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Chapter 10
Juggernaut
One night after the reunion of Rika and Renamon Guilmon detected a Digimon approaching, but this time it was not in a forest based area, but at a twin layered parking garage, and when the two got over there they met a DarkLizardmon ready for them. The dark dragon Digimon saw the two and charged straight ahead. "Time to test this guy out." Takato said after throwing his digivice and a card into the air and slammed down the head of his watch.
'Let's just hope I know what I'm getting myself into.' The new man thought after catching the digivice and card, which he slipped into a coat pocket, as the two stood ready the new hero saw something in the darkness around them.
'He will help me get stronger.' The creature before the duo thought since she like all Digimon have, or see, images of possible human partners in there world: despite what one of their leaders tell them about earth.
"Ready, Guilmon?" He questioned before charging ahead and fired an magenta colored blasts from his hands, and Guilmon attacked as well.
"Pyro-Sphere, Ha!" The Rookie shouted and launched his red sphere next to the magenta blast. Both attacked the flaming body of the Champion, but even as she climbed out of the debris caused by the tumble she took due to the attacks the both of them could tell that she was still willing to fight.
'Looks like I'll have to prove myself to him by eliminating the competition.' DarkLizardmon thought and attacked them back with:
"Dark Ray!" The taller virus attributed one shouted and fired a beam to Guilmon. Despite the protective properties of his scales he was pushed back. 'Now all I have to do is deactivate him from that form and plead my case.' She thought but suddenly four strange creatures came out of the darkness and attacked her.
'Who the heck are these guys?' The new hero thought before remembering from one of his dreams that those things were a special ability of his current form. "Stop it, all of you." He shouted and the four backed off, back into the shadows. "Hey are you, alright?" He questioned to the just assaulted Digimon.
"Snipe Fang!" The Digimon said in retaliation as the female bit down into the hero's left gloved wrist.
"Aaah!" The dark cloaked man said while holding his wrist and backing away. 'I'm damaged just like with Harpymon, but there's something else, something's different.' He thought and as he looked at the wall clock on the far side of the room stop all together DarkLizardmon attacked again.
"Darkness Ray!" She shouted and fired a stronger beam at the human, but as she was doing that Guilmon had come back to the field only to watch as he disintegrated under the power of the attack. 'No. I didn't mean for that to happen.' She thought in surprise over what had just happened to him.
"Takato!" Guilmon shouted as loud as he could and then charged at her in a blinding rage. "Rock Breaker!" He shouted and scored a blow to the shoulder, but without a card behind it the move did very little, if any damage. 'Oh, man. Without Takato I'm just not strong enough.' He thought and then watched as she just stood there.
'How could he have just disappeared like that?' She questioned, still surprised over what had just happened, but when she looked at the Rookie he had been stuck with along with the strange creatures still hidden in the shadows - waiting for her, she got anger. "Enough of this - DARK FLARE!" She screamed and a wave of fire came rushing out of her body and onto the five before her; not noticing that the clock was moving again, even though she did not see it stop in the first place.
'I'm sorry Takato. I might be with you soon.' Guilmon thought as he saw the unavoidable attack, but an instant after the attack hit the naïve Rookie was still seeing the parking garage and the dragon.
"What?! How are you still alive!" She shouted once the other lizard saw that her attack did nothing to none of them.
"Because of me." A voice answered back while walking out of the darkness. He saw that both Digimon were surprised to see that Takato was still alive, so he explained. "From what I can gather this guy can control time. I got that idea when the clock over there stopped working around the time I got injured, and when the clock started up again I was brought back after you thought you killed me." He explained to them as best as he could since even he was having problems understanding what had happened to him.
"Then how am I still here, Takato?" Guilmon questioned as he still looked around himself to see that everything was here.
"Simple once I was brought back I stayed in the shadows with another affect of this form's creatures called wraiths, and when I saw the wave of flame I used another skill which let me freeze to save you and them." He said since again he had no idea how this hero fought - exactly. "Let's end this." He said after seeing that she was still getting mad that she was unable to delete the Rookie. "Digi-Modify: MetalGarurumon Blaster - Activate!" He shouted and slashed the card.
"Metal Blaster!" Guilmon shouted after feeling the temporary power boost, and then blasted a ray from her mouth. The two watched as she fell before the younger dino.
"DarkLizardmon was one tough cookie. It took all the special surprises, or at least some of them from this form, to take her on an win." The hero said while walking closer to the two.
"Mmm! Did you say cookie?" Guilmon questioned after he felt the Mega level's attack left him.
"I can't believe that you're thinking of food at a time like this. When I have just accessed a creature that seems to have unlimited potential." The hourglass symbol man said with slight surprise over what this guy can do. As the two were relaxing after what had happened to them a light flooded the room - from the outside. "What's going on?" The time manipulator questioned as he let the wind blow his cloak around.
"Target - confirmed. Strike team, stand-by. Initiate retrieval sequence." A man in a helicopter, which was the source of the wind, announced through his head set. This sudden development confused the two - greatly.
"Are we supposed to fight them…Takato?" Guilmon questioned the 'human' for advice.
"Personally I would say no, but maybe we should. As long as neither of us kill them, I guess we-." The hero said until a beeping followed by a bright red flash caught them both off guard.
"On second thought maybe we should scram before we find out." Takato said to his partner, and glanced over his shoulder since he was facing the way into the building , and saw that the wraiths were gone when he timed out. 'Wind's getting stronger, meaning that they're almost here, whoever they are.' Takato thought before hearing the creature he was just fighting speak.
