Author note:What the hell, there is actually an upgrade here ? Well it took me enternity and I got no idea if I'll write more than chap 10.
Have fun.
Chapter 9
Yokomon village
"Tai have you seen my D-Terminal ? I searched everywhere ." Kari was troubled that she had already lost her D-terminal, only a week after she had gotten it.
"I´m sorry Kari, I got no idea ." they were on the schoolyard and Tai played some cards with Sora and Makusu, who only shock their heads, while Kari now went back into the school building.
"You will give her back her D-terminal, right ?" Sora said, not even looking at Tai, while she inspected her cards, this was nothing that could shock them anymore.
"Why do you think that I got it ? She could have simply lost it." Tai denied his involvement, but Sora wouldn't let herself get tricked by him.
"Well I'm sure she will find it at an obvious place, right after her brother comes back from school, am I right ?" for a moment, Tai wanted to keep on denying, but he gave in and only nooded in response.
Makusu had been silent during all of this, something unusual for him, but he simply couldn't bring himself to interrupt this scene and he had to hide a wide grin behind his cards.
It was simply too funny when Tai and Sora started act like an old couple, without noticing it.
They then kept on playing, until the school bell ended the break and they had to go back to class.
Later that day, Kari really found her D-Terminal again, it simply layed underneath her bed and she was overjoyed by this.
The next day, after school, they were all called by the DRU, there had been a new incident in the digital world.
They were all gatherd in a small conference room and the Commander stood in front of them, explaining the situation.
"There has been activity in the Digital World, nothing here in Japan, but some sort disruption in the barrier seperating it from our world. John, Tai and Makusu will go to this mission, the others will stay here in case anything goes wrong." Tai sighed a little, he was relieved that Kari wouldn't get into danger, and thankfully nobody noticed his reaction.
Both John and Makusu had already stood up and got ready to go, Bushiagumon stretched itself and appeared to be eager for a battle.
The little samurai digimon had not liked the fact that he had not been able to do anything against the Kuwagamons and the fact that John and Commandramon had tried to do everything on their own, made it even worse.
"Be careful Tai." Kari told her brother as he approached the computer, which they would use to enter Digital World and the fact that Agumon was again moaning about his back pain made it obvious what she meant.
He had acted careless during their last mission, Kari had been in danger and he had forgotten anything around him, hurting his partner in the process.
"Get ready, I won't wait for you if keep on ideling." John commanded with an harsh tone, they still didn't get along well, it had been two weeks since their last mission and the young Brit still kept his distance towards the others, he didn't talk much with them in school and afterwards simply disappeared, but nobody wanted to force him.
"Alright, lets go !"
The transit only took a splitsecond, like always, for a short moment they found themself surrounded by lights and colours and then they were in the Digital World.
But they location was strange this time, not some deserted mountain range or an large forest, no they had landed right in the middle of a village, made of dozens of huts, hardly large enough for a human to fit in.
"Visitors ! We've got visitors." a high voice screamed and numerous small digimon gatherd around them, Yokomons, the In-training form of Soras Biyomon.
They jumped and squeaked around them, amazed by these unknown creatures.
" We need to celebrate our new guests !" one of the screamed and every Yokomon followed, screaming "Celebration !"like a choir.
"We got no time for parties. Could you tell us something ? Have you seen any other humans around ?" John asked, he felt uneasy with this and simply wanted to finish the mission as fast as possible.
"No, no other humans. But we need to celebrate new friends, bring the food !" all the digimon answerd as one and John appeared to be a little intimidated by these many digimon, who wouldn't let them leave.
They had no other choice and accepted the invitation, the Yokomon brought blankets to sit on and bowls filled with seeds, nothing but seeds.
"Eat new friends !" none of the boys and not even their digimon had any appetite for this, but it would have been rude to not eat anything.
So Tai took a full hand of the small objects and putted them in his mouth, chewing them loudly and for several minutes, until he swallowed them, with disgust on his face.
