Another chapter is up and only in a few days too! I seem to be writing faster and faster these days. Okay this is the first chapter were the characters aren't being introduced. It's the first full team battle. This one's also a little different because it's got multiple narations, may seem a little confusing but anyway enjoy.
Oh right the disclaimer. I don't own Digimon, it's not mine I'm just using some of the characters from it. Please don't sue, it's just fan fiction.
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Chapter 7: Battle for the Base
Kris
It had been a three days since our "day off", and like I'd said I'd called together a meeting to discuss the latest plan. This particular I wasn't exactly proud of, but we'd had six failed plans already and we were running out of ideas. My voice fell silent as I finished explaining the plan Elecmon had worked on the last few days.
"Wow," Rob said. "That's a little risky isn't it?"
"Yes," I said sighing. "But if anyone has any better ideas, that we haven't tried on failed so far I'd like to hear them."
Like I'd expected - and feared - no one said a word.
"So," I said. "Does anyone object to this plan?"
Dan was the first to speak up. "Nope, defiantly don't object, I've got the crest of curiosity for a reason, this one's the riskiest one yet, and I'm curious to see how it turns out."
"Ditto," Sean said. "I've got the crest of Persistence, no matter how many times we fail I feel we've still got to keep trying, with different plans no matter how risky they are."
"I'm in too," Rob said. "It's risky but all of our plans have been so far have been, why should I object now."
There was another eerie silence as we waited for Jenn to speak up, I wasn't surprised she hadn't said anything yet; she was the one who was going to be taking all the major risks.
"Jenn," I said. "You willing to go through with this plan. I'd understand if you don't want to, I mean you're the one, who's going to be the most vulnerable, you and Penguinmon are the ones who have the most chance, of - well not coming back."
"I know," she said weakly.
"You know that if I could I'd do it," I said. "I'm the leader I came up with this plan and I'm the one who should be doing it, but you know that neither Elecmon or Leomon can swim half as good as Penguinmon, so I can't."
She smiled at that. "I know, but there's no way I could possibly object. After all I have the crest of assistance, you know that I want to help those captive Digimon even more than any of you guys do, and I'm willing to do what I have to help them."
"Okay," I said. "If everyone's in then let's get to work."
* * *
A week past since the meeting, during that week we prepared for our riskiest plan yet. We couldn't take any chances, we needed to make sure everything was ready, even if it had take a week, if we weren't prepared for even one thing it could cost us our lives. During the week we'd been confronted by other Digimon some of them were ones we'd freed. They had volunteered to help us fight the Digimon Emperor and Empress. I wouldn't let them fight though, I didn't want to drag them into this, and this was a fight we were supposed to be fighting not them. However they still insisted on helping, I realized they weren't going to back down, and after they insisted I let them spy for us. Honestly I didn't like them risking themselves to do something that we should be doing. We'd learned that hundreds of Digimon were being held in the base just as we'd suspected, plus more and more were being captured by the day. Unfortunately most of the spies had gotten captured, only one escaped. One last thing we learned of that Emily and Andrew were building something. Something big! All the more reason for us to get in there
I sat up by the coastline at the end of the cove. I sighed, going over our plan time and time again, each time I came up with a plan there had been something I'd overlooked, that's why they failed. I couldn't overlook anything this time, if I did and we were forced to run we'd have to leave Jenn and Penguinmon alone, totally vulnerable, something I defiantly didn't want to do, but if we messed up I'd have to, to save the rest of the team. I really wish that I could do it, I'd rather order my fellow Digidestined to leave me behind than another member of my team, at least then I wouldn't have to live with the guilt. However each time I went over the plan in my head I saw no flaws in it, of course I never saw any plans with my other plans into they actually went wrong. I'd really hoped Janine would have showed up. I tried calling her, but she wasn't home instead I sent her an e-mail about the attack on the base, but she hadn't shown up.
"Ready everyone," I said.
We were positioned, at the end of the cove, one of the closest land spots to the base, just next to the coastline. All our Digimon were in their Champion form, with the exception of Penguinmon. We needed her as a rookie; she swam better as Penguinmon than as Kiwimon. Leomon, Rob, Monochromon, Sean, Apemon, and I were on land, while Coelamon was in the water, with Dan on his back. His mouth was wide open, Jenn and Penguinmon rested in a pouch in Coelamon's mouth, just under his tongue. Jenn held a Sean's palm pilot, and I had my laptop, we'd used Jenn's desktop PC to enter the Digital World so I could have my laptop with me. Both computers had instant message programs running, so we could converse with each other, the main purpose was so that she could let us know if she had gotten in or not.
"As ready as we can be," Penguinmon said.
"Okay," I said. "We can only do this once, we blow it - well let's not think about that. Good luck you guys, you better get going now."
"Right," Dan said. "Good luck to you guys too." Dan turned his head down into Coelamon's mouth. "Okay in there Jenn? Penguinmon?"
"Fine," Penguinmon said.
"Just make sure you don't swallow me." Jenn said to Coelamon.
Coelamon didn't respond, he merely slowly and carefully closed his mouth, Dan clung to Coelamon's back and he dove underwater, an organic submarine. I looked at my Digivice now in radar mode, watching the two yellow and blue dots get closer to where the base would be if it showed things other than Digimon and Digidestined. I waited until the got incredibly close, as they did another blue dot emerged, just as I thought. My four friends moved away from the blue dot, as they did it backed off two. I knew what was coming next, Coelamon surfaced Dan holding tightly to his back. Coelamon swam as fast as possible towards our position, I glanced down at my Digivice's screen, so far everything was going according to plan. This part of the plan included Emily and Andrew think Dan was trying to get in, and when he started to back off and swim away -
Just as I had figured, Emily and Andrew came out of the base riding on their Ultimate Digimon's back taking into the air chasing Dan and Coelamon from the air while he swam as fast as possible to our position, all he had to do now was make it to shore before Emily and Andrew got him.
The other part of my plan was going well, while Dan and Coelamon were distracting Emily and Andrew Penguinmon was going to swim Jenn into the underwater entrance, which was the risky part. Sure Penguinmon was a good swimmer, not half as good as Coelamon or Gizamon of course, but better than any of the other Digimon, however if she was attacked underwater, she and Jenn would be helpless. Fortunately Emily and Andrew hadn't figured out where she was yet. All was going according to plan. Dan and Coelamon just had to make it to shore safely, which is where we came in.
"Okay now!" I yelled. "Attack!"
The three Digimon on shore responded in a second.
"Fist of the beast king!" Leomon yelled.
"Volcanic strike!" Monochromon yelled.
"Metallic fur!" Apemon yelled.
The three attacks went straight at Phantomon and Ladydevimon who were about to fire their own attacks at Dan and Coelamon. Their eyes met our position, Andrew said something but I couldn't hear him he was two far away. Ladydevimon drew back her hands aimed at us, while Phantomon aimed his scythe at Dan and Coelamon.
"Keep attacking!" I instructed. "They're each attacking the two positions were in! Don't stop attacking until Dan and Coelamon get here."
Our Digimon firing their attacks, at Phantomon and Ladydevimon, some hit some missed. Of course the attacks weren't enough to do any damage, but that's not what the attacks were meant for only as a distraction, which is what they did, they caused Phantomon and Ladydevimon to miss Coelamon and Dan.
They finally made it to shore, and like I instructed Leomon, Monochromon and Apemon stopped attacking. However Emily, Ladydevimon, Andrew, and Phantomon were still heading straight for us. They began to fly even lower.
"MOVE!" I yelled. "Get to the tunnel."
There wasn't a second's hesitation. Okay so far so good, I'd expected all of this to happen, now we were going to use what we had been preparing for the past week.
We moved towards the tunnel we'd been digging the past week, unlike the other times we weren't riding on Monochromon's back we didn't have time to climb on then back on again we needed every second we were given. The flat ground we had been running on began to get steeper as we reached the hill, right where our small tunnel was located.
"IN!" I screamed, despite the fact that they didn't need to be reminded.
All the Digimon quickly returned to their rookie levels. They couldn't enter it as they were now, the tunnel was way to small, and we'd dug it that way purposely. Everyone quickly crawled into the tunnel crawling down as fast as possible. I stayed outside and made sure everyone got into the tunnel safely before diving in myself. I slid down the slanted muddy tunnel headfirst just as the ground I had once been standing on exploded. After sliding down the tunnel about a minute I emerged into a room, about six feet high, and big enough to fit all twelve members of our team, of course there was only eight of us now. The entrance however wasn't that big, it was only about a foot high, had it not slanted downwards I'd have had to crawl all the way into the larger opening. The entrance was just big enough so us humans, and our rookie level Digimon could fit in. Emily and Andrew could fit but Ladydevimon and Phantomon couldn't. But that wouldn't stop them. There was a reason this underground room we dug was so deep underground. I felt the ground shake. Emily and Andrew must have ordered they're Digimon to start digging in order to get to us. Not a problem I'd expected this too, almost on cue after the shaking my laptop tucked under my arms beeped. I immediately popped it open. There was an instant message from Jenn.