"I want to stay. Make me stronger. Make me digivolve." DarkLizardmon said while getting back on her feet. Guilmon went into a crouching pose, ready to continue the fight, but after a slight clanging sound smoke began to form around the three.
'Great, a smokescreen.' Takato thought while scanning, wondering if his friend was still around, and he knew the friendly lizard was when he heard the red scaled one's voice.
"Takatomon?" Guilmon shouted when his own vision was compromised by the smoke.
"I hear you Guilmon, but where are you?" Takato said back while continuing to look around with his right hand out stretched. Since he saw and felt nothing he took a chance and walked forward, and after taking a few steps his hand felt something. "Guilmon?" He questioned, now looking at what he was feeling, and knew that it wasn't his pal since the outline was taller then him which meant what he was feeling was the Champion's chest. 'Oh man!' He mentally exclaimed while backing away by a couple of steps with his hand withdrawn.
"Please." DarkLizardmon said with the tips of her fingers touching the human. 'He won't be half bad a tamer' She thought, but before she could go on she heard the sounds of gun cocking up to fire, so the lizard pushed him away right when some form of tethers attached to her right side; sending her to the ground.
'Takato?' Guilmon thought once seeing a human figure laying on the ground. "You okay?" He questioned to the goggle-head, who seemed to be out of it.
"Dandy." The human answered back while looking at the man made smoke. As he watched the diversion dissipate his mind was still wondering what just happened to the Champion.
"Well, aren't you going to thank me? After all…I just saved your life." Yamaki said, but Takato didn't know who said that until the smoke cleared, and when it did he was both surprised and a little angered to see the older human. "That deserves something." The blonde haired one added after he knew that he was completely seeable.
'Yeah, like a Diamondhead club up your tailpipe.' Takato thought to himself after that last sentence.
"This is dangerous work, little boy. Shouldn't you be napping?" He informed and then questioned in an insulting manner.
"Don't patronize me. Now who the shell are you?" Takato questioned to the suited man while wishing he didn't use the watch in the fight, so he could use them on him.
"I'll ask the questions. Who do you think you are - attacking Digimon on your own. Do you think this is a game?" Yamaki commanded and then questioned before signing something on a clipboard. "They're lethal creatures who should be contained." He said while jotting. "In fact for your safety I should take you're little red friend there too." He said and then pointed who he meant with his pen.
"Leave him alone." Takato answered back while walking in front of the other Digimon. "He's nothing like DarkLizardmon." The boy added even though he knew he didn't understand the Champion thoroughly enough to say something like that.
"So naïve." Yamaki said, more to himself, but loud enough for the tamer to hear.
"Who are you calling naïve?" He questioned while looking down at the watch. 'Wish you were faster at charging.' His thoughts about hero time were canceled when he heard a groan.
"Human, help me." DarkLizardmon moaned out to Takato with her left arm stretched out as far as she could make it even with the bonds around them.
"No way. She's still alive." Takato said in awe, surprised the group attack from the wraiths, the combo of he and his Rookie, and the Mega level attack didn't ruin her fighting spirit.
"And deadly too. Perhaps I should take your friend. He could be dangerous too" Yamaki said since, at first, he wanted one of the tamer's Digimon to test his latest toy, but he'd rather them be exterminated with it instead; still he couldn't help but ask.
'Damn it.' Takato thought as he glared at the human, and saw that the watch was still in charge mode. He knew that his Digimon partner needed him so he did the only thing that came naturally - he defended. "Look, there's only one way you're getting Guilmon and that's through me." Matsuki said while going into his own fighting stance.
"Well, probably more trouble then he's worth, right?" Yamaki question, not intimidated one bit about the boy before him. "Don't say I didn't warn you, little boy." Yamaki added with an evil laugh as he walked back out to join his team since they had their target.
"Capture complete. Returning to base." The pilot of one of two helicopters said as they flew off. The two walked to the doorway of the concrete building looking up at the once busy sky.
"Who was that, and what is his problem?" Takato questioned, but since they no longer had an enemy to handle there the two decided to go to the park. "We did great today, Guilmon." Takato said after the two got to the hovel. "I better head. My folks will wonder where I am." He told his creation and headed for the door, but when he was about to leave a voice was heard from behind.
"Takato?" Guilmon asked, wanting to talk about something that has been on his mind.
"Yeah?" Takato questioned back, not wanting to be rude, but he didn't want to stay either.
"I'm getting better, aren't I? Soon I'll get stronger and stronger then I can digivolve just like you want me to." Guilmon said since he had a feeling that his human friend wanted him to be as strong as Renamon.
"You know it buddy." Takato said enthusiastically back to the reptile. He heard from Henry that Growlmon showed off some serious fire power, and since hearing that he wanted to know if that Champion could stand up to them.
"Waiting is hard. I want to digivolve now." He informed and then while looking at the roof of his home he added with a sigh, "I wonder when I'll change again." There was one word out of the whole sentence that got his attention.
'Change?' The young human questioned in his mind and then recalled his anger problem, how he kicked or tried to kick some Digimon ass' with his heroes, and how for the exception of the last fight he enjoyed kicking their asses.
'You know you liked it, human.' A voice called out in Takato's mind when said man closed his eyes to clear his head.
"Takato, are you alright?" Guilmon questioned since he noticed that Takato fell silent.
"It's nothing old friend." The tamer said after shaking his head to try to get that voice out of his head. "Even if you do get stronger don't think you can take on my heroes." The human said proudly before adding, "But seriously I got to get going. I'll see you later." That said he went to the foot of the hill, waved to his friend, and then headed out. As he was heading home H.Y.P.N.O.S. was still hard at work of finding and eliminating Digimon.
