato and Guilmon, there was some underlying menace to his smile. "The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. " The man then cackled as he laughed his eyes went wall-eyed. The laughter started like he remembered a joke and quickly became disturbing.
Takato and Guilmon tried to get away from this crazy man.
As suddenly as he started laughing he stopped. He looked at the boy and Digimon in the eyes. "Ah, Lovecraft was a brilliant man. You see I am here in Tokyo on vacation."
Both Takato and Guilmon tilted their heads. "Vacation?" they both asked.
The man made the disturbing smile, "Yes I live in Shizuoka. I have a full month off and I am going to enjoy Tokyo around Christmas time." the man held his arms out wide, looking up at the sky.
"You see I am here in Tokyo to help people find the truth and you know what I have decided this area of Tokyo is where I will be happy. I had to leave Shizuoka. After my vacation, I will be satisfied for some time." The man made the scales of both Takato and Guilmon rise. If Takato still had hair on his arms they would be rising up out of concern.
Guilmon sniffed the man's bag. "What is in there?"
The man made that creepy smile again. "My supplies for my trip. My bags are at the hotel." The man did a spin on his heel and promptly began walking away.
"Where you going to go?" asked Takatomon weirded out by this mysterious man.
"Where the urge sends me, my boy." the man began to walk away muttering something under his breath. "The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods…" the man said as he shuffled away.
Guilmon and Takatomon still felt shocked two minutes later when they decided to get up and go elsewhere to play.
Takato wished he could have pyro-sphered that creep they just met.
Takatomon debated going home and taking it easy for a bit but his parents weren't expecting him home for another hour. Perhaps he could bring Guilmon home tonight? Takatomon shook his head, his mommon would put down her scaly foot and tell Takatomon a hard no. She was always anti-Digital World Digimon. He never got why his parents hated Digimon from the Digital World. Takato thought that racism was stupid.
Sure they may be a little wild but Guilmon was sweet. Much like Takatomon himself he got a little wild when he was angry or went after a Digimon. Takatomon and Guilmon chased one another, neither really commenting that the red was at the sides of Takato's neck and the skin on his chest began to pale. That pale pigment was white in color. It was spreading across his chest and stomach. Up his neck crept a red scaly skin, while down his cheeks crept that red skin.
The strangest change was to Takatomon's nose. His nostrils were now farther apart, not drastically (only half an inch) but enough to be odd looking. Guilmon noticed these changes but shrugged it off. Perhaps it was what happened to humons? He really didn't get it.
Takatomon felt uncomfortable with his tail pent up in his pants but he'd need to wait until later let his tail out.
The two kept running around until they were hungry again. This time they fought over the bread and wrestled over who got more.
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Rika was busy she was running through the whole of Shinjuku from school. She had to win against Renamon. Rika was competitive, that was a large part of her character. So leaping across the rooftops of Shinjuku from the roof of Studio Alta near Shinjuku Station the duo leaped to a movie theater building behind it and towards a hotel near the rail station. They got to the across a major street. Perhaps a driver below may have seen a blur that looked like a girl for a fraction of a second but most did not notice her and Renamon.
Renamon saw where Rika was heading an over twenty-stories tall hotel, Rika leaped from the building near a busy entrance for Kabukichō, the red light district, she leaped to a lower part of the hotel and stopped before making a four-story leap, before pushing of the building and leaping again. Renamon saw Rika climbed the building in a period of fifteen seconds. Renamon was much faster but more amazed at what Rika was doing.
"Rena, keep up!" replied the changing girl. Rika laughed as she then leaped down the hotel, six stories, then eight. She then ran across the roof of the six-story section of the hotel to neighboring private railway train station (which went into the hotel). From there she lept to the metal mast beams for the overhead electrical wires for trains. She reached one metal beam and lept to another one.
The gust of a passing train below nearly knocked her over, it was no bullet train but the speed was still enough for the wind blast from the train to cause the young mon balance issues. Renamon internally gasped. Rika regained her balance quickly. A twitching under her uniform helped with her balance. Rika collected herself for five seconds.
She then ran and lept to another electrical mast and then saw a building she could leap to. Rika tried to reach and six-story building but had to alter her trajectory in the air. Rika's leaps were altered by the rail traffic on the Yamanote line. She was on the roof a building and below she heard the sounds of women working out to pop music. He heightened hearing heard them gossiping.