Within the window it said two little words. "I'm in."
A smile grew on my face. It actually worked! Jenn and Penguinmon were inside the base.
I turned to my teammates, and smiled. "They did! They're in!"
Like I had the seven of them just smiled.
"We finally did it!" Gizamon said. "We finally got in."
"Now it's just a matter of her getting those Digimon out, and getting out herself." Rob said.
The whole room started to shake again.
"Let's not worry about her right now." Elecmon said. "Right now we should go on with our part of the plan."
"Right," I nodded. "Let's get out of here, and do what we have to do."
Here was the next part of the plan; we'd escape through another entrance we'd dug then scatter, distracting Emily and Andrew long enough for Jenn to do what she needed to do inside, then when she and the Digimon were out. We'd get to the nearest Digiport and get back home.
"Uh Kris," Rob said, from the second entrance, which we would now use as an exit. "We've got a problem."
"What?" I asked.
Rob stepped aside revealing the problem. It was a very big problem a very big problem. The second entrance was gone. It had caved in!
"No," I said weakly. "No."
I guess that was it, the one thing I had overlooked. I should have come down here before we attacked the base to see if the tunnels were fine. Now we were sitting ducks! It was only a matter of time before Emily and Andrew dug their way to us. It had taken us a week, but that's because he had to be careful and make the tunnels perfect, plus we could only dig as humans and rookies so the tunnel would be small enough. It would take two Ultimates no time at all to get here, five or ten minutes tops.
"What do we do? What do we do?" Dan yelled.
"The only thing we can do." I said. "Elecmon get ready to Digivolve."
"We can't beat them," Rob said.
"I know," I sighed. "But you're the one with the crest of Perception, do you see anything else we could do, we were depending on that tunnel to escape. We need to distract them and we're going to distract them the only way we can right now."
Everyone sighed, all eight of us. They all knew I was right, and I knew everyone of us, including myself wished I wasn't. The only thing we could do now was fight, fight against impossible odds.
In about five minutes, I saw the ceiling of the tunnel get ripped apart; they'd torn apart the entire hill just to get to us. We now stood in a gaping crater, no longer in the tunnel we made. It had been ripped apart we were outside again, the Digital World's sun beaming down on us. Above us were Phantomon and Andrew, glaring angrily. Phantomon and Andrew? Where were Ladydevimon and Emily?
No! They must have realized Jenn had gotten into the base, and now Emily and Ladydevimon were in there with her. Now we weren't the only ones in big trouble.
* * *
Jenn
I lay on my hands and knees gasping desperately for air. Never had I appreciated oxygen more in my life. Penguinmon was just as tired as I was. She was a great swimmer being a Penguin Digimon and all, but Penguin's normally didn't carry humans with them, either way we'd done what we'd trying to do this past month, we'd gotten into the base, I had broken the surface and climbed onto the base floor, after entering the underwater entrance. Almost five minutes underwater, very tiring. Anyway time to let the others know I was in the base, I quickly punched in a quick message into the palm pilot, and sent it to Kris's laptop, had to make it short.
I merely wrote: "I'm in."
"Okay Penguinmon," I said. "We don't have time to rest, we've got to free those Digimon now, and if possible find a way to destroy this thing."
"Can you give me a few minutes," Penguinmon asked.
"No," I answered. "As much as I want to rest too, but we can't, it's only a matter of time before they realize we're in here. We've got to do what were in here to do now."
"Okay," Penguinmon said slowly getting up. "But don't expect me to move really fast right away."
I scooped up my tired Digimon up in my arms. "If you're tired than I'll carry you, you'll need to conserve you're energy if we run into Emily, Andrew or they're last slave."
The room we were in was a small one, probably just an entranceway. With only about four square feet of floor, the rest was water that lead outside. Now we had another problem trying to find out where exactly the captive Digimon were being held. Well I might as well start by opening the door to this room. Which was easier said than done, when I attempted to turn the knob it didn't turn.
"Locked." I said.
"Not a problem," Penguinmon said bringing her hands together. "Ice Slide!"
Penguinmon's icy attack, hit the center of the door, it instantly toppled over.
"Some security," I laughed. "A locked door, ooh really hard to get past."
"Let's not get cocky now." Penguinmon said. "Who knows what's in there, maybe they only have a locked door because whatever's behind it is dangerous."
"Only one way to find out." I said stepping into the next room.
The room, was a long hallway, it stretched for a while so long that I could barely see the door at the other end of the hallway. As I began to walk further than the hall I realized why it was so long. I also found that I didn't need to go any further to find the captive Digimon. This long hallway was the bases dungeon. On one side of me was a jail cell that stretched from one end of the hall, and on the other side of me was another cell that was just as big. Inside the cells were hundreds of Digimon, all sulking in the prisons, all hope seemed to be gone from their face.
"This is horrible," Penguinmon said with a not surprising look of horror on her face.
"You can say that again." I agreed.
At the sound of our voices the Digimon looked up. You couldn't imagine the change in their faces when they saw us, from one of total despair to one of renewed hope. Every single one of those hundreds of Digimon rushed up to the bars of the cells.
"You're here," one of them yelled.
"I knew the Digidestined would come for us." Another said.
So many voices filled the air, all happy to see me, pleading me to let them out.
"Looks like we've developed quite a reputation here." I said. I turned to the Digimon in the cell. "Don't worry we'll get you out of here, that's the whole reason we're in here. Penguinmon."
"On it." She said. "Penguinmon Digivolved to…………….Kiwimon!"
I thanked God that Kiwimon wasn't that big, she was bigger than me but had she been big like Monochromon or she wouldn't fit in here and we'd be no good for these Digimon.
"Drill Bill!"
Kiwimon fired her attack at the edge of the bars, then at the other edge, then towards along the top of the bars, and finally along the bottom, with nothing to support the bars, they fell freeing the Digimon in the cell to our right. Kiwimon did the same thing to the other cell freeing all the Digimon. The hundreds of Digimon all cheered as the bars to their cells toppled. I had no idea how long each of them had spent in that cell but it must have been a long time for them to be celebrating so much.
"Follow me, it's time to get you guys out of here." I said running towards the door opposite to the one I came in. Going out the one we came in would be out of the question. Most of these Digimon we'd freed couldn't swim, we'd have to go out that door and hope we could find the main entrance/exit to the base. The newly freed Digimon eagerly followed me, assuming I knew where I was going. I only wish I had that much confidence in myself. We'd learned from Digimon who had helped us that there had been a legend that the Digidestined would save them from darkness, which had already happened with the Japanese Digidestined, now I guess it was our turn, which explained why they so eagerly followed Kiwimon and I towards the door.
"You better knock that door down," I told Kiwimon. "Odds are it's locked."
Kiwimon nodded and opened her mouth, ready to fire one of her attacks, but before she could the door was knocked down. I instantly stopped in my tracks. The Digimon stopped about twice as fast as Kiwimon and I had, there was a good reason, we had all stopped. Standing on the other side of the doorway were Emily and Ladydevimon, that classic evil grin of theirs on their faces.
"Looks like we've got a jail break here," Emily laughed evilly. "Going somewhere?"
"We're leaving," I said. "Now get out of our way."
The two only laughed. "How bold of you, but you're not going anywhere, prepared to be destroyed."
"Dark Explosion!" Ladydevimon yelled firing her attack.
All I could do was stand in fear as the dark energy beam flew at me. I wanted to move, I really did but my body just wouldn't work.
"NO!" a voice screamed from behind me.
Before I could even react a yeti like Digimon - Mojiamon, I think - jumped over me, and right into front of me, taking the attack right in the chest. I could only stare in horror of the results of his actions occurred, the heroic Digimon shattered into a million pieces, destroyed! He'd sacrificed himself to save Kiwimon and I.
"Raaah!"
This time it was many voices, the hundreds of Digimon that were once behind me now rushed in front of me and jumped on Ladydevimon. Giving it all they had attacking her, some were Champions some were rookies, some were even In-Training Digimon, but they still attacked, and swarmed over Ladydevimon, giving it all they had.
"Ladydevimon tossed some of them away but there were too many of them to toss them all aside.
"Let's not let them fight alone," I said to my partner.
"Right," Kiwimon eagerly agreed. "Let's fight."
"No," a Digimon who had been tossed aside yelled at us. It was a Mojiamon like the one who had given his life for me. "You've got to get out of here, we can hold them off but not for long you've got to get out of here."
"I'm not leaving," I argued. "The whole reason I'm here is to help you."
"That can't be it," Mojiamon said. "What about the crests of the Japanese Digidestined, and destroying the base."
The crest of the Japanese Digidestined? That's right! Frigimon had mentioned that Emily and Andrew had them, but we'd been so concerned with getting our own crests we'd forgotten about the Japanese ones.