"It's good." he lied and his companions did the same, at least nobody could tell them now that they ate to few fibbers, but no one was able to eat more than two full hands at best.
They stayed in the village for half hour, while the small digimon danced around them happily, but then they finally left, although the Yokomon protested loudly.
"Ok that was strange." Tai spoke out what went though everybodies head, but they now stayed silent as they walked through the desert, which surrounded the village.
Nothing but endless sand was in front of them, around them, everywhere and the sun burned down.
The village had been much cooler than everything around it and it was incredly tiring for them to keep on walking, even John was not able to hide the fact that the heat took much of his strenght.
"Did you notice it, too ?" John finally asked, after half an hour of walking, but nobody understood what he meant.
"Those Yokomon, yes they appeared friendly, but there was something strange about them, it seemed like they wanted to keep us in their village.
Some of them even started to cry as we left." John was right, but neither Makusu, nor Tai believed this to be worrying.
" Maybe they were just very friendly and don't have visitors very often, but we left the village, so no reason to worry." John looked at Makusu, but he was right, so the young Brit stopped thinking about it.
" But we should return to the village in an hour, we don't have much water and it won't make much sense to dehydrate and die here." the last part of Johns sentence made the other boys shiver for a moment, dying here in the Digital World, this was something they had never thought about before.
They could die here, one wrong move, one digimon suprising them and everything could be over.
John noticed the change in the mood and he appreciated it, after all this had been his intention, to make them realice their situation, so that they would maybe even go and stop annoying him.
"Well you could see the positive side of this, none of you would have to deal with your female problems." both Tai and Makusu stopped, frozen in shock.
Had they just heared a joke, a joke made by John, even Commandramon couldn't believe what he just heared.
They all stopped, except for the young brit, who kept on walking, like nothing had happend, but a small smile was on his face, invisble for the others.
It was funny to see them react like that, even John needed fun sometimes, so why not make a joke on their costs ?
They wanted to keep on walking, but then Agumon stopped again, his face turning serious and dark.
"I smell fire, somethings burning down ." he said and Commandramon agreed, after he had noticed the scent, too.
"That's not good." John mumbeld, as he spotted something, a little smoke in the distance, just where the Yokomon village was.
It took the other two boys some time until they could also spot the smoke, which made them panik a little.
"Should we go back and look what's wrong ?" Tai asked, but John hestitated for a moment.
Why should they go back ? They had no business with the Yokomon, they would only get in danger if they went back.
On the other hand, maybe they could find out if somebody had tried to use the Yokomon to catch them.
"Alright lets go. Tai let Agumon evolve, we may be in time if we ride on Greymon." Tai didn't like the fact that John was commanding him around, but he had to agree with him.
"Agumon, are you ready ?"
Back in the Yokomon village, the little digimon really were in danger.
Musyamon and Ogremon had come to their village and were now burning it down, since the Yokomon had dissappointed them.
The Yokomon had been supposed to keep the humans inside the village, so that they could have simply catched them.
But the In-training digimon had failed and now they were punished for this failure.
"Please." one of them cried, while Ogremon destroyed another hut " we did everything we could, but humans wanted to leave, how should we have stopped them ?"
"How am I supposed to know that ? It was your job and you failed." another hut was crushed under Ogremons cludge, while Musyamon was busy igniting the rest of the village.
"Why do you bother to make fire, samurai. Just smash them ?" Musyamon gave his comrade a pittyfull look before he replied, without even looking at him
" Those humans will see the smoke and then they will return to see what has hapend to the village .
Then we'll catch them." Ogremon small brain needed sometime to understand the plan, but then he simply returned to smashing things.
Musyamon eyes observed the surroundings of the village and a small smile formed on his face, since he noticed a small, fastly approaching dust cloud.
"Ogremon, stop the destruction. We'll hide and ambush and you ..." he turned towards the Yokomon
" get lost and don't you dare warning the humans."
"What happend here ?" they were shocked, it seemed like an earthquake had destroyed the village, nearly no hut had been left unharmed and several ruins were still burning.