"Something's appeared on my radar." Riley said in a board tone since she was getting annoyed by this routine of not doing anything about these creatures.
"And I thought we would get a quiet night." Tally said with a sigh since she too was wondering what the point of finding these creatures.
"Hmm? It looks like a wild one, but I…I can't be sure. The signal's almost unreadable." Riley said while trying to track down the source, but to no avail.
"Huh! Maybe it's a glitch in the program. Those technicians are so unreliable." The short haired elevated chair operator said, ending with a sigh. Her red haired friend heard her, but decided to use their first method of finding these creatures.
"Now the tracer's acting erratic." The long haired one announced with a groan. Her friend once again tried to blame someone else since she knew Riley often had a 'blame thyself' attitude.
"I'm telling you it's those darn engineers. They're always going to Karaoke parties instead of checking the equipment like they should." Tally said back with a bit of humor in her voice.
"According to the tracer it's right under us." Riley said before moving her glasses up and added, "But that's impossible." She then thought of one option, 'Is it possible that one of the tamer's Digimon found us and is just looking around.' Not to her knowledge there was a Digimon in there, but it was not tame, and at the same time it was not wild.
"Calumon zoom, zoom. Here - zoom. There - zoom. Calumon zoom, zoom. No underwear zoom." The white furred Digimon said while happily skipping on the floor below them. Tally took off her goggles as well; just to make sure that she was seeing what she thought she was seeing. The Rookie felt someone watching him so he looked to the source of the eyes with a blushing face.
"Oh, so cute." The blonde woman practically with a squeal in her voice as she saw the creature. As she watched the beauty of a Digimon Yamaki took an elevator to the lower level to deal with all Digimon - ugly and beautiful side to them.
'Those clueless tamers and their Digimon, so oblivious to what I'm cooking in my little lab. Well, they'll find out soon enough." Yamaki said as he walked out of the elevator and to a certain spot in his underground lab. "And won't they be surprised." He added with evil glee. Up above since the only Digimon detected tonight were those that had tamers the two decided to call it, and after getting down to ground level of their station Tally started looking around.
"Hello? Where'd you go? You saw it too, right?" The blonde questioned her fellow worker while trying to look under one of their consoles for the creature that she saw.
"I think that leftover enchilada you had is making you see things, come on, give it up." Riley said, who heard from the female of the Digimon she saw earlier on their walk down the small flight of stairs, and of course she did not believe her.
"I'm telling you it walked, talked, and…even rhymed." The other worker said, trying to defend her statement.
"And I'm telling you - it's your lunch. Serves you right for eating four day old food." Riley said back, believing that no Digimon would be foolish enough to walk in here on their own.
"Maybe you're right." Tally said giving up the ghost of finding the Digimon.
"What is this place? Let me out! I don't want to go back!" DarkLizardmon said after coming too from the smokescreen pellets and the Mega level attack, since the wraiths and combo attack did nothing to slow her, and all around the Champion were metal walls. Above her was Yamaki and two workers on a bridge over a man made bridge over a man made chasm: where she was being held.
"Sir, we're ready to initiate the data scan, but the creature may not survive." One of the scientists said to his boss in a worried tone. To the worker he believe that these creatures should be studied not destroyed, but he dare not raise his voice to the blonde man.
"Huh! You say that as if I should care. It's not as if that thing down there is flesh and blood, you know?" The leader said back since he knew, from past experience, that destruction to all was their only hope of survival.
"Excuse me, but it has a real body - it's a life form." The other aid to this 'justified' goal said, trying to help his friend.
"A worm is more of a life form than this thing." Yamaki said while looking a fossil imbedded in the ceiling of his lab before adding, "They're just packets of data. Computer codes: zeroes and ones. Their ability to appear in our world is a fluke, but our monstrous friend here is nothing without its use. By analyzing it's data we can learn how Digimon are created AND how they can be destroyed." He said to the two explaining his plan and his distaste. "Proceed with the scan. I want full power." He ordered and nodded to the one behind a small wheeled cart that controlled the pit.
"Yes sir." He answered while dragging a button down on the machine. In that instant DarkLizardmon saw that her prison had become red, and there was an unknown feeling in her body.
'NO! LET ME OUT OFF HERE!" She shouted above, but her please fell of deaf ears.
"It's particles are disappointing." One of the two workers said while looking at a form of heart monitor that showed the condition of the creature.
"Don't stop until we have all of it's data. We're only steps away from achieving 'our' ultimate goal." Yamaki said while looking down at the suffering beast with glee, and he said 'our' because to him everyone working here wants to eradicate the Digimon menace as much as him.
"NO!" DarkLizardmon shouted out as her physical form dissipated.
"It's gone." The worker closer to Yamaki said as he heard her final word fade away.
"It's data didn't disappear though….just the body." The worker on the controls said and then decided to try asking a question since he knew that his boss had what he wanted. "Should I save the data?" He questioned since he believed in his spare time he would help her of getting her body back.
"I don't see the point. We got all the information we needed from the scanning procedure. Eliminate anything that's left." He said back in his traditionally cold toned style.
"Wha-What?" The worker questioned aloud. 'I don't get it if he has what he wants than why destroy the data?' He questioned himself, but once again fear of his boss made him obey, "Uh…yes sir. Destroying all particles." He said which caused the hole to glow bright blue instead of bright red.