"You have to get those crests!" Mojiamon said. "You can help us again later, they won't destroy us, not all of us anyway. Those eight crests of the Japanese Digidestined, they've somehow gotten their hands on them, and if you don't get them the Digimon Emperor and Digimon Empress will use them for evil. Those crests are important, you must get them."
"I can't just leave you."
"You must! We'll be fine, you can help us later you must get those crests!"
I hated this! He was right! I had to leave, them, of course there were hundreds of them and Ladydevimon was only one Digimon they could win.
"Okay," I said. "I'll go where are the crests?"
"Out that door," Mojiamon answered. "There's a stairwell keep going up it until you're at the top, do through the door and in that room you'll find the crests! Now go!"
Mojiamon jumped into the battle. Now wasn't the time to hesitate.
"I really hate to do this, Kiwimon." I said. "But - but we have to leave them, and get those crests."
Tears welled up in my eyes, but I wouldn't let them fall, now wasn't the time to cry. I really wanted to help, but I knew it wasn't the right thing to do right now; it was those crests that were important, despite the fact that I really wanted to help. I quickly maneuvered my way past the fighting. I wanted to help but I kept continued to run, through the doorway and began running up the stairs, following Mojiamon's instructions. My heart yearned to go down there and help, stupid crest of Assistance, why did I have to be the one who always wanted to help. Where these the kind of decisions, Kris always had to make? If they were I wouldn't trade places with him for a second.
* * *
Kris
We glared up angrily at Phantomon, and Andrew, just like Andrew was doing to us. Phantomon's scythe was up ready to fire in a second, our Digimon weren't going to get a chance to Digivolve. Phantomon would attack if we even moved. If we could Digivolve we'd have a chance, there was only one of them this time, we might actually be able to beat him.
"So," Andrew said. "Another pathetic attempt to enter our base. At least this one worked. Too bad your friend being in the base isn't going to do you any good, as we speak Emily is in there and your friend will be destroyed in a matter of minutes."
A mix of emotions were going through me, anger, for the obvious reason that Emily could very well be destroyed my best friend aside from Elecmon of course, but mostly guilt, because I was the one who had sent her in there.
"Are you going to Digivolve?" Andrew asked, cocking his eye at Elecmon. "This game won't be any fun unless I can get a decent fight."
"Game?" I yelled. "This is a game to you! How could you think all the things you're doing are a game!?"
"Jeez get a life," Andrew said. "So are your Digimon going to Digivolve? Or should I just destroy you now?"
"Okay," I said. "You asked for it! Guys time to Digivolve!"
"Elecmon Digivolved to………………..Leomon!"
"Gotsumon Digivolved to………………Monochromon!"
"Tapirmon Digivolved to……………….Apemon!"
"Gizamon Digivolved to………………..Coelamon!"
Leomon attacked first, jumping high into the air, his sword drawn, it came down at Phantomon's face, but Phantomon quickly countered by blocking the sword with his scythe, then using the scythe to toss Leomon aside, but before Leomon even touched the ground, Monochromon was in the air. He could jump pretty high for a big dinosaur. His mouth clamped onto Phantomon's scythe.
"You-" Phantomon screamed in frustration as Monochromon's weight dragged them down to the ground.
Coelamon tackled them, and Andrew was flung off of Phantomon's back. Coelamon clamped his mighty jaw onto, Phantomon's free arm. Apemon used his bone to put Phantomon and a headlock. This was unbelievable! We were actually winning. Monochromon had Phantomon's scythe in his mouth trapping his one arm, and Coelamon had his other arm in his mouth, while Apemon had the rest of Phantomon's body trapped.
"Leomon!" Apemon yelled. "Do it now!"
Leomon took total advantage of Phantomon's invulnerability and began running toward where Phantomon was being held; he drew back his sword ready to drive it into Phantomon.
"Regret letting us Digivolve!" I mocked Andrew.
"No," Andrew said smiling.
Why was he smiling? We were about to win something was up. Why was he happy?
"Phantomon stop toying with them."
"Very well," Phantomon said. "But you're ruining our fun."
Leomon was just about to drive his sword into Phantomon's stomach, had he waited one second more we would have one. With one swift motion, Phantomon tossed our Digimon aside, they landed in various positions, all down, all hurt very badly, and he'd all done it in one motion.
"Destroy them now Phantomon." Andrew said. "I tire of this game."
I really hated him referring to this war as a game. War was never a game!
Phantomon flew into the sky, and lifted up his scythe.
"I was expected much more of a challenge," Phantomon bragged. "Shadow-"
Darkness began to gather on his scythe, this was going to be a big attack, it needed to be, we were spread out, and a small pone would only kill one of us, but what I hated most about this was that they was nothing I could do about it, we were all sitting ducks, all we could do was wait until Phantomon fired his attack and killed us. I clenched the dirt under me this can't be it! I looked up as Phantomon finished charging his attack, in a second he'd fire and destroy us.
"Meteor shower!"
Not a second too soon, dozens of stars landed on Phantomon's back. The impact sent Phantomon spiraling and he ending up firing his attack harmlessly into the sky. The obvious source of the stars zoomed down, and Starmon's foot landed on the back of Phantomon's head, sending him sailing hard into the ground. Starmon's kick wouldn't have done any damage except for the fact that Phantomon wasn't expecting it.
"Hey guys," Janine yelled running up to us. I had no idea where she had come from. "Sorry I'm late."
Starmon landed beside her, our Digimon managed to get up, and walk up to us too.
"Couldn't cut it any closer could you?" Dan said.
"Shut up," Janine snapped. "You're lucky I came at all." Janine took her attention off Dan and turned to me. "Kris, I've decided to join you guys after all, will you still let me join."
I smiled. "Yes, I course, but right now isn't the time to talk about it. Now we have to fight."
My eyes met the spot Phantomon had crashed into the ground; Andrew was there too now. Phantomon was getting up.
"There's five of us now," I said. "We stand more of a chance, plus of all of our Digimon Starmon is the strongest. We could actually win."
"Let's give it a try then," Starmon said.
"I'm ready if you guys are," Janine answered. "By the way where's Jenn."
My heart stopped, in the excitement and fear of the battle I'd forgotten about her. I looked towards the base; she was in there, alone against Emily. She didn't stand a chance; it was possible that she was dead right now.
I pointed my finger towards the base. "She's in there."
"The base!" Janine said happily, if only she knew the truth. "She got in!"
"Yeah," I sighed. "But so is Emily."
Now Janine's face turned into one of concern, but then again changed into one of determination.
"We can't worry about her now," she said. "She can take care of herself, we have to take care of Phantomon."
I nodded.
"Let's go," Sean said. "The five of us should be enough."
"Yeah," Rob said. "It's better than just sitting here."
Surprisingly Dan was the one who didn't say anything he just smiled and nodded.
Our Digimon apparently had agreed to fight as well, because as soon as we gave the go ahead, the five of them charged straight at Phantomon and began to fight.
* * *
Jenn
I moved up the stairs as fast as possible. This place was bigger than I thought; I'd gone up at least ten flights so far. But I ignored how tired I was. I needed to get to those crests. Those Digimon down there were fighting their hearts out so I could get them, I couldn't let something like fatigue get in the way. My mind kept going back to that Mojiamon who had sacrificed himself to save me, and those other hundreds of Digimon who were giving up their freedom, possibly their lives so I could get at the crests. Then back to when Kris had ordered us to run instead of help the Dolphmon and Whaemon. Part of me had hated him for doing that, for leaving those three to die, I never totally understood how he possibly could have made a decision like that so easily, but now, now that I had to make that same decision, I realized that it hadn't been easy. It was the hardest decision I'd ever have to make, and Kris made these decisions on every mission, how did he do it and still hold the crest of Compassion. I couldn't imagine how hard it had been for him to send me on this risky mission. After about fifteen minutes of running up stairs Kiwimon and I finally reached the top. Kiwimon used her pummel peck to knock down the presumably locked door at the top of the stairwell. I stepped inside the room just after Kiwimon had. The room was a perfect, pyramid with windows stretching across all four walls. This room was the tip of the diamond. On three of the four walls were tons on tons of controls. The, on the fourth wall, right next to the door, was a display case, its contents were exactly what I was looking for, eight crests! The crests of the Japanese Digidestined!
"Let's get those crests Kiwimon." I said.
"I'll handle that." Kiwimon said.
Her leg shot up smashing the glass on the display case, grabbed the eight tags and crests and tossed them into my hands.
"You know the case isn't locked," I said. "You could've just slid the door open."
"I-I knew that."
"Forget it let's just get out of here, while we have the chance."
Kiwimon nodded. We'd gotten what we needed there was no point in sticking around. But I still couldn't resist those controls.
"You know Kiwimon," I said. "Another think we were supposed to do was destroy the base if it was possible, maybe those controls can help us with that."
