CHAPTER 11:

Tyke fell asleep that night thinking about all that had happened in the two days he had been in the digital world. How both Palmon and Biyomon digivolved, how V-Koromon digivolved into GhostAgumon... How GhostAgumon did not realize he was an undead digimon, a ghost, and instead thinks he is an angel. And finally how tired he was. Tyke slept for the night on a bed in the room next to the infirmary. GhostAgumon was curled up at the foot of his bed sleeping soundly. Rachel passed out watching over Palmon in the infirmary and there she slept. Kokatorimon, who did not de-digivolve, stood patiently over Klaire's bed. Klaire luckily had not broken any bones, and should be alright with rest. Andromon however spent merely two hours in the infirmary and then was moved to another room to have his mechanical parts repaired by the other machine type digimon.

Morning comes.

Klaire: Yeah, I'm fine... Biyomon... You grew!

Kokatorimon: J

Tyke sits up in his bed and yawns.

Rachel: Last to wake up... typical.

Tyke: ' heh heh. (Tyke looks down to see Palmon standing by Rachel's side) She going to be alright?

Rachel: Yup... Good as new.

The six of them walk out into the main chamber of the hidden headquarters. They still cannot believe how complex and technological the place is and how efficient and diligent the digimon are. High above at the circular consol stands Andromon, looking upon a gigantic holographic screen and typing into a keyboard.

Tyke: HEY ANDROMON! (He yells up to Andromon) HOW YA FEELING!

Andromon turns around and looks down at them.

Andromon: Digi-destined... (The entire circular consul that sits upon a giant pillar in the middle of the room begins to lower until Andromon and his consol are level with the digi-destined on the floor) I have been anticipating a formal meeting with you all.

Klaire: Yeah... well we are just glad you are alive. Oh... Kokatorimon...

Kokatorimon runs out of energy and de-digivolves.

Biyomon: It's okay, I am fine.

GhostAgumon: Andromon... what happened to your shop.

Andromon: ...

Tyke????

Andromon: I was attacked... I was in my shop working on my latest project when...

FLASHBACK

Andromon is working in his shop on a microchip.

An alarm goes off.

Alarm: Intruder Alert... Intruder Alert... (A screen pops out and upon the screen is

Devimon descending towards the shop from the sky)

Andromon: Devimon... (Andromon grabs a small device and puts it on the ground. He then picks up the microchip he was working on and stashes it safely in a compartment in his side. He then puts a regular microchip on the table and walks to the other side of the room. Andromon presses a button and the device he put on the floor flares with light and then a solid hologram of Andromon stands positioned to be looking like he is working on the microchip. Andromon presses a button on the wall and a hologram of the wall goes up in front of him hiding him from view.)

Devimon appears out of thin air laying on the ceiling looking down at the hologram.

Andromon (Hologram): Datamon... can you hand me that transistor?

Not a sound.

Andromon (Hologram): Datamon? (Turns around) Where did he go?

Datamon: Mfffff mffffff!

Andromon (Hologram): Huh?… (looks up.) (Seemingly laying on the ceiling looking down is a tall black devil digimon (Devimon) holding the small Datamon in his claws.)

Devimon: Looking for this? (Devimon closes his claws around the Datamon with ease and crushes him. Datamon explodes into red particles which Devimon absorbs and Datamon's digital essence floats through the ceiling and away)

Andromon (Hologram): Intruder… you are not welcome!

Andromon::::I am sorry Datamon... I forgot you were in the room...:

Devimon: You cannot be allowed to live Andromon... (Devimon's arm extends and punches right into a giant machine against the far wall of the room and pulls out cords. A small explosion is created.) It appears the Digi-Destined have come to our world and are seeking you out.

Andromon::::The digi-destined! Finally, they have come:

Andromon (Hologram): No... Do not...

Devimon: Goodbye Andromon! Hah hah hah hah hah! (Devimon puts his hands together and a dark orb that flashes black and white rapidly is formed) (Devimon lets it slowly fall to the ground like a feather and vanishes through the ceiling and rises into the sky)

Andromon: NOOO!

The small orb hits the ground and explodes collapsing the entire building upon all of Andromon's equipment as well as himself.

END FLASHBACK

Andromon: All that matters is they did not get the microchip... and I was able to have replicas manufactured.

Tyke: What does the microchip do?

Andromon: Nothing yet. But now I have an idea of how to put it to good use. May I borrow that? (Andromon points to Rachel's arm)

Rachel: Oh... my digivice?... errrrr... (She looks at Tyke and Klaire) Sure... (Rachel takes the digivice off her wrist and hands it to Andromon)

Andromon: Thank you... I will study this and see if I can develop anything to help you. (Andromon walks away and heads into another room, undoubtedly his personal lab)

Tyke: I am hungry...

Guardromon: (Overhears Tyke) The cafeteria is that way (He points) We might have some food that you would be able to eat.

Rachel: Might? Aye...

The six of them head to the cafeteria and sit around a table. It turns out they had some meat and soup... not having eaten much in the past two days, they were thankful for the meal and ate till they were full. After eating and talking they got up and headed into the main chamber only to be greeted by Andromon holding a case in one hand and Rachel's digivice in the other.