"Get used to it. We'll scan as many as we have to… till they're all gone." Yamaki said and felt proud that his plan to purify will be a reality. In the next morning the most level headed elementary teacher - Nami Asaji, stood at the main entrance to the school, but her focus was on her head: not the students.
"Morning, Miss. Asaji." Takato said to her after walking up to her. 'Surprised that I didn't need to go hero to get to school.' He thought, but he was still concerned of his teacher, and even with her head throbbing she was still able to talk to him.
"Oh, it's you Takato." She said to the student before her, and then saw something in his shirt pocket which caused her to speak again. "Alright, what are you hiding under my shirt, today?" The boy in question knew what she was talking about, but since he didn't want the cat out of the bag about what's been happening to him he decided to make a cover story.
"It's my lunchbox. My mom thinks I'm getting flabby so she made me really cut back." He said to her while stretching out 'really' without raising his voice.
"Oh! It's too early in the morning to start causing trouble. I haven't even had my first cup of coffee yet." She explained with a heavy groan at the beginning.
"Seriously, Miss. Asaji when was the last time I caused trouble?" He questioned to her with a nervous smile.
"I said this before: boys who break the rules grow up to become thugs and zoo keepers." She said back to him even though that he was wanting to head to class, but that last part always confused him, so he decided to ask.
"I've been wondering: what's the harm about being a zoo keeper?" He asked her and knew that she must have had an explanation for that comment.
"Oh, Takato, don't be silly. For one thing - you don't get any respect. You work all days with animals who never do what you tell them to do." She explained to him, and for the most part he was listening but at the same time he was thinking of the names he has thought of so for, and do to his drifted mind he didn't catch what he said back to her:
"That kind of sounds of what you do now." He told her without thinking, and that comment was able to let the teacher forget about the throbbing in her head.
"What!?" She said back in surprise.
'Now I did it, so I better get out of here.' Takato thought to himself after seeing his teacher's eyes widen up after hearing that comment. "Would you listen to that - the bell. Well, I got to run." He said and ran off to the school with a nervous laugh.
"Well, at least animals don't make wisecracks." She said while feeling the throbbing of her headache again.
"Morning, Miss Asaji." Another teacher, Toshiaki Mori, said to her with a grand smile. "And what a lovely morning it is." He added to the yellow bloused woman as she walked toward the school. "Glad to see that your keeping the students in line." He praised her while he stood in place.
"Put a sock in it, Mori." She said back to him in a bitter tone. She could never really raise her voice to Takato - too pure, too kid-like, too lovable, but she had no problem dealing with a person that she knew was trying every compliment in the book on her.
"Huh? What I say? Miss Asaji, hello?" He questioned nervously when his fellow teacher did not answer her. Takato was in the building walking to class, and before he opened the door a thought entered his mind.
'This is going to be fun. Meeting those two dorks.' He thought with an external heavy sigh before opening the door. The first thing that he saw were his friends talking to some other schoolyard chums. "Hey, there." He attempted with a waving left hand.
"Oh, yeah, hey, yourself." Kazu said back, still feeling the strange effects of that one day. Takato could tell by the other males around that the two told around of what they claim they saw. Unknown to him was that Jeri also saw this and didn't like it for Takato's sake.
'Just better get seated.' Matsuki thought before class began.
"Today's topic is vegetables. To most of you vegetables are like homework assignments." Their teacher said to them while drawing a perfect chalk drawings of an eggplant and green pepper.
'That new guy was daringly different then what I'm used to. Able to control time -nice ability, but I wonder if those wraiths are under my power or can they attack on their own.' Takato thought as he was doodling during her lesson as he often always does. 'I don't care what that man says I can handle these threats. As long as I have Henry, Terriermon, Rika, Guilmon, the watch, and Renamon by my side these creatures will be cake.' He thought again since his right hand was idly drawing a detailed picture of Renamon, but that's when a darker thought entered his mind, 'What about that voice I heard when I was chasing Renamon that day - what the deal on that?' That was when a folded piece of paper was gently placed before him.
'I hope this tells you that you still have one friend.' Jeri thought while looking right at him, and ignored her friend's chuckling. With a shrug Takato opened up the paper and smiled over what he saw.
'Cute.' He thought as he saw the child-like drawing of his creation in a white shirt with a smiley face, and blue pants. 'It's great that Jeri doesn't see Guilmon the way that guy sees him, but she would scream louder then Lobo's ultrasonic howl if she caught sight of Growlmon.' He thought, grateful of still having one civilian friend, and then looked over and saw that she was doing her hand puppet motions.
'Good thing my fingers are nice and limber.' Jeri thought while doing both - listening to Nami Asaji and doing her puppet exercises.
'I hope that even with that voice in my head I don't turn into a monster.' Takato thought as he recalled a television character by the name of Ichigo on a show called Bleach who had a voice in his head too, but he drowned that out by focusing on school. As he and Henry were at school one of their Digimon was messing around with something he shouldn't.
"Stand back denizens of the Digital World. Terriermon is back." The long eared creature said while messing with Henry's computer, but after a keystroke a mess of pop ups with Digimon silhouette began popping on the computer. "Wha-oh. Must have hit the wrong button." The creature said while watching, but he had to stop watching when his partner's door slammed shut.
"I wonder what I'll find in here?" Suzie said playfully when she knew that her brother pretty much always had his Terriermon toy stay in his room. "Oh, look it's an orphan." She said after the creature fell on his back. "All alone in the world with no one to love you or change your diaper. Suzie Sunshine will rescue you." The young one said while walking over to the creature and picked him up. "I'll bath you, and dwess you, and use a big powder puff on you. You'll be my little Misses Pwetty Pants. Oh, yes you will." She said while holding Terriermon not noticing the problem behind her.