The boys searched the village, but they couldn't find anything or anybody, the whole village was deserted.
"They must have run away from somebody or something." Tai noted, as he kicked a rock around, this was depressing, they wanted to help the small digimon but now they were all gone.
"Yeah maybe." John mumbeld, while he inspected some of damage.
It was strange, they had been near enough to notice an earthquake or and tornado and none of this damage looked like it had been done by something like this.
No, the walls were pulverised, like something had hitted them, like somebody had destroyed them on purpose.
He also knew that there couldn't been any digimon bodies, they simply disintigrated, but still, some buildings were not harmed at all, like the attacker had been interrupted.
But by what ?
" Horn Buster !" Johns thoughts were interrupted, since Greymon had answerd his questions.
"You suck at hiding Ogremon." Tai taunted the green champion digimon, who was trying to get up on his feet.
He had simply ducked behind a large rock, but his white hair had made it easy for them to spot him.
"You little pest." Ogremon growled, as he swung his cludge but Greymon easily dodged it and hitted his opponent with his tail in return.
Greymon had gained a little more experience in battle and the clumsy attacker was no real opponent for him anymore.
" Mega Flame !" Greymons attack hitted Ogremon perfectly and setted him on fire, so the green champion tried to push them out, waving his arms like crazy.
"Watch out !" Bushiagumon was just in time to block the sword that had been meant for Tai, who had been standing next to Greymon the whole time.
But the force of Musyamons attack was stopped by Bushiagumons body , who took the attack.
The little warrior was thrown through the air by the hit and crashed into one the ruins.
"Bushi !" Makusu directly ran towards his partner, as Musyamon aimed another strike at him.
But this time his blade was intercepted by a knife, Sealsdramons knife to be precise, who had digivolved and charged into the battle.
The samurai was pissed, this damm machine always came into his way and was more than annoying, he would take them out this time.
"AH !" Ogremon was still on fire and now ran away, still trying to stop the fire.
The green champion quickly ran out of sight and Greymon turned towards the other opponent, charging at Musyamon, trying to ram him with his horn.
The samurai was able to evade the attack, by jumping backwards, just like Sealsdramon had to, so that he wouldn't get hit by his ally.
"Uselees Ogremon. I already took out one weakling, you two won't be any problem for me either." he mumbeld angry through his teeths.
Both Greymon and Sealsdramon got ready again, the machine digimon stood in front and mumbeld towards the dinosaur
"I'll attack him in close combat, you'll shoot your fire ball at him once you get a clean shoot." he now charged at his opponent again and both of their blades clashed again, while Greymon watched the battle.
Makusu had run towards his partner, while the battle had gone on, who was still burried under some debris.
The young man through away the rocks, until he could lift the small dinosaur out of the ruin.
"Man your heavy partner." he mumbeld, while the digimon only replied with a weak moaning .
He leaded his partner against one of the intact walls and inspected his wounds, one deep cut and many bruises.
"Dammit , I should have watched better." Makusu blamed himself, but his little friend opend his eyes and smiled weakly
"Don't worry, something like this won't kill me."
" Mega Flame !" the fight had taken a bad direction for Musyamon, Greymons fireball had seriously burned his right arm, which made it harder for him to block the machines attacks.
Musyamons anger boiled, he wouldn't let himself get beaten like this, by weak insects like them.
"Shogun Sword !" the samurais attack was faster than Sealsdramon had calculated it and the sword penetrated his shoulder, making him moan in agony.
Musyamon teared the blade out of his enemy, increasing the damage even more, making the machine go down on its knees and a moment later he devolved back to Commandramon, lying flat on the ground.
"Commandramon !" John wanted to run towards his partner, but Tai tackeld him down, while Greymon took care.
Musyamon was so focused on Sealsdramon, that he forgot about Greymon for moment, giving the dinosaur the opening he needed.
He hitted his opponent with his tale, sending him flying across the village, crashing against one of the more massive walls, where he collapsed.
Greymon now got ready to finish this, building up an large flame in his mouth, which made the samurai only smile a little.
