Well folks, it's time for another chapter. Not a whole lot to say up here, so let's get on with things.
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Last Time: The Tamers and Digidestined who managed to escape Tokyo, Takato, Ryo, Sora, Izzy, Cody, Matt, Kari, and Joe, all arrived at the Tamer's headquarters outside of Tokyo. There they met several of the Tamer's primary allies, and rested for the night in preparation for the next day's rescue mission.
Chapter 9 Rescue
Henry
"So who's your favorite character Henry?" Davis asked in what Henry had quickly learned was, for him, a quiet voice. He'd spent the last few hours getting to know the Digidestined a little better since none of them had really been able to catch more than a few minutes of sleep, and in the course of that discussion the TV show had come up.
Of course, that was mostly Terriermon's fault. Henry thought as he looked over at his partner, who was busy talking with the three Digidestined's partners.
"I actually didn't really watch the show." Henry replied after a second, taking the most diplomatic approach. Davis just nodded, accepting his answer. Henry was rather surprised at how well he was taking it. Davis seemed to think the fact that his adventures had somehow become a TV show here was cool rather than weird.
Henry didn't really have a gage one either of the other Digidestined's opinions, since neither of them had spoken since he'd dropped that little bomb shell. T.K. just seemed to be listening quietly, which he'd actually been doing most of the time they'd been holed up here, so Henry had no idea if that's how he normally was, or if the TV show revelation had done that to him. Yolei on the other hand did seem to be in a state of shock, which after the first hour or so of her interaction with Davis might actually be a good thing.
The two of them had been bickering about every little thing the entire time, and only a well phrased shut up from T.K. or the digimon could seem to get them to stop for any amount of time.
"So, you didn't really like the show?" T.K. asked, breaking his silence about a minute after Henry answered Davis.
"Well, it's not that I didn't like the show, I just had other things to do." Henry replied, thinking back to when the Digimon Adventure TV show had first aired. "I was much more interested in the card game than in the TV show."
"Card game?" Davis asked, regaining interest in the conversation. Henry nodded in answer to his question, reaching out to grab his backpack from against the wall. When they'd headed into the city he hadn't kept his cards on him, since he didn't have anything that would have given Terriermon a chance against most of the digimon in the city, other than Bio-merging. He had however kept his deck in his backpack. It had become something of a good luck charm for him, even when he didn't actually use it.
"Yea, the show was so popular that they made a series of collectable cards based on the TV series." Henry replied as he started searching through his backpack for his deck. "Eventually an entire game developed out of the card collection, which helped to make the show popular all throughout Japan."
Henry finally managed to get a hold of his deck at that point and held it out for the others to see. Davis took the deck almost as soon as it was offered, and pulled the cards out.
"Hey!" Davis exclaimed as he saw the cards. "These are just like the ones Tai has!"
That caused Henry to laugh, and he nodded as Davis looked over at him.
"Yea, when we repaired Tai's digivice, we modified it so that he could use our cards to power up Agumon." Henry said as Davis and T.K. looked at all of the cards. "In fact, he has some of the very best cards that were ever made in his deck."
"Really?" T.K. asked, and Henry nodded again.
"Yea, even though we repaired his digivice as best we could, he couldn't get Agumon to digivolve for some reason." Henry replied, taking his cards back as Davis and T.K. finished looking through them. "So to compensate we gave him a bunch of the most powerful cards we'd ever made."
"You guys made the cards?" Davis asked, looking impressed.
"Well, not originally." Henry replied, looking down at his deck. "Originally all of these were developed for the card game, and the developers didn't make a whole lot of super powerful cards. However, a few years ago we got the idea to develop a few decks stacked with ultra-powerful cards, something the Tamers who can't Biomerge could use to fight off stronger opponents. Tai got the first deck that we finished."
"That was pretty good of you guys." T.K. said, looking over at Henry, who looked right back.