'Another day at school. Another hour or so working on my homework with Grey Matter, but maybe I should try…Eon, yeah that'll do, since he can command time to his advantage.' Takato thought while walking over to the park to chat with his two cowards of friends to see if he can salvage his friendship with them. "Hey, guys." Takato said with a wave of his right hand as he walked over to the two on the swings.
"Hey." Kenta said sitting down.
"Hi." Kazu remarked while standing beside him.
"So, what's up?' He questioned while focusing on his friends and not on the fact that this was the same swing set that Renamon stood on those nights ago.
"Raff. Raff. Raff." Jeri said while moving her puppets mouth open and closed as she walked around the park, but then she saw the trio, and decided to talk to them.
"Hey, what are you boys doing today - playing Digimon?" She questioned to them.
"No way, Digimon's for kids." Kenta said aloud still shaken over what had happened.
"Yeah, it's all pretend." Kazu added which made the tamer defend the honorable creatures known as Digimon.
"Despite what you may think: Guilmon is real." Takato said back while resisting all temptations to use the watch.
"Oh, not this again. Listen, dude, you're not scaring anyone with that oversized stuffed dinosaur of yours okay." Kazu said while still not looking at his 'friend'.
"Uh…yeah." Kenta stuttered out while thinking, 'That was a little cold; I mean we ran before catching a glimpse of what was in there.' Takato was grateful that there was one civilian that saw the red scaled Rookie, but he was not expecting her to come to his aid.
"But, Guilmon's not a toy." Jeri said to the two boys who were giving him a hard time.
"Whatever. We're just not into playing Digimon anymore. It's lame." Kenta said, still sitting on the swing.
"We don't have to dump on it. If you don't like it then don't play." Takato said calmly. 'I should have known that this would happen if I showed, or tried to show, Guilmon to them.' Takato thought while all three of them were oblivious to how their talk was affecting Jeri.
"Oh-no. What's wrong with those three? I know." Jeri said to herself and had an idea. She turned her back to them and spoke through her puppet:
"Raff. Boys are silly. Sometimes they fight over even when there's nothing to fight about. It's all just pretend, right?" The puppet said and questioned.
"Yeah, that's right." She answered back to her own comment.
"Kenta, let's go hang at my place." Kazu said since the unknown feeling in his gut was getting on his nerves.
"Hooow." Jeri said through her puppet and then saw the two leaving the blue shirted boy.
"Yeah, leave Takato with his kiddie game." Kenta added, also not liking the gut churning feeling in his own stomach, so the two of them walked off.
"I'm sorry of what they said to you, but did I say something to make them leave?" Jeri questioned after the two were gone.
"It wasn't you, and I wouldn't worry about them." He said back to her with a smooth smile coming over his face.
"Why not?" She questioned back, wondering how he could not be mad about what they said about his passion, and of his friend.
"Because I am reminded of a comment from a show I used to watch from a character called Goliath 'Humans fear what they do not understand.'" He explained the source, and the statement to her.
"I get it. They're acting this way because they fear Guilmon even though they never saw him face to face." Miss Katou said back to him, wondering if she got it right.
"Exactly." He said back to her, but then thought of the rest, 'And what they fear they often seek to destroy.' At that thought he recalled of that man, 'I hope DarkLizardmon is okay.' He thought, and was concerned of the fate of ANY Digimon that he captures.
"Takato, is everything is okay?" The female classmate questioned in fear when her friend wasn't saying anything.
"Yeah. I'm fine. I just have to go visit Guilmon. See ya." Takato said to her before heading out.
'I hope he's okay.' Jeri questioned with her hand over her puppet hand. Ever since finding out about Guilmon she prated that he didn't do anything stupid. Unknown to any of them Yamaki was having a meeting with his superiors.
"Yamaki, we're very disappointed. We spent millions on H.Y.P.N.O.S., and what do you give us = one Digimon floating in a tank in your lab. If that's all we need I would have hired a dog catcher." A man conversing from his limo commented to the blonde after hearing what he had done, and made a crack of one of the Digimon that was still out.
"Catching them after they Bio-Emerge isn't good enough. Can't you keep them from appearing all together? If the media finds out about these so called 'wild ones' think of the panic it will cause." A female standing in an office with a city view commented to the man.
"Yes, ma`am, but H.Y.P.N.O.S. is the reason why there haven't been any media leaks in the first place." The blonde haired leader said back to the female, trying to defend himself.
"Enough talk; let's just let the army handle this so I can get on with my lunch." A man in the lower right of a four way screen said as he sat at his desk with food in front of him.
"Uh…I lost my briefing. I'm a little lost. What are these Digi-Men, or whatever they're called." A man in the lower left hand of the screen said while he tried to play some Golf.
"It's DigiMON, you twit." The female in the upper right said back emphasizing 'mon' to her fellow employer. "Ugh. I'll explain it again." She informed and then her image faded from the screen and was replaced with a visual aid. "Years ago scientists created Artificial Life programs also known as Digimon." She explained from behind the display.
"Oh, you mean like pets, like my cat - Fluffy." The Golfer said back, not quite getting it.
"No, you dolt. They're advanced forms of intelligence in fact they were so smart the scientists could control them." She said and just like that was cut off again.
"Sometimes I can't control Fluffy, like when she spits hairballs on the couch…" He started only to find himself interrupted.
