Digimon: All Stars
Author's Notes:
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Chapter 10: Think before you act!
Yamato climbed out of the well and showed Takato and Sora his crest and Takato raised an eyebrow and poked it.
"Doesn't look like much." Takato said and Yamato kept the tag in his shirt.
"Jijimon says this is the secret of further evolution," Yamato said and looked at Gabumon, "feeling anything different?"
"Nope," Gabumon said and shook his head, "though it is a nice accessory."
Pulling out the Digivice, Yamato looked at the map and then their location, "We're pretty near, if we go now we can make it by sundown."
As they walked through the dense forest towards the shrine, Yamato kept looking at his crest, trying to make it work even to the point of shaking it and pointing it at Gabumon, hoping that it would light up like the Digivice.
"Sora, when are you getting your crest?" Piyomon asked her as she sped up to fly next to her, "I want to see what I would look like if I evolved further."
"Me too," Sora said before looking at Piyomon and smiled, "I'll bet you'll look great."
"We're here." Takato said and he walked towards the door and pushed it open, "I wonder if anyone's home?"
"What are you kids doing here?!" came a tiny squeak from the inside and it caused the trio and their Digimons to jump backwards, "Oh...more of you, well don't just sit there come on in."
Getting off their butts and into the shrine they saw Mimi and Palmon sitting by a cave and went towards her, "Mimi, you look concerned, what is it?" Sora asked her as she sat next to them and Yamato stared into the cave.
"Koushiro has been in there for over six hours, finding his crest, I wonder if he is alright." She said and then Sora looked at Yamato and he nodded.
"I'll go in and get him," Yamato said and walked towards the cave before Piccolomon placed the spear in front of him, "What's the big idea?!" Yamato startled before Piccolomon looked at him with his tiny black eyes.
"The kid is in there to learn, no butting in!" he said and then Yamato backed off and looked at Piccolomon, pissed, but understanding, "Now that we got that straight, we need to attack Etemon before he attacks us, he monitors the dark network and this is the only place where he cannot see."
"And he might comb this area himself..." Yamato muttered and Piccolomon pointed his spear at Yamato.
"That's right! If he does that we are screwed...really badly, but we still have some time, we need to wait for the others to arrive before we can make a move." Piccolomon said and twirled his spear and looked at the cave, "I hope that kid is fine too, but we must not butt into his training."
"I understand; if you don't mind we would like to rest awhile, Etemon ambushed us but we managed to escape." Takato said and looked at Guilmon, who looked really tired and was lazing around.
"Take any room of your choice," Piccolomon said uninterestedly and looked at Yamato who walked off with Sora and Piyomon while Gabumon followed them in a rush, "if these kids are to beat Etemon they need to go through some serious training."
"Don't you think that maybe the bond with their Digimons is more important that physical training?" Mimi asked Piccolomon who looked at her with a confused look, "I mean...there is suppose to be some mystic link between us and our Digimons that helped us overcome so much until now."
Then without a word Piccolomon flew towards the main gate when the crest he was holding started glowing and Mimi followed him up, opening the door, they saw it was Taichi and Takeru at the front and immediately, the crest shot out of Piccolomon's hand and went into Takeru's tag and Piccolomon looked at Takeru, surprised.
"The crest of hope has found the rightful owner...this could make it more interesting..." Piccolomon said and invited them in and opened the doors and Takeru finally saw his brother in the Digital World.
As the brothers chat up on what had happened until now while Taichi looked around, "Who are we missing?"
"Lee, Izumi, Junpei, Koushiro and Sora are still not here..." Jyou said as he looked around, while doing a headcount.
"Sora is in her room," Yamato said, "and Koushiro is in that cave finding his crest."
Just when he said that, Koushiro came out, he looked mentally dazed and ragged but his tag held his crest and Mimi went to him and started shaking him.
"What happened?"
"Amazing...this world is amazing..." Koushiro muttered before looking at the group, "When everybody is down at dinner tonight, I will share what I have learnt..."
"Alright, now we are in the Digital world, everyone knows that, but reality is we are actually in the internet, linking us to the world and we are really data actually in this world, what happened to our physical body though is still a mystery but I am sure I will be able to figure it out somehow, but for now, we are simply data in a computer." Koushiro said to everyone's astonishment.
"But it doesn't really explain much, I mean even if we are data can you do something like...infinite health cheat code or something?" Taichi asked before Koushiro cut him off immediately.