"Yea, well by the time all that had happened Tai was friends with pretty much all of us, even Yamaki a little bit." Henry replied quietly.
"Which one was Yamaki again?" Davis asked, his forehead creased as he tried to remember who Henry was referring to.
"He's the government guy." T.K. replied before Henry could answer. "The one who helps the Tamers out."
"Oh yea!" Davis replied, as T.K. reminded him.
"Yea, Yamaki isn't exactly the easiest person to get along with, even after you've known him for a while." Henry said, leaning back against one of the walls again.
"Yea, I'm sure." Davis answered, "Hey, Henry?"
"Yea Davis?" Henry answered, wonder what was up this time.
"You said you helped out with fixing Tai's digivice, right?"
"Yea, I helped some."
"Do you think you could figure out how to install this in mine?" Davis asked, holding out his hand. Henry looked to see what he was holding, and it looked like some sort of computer chip, though it had a large X on one side of it.
"What is that?" Henry asked, intrigued by the chip.
"It's called an X-chip." Davis replied, looking down at the chip. "It's supposed to be able to allow our partners to unlock an additional, and powerful, digivolution beyond Mega Level."
"It what?" Henry asked, now sitting straight up.
"It lets our partners reach a new, powerful digivolution." T.K. answered for Davis.
"When did you guys get these?" Henry asked, gingerly picking the chip up from Davis's hand.
"Recently, Gennai gave them to us as we were leaving to come here." T.K. replied again.
"So do all of you have one of these?" Henry asked, and he was starting to get hopeful. If each of the twelve Digidestined had something that let their partner get to a level higher than the Mega level, they might actually have a good chance of taking the city back.
"Not everyone." T.K. answered, before Davis jumped in.
"Matt already has one in his digivice, while Tai gave this chip to me, and another one to Sora." Davis said, and Henry nodded. "He has two more of them on him, since he hadn't decided who to give them too yet."
"I see." Henry replied, a little disappointed, but five of the twelve getting to that kind of level was still better than none of them. He didn't keep talking after that as he looked at the chip, and Davis's digivice, which was wordlessly handed over to him.
After several minutes of scrutiny Henry sighed.
"I don't think I can install this." Henry said, handing the digivice and chip back to Davis. "I'm more of a software guy, so I'm not even sure if I could figure this out with a proper lab, let alone out here."
"Damn." Davis said in reply, accepting both back from Henry. "I was hoping you might be able to get it working." After that his frown disappeared as he shrugged. "Oh well. I guess we'll just have to wait until we get to this Headquarters place of yours."
Before Henry could answer there was a bright flash from the window which momentarily lit up the entire room. Everyone in the room stopped, and stared right at the window, unsure of what the flash was, or what had caused it. Before they had the chance to think about it for more than a second another flash lit up the room, followed by dozens more.
"What is that?" Yolei finally asked, breaking the silence she'd descended into after Henry's revelation about the TV show.
Henry knew exactly what those flashes were, as he'd seen them during the first weeks of the Demon Lord's attack, before they'd been forced out of the city, and more recently in his nightmares.
"It's a digimon attack." Davis said suddenly, staring out the window. Henry looked over at him, surprised that he'd recognized the attack as well. Henry was more than a little surprised at the look on Davis's face. He looked completely serious, completely unlike the character that Henry thought he knew from the TV show, and unlike the Davis he'd gotten to know over the last few hours.
"Yea, Davis is right." Henry added, looking back to where the digimon had stopped talking, and walked over to their partners. "It's most likely some Diaboromon fighting over some scrap of food."
Suddenly there was another flash of light, a green one this time. That caused Henry to pause, as he didn't know a single digimon in the Demon Lord's army with an attack that used green energy.
"Mimi!" Yolei suddenly exclaimed, running up to the window and looking up and down both sides of the street the building was on. T.K. and Davis reacted nearly as quickly, also running over to the window. Henry was slower than the three Digidestined, but he quickly realized exactly what was going on.