"Do you know what they do?"
"Does it matter?" I walked up to the closest control panel. "We should just destroy them, maybe it'll do something."
"Or we could end up doing something that could hurt us."
"If something goes wrong we can just break those windows and get out."
My eyes met the controls, but were attracted by something on them. Blueprints. Our spies had mentioned that Emily and Andrew were building something maybe this was it. I grabbed the blueprints, and examined them. Most of it was extremely complicated, and most of it I didn't understand, but one thing I did understand was the end product, a Dark Prism.
"Kiwimon come look at this," I said.
Kiwimon looked over my shoulder, and examined the blueprints.
"Jenn, do - do you know what this is." My Digimon asked.
"Sort of I don't exactly get it, it's something to do with Dark Prisms, so it can't be good."
"I don't get most of it either," Kiwimon said. "But I understand enough, these are plans for a Dark Prism generator."
"What!" I said in total shock. "That means if they build this -"
"They can make turn as much Digimon into slaves as they want, not just with the Prisms that thing Emily was talking to gave them, just like the former Digimon Emperor could."
"Except it'll be worse," I said. "According to that rip Emily had been talking to the last Digimon Emperor had an infinite amount of Dark rings, but his Digimon couldn't Digivolve, Emily and Andrew would have both, they'd be unstoppable."
"Yes, we would." a voice from the doorway said, Emily's voice, and just as I thought, in the doorway stood Emily and Ladydevimon.
"How did you get beat those hundreds of Digimon?" I asked.
"Wasn't hard," Emily laughed. "I just used this." Emily held up her black D3 and crest of Darkness. "See these emit rays of pure darkness, those rays can paralyze Digimon. Let me show you."
As if Emily had done it psychically, the crest and Digivice, began to glow a dark light. The dark light seemed to engulf the room, then disappeared. I quickly glanced over at Kiwimon, however she still stood there completely unhurt.
"Unfortunately this dark light is totally ineffective on Digimon who have a Digidestined partner, your annoying crest and Digivice produce that same kind of light, except naturally it's not dark, which cancels out my own, so we have to rely on destroying you the old fashion way, by beating you to a bloody pulp!"
Kiwimon tensed up ready for anything that Ladydevimon would do.
"Please," Emily laughed. "Have a little faith in me, I have no intention of destroying you, not yet anyway. I'll need a bargaining chip, but first I've got something to tend to."
Emily started moved towards the control panel. Kiwimon tensed up even more she was ready to act on a seconds notice, but she didn't want to yet unless she absolutely had to.
"I'm growing tired of spending my days in this stuffy little cove, it's time to relocate, plus it's annoying having you Digidestined drop in on us every so often. I'd much rather be somewhere you couldn't attack us."
She pushed a button on the control panel as soon as she did, the base started shaking. I looked out the window, the base was rising out of the ocean, not slowly either in a matter of seconds we were flying, and gaining altitude fast, and in a second we were in clouds.
"You can't do this," I said. "You can't build this thing. You just can't enslave these Digimon, they're not here for you're amusement, they're living creatures."
"I know that," Emily said. "Unlike the former Digimon Emperor. He thought this was just a game, but unlike him I know what this place is I know I'm hurting these creatures, and I like it, but while the former Digimon Emperor was a naïve fool he was a genius, if it weren't for him we wouldn't have the plans for that generator. See Ken did design and build his dark rings, and spirals on his own, but after a while he needed to build them faster so he designed and built a machine to generate Dark rings, it was destroyed when his base was, but he found his plans, all we have to do is make one minor modification so it produces Dark Prisms, now I do ask you to hand over our blueprints, and the crests too."
"No," I said firmly. "I won't let you build this thing, and I'm assuming these were the original plans for the generator, you just modified them. You need these plans to build the generator don't you."
"Yes we do," Emily answered. "Now please hand them over."
"Like I said. No!"
Emily only smiled and glanced at Ladydevimon. "Then we'll have to take them."
Ladydevimon shot forward, but in this limited space she couldn't move that fast, she was too big, and Kiwimon wasn't, Kiwimon moved faster and was under me and forced me on her back, and jumped out of the way before Ladydevimon could grab me. Kiwimon jumped onto a control panel, and towards the glass.
"Uh Kiwimon please don't tell me you're doing what you think we're doing." I screamed.
"We're getting out of here Jenn. Now! Drill Bill!"
Kiwimon's purple energy beam smashed the glass, making a big enough hole for us to jump through. Which is exactly what she did. We soared out the window, now outside on top of the diamond. However the surface was incredibly slick and Kiwimon couldn't get a foothold, she slipped, sending me flying off her back, and both of us slid down the diamond shaped base, somewhere along the line Kiwimon had de-Digivolved and was Penguinmon again.
"How was this a good idea?!" I screamed, as we got closer to the edge.
"I didn't think it was this slick," Penguinmon answered.
We reached the edge of the diamond and sailed off the edge.
"I don't suppose you're nothing like the penguins in our world and can fly Penguinmon!"
Penguinmon shook her head. "Nope I'm flightless."
All we could do was scream as we fell, plummeting to certain death towards the ground.
* * *
Kris
The battle between our Digimon and Phantomon raged, it wasn't going that bad. We weren't losing but I wouldn't say we were winning either. Until something happened to completely stop the battle. The water around the base started bubbling, and suddenly the base itself started to rise out of the water, first slow, then faster and faster.
"She's leaving early!" Andrew yelled. "Phantomon, forget them, we've got to get inside the base."
Phantomon obediently stopped fighting, and quickly dove towards the ground scooped Andrew up in his arm and started flying towards the base, that was now disappearing into the clouds.
"We'll finish this later." Andrew yelled as he and Phantomon also disappeared into the clouds.
"Is that it?" Dan groaned. "Can we go home now?"
"No," I said. "Jenn's still in there."
"Any suggestions of how we're going to get her out?" Sean asked.
"Only one of our Digimon can fly," Rob said turning to Janine.
I didn't even need to tell Janine.
"We're on it." She said.
Suddenly I heard my laptop beeping. "Wait," I said. "This is probably her." I opened up my laptop and read the instant message; once again it only consisted of two worlds. "I'm falling." I could feel my heart stop, as I read the message and heard the screaming from above at the same time.
"She's falling!" I yelled at Starmon. "Get to the air and help them now!"
No hesitation, Starmon flew into the air, just as Jenn and Penguinmon came into view above. Starmon agilely flew up and grabbed Jenn by the back collar of her shirt, and grabbed Penguinmon under his arm. I didn't start breathing again until Starmon landed and placed my two friends safely on the ground.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"Fine," Jenn said gasping for air.
"I take it you couldn't free the Digimon," Dan asked.
"Actually I did," Jenn said. "Unfortunately Emily caught them again."
"So," Sean said. "Looks like we have another failure on our hands."
"Let's not go that far," Jenn said.
"What do you mean," I asked.
"I got these," she said holding up eight crests.
"Are those," I started.
"Yep," Jenn said. "The Japanese Digidestined's crests."
That's right! Frigimon mentioned that, he said that somehow Emily and Andrew had gotten their hands on the Japanese Digidestined's crests, but in all the trouble in getting our own, I'd forgotten about it.
"This is great," I said. "It's too bad we don't know the full names of the Japanese Digidestined or I could send them an e-mail and ask for their help, their Digimon can become Ultimates they'd annihilate those two."
"That's not all I've got," Jenn said as she unrolled a piece of paper that looked like blueprints. "These are blueprints to a Dark Prism generator."
"Dark Prism generator," Rob said. "But that means they can make as much Dark Prisms as they want they'd have an infinite number of slaves."
"They could've," Jenn said with a smile. "But I just took they're only set of plans, they can't build it without them."
"That's what they were building!" Rob said. "The Prism generator."
"So I guess this wasn't a total failure," Jenn said. "We stopped their plans, and got the crests. Can we go home now?"
I smiled. "Yeah," I said. "We can go home now."
What do you know we had actually hurt them; we'd stopped one of their operations that could've cost us the war, and now we had the crests of the Japanese Digidestined. The only problem was that they're base was moving and we didn't know where it was going to end up. Of course that was if they did land, they could just leave it up there, honestly I didn't care about that. We had our first victory in which we had actually done something to turn the fight in our favour. Things were actually looking up, and I didn't want to think about the bad things that had happened during this fight, I'd done that enough. All I wanted to do was think, that now that our team was complete, and we had the Japanese Digidestined's crests we might actually win, so our first real victory had been achieved. After I had gotten home, for the first time since this stupid war started I didn't think about battle tactics, or what little chance of winning, I didn't even think about the fight at all, for the first time since this war started I actually relaxed.
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Yep getting more into the plot, I know it seems a little confusing now. The Japanese crests being one of the confusing parts, but just wait a while and it'll all be explained. The next couple chapters are going to be a trilogy (or more) that may or may not end the Emily and Andrew saga, anyway I'm not going to say anymore. The next chapter should be out by August 10th.