"We are not in a computer game; it is more of a virtual world where none of us have any control of except our own body." Koushiro explained and everyone had a serious silent moment.
While they ate, the ground shook violently, causing them to drop their bowls and stand up from their seats, all wondering what is happening, until Etemon's truck crashed through the door. The side opened to reveal Etemon with his guitar and microphone in hand as he looked at the children.
"Etemon has arrived!" Etemon said and jumped off, "Man this place is smart...no detection from my dark network...looks like I'll need to do some rewiring."
"Run by the back now! It will lead you to the desert where you should be safe for awhile, I'll hold him off." Piccolomon said to them before Taichi looked at him seriously.
"No! I'm staying with you!" Taichi said and reached for his Digivice before Yamato grabbed his hand and dragged him out, "Yamato? What are you doing? Let me go!"
"We leave now! There is no way we will win if we take him on now." Yamato told Taichi and dragged him into the cave where they ran on and on while being chased by Etemon's minions.
The cave was too small to evolve so their best bet was to escape first before trying to fight, and the Gazimon were catching up to them before Guilmon tripped over a groove in the floor which caused them to roll and, surprisingly go through a wall. Then they kept quiet as the Gazimon ran past them and then they sat down while Koushiro took out his laptop.
"From my analysis, we are at a pyramid; I'll project the hologram now." Koushiro said before a pyramid appeared out of the air and they all looked at it, "Right now we are at the bottom, according to the info there is a holding cell at the bottom, and it leads to the exit."
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Taichi said and quickly walked out but Yamato stopped him.
"Think before you move," Yamato said to Taichi before Taichi wriggled his hand free, "If we move without thinking we could get into more dangers than we already have, you think Piccolomon fended off Etemon only for us to make silly mistakes?"
"I can encrypt the code so that this platform we are on takes us down to just outside the holding cell," Koushiro said and then before they knew it the platform starting moving and going down for a few minutes and they felt the thing stopped and exited from the wall.
"Right, there should be an electric fence there." Koushiro said and true enough, they walked and saw fence that is crackling, "A blind spot without electricity is directly at the left."
Before he knew it, Taichi walked through it without thinking and then he poked his head back, "What are you waiting for, let's go already" then the rest entered with Yamato scowling.
"Think before you act Taichi, what if you were at the wrong part? You could have fried yourself." Yamato shouted at him, "This is your problem, you never think before you act, not even for awhile."
"What is your problem Yamato? We got through didn't we?" Taichi yelled back before Sora got in the way of both of them.
"Taichi, Yamato is right, you need to start thinking before you act, or else you will put us all in danger." Sora told Taichi strictly.
"I don't believe you! What I did just got us through the spot without wasting any time!" Taichi told Sora before he stormed off into the room and the rest followed before Yamato and Sora entered last.
Then in the middle of the room laid a Digimon who looked like a machine, Taichi then approached it and then it started to speak.
"I am Nanomon, please help me..." he said, although he sounded like he is short-circuiting, "I was defeated by Etemon and enslaved here, I put myself together and have been hoping for someone to come and help me out."
"Wait, why should we trust you?" Takato said before prodding the pyramid case that encased him.
"Because I fought Etemon before and I want to defeat him as much as you." Nanomon said, trying t win their trust.
"I don't think it is a good idea, it may be a trap." Kouji said before Takuya butted in.
"Oh come on, he wants to beat Etemon, we want to beat Etemon, it's a win-win if we let him go." Takuya said to Taichi's agreement.
"Finally someone agrees!" Taichi said and looked at Nanomon, "So how do we let you go?"
"Wait Taichi, consider it first!" Yamato told him as Sora was examining the crest on the table, it glowed pink and entered her tag.
"I found my crest!" Sora said and Takeru went to look at it.
"Wow, it looks nice!" Takeru said as he tried to distance himself from the argument.
"Look Taichi, all I am saying is how do you know he is not working for Etemon and is just trying to get us?" Yamato said and looked at Kouji who nodded.
"Whatever," Taichi said and then he walked to Nanomon, "How do I release you?"
"Push the yellow button at the far end," Nanomon said and Taichi did so willingly and the pyramid holding Nanomon opened and Nanomon hopped out, "Now, for those with crests, may I see them...I uh...may have some ideas how they work."
Then Taichi took out his crest and showed it to Nanomon who looked at it and nodded before he walked to Yamato who showed him his, then Nanomon hobbled off and then jumped on the console where he imputed several codes, this caused the room to start shaking and everyone started to run out into same area with the electric fence, then Yamato looked at Nanomon.