"Mention Fluffy again, and I will dropkick you to the next time zone." She shouted back and that was when Yamaki stepped in at where she left off.
"The program was shut down and Digimon became a mere children's game, or so we thought. Sometimes they survived and even gained the ability to synthesize as proteins here in the real world." Yamaki said to them, and prayed that they would understand his solution to this.
"So, they're like a pack of freak circus animals; what's the big deal." The lunch eater questioned since he did not understand what the whole commotion was about.
"I agree. I mean who doesn't love the circus." The sports nut commented while mainly hearing the word ' circus'. That statement did not go over very well with the seller.
"Sir, these are not performing monkeys. They have unlimited powers of destruction and indefinite life spans. They're a threat to humanity. You've rejected my proposal before, but the only solution is to completely eliminate in the Digital World and here. I have a plan that uses the Digimon's own data against them. It's quite elegant really, and there's no cause for hesitation it's not like we're destroying living, breathing creatures; they're just faulty programs which should never have been destroyed in the first place. Think of the live we'd save. The chaos we could avert by striking early." He said back to them, launching his proposal for his new toy again.
"This proposal? What's it called?" The limo passenger questioned since this seemed intriguing.
"Juggernaut." Yamaki said back in a simple way. He got the idea from when he looked at Marvel comics for title name, and when he saw a man's unstoppable might in rust red armor he knew he had the perfect name.
"The boundary between the Digital World and ours is thin. How do we what kind of affect 'Juggernaut' will have on the real world." The passenger questioned back since he preferred it if they had all of the facts before they tried a stunt like this.
"Yeah, how will we know that you won't blow up my swimming pool." The laid back man said, grateful that the course was pretty devoid of a lot of golfers.
"I wouldn't worry about that. Juggernaut, will cause some complications online, but hang-ups on the net happens every day; I doubt anyone will ever notice." Yamaki knowing that what he said was true since he was the one that made it.
"These might not be simple complications. You know how I feel about your previous work Yamaki, but the chief's right, it's too risky. The general public is bound to discover something." The eater said to him while bringing up Yuggoth and it's failure.
"Sir, no one knows H.Y.N.O.S. even exists." Yamaki said back to the man that checks up on him every now and again.
"Well, I'm not going to get in trouble because of this. Can't we just test this…ugh…Jugger-whatever, and see what happens, and if Yamaki get's discovered, huh, then we won't be having anything to do with him." The golfer said back since he really didn't care what the others did as long as he had fun.
"Good idea. For once you came up with something that we can actually use. Got it, Yamaki." The chief said to the sportsman and then to the lackey of theirs.
"Yeah, I got it. We'll continue testing." Yamaki said walking beside the screen, and when they came to terms with the problem the lights in his office came back on and the blind to his window opened up. "Bunch of fools." He muttered knowing that his plan will work. 'I think it's best that they don't know about them.' Yamaki thought while looking at his desk which showed pictures of several creatures: each having an hourglass logo somewhere on their body. The holder of the creatures was sitting at a jungle gym with his creation right beside him.
"Go ahead. He doesn't mind, see?" A little girl said to her younger brother who was tapping the dinosaur's tail with his finger, and she knew what she was saying was true since she was one of the children that slid down him when he was bigger.
"Are you still worried?" Guilmon questioned as he playfully waged his tail to the two young ones behind him.
"I'm not worried…exactly." The partner said back.
"Then what is it?" The Rookie Virus questioned since he was concerned with his friend's spacing out lately.
"It's just for the fight with Dokugumon and IceDevimon I felt like I loose myself in those fights." Takato said back to him. "All that power with my high level of anger." Takato said going into deeper explanation.
"But it's still you in there." Guilmon said back; trying to be positive of the beasts he can turn into.
"That may be, but what if for some reason I don't time out and I slowly forget who I was, or who's side I was on." Takato said back with his head hung low.
"I know that you wouldn't forget that, you're a good guy." Guilmon said, once again trying to help, but became discouraged when the human was accepting his words. "Takato, you know that whenever I change I'm still me, but I hope you also know that no matter how many times you change you're still you, okay?" He questioned with an explanation to his tamer.
"Guilmon?" Takato said sort of being blown away by the words from his partner.
"Yeah?" The lizard questioned back.
"You are totally unbelievable. I mean it feels like only yesterday that you were speaking and acting like a baby, but now you see things clearly. Heck, even more clearly then me most times." Takato said back, admitting that he was impressed which caused the Digimon to laugh a bit from that comment.
"I get it all from you." Guilmon said back, admitting where he gets this kind of insight.
"You know…" Takato started to say while looking down at his watch. "I always wanted to try something." He added and finished with, "Takato digivolve into…" The lizard watched his friend activate the watch and then slammed it down.
"Fourarmsmon!" The red skinned creature shouted after the green light dimmed down. Guilmon looked at him in a weird way, but that was soon changed to happy laughing, and that caused the four limbed man to laugh too. The both of them knew that there was a crowd of young ones behind them, but they didn't care. "Listen, I'm sorry for acing spaced out." Fourarms said in an apologetic tone.
"Why? You said you were afraid of losing yourself." The Rookie commented as he looked up at the muscle.
"Yes, but I should know that no matter how much I go battle crazy I am still the same slacking artist, tamer that I've always been." The creature said with a big grin.
"Right." The dinosaur answered back and the two began to howl out of fun. Back at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building the group within were getting a new invention added to their arsenal of 'purification'.
"Hey, Riley, what do you think that is?" Tally questioned as she and her fellow worker sat on the sidelines while the technicians were installing the new machine.