The big news was her mother's meltdown in Rome. Rumiko Nonaka punched an Italian paparazzo and it was caught by other paparazzi. Rika did feel bad for her mom but at the same time, she hoped her mother understood what she felt like when she took Rika to see Cocomon. Rika was not a model. She had no inclinations to be one.
Rika's ears twitched as she leaped away from the gym. She had to get up high and away. A nearby building was awash with government activity, it was a location her mother and grandmother complained about, the local tax office. From where Rika was there were three choices to go towards, west of the tax office was a twenty- five story apartment complex and to the north of it was an oddly shaped building, and to the east the rail lines. Rika went for the oddly shaped building.
It was only sixteen stories with a tall roof for all the air conditioners and other equipment. She ran up the narrow side and after thirty seconds she was on the roof near the track for the window washing platform. The building rooftop was empty. Rika decided to sit and catch her breath.
Renamon appeared, she came from the shadows. She knew what was happening was not normal. Renamon was still swimming in her head with the whole strange situation. Rika was turning into a Digimon, a Renamon to be accurate and what scared Renamon the most Rika really did not notice anything off.
Rika's ears were now higher on her head and the tips of them had a white fuzz growing from them. Rika's thighs looked like a female body builder's if they had them at the preteen group Those same thighs looked like they had the power to do what they did to the Salaryman again. The most disturbing change of Rika's was her eyes the whites were now black.
"Rika… what is going on…" Renamon did not ask her tamer but the universe in her confusion. This whole thing was impossible to understand. What was going on?
"Why are you acting like this Aneki Rena?" Rika tilted her head. The blonde hair was spreading across her scalp. The young girl was steadily changing into something all too familiar to Renamon. The ears, the eyes and the legs it all seemed to be based on her. Rika was turning into a copy of her.
The most terrifying thing Rika didn't notice…
Wait... Aneki Rena?
ANEKI RENA?
ANEKI RENA!?
Renamon was lost in her shock at what Rika had just called her. She didn't hear the door to the roof open.
Out on the roof came a security guard in a sky blue uniform with sky blue peak cap. The strangest thing was the guard was wearing an odd mask on his face. Renamon would have no reference for human gas masks. The guard had a large rifle slung around his shoulder.
"A Digimon on the roof… let's send one guard!" mumbled the security man. Of course what Rika and Renamon heard was a muffled complaining due to the gas mask. The guard began to do his round on the roof for the search for the Digimon, he hoped it was a false lead.
Renamon regained her senses and noticed the guard. "We gotta hide." she said in a manner that was not as elegant as normal. Rika nodded in agreement with her "big sister"
Renamon hid in the shadows. Rika tried to hide behind an electrical box on the roof as the guard did his rounds. In her shadow form, Renamon moved quickly to distract the guard. She swept around him and found a big metal pole and she chopped at it.
It made a reverberating 'Ping!' sound. The guard spun 180 degrees on his feet and began to head towards the source of the noise. The guard reached for his walkie-talkie. "Command, I need support on the roof."
The walkie crackled back. "Wakayoshi, you're just jumpy."
"Maybe I am but this feels off." Wakayoshi replied on his walkie, he walked closer to the metal pole Renamon had chopped, she failed to notice it was a simple antenna. The guard looked at the dent in the pole. His white-gloved hand touched the pole and he tried to make a dent in it. He could not.
Command came back on the frequency as he felt the pole, "Look is there anything off up there?"
"Command we need people up here at least send two more men!" the guard replied more frantically.
"Wakayoshi, calm down. What is wrong?" the voice at the other end of the walkie calmly asked.
"I just found a hand-sized dent in one of the seven-meter antennas! And there was no damage report in the briefing this morning. And I tried and it cannot be dented by hand!" The guard was becoming jumpier.
Renamon decided she best get Rika off of this roof and out of here. She ran along the roof in shadow form to Rika. The guard saw a shadow where one was not supposed to be. The jump guard, began to seat.
"Command send those guys urgently!" the guard unslung his rifle and walked towards the north side of the roof.
Renamon saw the man coming towards them cautiously. Rika was hiding behind the box. And entered shadow form briefly. She was next to Renamon, Renamon had her jaw agape.