"What the hell did you do that for?" he shouted before Nanomon looked at them with a twisted smile.
"That room was too dangerous to be kept," then he pointed his hands at the group and the tip of his fingers open and they fired what look like mini bombs at them which smoked out when the hit each other, then when the smoked cleared Yamato, Gabumon, Sora and Piyomon were gone and so was Nanomon.
"Oh crap, what just happened?" Taichi said while coughing before Takeru looked around.
"My brother is gone! So is Sora!" he shouted before Koushiro took out his laptop.
"Not good, by my readings, Etemon will be here soon and there is no door on the electric fence, Nanomon must have taken Yamato and Sora through it and left us here." Koushiro said, "I think he blasted the room as the only visible exit is there."
"Can't you do something?" Takato asked before Koushiro punched in more keys and the floor below them turned transparent and the all slid out and were thrown like they gone through a garbage chute.
"Damn it! I have to go back and save them, it is my fault that they are stuck there!" Taichi said and looked at Koushiro, "can you give me an entrance?"
"We're outside; I can't access the mainframe from here." Koushiro said before Taichi started touching walls hoping to find an entrance.
"Calm yourself, we need to go; I am sure Etemon found the exit and is on his way." Kouji told Taichi with a hand on his shoulder but Taichi swiped it off.
"I'm not leaving them, I got Yamato and Sora into this and I will get them out!" Taichi said and Kouji punched him in the face, knocking him out cold and then Kouji and Takuya carried him off while the others ran off.
Sora regained consciousness and saw that she was strapped on a table with Yamato next to her; Piyomon is strapped to the wall while Gabumon is caged up on the floor. She then saw Nanomon at a gigantic console and was pushing buttons.
"You! I thought you're on our side!" Sora shouted before Nanomon looked at her and jumped on the desk, "You said you want to defeat Etemon, we want to defeat him to!"
"I know...which is why I am using your crest, tags and Digivices to power myself up, rendering me unstoppable." Nanomon said and looked at the two crests.
"Friendship and love...emotions that I can never understand..." Nanomon said, "You are the biggest threat as research says that friendship and love can overcome anything...this poses a problem..."
"What are talking about?" Yamato asked as he opened his eyes.
"I intend to take out Etemon and control his dark network, then I destroy the chosen children...and I will be able to take over the Digital World." Nanomon said as Yamato and Sora struggled, "You will not break free, now cooperate with me and take out Etemon for me and I might spare your life."
"You seriously think we will actually help you?" Yamato said.
"Ah...defiance...another attribute that I don't understand..." Nanomon said, "No matter, no matter...I have prepared a little something, this copies an exact duplicate of you, and they will serve me. Now...go to sleep while I get ready."
With a push of a button, the room is filled with green smoke, causing them to lose consciousness again.
"It's my fault they are captured! I should have done something! Why did you stop me?" Taichi looked at Kouji who was leaning on the tree near the area they set up camp.
"Could you have done anything if you remained there?" Kouji asked him sternly and Taichi immediately went silent, "The way I see it you are too hot headed to give any instructions, so shut up and sit down!"
"I found out where we can enter the pyramid, apparently there is a door that leads straight to the fence, but there does not seem to be an entrance on the fence..." Koushiro said and kept his laptop before turning to Taichi, "I know you feel bad but there is nothing you could have done, running is the only option at that time."
"But...it's my fault that Sora and Yamato got captured...Yamato was right, I should have checked it out first..." Taichi said, "Sora was right too...I always think I am the right party..."
"Guys...I have a plan on how to rescue them," Jyou said and took out a stick and drew his plan in the sands, to agreement of the group and then everyone went to sleep to prepare for the next day when they will try to rescue their friends.
Taichi stayed up though, he was sitting by the campfire and looking at the stars with Agumon next to him, and then Tomoki went to him and sat next to him.
"Why aren't you asleep?" Taichi asked him.
"If I learnt anything from my time with Yamato and Sora is that they can overcome anything, and I am sure they don't blame you for what happened." He told Taichi who heaved a sigh, "Look, I am sure they didn't expect that to happen too."
"I know..." Taichi said before finally smiling and tapping Tomoki on the head, "Thanks kid...I feel better now...go to sleep."
As Tomoki went to bed, Taichi continued looking up into the stars and then he muttered to himself, "Don't worry Yamato, Sora...I'll save both of you..."
Chapter 10: end