"Well, whatever it is. It aint pretty." The redhead said back before pulling out a compact mirror.
"We sure didn't get authorization from this." The standing one said while still looking at their new toy.
"Yamaki does what he wants. If I were you I wouldn't ask too many questions." Riley said back while checking on her right eyelashes. She spoke from experience since when he first tried Yuggoth and she said her opinion she got a chewing out because of it. "Just know that all his plans means bad news from somebody." She added while still looking in her mirror. In a quieter part of the city there was another redhead answering her problems with a friend.
"When you beat Harpymon you didn't load her data you didn't load her data that was the first time I saw you do that. Why?" Rika questioned as she was sitting on their wooden porch trying to make sense of the fight.
"I didn't need to." The vixen said back after materializing beside her human while facing their backyard.
"But how will you digivolve?" The Digimon Queen answered back while still looking at her feet. Ever since she started that journey that was how she thought that power could be achieved, so it will take time for her to deal with this.
"I think Digimon with human partners don't need to absorb data. Something special about their tamers makes them digivolve." Renamon answered back to the human. Giving off a theory that has been bugging her for a while.
"I guess the two of us are like that, huh?" Rika questioned back to the canine.
"I guess so." The yellow furred woman said back while looking at her hind paws.
"I never thought I'd feel this way." Rika said since she could feel old emotions, emotions when her family was together, slowly come back to her. "It's kind of weird." The redhead admitted aloud.
"What?" Renamon questioned back with a hint of worry in her tone. Half of her mind was thinking that she was considering to abandon her again while the other half of the canine's mind was fearing that the youngest Nonaka was going to admit that she like Takato.
"It's like…I can't remember what I used to be so angry about." The human clarified. "I don't even feel like poking fun at Takato and Henry's silly Digimon anymore." She added while sitting strait up from her hunched pose.
"Huh. You're right. That is weird." Renamon said back with a mental sigh. 'She doesn't want to get rid of me.' She thought with a mental smile.
'And she doesn't want Takato?' The lighter half of the canine thought since she did not mention Takato in that light.
"But that doesn't mean that I won't talk bad about his other forms because I know that they aren't Digimon." Rika added since she could probably think of several comments for all of his forms. There was another problem at the home of Henry Wong, but it was not the tamer that was having the problem.
'Home again. Home again.' Janyu thought as he approached the door that would lead into his home. As soon as he put his key in the slot there was another footsteps coming in his direction. "Huh?" He questioned and saw a man in a black suit with black hat.
"You are Mister Wong, I presume." The man said to the father figure.
"Thanks for the offer that you are about to make, but I am not interested." The older man said back and went back to concentrating on his door.
"I'm no salesman Mister Wong. Think of me as a ghost from your past from when you and your reckless friends thought that you could do anything like creating digital life forms on the net. They're out of control now Mister Wong. Someone must pay the price." The man said, explaining why he was in the same hallway.
"Why don't you just tell me what you want?" Janyu questioned back with a serious expression.
"I need you to find one of your old playmates. One who refuses to grow up. Who is working on the project right now." The mystery man said back.
"I don't know anything." The parent of a partner said while still staring at his door.
"Don't lie Mister Wong, it's unbecoming." The other said back which pushed the male a bite further.
"Who are you? Huh!" The older Wong questioned and made a motion to where he heard the voice, but only found his son.
"Uh, hi dad." Henry said back while weirded out that his father almost attacked him. He was grateful that he was able to keep hold of the object that he bought.
"Henry?" Janyu questioned while thinking, 'This is awkward.' He stared at his son's blank look, but after a couple of blinks the boy got his voice back.
"Is there something wrong?" The passive tamer questioned while looking at the older man. "Who were you yelling at?" He asked since he had just made it down his hall when he heard his father talk, but when he got there no one was around. Unknown to them was that someone heard voices on the other side of the door and decided who it was.
"Daddy, your home." Suzie exclaimed after opening the door. She walked over to him with a smile on her face and a 'toy' in her arms. The young one looked over her shoulder and decided to talk to her brother too. "Hendwey, say hello to Pwinsess Pwety Pants." She said while presenting a Digimon in baby clothes.
"Okay, hi, there." Henry said aloud to his partner while thinking, 'I am seriously sorry that you had to deal with this today.' As he and his family were getting ready for Supper there was another that was thinking of a location.
"Oh, that building that I was in. I don't like it after all." He said aloud while looking at the setting sky. "There's something strange about it. Something not nice." He added before the arrival of a white and purple face spooked him off his sitting spot. He fell off of the lone guard stand and onto the path below it.
"Aw, did I scare the adorable Calumon. Not so tough when your tumbling like a sack of potatoes, huh, pan-face." Impmon said while standing where the other Digimon was sitting.
"You're a big meanie-weanie. No wonder you don't have any friends." Calumon shouted back while jumping up and down in place.
"Ah, what good are friends? You run around being all cute and friendly, and what's that done for ya? You can't even digivolve. No one wants you as a Digimon they just put up with you because you are…what the word for it…oh yes - PATHETIC!" Impmon said back to the white colored life form in his usual insulting style.
"Impmon, is there anyone you do like?" Calumon questioned since he heard from Terriermon and Guilmon this Digimon is always like this - downsizing others for selfish reasons.