The green flash had to be from one of the Digidestined's digimon, Mimi Tachikawa's partner Palmon if Yolei's shout was any indication, fighting the Diaboromon. If Henry remembered correctly, which he almost always did, Palmon was only capable of reaching her Ultimate level, which wouldn't be enough to handle even a single Diaboromon, let alone what was actually out there.
"Can you guys see her or Lillymon?" Yolei asked as she looked back and forth down the street.
"No, they aren't on our street." T.K. replied, also looking back and forth quickly. "But I think they're pretty close to us."
"Right, we need to get out there, and help out." Davis said immediately, not even waiting for a response as the headed for the door, hardly even waiting for Veemon.
"Wait for me Davis!" Veemon exclaimed, jogging to catch up with Davis.
Henry looked to the other two Digidestined, and T.K. shrugged.
"Davis can go off a bit quickly at times." T.K. said, and Henry actually smiled.
"Yea, I gathered that." Henry answered, bending over so Terriermon could climb up onto his shoulder.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Terriermon asked as soon as Henry stood up. "After him!"
Davis
Davis rushed down the stairs, Veemon close on his heels, using the railing to fling himself around the landings to the next set of stairs. He hardly even paused at the ground floor before kicking the door open, and rushing out onto the street.
Davis had been cooped up for far too long in that building, even if he did his best to hide it from the others in the building. Davis hated just sitting around doing nothing, unless you were talking about sleeping of course, and it hadn't helped that he'd had this huge feeling of uneasiness since they stopped running for their lives.
You could almost say that Davis was looking forward to fighting hordes of demons out in the streets. At least, that's how he felt right now, he might feel a little different after running into said demons.
"Davis, should I go ahead and digivolve into Magnamon?" Veemon asked as the two of the stopped on the street.
"No." A voice said, and Davis looked back to see Henry leading the others down the stairs. "Magnamon's like a giant light bulb in the night, we'll never get close to your friends then. Wait until we're closer and we'll surprise them."
"Ok!" Veemon exclaimed loudly.
"And keep quiet!" Henry added, in a loud whisper.
"Oh, sorry." Veemon said, in something that resembled a whisper. Davis looked around for flashes of light as Terriermon whispered something to Veemon that sounded like light bulb.
It only took him a second of looking for the flashes to resume, even faster than they had before, this time accompanied by the sound of explosions.
"This way!" Davis exclaimed, once more taking off at the front of the group, though the others kept up with him much better this time. They ran to an intersection not far from their building, and turned left, towards where most of the sounds were coming from.
Before they'd gone more than a few dozen feet down the new road one of the buildings exploded outwards into the street, throwing debris, and a heavily injured Lillymon into the center of the street.
Before Davis could so much as pull out his digivice for Veemon, Henry dashed past him, moving much faster than Davis thought he could move. Terriermon held onto the top of his head as Henry held his digivice up into the air.
"Biomerge Activate!" Henry shouted, and his digivice covered him and Terriermon in light.
"Terriermon Biomerge to!" The two of them grew huge in size as they digivolved together to the Mega level. "MegaGargomon!" MegaGargomon didn't miss a stride from digivolving, and dashed right for Lillymon.
"Mega Barrage!" MegaGargomon unleashed a torrent of missiles, which flew towards the building Lillymon had just been blown through, right as several dozen Diaboromon crawled through. The missiles hit them, blowing most of them straight into tiny digital bits.
"Man, that's so cool…" Davis said as he came to a stop, letting MegaGargomon take the lead.
"Davis don't just stand there!" T.K. shouted a few seconds later, running past him, followed by the already digivolved MagnaAngemon.
"Oh right…" Davis said, fishing into his pocket for his digivice. Before he could pull it out however, someone shouted his name.
"DAVIS!" Davis turned to see Mimi, Ken, and Stingmon come running out of an alley way not far from the building that Lillymon had been thrown into and MegaGargomon was turning into a Diaboromon graveyard.