Oh right the disclaimer. I don't own Digimon, it's not mine I'm just using some of the characters from it. Please don't sue, it's just fan fiction.
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Chapter 7: Battle for the Base
Kris
It had been a three days since our "day off", and like I'd said I'd called together a meeting to discuss the latest plan. This particular I wasn't exactly proud of, but we'd had six failed plans already and we were running out of ideas. My voice fell silent as I finished explaining the plan Elecmon had worked on the last few days.
"Wow," Rob said. "That's a little risky isn't it?"
"Yes," I said sighing. "But if anyone has any better ideas, that we haven't tried on failed so far I'd like to hear them."
Like I'd expected - and feared - no one said a word.
"So," I said. "Does anyone object to this plan?"
Dan was the first to speak up. "Nope, defiantly don't object, I've got the crest of curiosity for a reason, this one's the riskiest one yet, and I'm curious to see how it turns out."
"Ditto," Sean said. "I've got the crest of Persistence, no matter how many times we fail I feel we've still got to keep trying, with different plans no matter how risky they are."
"I'm in too," Rob said. "It's risky but all of our plans have been so far have been, why should I object now."
There was another eerie silence as we waited for Jenn to speak up, I wasn't surprised she hadn't said anything yet; she was the one who was going to be taking all the major risks.
"Jenn," I said. "You willing to go through with this plan. I'd understand if you don't want to, I mean you're the one, who's going to be the most vulnerable, you and Penguinmon are the ones who have the most chance, of - well not coming back."
"I know," she said weakly.
"You know that if I could I'd do it," I said. "I'm the leader I came up with this plan and I'm the one who should be doing it, but you know that neither Elecmon or Leomon can swim half as good as Penguinmon, so I can't."
She smiled at that. "I know, but there's no way I could possibly object. After all I have the crest of assistance, you know that I want to help those captive Digimon even more than any of you guys do, and I'm willing to do what I have to help them."
"Okay," I said. "If everyone's in then let's get to work."
* * *
A week past since the meeting, during that week we prepared for our riskiest plan yet. We couldn't take any chances, we needed to make sure everything was ready, even if it had take a week, if we weren't prepared for even one thing it could cost us our lives. During the week we'd been confronted by other Digimon some of them were ones we'd freed. They had volunteered to help us fight the Digimon Emperor and Empress. I wouldn't let them fight though, I didn't want to drag them into this, and this was a fight we were supposed to be fighting not them. However they still insisted on helping, I realized they weren't going to back down, and after they insisted I let them spy for us. Honestly I didn't like them risking themselves to do something that we should be doing. We'd learned that hundreds of Digimon were being held in the base just as we'd suspected, plus more and more were being captured by the day. Unfortunately most of the spies had gotten captured, only one escaped. One last thing we learned of that Emily and Andrew were building something. Something big! All the more reason for us to get in there
I sat up by the coastline at the end of the cove. I sighed, going over our plan time and time again, each time I came up with a plan there had been something I'd overlooked, that's why they failed. I couldn't overlook anything this time, if I did and we were forced to run we'd have to leave Jenn and Penguinmon alone, totally vulnerable, something I defiantly didn't want to do, but if we messed up I'd have to, to save the rest of the team. I really wish that I could do it, I'd rather order my fellow Digidestined to leave me behind than another member of my team, at least then I wouldn't have to live with the guilt. However each time I went over the plan in my head I saw no flaws in it, of course I never saw any plans with my other plans into they actually went wrong. I'd really hoped Janine would have showed up. I tried calling her, but she wasn't home instead I sent her an e-mail about the attack on the base, but she hadn't shown up.
"Ready everyone," I said.
We were positioned, at the end of the cove, one of the closest land spots to the base, just next to the coastline. All our Digimon were in their Champion form, with the exception of Penguinmon. We needed her as a rookie; she swam better as Penguinmon than as Kiwimon. Leomon, Rob, Monochromon, Sean, Apemon, and I were on land, while Coelamon was in the water, with Dan on his back. His mouth was wide open, Jenn and Penguinmon rested in a pouch in Coelamon's mouth, just under his tongue. Jenn held a Sean's palm pilot, and I had my laptop, we'd used Jenn's desktop PC to enter the Digital World so I could have my laptop with me. Both computers had instant message programs running, so we could converse with each other, the main purpose was so that she could let us know if she had gotten in or not.
"As ready as we can be," Penguinmon said.
"Okay," I said. "We can only do this once, we blow it - well let's not think about that. Good luck you guys, you better get going now."
"Right," Dan said. "Good luck to you guys too." Dan turned his head down into Coelamon's mouth. "Okay in there Jenn? Penguinmon?"
"Fine," Penguinmon said.
"Just make sure you don't swallow me." Jenn said to Coelamon.
Coelamon didn't respond, he merely slowly and carefully closed his mouth, Dan clung to Coelamon's back and he dove underwater, an organic submarine. I looked at my Digivice now in radar mode, watching the two yellow and blue dots get closer to where the base would be if it showed things other than Digimon and Digidestined. I waited until the got incredibly close, as they did another blue dot emerged, just as I thought. My four friends moved away from the blue dot, as they did it backed off two. I knew what was coming next, Coelamon surfaced Dan holding tightly to his back. Coelamon swam as fast as possible towards our position, I glanced down at my Digivice's screen, so far everything was going according to plan. This part of the plan included Emily and Andrew think Dan was trying to get in, and when he started to back off and swim away -
Just as I had figured, Emily and Andrew came out of the base riding on their Ultimate Digimon's back taking into the air chasing Dan and Coelamon from the air while he swam as fast as possible to our position, all he had to do now was make it to shore before Emily and Andrew got him.
The other part of my plan was going well, while Dan and Coelamon were distracting Emily and Andrew Penguinmon was going to swim Jenn into the underwater entrance, which was the risky part. Sure Penguinmon was a good swimmer, not half as good as Coelamon or Gizamon of course, but better than any of the other Digimon, however if she was attacked underwater, she and Jenn would be helpless. Fortunately Emily and Andrew hadn't figured out where she was yet. All was going according to plan. Dan and Coelamon just had to make it to shore safely, which is where we came in.
"Okay now!" I yelled. "Attack!"
The three Digimon on shore responded in a second.
"Fist of the beast king!" Leomon yelled.
"Volcanic strike!" Monochromon yelled.
"Metallic fur!" Apemon yelled.
The three attacks went straight at Phantomon and Ladydevimon who were about to fire their own attacks at Dan and Coelamon. Their eyes met our position, Andrew said something but I couldn't hear him he was two far away. Ladydevimon drew back her hands aimed at us, while Phantomon aimed his scythe at Dan and Coelamon.
"Keep attacking!" I instructed. "They're each attacking the two positions were in! Don't stop attacking until Dan and Coelamon get here."
Our Digimon firing their attacks, at Phantomon and Ladydevimon, some hit some missed. Of course the attacks weren't enough to do any damage, but that's not what the attacks were meant for only as a distraction, which is what they did, they caused Phantomon and Ladydevimon to miss Coelamon and Dan.
They finally made it to shore, and like I instructed Leomon, Monochromon and Apemon stopped attacking. However Emily, Ladydevimon, Andrew, and Phantomon were still heading straight for us. They began to fly even lower.
"MOVE!" I yelled. "Get to the tunnel."
There wasn't a second's hesitation. Okay so far so good, I'd expected all of this to happen, now we were going to use what we had been preparing for the past week.
We moved towards the tunnel we'd been digging the past week, unlike the other times we weren't riding on Monochromon's back we didn't have time to climb on then back on again we needed every second we were given. The flat ground we had been running on began to get steeper as we reached the hill, right where our small tunnel was located.
"IN!" I screamed, despite the fact that they didn't need to be reminded.
All the Digimon quickly returned to their rookie levels. They couldn't enter it as they were now, the tunnel was way to small, and we'd dug it that way purposely. Everyone quickly crawled into the tunnel crawling down as fast as possible. I stayed outside and made sure everyone got into the tunnel safely before diving in myself. I slid down the slanted muddy tunnel headfirst just as the ground I had once been standing on exploded. After sliding down the tunnel about a minute I emerged into a room, about six feet high, and big enough to fit all twelve members of our team, of course there was only eight of us now. The entrance however wasn't that big, it was only about a foot high, had it not slanted downwards I'd have had to crawl all the way into the larger opening. The entrance was just big enough so us humans, and our rookie level Digimon could fit in. Emily and Andrew could fit but Ladydevimon and Phantomon couldn't. But that wouldn't stop them. There was a reason this underground room we dug was so deep underground. I felt the ground shake. Emily and Andrew must have ordered they're Digimon to start digging in order to get to us. Not a problem I'd expected this too, almost on cue after the shaking my laptop tucked under my arms beeped. I immediately popped it open. There was an instant message from Jenn.