"Nah, you all pretty much make me sick." He answered back in semi-honesty. 'I know that she will be with me.' He thought thinking of the only Digimon worth his time. "What a little Digimon like you need isn't friends, but some good advice, and it's your lucky day cause I'm in the sharing kind of mood. Life my friend is all about the survival of the fittest - that is when the best and the brightest, that's me, wipes the floor with the meek and the weak, that's you, so if I blast you to kingdom come, and absorb your data like I'm planning on doin, so don't take it personally it's just nature taking its course." Impmon said while walking on the glass guardrail by the guard stand and finished with him giving the friendly fighter an evil smirk.
'Oh, crud. Time to run.' Calumon thought, but his body was too busy shaking out of fright. Unknown to Digimon and human alike a machine, a doomsday machine for digital life forms, was powering up.
"Juggernaut, initiate." One of the technicians said while helping to power it up. While that was powering up Riley and Tally, who were on the clock, detected the new toy's activation.
"I'm getting an abnormal reading. Sir, is this all part of this new product we're testing - the Juggernaut?" Riley questioned since there was something in the pit of her stomach telling her that this whole thing was a bad idea.
"Yes, but there's nothing to be concerned about we're just giving it a test run. Using data from the Digimon we captured I constructed a Digimon composite that act as bait. Instead of us hunting them; they'll come to us." Yamaki said to them through a com link since he wanted a view for his achievement.
"You're brilliant, sir." Tally said, thinking that it was only a lure and capture method; she had no clue that it was a deletion plan.
"Well, that's your first accurate observation." He answered sarcastically to Tally since he appreciate Riley's input more that the others. The source of this problem was from the chasm that DarkLizardmon was disposed of. As that was going on Takato and Guilmon have retired from the park and were in his hovel to talk some more.
"Hey, Guilmon, now that I've got my head back in the game I have all these attack cards I've been dying to use. Maybe we should even have a team name like…dynamic duo, oh wait - that's Batman and Robin title. Maybe - Omni-Man and Dino-Dude? Wait…that doesn't work either. Maybe…" Takato, who timed out during his time at the park, said while thinking of a cool name, but was stopped when something shook the ground he was sitting on. "Is that an earthquake?" He questioned while looking at the doorway.
'It's coming.' Guilmon thought since he could sense something coming their way. He was uncertain about the level, but there was something on it's way. The Wong family has just assembled to the table to eat what Henry brought home for them.
"Dinner time, everyone." Janyu said after dumping the instant dishes onto their table. "Who wants takeout?" He asked them with a smile on his face.
"I do. I do. I do." Suzie cheered while getting to her chair at the end of the table. By that time Jaarin Wong entered their kitchen.
"Hey, dad. Smells great. I'm starving." She said after coming into the room before getting a drink. As the daughter was entering the kitchen Mayumi, the mother, was heading for the table.
"Now, no smart comments about how this stuff is better then my cooking." The mother said before sitting down at the table. The father lifted up two containers, and decided to ask what his family wanted.
"So, what do you want: friend frog or marinated mealworms?" The father questioned his daughter who was doing a small step of drinking water before setting down for a meal.
"Oh, dad, give me a break." She said with her back to the family, and then turned around to face them by adding, "I'm not eating marinated mealworms." He just smiled at her answer.
"You don't know. You might like it." He said back to her. That was about the time that Henry decided to say something that has been bugging him for a while now.
"Hey, uh, dad…" He started to say, but was interrupted by the male in question.
"Shh. Don't worry I made that up, but don't tell your sister, okay?" He questioned back to his son.
"Actually, I was wanting to know about that Digimon project that you used to work on." Henry said to his father. They all knew that his father had a hand in the creation of the fad, but he never went into detail about that event.
"Let's talk about that later, okay son?" The father questioned while rubbing his right face cheek with his right index finger as a form of embarrassment or shyness.
"Oh, okay." The tamer said back since he did not want to get into trouble for pressuring the subject. Jaarin was done with her drink and was now sitting down at the table with the other five members of her family.
"So, where are the worms?" She questioned after taking the last seat of the table believing that her father was only pulling her leg. As the family was about to relax and eat a strange noise was BARLEY heard from the others.
"What?" Henry questioned when he heard that strange noise. "Before I eat I better wash my hands in the bathroom." Henry said to his family even though he had done it when he got home. 'I know I can't hear as good as Renamon, Wildmutt, Lobo, or Eye Guy, but I know what I heard.' The passive one thought as he walked over to the door which led to his room.
'What is this strange feeling?' The long eared Digimon thought as he found himself slamming against the glass. He may have gotten out of the baby suit, but now this strangeness was happening.
"Terriermon." Henry said in surprise over what he was seeing, and he could tell that this was not his usual sense of funny.
"Henry, it's got me like a magnet! Can't resist it!" The rabbit-like creature said as he kept hitting the window that overlooked the city.
"What is happening to you?" The human questioned since this was really worrying him. As for the Government building the device that they were powering up was finally ready to be used.
"Juggernaut activated." One of the technicians said as a beam shot up from the double towered building and straight to the sky. When the blue beam hit the sky it sent out several shockwaves for it's own purpose. "Data stream dispatched. Projected response - immediate." The man said, but this time through the portable device held by Yamaki.
"Those Digimon won't know what hit them." The man said aloud after a short laugh and then with pride he thought, 'Let's see the kiddies deal with this.' The action in the heavens could be seen in the park where Takato and Guilmon stood outside of the hovel.
"The sky…" The human shape-shifter said in awe.
"Takato, something's coming. A Digimon, and he's really big." Guilmon said telling his partner of an aura that he had sensed for a little while now.
'If it's a big one then I can only hope that the watch and my friends can take it.' Takato thought before looking down at his wristband.