"Ken! Mimi!" Davis shouted, as Veemon shouted out Stingmon's name. The two humans came to a panting halt in front of Davis, while Stingmon landed just behind them.
"Boy, am I glad to see all of you!" Mimi said without pausing for breath, seconds before Yolei caught her in a hug. Davis just grinned at Ken and held up a hand for a hi-five, which Ken exhaustedly returned.
"Uh Davis, I hate to interrupt…" Veemon said, tugging on Davis's shirt. Davis looked down to see Veemon pointing up the street, where hundreds of digimon were pouring out of alleys just like the one Ken, Mimi, and Stingmon had come from.
"Shit!" Davis exclaimed, looking down at Veemon, and then over at Stingmon. "I think we should bring out the big guns, what do you think?"
Davis grinned at Veemon, who smiled back, before looking over at Ken, who nodded, still breathing hard. Davis then held his digivice towards Veemon.
"Veemon digivolve to!" Veemon was surrounded by light, before emerging in his Champion level form. "ExVeemon!"
"Ok guys, now take it all the way up!" Davis exclaimed, as he and Ken held their digivices up to their partners.
"ExVeemon! Stingmon! DNA Digivolve to!" The two Champion Level digimon were covered in light, before their lights rushed together. "Paildramon!" The two digimon emerged as one, higher level digimon. Then Davis and Ken's digivices glowed once more, providing Paildramon with more power to digivolve again.
"Paildramon Mega Digivolve to!" Paildramon was once more covered in light, and this time the light expanded even more than when Henry and Terriermon had BIomerged, since the digimon they were digivolving into was even larger. After a few seconds the light disappeared, revealing a giant dragon with red wings and a massive cannon on his back. "Imperialdramon!"
"Positron Laser!" A massive blast of energy flew out from Imperialdramon into the mass of approaching digimon, blasting the entire front rank of them away. Usually that would be more than enough to deal with their enemies, but there were simply too many of them for a single attack to stop them.
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon send a barrage of attacks down the street, blasting dozens of the digimon, but they continued to close on the humans and their partners.
"MegaGargomon, T.K., MagnaAngemon!" Davis called out, getting the attention of the three closest to the tide of digimon. The three turned at Davis's shout to see him waving at them to come back to them. The three hesitated for a second, and then dashed back towards Davis, covered by Imperialdramon, with MegaGargomon carrying Lillymon.
"We need to get out of here!" Davis shouted as they all regrouped in the middle of the street. MegaGargomon added his firepower to Imperialdramon's which kept the horde of demons at bay, at least for the moment. Eventually they were bound to attack from another direction.
"Agreed!" MegaGargomon shouted in Henry and Terriermon's voices. "How exactly do you plan on getting out of here though?"
"That's easy." Davis said, pointing a thumb over at Imperialdramon. "We fly out of here!"
"Better get moving then!" MagnaAngemon exclaimed, pointing behind the group where more digimon were pouring into the street.
"You don't need to tell me twice!" Davis exclaimed, and then looked up to Imperialdramon. "Imperialdramon, pull us all up!"
"Ok Davis!" Imperialdramon shouted. Henry and Terriermon separated just as a blue beam of light flew down to pick all of the humans and their partners up and onto Imperialdramon's back. As soon as they were on it a protective blue field appeared around them, protecting them.
Imperialdramon then took off into the air, seconds before the massive tide of digimon overran where they'd been standing.
"That was close." Henry said as they looked back towards the ground.
"You can say that again Henry." Terriermon added, just before each of the Diaboromon on the ground arched back so their Web Wrecker cannons were pointing into the sky. "Uh…Imperialdramon?"
"Everyone hold on!" Imperialdramon shouted before banking to the left, just as the Diaboromon started firing into the air. Hundreds of blasts flew into the sky in an attempt to hit Imperialdramon, who went into crazy evasive maneuvers to avoid the majority of the blasts.