Within the window it said two little words. "I'm in."
A smile grew on my face. It actually worked! Jenn and Penguinmon were inside the base.
I turned to my teammates, and smiled. "They did! They're in!"
Like I had the seven of them just smiled.
"We finally did it!" Gizamon said. "We finally got in."
"Now it's just a matter of her getting those Digimon out, and getting out herself." Rob said.
The whole room started to shake again.
"Let's not worry about her right now." Elecmon said. "Right now we should go on with our part of the plan."
"Right," I nodded. "Let's get out of here, and do what we have to do."
Here was the next part of the plan; we'd escape through another entrance we'd dug then scatter, distracting Emily and Andrew long enough for Jenn to do what she needed to do inside, then when she and the Digimon were out. We'd get to the nearest Digiport and get back home.
"Uh Kris," Rob said, from the second entrance, which we would now use as an exit. "We've got a problem."
"What?" I asked.
Rob stepped aside revealing the problem. It was a very big problem a very big problem. The second entrance was gone. It had caved in!
"No," I said weakly. "No."
I guess that was it, the one thing I had overlooked. I should have come down here before we attacked the base to see if the tunnels were fine. Now we were sitting ducks! It was only a matter of time before Emily and Andrew dug their way to us. It had taken us a week, but that's because he had to be careful and make the tunnels perfect, plus we could only dig as humans and rookies so the tunnel would be small enough. It would take two Ultimates no time at all to get here, five or ten minutes tops.
"What do we do? What do we do?" Dan yelled.
"The only thing we can do." I said. "Elecmon get ready to Digivolve."
"We can't beat them," Rob said.
"I know," I sighed. "But you're the one with the crest of Perception, do you see anything else we could do, we were depending on that tunnel to escape. We need to distract them and we're going to distract them the only way we can right now."
Everyone sighed, all eight of us. They all knew I was right, and I knew everyone of us, including myself wished I wasn't. The only thing we could do now was fight, fight against impossible odds.
In about five minutes, I saw the ceiling of the tunnel get ripped apart; they'd torn apart the entire hill just to get to us. We now stood in a gaping crater, no longer in the tunnel we made. It had been ripped apart we were outside again, the Digital World's sun beaming down on us. Above us were Phantomon and Andrew, glaring angrily. Phantomon and Andrew? Where were Ladydevimon and Emily?
No! They must have realized Jenn had gotten into the base, and now Emily and Ladydevimon were in there with her. Now we weren't the only ones in big trouble.
* * *
Jenn
I lay on my hands and knees gasping desperately for air. Never had I appreciated oxygen more in my life. Penguinmon was just as tired as I was. She was a great swimmer being a Penguin Digimon and all, but Penguin's normally didn't carry humans with them, either way we'd done what we'd trying to do this past month, we'd gotten into the base, I had broken the surface and climbed onto the base floor, after entering the underwater entrance. Almost five minutes underwater, very tiring. Anyway time to let the others know I was in the base, I quickly punched in a quick message into the palm pilot, and sent it to Kris's laptop, had to make it short.
I merely wrote: "I'm in."
"Okay Penguinmon," I said. "We don't have time to rest, we've got to free those Digimon now, and if possible find a way to destroy this thing."
"Can you give me a few minutes," Penguinmon asked.
"No," I answered. "As much as I want to rest too, but we can't, it's only a matter of time before they realize we're in here. We've got to do what were in here to do now."
"Okay," Penguinmon said slowly getting up. "But don't expect me to move really fast right away."
I scooped up my tired Digimon up in my arms. "If you're tired than I'll carry you, you'll need to conserve you're energy if we run into Emily, Andrew or they're last slave."
The room we were in was a small one, probably just an entranceway. With only about four square feet of floor, the rest was water that lead outside. Now we had another problem trying to find out where exactly the captive Digimon were being held. Well I might as well start by opening the door to this room. Which was easier said than done, when I attempted to turn the knob it didn't turn.
"Locked." I said.
"Not a problem," Penguinmon said bringing her hands together. "Ice Slide!"
Penguinmon's icy attack, hit the center of the door, it instantly toppled over.
"Some security," I laughed. "A locked door, ooh really hard to get past."
"Let's not get cocky now." Penguinmon said. "Who knows what's in there, maybe they only have a locked door because whatever's behind it is dangerous."
"Only one way to find out." I said stepping into the next room.
The room, was a long hallway, it stretched for a while so long that I could barely see the door at the other end of the hallway. As I began to walk further than the hall I realized why it was so long. I also found that I didn't need to go any further to find the captive Digimon. This long hallway was the bases dungeon. On one side of me was a jail cell that stretched from one end of the hall, and on the other side of me was another cell that was just as big. Inside the cells were hundreds of Digimon, all sulking in the prisons, all hope seemed to be gone from their face.
"This is horrible," Penguinmon said with a not surprising look of horror on her face.
"You can say that again." I agreed.
At the sound of our voices the Digimon looked up. You couldn't imagine the change in their faces when they saw us, from one of total despair to one of renewed hope. Every single one of those hundreds of Digimon rushed up to the bars of the cells.
"You're here," one of them yelled.
"I knew the Digidestined would come for us." Another said.
So many voices filled the air, all happy to see me, pleading me to let them out.
"Looks like we've developed quite a reputation here." I said. I turned to the Digimon in the cell. "Don't worry we'll get you out of here, that's the whole reason we're in here. Penguinmon."
"On it." She said. "Penguinmon Digivolved to…………….Kiwimon!"
I thanked God that Kiwimon wasn't that big, she was bigger than me but had she been big like Monochromon or she wouldn't fit in here and we'd be no good for these Digimon.
"Drill Bill!"
Kiwimon fired her attack at the edge of the bars, then at the other edge, then towards along the top of the bars, and finally along the bottom, with nothing to support the bars, they fell freeing the Digimon in the cell to our right. Kiwimon did the same thing to the other cell freeing all the Digimon. The hundreds of Digimon all cheered as the bars to their cells toppled. I had no idea how long each of them had spent in that cell but it must have been a long time for them to be celebrating so much.
"Follow me, it's time to get you guys out of here." I said running towards the door opposite to the one I came in. Going out the one we came in would be out of the question. Most of these Digimon we'd freed couldn't swim, we'd have to go out that door and hope we could find the main entrance/exit to the base. The newly freed Digimon eagerly followed me, assuming I knew where I was going. I only wish I had that much confidence in myself. We'd learned from Digimon who had helped us that there had been a legend that the Digidestined would save them from darkness, which had already happened with the Japanese Digidestined, now I guess it was our turn, which explained why they so eagerly followed Kiwimon and I towards the door.
"You better knock that door down," I told Kiwimon. "Odds are it's locked."
Kiwimon nodded and opened her mouth, ready to fire one of her attacks, but before she could the door was knocked down. I instantly stopped in my tracks. The Digimon stopped about twice as fast as Kiwimon and I had, there was a good reason, we had all stopped. Standing on the other side of the doorway were Emily and Ladydevimon, that classic evil grin of theirs on their faces.
"Looks like we've got a jail break here," Emily laughed evilly. "Going somewhere?"
"We're leaving," I said. "Now get out of our way."
The two only laughed. "How bold of you, but you're not going anywhere, prepared to be destroyed."
"Dark Explosion!" Ladydevimon yelled firing her attack.
All I could do was stand in fear as the dark energy beam flew at me. I wanted to move, I really did but my body just wouldn't work.
"NO!" a voice screamed from behind me.
Before I could even react a yeti like Digimon - Mojiamon, I think - jumped over me, and right into front of me, taking the attack right in the chest. I could only stare in horror of the results of his actions occurred, the heroic Digimon shattered into a million pieces, destroyed! He'd sacrificed himself to save Kiwimon and I.
"Raaah!"
This time it was many voices, the hundreds of Digimon that were once behind me now rushed in front of me and jumped on Ladydevimon. Giving it all they had attacking her, some were Champions some were rookies, some were even In-Training Digimon, but they still attacked, and swarmed over Ladydevimon, giving it all they had.
"Ladydevimon tossed some of them away but there were too many of them to toss them all aside.
"Let's not let them fight alone," I said to my partner.
"Right," Kiwimon eagerly agreed. "Let's fight."
"No," a Digimon who had been tossed aside yelled at us. It was a Mojiamon like the one who had given his life for me. "You've got to get out of here, we can hold them off but not for long you've got to get out of here."
"I'm not leaving," I argued. "The whole reason I'm here is to help you."
"That can't be it," Mojiamon said. "What about the crests of the Japanese Digidestined, and destroying the base."
The crest of the Japanese Digidestined? That's right! Frigimon had mentioned that Emily and Andrew had them, but we'd been so concerned with getting our own crests we'd forgotten about the Japanese ones.