"I'm not worthy of living if a can't beat trash like you." he mumbeld, ready for his life to end.
"Watch out !" Makusus warning came just in time for Greymon to react, something came down on him and made him fall back.
It was an strange digimon which had attacked, it had four legs like a horse, the torso looked like an knight and was aroumed in pitch black metal.
It also carried some sort of giant dart, was around as tall as Greymon and even worse, a human stood on top of its head.
The human wore a long, brown coat, covering all of its body and its face.
Everybodies eyes were fixed on the human, but he didn't say anything, instead he simply gave a signal and the knight digimon grabbed the wounded samurai.
Greymon overcome his shock, but he wasn't fast enough to react, it jumped far away and it was already out of side after three jumps.
They were all still suprised by this, the digimon had appeared out of nowhere, it had an human partner, at least it looked like this and had saved Musyamon, even Ogremon had been able to escape again.
"Thank you." the small Yokomon suddenly appeared again, they had hidden in some of ruins and now approached the humans.
"We are sorry that we tried to trick you." some of the in-training digimon said, with tears in their eyes, but only Tai payed attention to them, Makusu was busy carrying Bushiagumon, while John huried to his partner.
"Don't worry J, I'm alright." the small soldier-digimon said, but his human partner, simply hugged him, with tears in his eyes.
"Don't scare me like this again, idiot." he mumbeld, while Tai and Makusu silenty observed him.
"You know that you could simply send Bushiagumon in your D-Terminal, right Makusu ?" Tai commented as his friend nearly collapsed under his partners weight, Agumons were already heavy but Bushis additional aromour made it nearly immosible for Makusu to carry him.
"Of course, just wanted to make sure that he doesn't die while in there." he mumbeld, but Bushi directly crushed his lie.
"I told you I won't die, you just forgot the D-Terminal like you always do." only a second afterwards Makusu pressed a button on his D-terminal on his wounded partner desintigrated into light, which went into the device.
"See, I knew about it." both Agumon and Tai only rolled their eyes about Makusu bad attempted to lie.
John now also approached them, with Commandramon in the D-Terminal and somehow, he appeared more sympathic to Tai and Makusu than before.
They felt bad when they left the village, leaving the Yokomon alone with nothing but ruins, but the little digimon insisted that it was no problem for them.
Back in the DRU-HQ, they reported what had happend to Commander Honda, who told them, with worry clearly audible in his voice
"That's disturbing boys. We are confronted with a new situation. Finding digimon in our world is no problems, even humanoid versions can hardly hide here, but humans who cooperate with our opponents.
They can cause damage and we wouldn't even notice it directly.
I want you to watch out for everything that appears unusual and connected to the Digital world, we don't need somebody kidnapped again."
it was strange for them to see the Commander like this, normally he was controlled and a bit distant, but this seemed to trouble him.
"But as far as I know you won't be able to go on any missions for the next month, since your exam phase starts soon."
The commander hitted an soft spot and both Tai and Makusu were now completely depressed, while John and Commandramon wanderd of a little.
"What do you think of this partner. Humans cooperating with the powers that want to destroy both worlds. Seems unreal."
"Not really John. The combination of a humans and digimons unlocks new levels of power, so why shouldn't our opponents try to use this, too ?"
For a moment John stopped and looked at his partner, before he smiled a little and said
"You know Commandramon, sometimes you should also talk a little more, your quite smart ."
" Well, not everybody can be as dumb as Agumon or V-mon." John smiled about his partners comment.
"Did he just call me dumb, why ?" Agumon was standing a few feet away and had heard Commandramons comment.
His eyes were tear-filled and he didn't understand why somebody would say something like this about him.
"Don't worry pal. You're smarter than most." Tai tried to cheer up his partner, who at least didn't start crying like a little baby now.
For a moment, Tai hestitated before he said something, but then he asked John :
"Hey John, Makusu and me are getting something to eat, want to come with us."
For a moment John paused, he didn't really know what to answer, but he finally replied
"Yeah, why not."
Chapter 9
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