Unfortunately for his passengers there wasn't exactly anything to hold onto, so they were tossed around his back. Eventually the compartment settled, as a sort of extra gravity formed around them, steadying the compartment.
"Sorry about that folks!" Imperialdramon called out as he spun through another volley from the ground. All around the city hundreds of blasts were rising in an attempt to his Imperialdramon. It looked like something out of a World War Two movie, with the energy blasts being the antiaircraft guns, and Imperialdramon being the bomber. "I forgot to prep the cabin for evasive maneuvers. You should be fine now!"
Everyone nodded as the remaining partners returned to their rookie forms. Davis continued to watch the city below them as the fire only seemed to intensify, though none of the shots were even coming close to Imperialdramon at this point. He was too far in the air for them to be able to hit them.
"Man, am I glad to be out of there!" Davis exclaimed as he sat down on the ground. "It's a good thing they don't have many flying digimon, or we could be in a lot of trouble!" Davis laughed at the last part, though everyone else looked at him, with looks of concern, which caused Davis to stop laughing. "They don't have any flying digimon, right Henry?"
"Hold on!" Imperialdramon suddenly shouted once more, and suddenly changed directions as several dark shapes appeared in the sky before them. Davis, Ken, Yolei, and T.K. recognized them instantly, though Mimi and Henry didn't.
"What is that?" Mimi asked, just before each one of the shapes fired a blast of red energy from its mouth. The attacks lit up the grotesque forms of each digimon, which looked like some sort of digital Frankenstein monster, with parts from multiple digimon.
"Kimeramon." Ken answered as Imperialdramon dove out of the way of the first volley. Unfortunately there were more Kimeramon coming from pretty much every direction, boxing Imperialdramon in.
"Looks like you're going to have to fight them!" Davis shouted out to Imperialdramon, who roared as Davis said this.
"Gladly!" Imperialdramon replied, diving down towards the group below them. Kimeramon had a rather difficult history with the Digidestined, since Ken had first created it when he was still the Digimon Emperor. Kimeramon had been so strong that Magnamon had been the only one who could stop him, and only after Wormmon had sacrificed himself to power Magnamon up. Needless to say, Kimeramon wasn't well regarded by any of the Digidestined.
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon fired a blast at each one of the Kimeramon in front of him, hitting each of the giant digimon, since they didn't even attempt to evade.
"Alright Imperialdramon!" Davis shouted, encouraging his and Ken's joint partner since he knew Ken probably wasn't up to it after seeing Kimeramon again.
Before Davis really had the chance to cheer anymore, the smoke from the blasts cleared, revealing each of the Kimeramon with a fully charged Heat Viper in its mouth. Imperialdramon didn't even have time to tell them to hold on as he tried to dodge the blasts, unsuccessfully.
"AAARRRGHHHGGHH!" Imperialdramon shouted as three of the four attacks hit him.
"What the hell?" Davis asked as Imperialdramon started a downward spiral. "How the hell can an Ultimate Level hurt Imperialdramon like that?"
"Because they've most likely been enhanced!" Henry replied as Imperialdramon finally managed to level off, much lower and closer to the city. "They've enhanced several types of digimon when they can't find another digimon to fill their specific niche, or if they're a particular favorite of theirs!"
"Crap, that's not good." Davis replied, to which Henry only nodded. "Imperialdramon, can you mode change with us back here?"
"Only if you want to fall back to earth!" Imperialdramon replied, turning his head back towards the pursuing Kimeramon. "Mega Crusher!" A black ball of energy, even darker than the night sky, flew out from Imperialdramon's mouth, hitting the closest Kimeramon, which shouted in pain before exploding into data.
"Watch out below you!" Yolei suddenly shouted, just as more blasts from the ground fired up at Imperialdramon, who couldn't avoid them. This time he only grunted from the attack, falling lower out of the sky.