"You have to get those crests!" Mojiamon said. "You can help us again later, they won't destroy us, not all of us anyway. Those eight crests of the Japanese Digidestined, they've somehow gotten their hands on them, and if you don't get them the Digimon Emperor and Digimon Empress will use them for evil. Those crests are important, you must get them."
"I can't just leave you."
"You must! We'll be fine, you can help us later you must get those crests!"
I hated this! He was right! I had to leave, them, of course there were hundreds of them and Ladydevimon was only one Digimon they could win.
"Okay," I said. "I'll go where are the crests?"
"Out that door," Mojiamon answered. "There's a stairwell keep going up it until you're at the top, do through the door and in that room you'll find the crests! Now go!"
Mojiamon jumped into the battle. Now wasn't the time to hesitate.
"I really hate to do this, Kiwimon." I said. "But - but we have to leave them, and get those crests."
Tears welled up in my eyes, but I wouldn't let them fall, now wasn't the time to cry. I really wanted to help, but I knew it wasn't the right thing to do right now; it was those crests that were important, despite the fact that I really wanted to help. I quickly maneuvered my way past the fighting. I wanted to help but I kept continued to run, through the doorway and began running up the stairs, following Mojiamon's instructions. My heart yearned to go down there and help, stupid crest of Assistance, why did I have to be the one who always wanted to help. Where these the kind of decisions, Kris always had to make? If they were I wouldn't trade places with him for a second.
* * *
Kris
We glared up angrily at Phantomon, and Andrew, just like Andrew was doing to us. Phantomon's scythe was up ready to fire in a second, our Digimon weren't going to get a chance to Digivolve. Phantomon would attack if we even moved. If we could Digivolve we'd have a chance, there was only one of them this time, we might actually be able to beat him.
"So," Andrew said. "Another pathetic attempt to enter our base. At least this one worked. Too bad your friend being in the base isn't going to do you any good, as we speak Emily is in there and your friend will be destroyed in a matter of minutes."
A mix of emotions were going through me, anger, for the obvious reason that Emily could very well be destroyed my best friend aside from Elecmon of course, but mostly guilt, because I was the one who had sent her in there.
"Are you going to Digivolve?" Andrew asked, cocking his eye at Elecmon. "This game won't be any fun unless I can get a decent fight."
"Game?" I yelled. "This is a game to you! How could you think all the things you're doing are a game!?"
"Jeez get a life," Andrew said. "So are your Digimon going to Digivolve? Or should I just destroy you now?"
"Okay," I said. "You asked for it! Guys time to Digivolve!"
"Elecmon Digivolved to………………..Leomon!"
"Gotsumon Digivolved to………………Monochromon!"
"Tapirmon Digivolved to……………….Apemon!"
"Gizamon Digivolved to………………..Coelamon!"
Leomon attacked first, jumping high into the air, his sword drawn, it came down at Phantomon's face, but Phantomon quickly countered by blocking the sword with his scythe, then using the scythe to toss Leomon aside, but before Leomon even touched the ground, Monochromon was in the air. He could jump pretty high for a big dinosaur. His mouth clamped onto Phantomon's scythe.
"You-" Phantomon screamed in frustration as Monochromon's weight dragged them down to the ground.
Coelamon tackled them, and Andrew was flung off of Phantomon's back. Coelamon clamped his mighty jaw onto, Phantomon's free arm. Apemon used his bone to put Phantomon and a headlock. This was unbelievable! We were actually winning. Monochromon had Phantomon's scythe in his mouth trapping his one arm, and Coelamon had his other arm in his mouth, while Apemon had the rest of Phantomon's body trapped.
"Leomon!" Apemon yelled. "Do it now!"
Leomon took total advantage of Phantomon's invulnerability and began running toward where Phantomon was being held; he drew back his sword ready to drive it into Phantomon.
"Regret letting us Digivolve!" I mocked Andrew.
"No," Andrew said smiling.
Why was he smiling? We were about to win something was up. Why was he happy?
"Phantomon stop toying with them."
"Very well," Phantomon said. "But you're ruining our fun."
Leomon was just about to drive his sword into Phantomon's stomach, had he waited one second more we would have one. With one swift motion, Phantomon tossed our Digimon aside, they landed in various positions, all down, all hurt very badly, and he'd all done it in one motion.
"Destroy them now Phantomon." Andrew said. "I tire of this game."
I really hated him referring to this war as a game. War was never a game!
Phantomon flew into the sky, and lifted up his scythe.
"I was expected much more of a challenge," Phantomon bragged. "Shadow-"
Darkness began to gather on his scythe, this was going to be a big attack, it needed to be, we were spread out, and a small pone would only kill one of us, but what I hated most about this was that they was nothing I could do about it, we were all sitting ducks, all we could do was wait until Phantomon fired his attack and killed us. I clenched the dirt under me this can't be it! I looked up as Phantomon finished charging his attack, in a second he'd fire and destroy us.
"Meteor shower!"
Not a second too soon, dozens of stars landed on Phantomon's back. The impact sent Phantomon spiraling and he ending up firing his attack harmlessly into the sky. The obvious source of the stars zoomed down, and Starmon's foot landed on the back of Phantomon's head, sending him sailing hard into the ground. Starmon's kick wouldn't have done any damage except for the fact that Phantomon wasn't expecting it.
"Hey guys," Janine yelled running up to us. I had no idea where she had come from. "Sorry I'm late."
Starmon landed beside her, our Digimon managed to get up, and walk up to us too.
"Couldn't cut it any closer could you?" Dan said.
"Shut up," Janine snapped. "You're lucky I came at all." Janine took her attention off Dan and turned to me. "Kris, I've decided to join you guys after all, will you still let me join."
I smiled. "Yes, I course, but right now isn't the time to talk about it. Now we have to fight."
My eyes met the spot Phantomon had crashed into the ground; Andrew was there too now. Phantomon was getting up.
"There's five of us now," I said. "We stand more of a chance, plus of all of our Digimon Starmon is the strongest. We could actually win."
"Let's give it a try then," Starmon said.
"I'm ready if you guys are," Janine answered. "By the way where's Jenn."
My heart stopped, in the excitement and fear of the battle I'd forgotten about her. I looked towards the base; she was in there, alone against Emily. She didn't stand a chance; it was possible that she was dead right now.
I pointed my finger towards the base. "She's in there."
"The base!" Janine said happily, if only she knew the truth. "She got in!"
"Yeah," I sighed. "But so is Emily."
Now Janine's face turned into one of concern, but then again changed into one of determination.
"We can't worry about her now," she said. "She can take care of herself, we have to take care of Phantomon."
I nodded.
"Let's go," Sean said. "The five of us should be enough."
"Yeah," Rob said. "It's better than just sitting here."
Surprisingly Dan was the one who didn't say anything he just smiled and nodded.
Our Digimon apparently had agreed to fight as well, because as soon as we gave the go ahead, the five of them charged straight at Phantomon and began to fight.
* * *
Jenn
I moved up the stairs as fast as possible. This place was bigger than I thought; I'd gone up at least ten flights so far. But I ignored how tired I was. I needed to get to those crests. Those Digimon down there were fighting their hearts out so I could get them, I couldn't let something like fatigue get in the way. My mind kept going back to that Mojiamon who had sacrificed himself to save me, and those other hundreds of Digimon who were giving up their freedom, possibly their lives so I could get at the crests. Then back to when Kris had ordered us to run instead of help the Dolphmon and Whaemon. Part of me had hated him for doing that, for leaving those three to die, I never totally understood how he possibly could have made a decision like that so easily, but now, now that I had to make that same decision, I realized that it hadn't been easy. It was the hardest decision I'd ever have to make, and Kris made these decisions on every mission, how did he do it and still hold the crest of Compassion. I couldn't imagine how hard it had been for him to send me on this risky mission. After about fifteen minutes of running up stairs Kiwimon and I finally reached the top. Kiwimon used her pummel peck to knock down the presumably locked door at the top of the stairwell. I stepped inside the room just after Kiwimon had. The room was a perfect, pyramid with windows stretching across all four walls. This room was the tip of the diamond. On three of the four walls were tons on tons of controls. The, on the fourth wall, right next to the door, was a display case, its contents were exactly what I was looking for, eight crests! The crests of the Japanese Digidestined!
"Let's get those crests Kiwimon." I said.
"I'll handle that." Kiwimon said.
Her leg shot up smashing the glass on the display case, grabbed the eight tags and crests and tossed them into my hands.
"You know the case isn't locked," I said. "You could've just slid the door open."
"I-I knew that."
"Forget it let's just get out of here, while we have the chance."
Kiwimon nodded. We'd gotten what we needed there was no point in sticking around. But I still couldn't resist those controls.
"You know Kiwimon," I said. "Another think we were supposed to do was destroy the base if it was possible, maybe those controls can help us with that."
"Do you know what they do?"
"Does it matter?" I walked up to the closest control panel. "We should just destroy them, maybe it'll do something."