Andromon: This device was fascinating. I have recorded all of its functions.

Rachel: O.O So you know how to use it?

Andromon: Affirmative.

Andromon shows them all the functions of the digivice. Scanning functions, Database, Uploading, Transmitting functions, Digimon Status screen, and Tamer Status screen.

Tyke: Whoa... it measures our health?

Andromon: Correct. I have also modified my chip to be compatible with these systems enabling you to have a direct contact link to headquarters, a holographic imaging map of file island, and detection.

Klaire: Awsome...

Andromon: I will just need to install these chips into your digivices.

Tyke: (Hands Andromon his digivice) No problem.

Klaire: (Takes off her digivice and hands it to Andromon) Here you go. J

Andromon: I will return when they are complete... (Andromon goes back into his lab)

Tyke sees Guardromon.

Tyke: Guardromon!

Guardromon: Oh... Tyke... Yes? (Guardromon walks over to Tyke and the others)

Tyke: I was wondering... this headquarters is pretty cool... but what is it for?

Guardromon: This headquarters is an underground resistance to the dark forces corrupting our world.

Klaire: Dark Forces?

Guardromon: Yes... that Devimon you faced was one of the Nightmare Soldiers... They are evil corrupt digimon bent on dominating the Digital World and drowning it in eternal darkness. Let me start at the beginning. File Island is the oldest landmass in the digital world... The Digital World grew, and more digimon were being born and digivolving to various forms. The Digital World has a natural balance of Data, Vaccine, and Virus... Those are the three types of data digimon are composed of. It was Andromon who first noticed that the virus types of File Island were gathering... He warned others but they would not listen. One night there was an attack upon Factorial Town... my home... The virus digimon calling themselves the Nightmare Soldiers attacked and showed no mercy. They destroyed most of us machine type digimon and our main factory. Those of us who fled followed Andromon here... We worked together in secrecy to create this underground base... and have been secretly resisting and keeping an eye on the Nightmare Soldiers. The Nightmare Soldiers tore down our mechanical land and it is now the Dark Area of this island... An empty dark land where the Nightmare Soldiers constructing a dark fortress... what goes on inside not even we know...

Tyke, Rachel, Klaire, GhostAgumon, Palmon, Biyomon: O.O!

Rachel: Wow... (Looks down) You all lost your home to them...

Klaire: That's awful...

Tyke: Devimon is with them? They know about us then...

Rachel: You're right... what if they are tracking us... What if we lead them to here?

Tyke: We cannot burden you with our presence any longer Guardromon... We have to

keep running so they...

Rachel: Run? So what... are we supposed to just keep running?

Klaire: But...

Rachel: No buts! They wanna fight... lets take the fight to them!

Tyke: Awe...

Rachel: We kicked Devimon's butt... We can do it again. And then we will defeat the rest of the Nightmare Soldiers...

Klaire: We cannot take them all on.

Tyke: (Looks down) She is right... we have to fight them...

Guardromon: Devimon is not their strongest warrior... there are much tougher Nightmare Soldiers...

Tyke: Well... (Looks at GhostAgumon) Agumon might digivolve... and he might be really really strong... and then all six of us can gang up on them...

Guardromon: Are you...

A hatch in the top of the room opens up and a gigantic machine lowers down into the room.

Tyke: What the!

The gigantic machine turns out to be a large metal bird. It lands on a landing pad and looks around.

Guardromon: Oh my!

All of the machine digimon stop what they are doing and gather around the digimon. Andromon looks out of the backroom and walks out through the crowd of machine type digimon.

Pteramon: Mission Complete Andromon. I have footage of the Dark Fortress...

A Kokuwamon dismounts a camera that was mounted on Pteramon's head. Pteramon de-digivolves into a Biyomon holding a strange silver item.

Biyomon: Hey Klaire... He is a Biyomon just like me.

Andromon: Good work Biyomon... Get the Digi-egg to the vault.

A Hagurumon grabs the digi-egg of love and floats through the crowd out of sight.
(Machine Empire) Biyomon: Yes sir...

A giant holographic screen opens up in midair. A Kokuwamon plugs the camera into a consol and an image appears on the giant holographic screen. Andromon goes into his circular consol and the platform raises into the air. The footage shows a dark looking structure with storm clouds swirling above it and lightning clashing. As the dark structure gets closer you can see individual windows.

Tyke: Whoa...

Klaire: Mmmmm...

Rachel: Wicked...

The structure gets even closer. At one point Pteramon must have gotten extremely close because you could see a little in the windows. The camera angel veers upward.
Andromon: Go back... (The footage rewinds)... Stop! (An image is frozen on the screen)... (Andromon presses a button on his consol and the image begins to zoom in on a single window) (Andromon then turns a knob and the fuzzy zoomed in image becomes slightly clearer)

Rachel: NO WAY!

Tyke: Who is...

Klaire: (Gasp)...

On the screen is nothing more than the image of the back of a human child a the window of the Dark Fortress.

TO BE CONTINUED...