"What do we do Aneki Rena? Do we fight him we have numbers on our side." Rika was willing to end this weak threat to them.
"Don't be fooled Rika he has a gun and it can still hurt you and me a lot." she whispered.
"COMMAND!? Where is my backup!?" Wakayoshi nervously walked towards the electrical both Renamon and Rika was hiding behind. Guard Wakayoshi took his rifle off of safety and cocked it.
"We got a fire team coming up. Just stay safe." at Command's reassurance, Wakayoshi decided to back away from the electrical box. He reversed his pace walking backward to the door on the roof. He saw something odd poking up from behind the electrical box before but he could not be sure. It looked like a red and blonde hair-do.
Renamon grabbed Rika and leaped from the roof. Wakayoshi saw a yellow blur and tracked it with his rifle. It was heading Southwest to the west.
Rika felt something leave her right foot, it clattered on the roof…
Rika and Renamon ran from the roof of the heavily armed building near the rail tracks and did not stop until they were near the skyscrapers near Rika's home.
Back on the roof, four heavily armed men in black uniforms with gas masks approached Wakayoshi. They began to search the roof for evidence of the intruder. Wakayoshi found one odd thing to be an eighteen story building. A shoe that belonged to a young girl.
That should be strange enough but this shoe looked like something made it break from the inside. This was a dress shoe for a school. Why was it up here?
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Jeri was saddened, she had tried to help somebody and hurt them. It was not on her purpose but her claws and a tendency to come out by accident. It was not like she clawed the man on purpose but he acted like she did it on purpose.
Jeri felt bad because of the clawing of the man. He ran away saying mean things about her. She was curious why the man acted like he never saw a Digimon before.
Jeri made it back home and saw her father. His pointed ears and stubbled face nodded at her. She nodded at her father in return. He went back to serving the patrons of his restaurant. Her "step-mother" was there being a pale imitation of her mother. That woman was not somebody Jeri liked.
Jeri internalized her dislike of her step-mother, her father noticed at times but mostly he did not notice the boiling disdain she had for her step-mother Shizue. There was always an undercurrent of 'I don't like you' when Jeri said Shizue's name. Most would not think Jeri hated anyone but she always felt her father married Shizue make his life easier and had no considerations for her feelings.
Jeri rarely showed these feelings out publicly as her father said showing these feelings was not good for either of them. After her mom passed Jeri was told to smile. It was good to smile.
The problem was she rebelled in her own way, her puppet was her way of telling society that she would not be a bit that was the same as everyone else. Jeri still remembers "Conformity: Your friend", the film they showed in class emphasizing that society had to be harmonious and that it was bad to not be harmonious.
Jeri just internalized her feelings, the dark ones especially.
Though she wished she could beat up the bullies at school and show that she was not a weak little girl she was a brave girl. She was going to be a Leowomon someday! She would figure out her problems out, that she would. She was a brave and friendly girl.
Jeri walking up to her room saw Max, (Masahiko but the family called him Max).
"Hey Jeri-nee-san, When am I gonna get a cool tail?" asked the little boy innocently.
Jeri tilted her head, "What tail?" she asked confusedly.
Max pointed at the think swishing behind her absentmindedly. "That tail."
Jeri was confused, she didn't have a tail, did she? She did not remember a tail but a Leowomon would have a tail. She was confused. She had a headache. "I don't know Max. But I have a headache I am going to sit down for a bit and see if that makes me feel better."
Jeri went to her room to go to lie down. She had a good headache that came out of nowhere she hoped it was not a migraine. Migraines could be killer for Digimon. If one could not think straight how could they attack?
She was thinking of meeting up with Takatomon and discussing their recent assignment in Asajimon-sensei class. Maybe she could sneak and be with that knucklehead dreaming Dinosaur-boy. She would be lying to herself if she did not admit she crushed on him hard.
Maybe she could get a date with him…
Well not tomorrow but eventually. As Jeri dozed off, she itched her nose. The bottom of it seemed to be a bit off in color.
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Kazu and Kenta were at a local card store buying salivating over the new stock, they had just released a Christmas special and both boys wanted it. Kazu would have to twist his parents' arms while Kenta, well he would ask nicely and both his parents would try to get him what he wanted.