"Or we could end up doing something that could hurt us."
"If something goes wrong we can just break those windows and get out."
My eyes met the controls, but were attracted by something on them. Blueprints. Our spies had mentioned that Emily and Andrew were building something maybe this was it. I grabbed the blueprints, and examined them. Most of it was extremely complicated, and most of it I didn't understand, but one thing I did understand was the end product, a Dark Prism.
"Kiwimon come look at this," I said.
Kiwimon looked over my shoulder, and examined the blueprints.
"Jenn, do - do you know what this is." My Digimon asked.
"Sort of I don't exactly get it, it's something to do with Dark Prisms, so it can't be good."
"I don't get most of it either," Kiwimon said. "But I understand enough, these are plans for a Dark Prism generator."
"What!" I said in total shock. "That means if they build this -"
"They can make turn as much Digimon into slaves as they want, not just with the Prisms that thing Emily was talking to gave them, just like the former Digimon Emperor could."
"Except it'll be worse," I said. "According to that rip Emily had been talking to the last Digimon Emperor had an infinite amount of Dark rings, but his Digimon couldn't Digivolve, Emily and Andrew would have both, they'd be unstoppable."
"Yes, we would." a voice from the doorway said, Emily's voice, and just as I thought, in the doorway stood Emily and Ladydevimon.
"How did you get beat those hundreds of Digimon?" I asked.
"Wasn't hard," Emily laughed. "I just used this." Emily held up her black D3 and crest of Darkness. "See these emit rays of pure darkness, those rays can paralyze Digimon. Let me show you."
As if Emily had done it psychically, the crest and Digivice, began to glow a dark light. The dark light seemed to engulf the room, then disappeared. I quickly glanced over at Kiwimon, however she still stood there completely unhurt.
"Unfortunately this dark light is totally ineffective on Digimon who have a Digidestined partner, your annoying crest and Digivice produce that same kind of light, except naturally it's not dark, which cancels out my own, so we have to rely on destroying you the old fashion way, by beating you to a bloody pulp!"
Kiwimon tensed up ready for anything that Ladydevimon would do.
"Please," Emily laughed. "Have a little faith in me, I have no intention of destroying you, not yet anyway. I'll need a bargaining chip, but first I've got something to tend to."
Emily started moved towards the control panel. Kiwimon tensed up even more she was ready to act on a seconds notice, but she didn't want to yet unless she absolutely had to.
"I'm growing tired of spending my days in this stuffy little cove, it's time to relocate, plus it's annoying having you Digidestined drop in on us every so often. I'd much rather be somewhere you couldn't attack us."
She pushed a button on the control panel as soon as she did, the base started shaking. I looked out the window, the base was rising out of the ocean, not slowly either in a matter of seconds we were flying, and gaining altitude fast, and in a second we were in clouds.
"You can't do this," I said. "You can't build this thing. You just can't enslave these Digimon, they're not here for you're amusement, they're living creatures."
"I know that," Emily said. "Unlike the former Digimon Emperor. He thought this was just a game, but unlike him I know what this place is I know I'm hurting these creatures, and I like it, but while the former Digimon Emperor was a naïve fool he was a genius, if it weren't for him we wouldn't have the plans for that generator. See Ken did design and build his dark rings, and spirals on his own, but after a while he needed to build them faster so he designed and built a machine to generate Dark rings, it was destroyed when his base was, but he found his plans, all we have to do is make one minor modification so it produces Dark Prisms, now I do ask you to hand over our blueprints, and the crests too."
"No," I said firmly. "I won't let you build this thing, and I'm assuming these were the original plans for the generator, you just modified them. You need these plans to build the generator don't you."
"Yes we do," Emily answered. "Now please hand them over."
"Like I said. No!"
Emily only smiled and glanced at Ladydevimon. "Then we'll have to take them."
Ladydevimon shot forward, but in this limited space she couldn't move that fast, she was too big, and Kiwimon wasn't, Kiwimon moved faster and was under me and forced me on her back, and jumped out of the way before Ladydevimon could grab me. Kiwimon jumped onto a control panel, and towards the glass.
"Uh Kiwimon please don't tell me you're doing what you think we're doing." I screamed.
"We're getting out of here Jenn. Now! Drill Bill!"
Kiwimon's purple energy beam smashed the glass, making a big enough hole for us to jump through. Which is exactly what she did. We soared out the window, now outside on top of the diamond. However the surface was incredibly slick and Kiwimon couldn't get a foothold, she slipped, sending me flying off her back, and both of us slid down the diamond shaped base, somewhere along the line Kiwimon had de-Digivolved and was Penguinmon again.
"How was this a good idea?!" I screamed, as we got closer to the edge.
"I didn't think it was this slick," Penguinmon answered.
We reached the edge of the diamond and sailed off the edge.
"I don't suppose you're nothing like the penguins in our world and can fly Penguinmon!"
Penguinmon shook her head. "Nope I'm flightless."
All we could do was scream as we fell, plummeting to certain death towards the ground.
* * *
Kris
The battle between our Digimon and Phantomon raged, it wasn't going that bad. We weren't losing but I wouldn't say we were winning either. Until something happened to completely stop the battle. The water around the base started bubbling, and suddenly the base itself started to rise out of the water, first slow, then faster and faster.
"She's leaving early!" Andrew yelled. "Phantomon, forget them, we've got to get inside the base."
Phantomon obediently stopped fighting, and quickly dove towards the ground scooped Andrew up in his arm and started flying towards the base, that was now disappearing into the clouds.
"We'll finish this later." Andrew yelled as he and Phantomon also disappeared into the clouds.
"Is that it?" Dan groaned. "Can we go home now?"
"No," I said. "Jenn's still in there."
"Any suggestions of how we're going to get her out?" Sean asked.
"Only one of our Digimon can fly," Rob said turning to Janine.
I didn't even need to tell Janine.
"We're on it." She said.
Suddenly I heard my laptop beeping. "Wait," I said. "This is probably her." I opened up my laptop and read the instant message; once again it only consisted of two worlds. "I'm falling." I could feel my heart stop, as I read the message and heard the screaming from above at the same time.
"She's falling!" I yelled at Starmon. "Get to the air and help them now!"
No hesitation, Starmon flew into the air, just as Jenn and Penguinmon came into view above. Starmon agilely flew up and grabbed Jenn by the back collar of her shirt, and grabbed Penguinmon under his arm. I didn't start breathing again until Starmon landed and placed my two friends safely on the ground.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"Fine," Jenn said gasping for air.
"I take it you couldn't free the Digimon," Dan asked.
"Actually I did," Jenn said. "Unfortunately Emily caught them again."
"So," Sean said. "Looks like we have another failure on our hands."
"Let's not go that far," Jenn said.
"What do you mean," I asked.
"I got these," she said holding up eight crests.
"Are those," I started.
"Yep," Jenn said. "The Japanese Digidestined's crests."
That's right! Frigimon mentioned that, he said that somehow Emily and Andrew had gotten their hands on the Japanese Digidestined's crests, but in all the trouble in getting our own, I'd forgotten about it.
"This is great," I said. "It's too bad we don't know the full names of the Japanese Digidestined or I could send them an e-mail and ask for their help, their Digimon can become Ultimates they'd annihilate those two."
"That's not all I've got," Jenn said as she unrolled a piece of paper that looked like blueprints. "These are blueprints to a Dark Prism generator."
"Dark Prism generator," Rob said. "But that means they can make as much Dark Prisms as they want they'd have an infinite number of slaves."
"They could've," Jenn said with a smile. "But I just took they're only set of plans, they can't build it without them."
"That's what they were building!" Rob said. "The Prism generator."
"So I guess this wasn't a total failure," Jenn said. "We stopped their plans, and got the crests. Can we go home now?"
I smiled. "Yeah," I said. "We can go home now."
What do you know we had actually hurt them; we'd stopped one of their operations that could've cost us the war, and now we had the crests of the Japanese Digidestined. The only problem was that they're base was moving and we didn't know where it was going to end up. Of course that was if they did land, they could just leave it up there, honestly I didn't care about that. We had our first victory in which we had actually done something to turn the fight in our favour. Things were actually looking up, and I didn't want to think about the bad things that had happened during this fight, I'd done that enough. All I wanted to do was think, that now that our team was complete, and we had the Japanese Digidestined's crests we might actually win, so our first real victory had been achieved. After I had gotten home, for the first time since this stupid war started I didn't think about battle tactics, or what little chance of winning, I didn't even think about the fight at all, for the first time since this war started I actually relaxed.
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Yep getting more into the plot, I know it seems a little confusing now. The Japanese crests being one of the confusing parts, but just wait a while and it'll all be explained. The next couple chapters are going to be a trilogy (or more) that may or may not end the Emily and Andrew saga, anyway I'm not going to say anymore. The next chapter should be out by August 10th.