"I don't know how much longer I can last in this!" Imperialdramon shouted as he avoided more blasts from the ground and more from the Kimeramon.
"It's almost daybreak, can you hold out for a few more minutes?" Henry asked, as he looked towards the eastern horizon, where the first rays of sun could be seen.
"Mayb…" Imperialdramon started to reply, before several missiles from the ground flew up and hit him right in the face. The damage was minor to him, but it distracted him long enough for the Kimeramon to get a good bead on him again.
"AAARRGGGHHH!" Imperialdramon shouted, before plunging right towards the ground.
"Everyone hold on!" Davis shouted as the ground rushed up to meet them. No one bothered to mention the fact that there was nothing to hold onto as Imperialdramon plunged into the ground, and everything went dark.
~Chapter End~
Well, there you have it. Hope you don't mind the cliff hanger too much, though that's probably just wistful thinking on my part.
Anyways, I figured after last chapter a little more action could be used in this chapter, though I'm slowly building things up to a really good action chapter, so if you're looking for that, just wait a few more chapters. Also, I know this wasn't a very long chapter, and I'm working on that. I'm getting back into the grove of writing, and expect the chapter length to increase as the story goes, so please be patient with me, thanks.
So now we know what everyone's been doing while trapped in the city, which leaves only our two captives…so on that note I'd like to ask a question for anyone who bothers to read the Author's note, who would you rather see next chapter, the rest of the rescue, or what's going on with Tai and Rika?
Review Replies: I'd actually like to take a quick second here and thank everyone who takes the time to review my story. I don't say thanks enough, so I'm going to try and fix that. So on that note, thanks for the reviews!
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Japboix1: haha, yea, I know, it was way too long. And really? Talk about good timing then! And thanks! I'm glad it was helpful, and you thought it was a good restart-ish chapter. Thanks, I thought so too obviously haha, and I hope you enjoyed it!
Doctorjaws: Thanks! I'm glad you think so. And thanks, I'm glad you enjoy all of it. 1. Thanks! I really started to like Yamaki when I rewatched Tamers a year or so ago, so I really wanted to have him in my stories a bunch. I think you'll like what I have planned for him in the upcoming chapters. 2. Yea, I've always felt there should be something like that in different dimensions. I'm a big scifi fan, so I see stuff with alternate dimensions all the time, and I always thought it was a little odd everyone was mostly ok with things. 3. I'm glad you like the interactions. I feel like it's fairly realistic, since all the characters are human, and have human interactions. While crossover stories where everyone gets along instantly aren't bad, I just felt like having some hostile interactions is more realistic, and interesting! Of course everyone will probably find a way to work well together if they want to survive, but that's something I feel would take time, not happen instantly. And Ryo, I feel like that's how he'd be in private. He's cocky attitude is what he shows the world, while he saves the more down to earth side to his friends, or just in a private environment. At least, that's the way I'm making Ryo in this story. And we'll have more of the down to earth Ryo, heck, he'll probably become a perspective before too long. And of course I'll be reintroducing the two of them, though you've still got a couple of chapters before I can do that. I can't say how good they'll be, since I'm still feeling my way back into writing, and they aren't character's I've focused on in the past, but they'll be there. Thanks! Hope you enjoyed it!
10th Squad 3rd Seat: Yea, I'd imagine in this situation that he'd be a little looser from the stress. Not to mention, it's been a few years since Tamers, so he might have loosened up a bit. And yea, I mean, Takato pretty much went berserk the last time he snapped, and yea. I think Takato would be Matt's ideal Tai. Very similar person, only not as loud and obnoxious, and a little more sensitive haha. And yea, I rather liked that scene myself. And thanks!
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nightwatcher55: Thanks! And the only official pairings right now are Taiora and Takari, I'm looking at a couple of other couples, but in all honesty the romance isn't going to be a huge part of the story. It's the secondary theme yes, but I'm focusing more on the adventure part. That may change in the future though. If you have any request, feel free to let me know.