Kenta now had entirely purple hair and his nose seemed funny to him but he could not place it. Kazu, on the other hand, looked like he was an extra that played a robot man on a science fiction show. Kazu skin had a silver metallic sheen to it.
"Look at those cards Kenta…." Kazu salivated.
"I know." Kenta also salivated. "Just look, a brand new pack that was under the glass." Kenta pointed at it.
"A Thing of beauty. And also is a new booster pack." Kazu drooled figuratively.
The shopkeeper looked at the boys. "You two are dressed a little late for Halloween."
"What dress?" Kazu confusedly asked.
"The whole silver getup you got on ya." the shopkeeper pointed out.
"I don't get it." Kazu replied, looking at the cards behind the glass.
The shopkeeper went back to his manga. Kenta's hair had a few white streaks in it. Kazu's form had sharper edges, chin, jaw, and other rounded edges were becoming sharper.
The pair left the store, as Kazu left he gave a customer entering the store a good electrical shock. The annoyed man sighed he walked by with his brass horn case.
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At Hypnos Military headquarters, Captain Oyama was overwhelmed. The investigation teams had returned. Most came back with evidence of, something. Oyama knew the Digimon were capable of many things but this seemed impossible. Okubo hospital, Yodabashi Elementary, Harajuku, Daikanyama apartment tower, and Akihabara, all had evidence of this infection.
Oyama did not make sense of the videos he saw from many of these locations and these were just the ones that had returned. He did not know what the ones that had not returned had found. Some, he hoped, would show no sign of infection.
But since when is fate that merciful.
Izo, the head of the science department, looked terrified and so did Masao, the head of buildings and grounds.
The video from Yodobashi showed wings exploding from the back of a teacher. Such a thing should be impossible. But the team show the video to Oyama and others. The Okubo team came in. It showed victims in the hospital with bizarre features, mst minor but they saw a doctor have his face push out into a muzzle.
"When can we call Mifune?" Izo asked urgently.
"I have tried but you know how generals are. He's at Camp Akasaka talking with the brass. Then he'll take a helo to the Nagatacho heliport. From there to the PM's office. He's scheduled another emergency meeting with the Chief Cabinet Secretary." The captain stood up and nervously paced around the room.
"We have a foothold situation and the enemy is using biological contaminants. A mutagen to turn our population into theirs!" Oyama paced, I figure we may be able to get this contained but I am not holding my breath. If we're lucky we may be able to survive via EMPs. But I have to believe that the Americans or Russians or whoever would attack us will use nuclear weapons. We're dead one way or the other. I pray we're not too late."
The phone rang in the office and Oyama raced to pick it up. "Oyama here?"
"Mifune here. What is the emergency? You've called like ten times in the last hour." the man at Camp Akasaka asked over his satellite phone.
Oyama cleared his throat, "Sir all those Digimon we've been detecting they we're people! People Major! We have a full-scale foothold situation and we need to declare an emergency immediately!"
"What are you talking about?" Mifune questioned confused.
"All the teams we've sent out most that have returned has given us evidence of this bizarre infection or whatever it is." Oyama cleared his throat, "Sir, I have a man coming in a helicopter with video evidence you can give to the Chief Cabinet Secretary. But we need a full state of emergency declared by tonight!"
"Fine, you got a screen in the chopper?" asked Mifune.
"Yes, you give the evidence to the military and the cabinet secretary. Sir this is an invasion. And we have to move fast!" Oyama rubbed his scalp out of nervousness.
"Alright. I'll be back after the meeting with Ogata." Mifune sighed.
"Be safe sir." Oyama said aloud.
"I will." Mifune then hung up.
Izo gave Masao a crisp 5,000 Yen note.
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In Hakone, Yamaki had taken a nap. He was having the most rest he could have had in a long time. He was liking this.
While he slept, a grey color crept across his skin. He dreamed of kicking Mitamura's ass and being a badass. He laughed in his sleep. "I'll get you guys…." he mumbled in his sleep. He smiled with noticeably sharper teeth.
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Author's Notes
Well, Ch. 8 is done. The government knows and soon will find out en mass of how bad the outbreak is, And Yamaki will finally be found by Hypnos troops but that won't go well. Soon our heroes start to think that they had been Digimon all of their lives.
Also, a wild one appears and our heroes will fight it!