Chapter 11: Clueless

Thomas stood infront of Cherrymon. A worried look on his face.

"I am sorry, Thomas. But I haven't seen them since they left." Cherrymon said in concern.

Thomas clenched his fists. "I knew it! They were waiting for us to be alone!"

Gaomon looked at Thomas. "Sir, even as stupid as Marcus and Agumon could be, there is no way someone like Pumpkinmon could capture them."

Thomas nodded his head in disagreement. "You could never say, Gaomon. Those two are experts in being unpredictable. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if even an ant captured them."

Gaomon couldn't suppress a smile at this comment.

"But," Thomas added. "It could be that a digimon much stronger and more intelligent than that Pumpkinmon was sent after those two and the same goes for the others."

"Yes, but from our encounter with Blossomon, it looks like her 'Master' is particularly a big fan of you, Sir." Gaomon pointed out.

Cherrymon shook his head. "I will go ask some of the Lilymon to go check the place Gatomon took Yoshi and Lolamon to. That place is quite a popular among them." With that, Cherrymon slowly walked away.

Thomas watched Cherrymon and sighed in disappointment."I don't know what to do. All this makes no sense. Whenever we encounter a digimon, they come with an entirely different purpose. WarGreymon came for revenge. Blossomon came to take us and the next digimon was a stupid crybaby. We are simply clueless!"


Marcus sighed.

"Will you stop it, Marcus!" Yoshi cried out. "That is the 56th time you sighed!"

Marcus opened his eyes and side-glanced Yoshi. "Oh Geez, sorry Yoshi, I was not counting."

"Could you two stop bickering." Biyomon said in an exasperated voice. "I am trying to get a shut eye over here!"

Marcus stood up And shook his head. "I am so bored! I don't know what to do, I don't know what to say and heck! I don't even know whether it is morning or night!"

"Well, you can't do anything about it. So shut up,sleep and let us sleep!" Bakemon spoke up.

Marcus clenched his fists. "This guy has an annoying habit of butting in in our conversations." He said between bared teeth.

"You know what?" Keenan said sleepily. "I doubt Thomas could ever rescue us. He doesn't even have a clue about where we are."

"And then we have to figure a way out of here on our own. Even though that means risking Bakemon's life."

Marcus yawned. "Why can't we just take Bakemon with us?"

"If it were that easy then I think that their will be no slaves for this 'Master' in the first place." Lolamon pointed out. "No, there is more to it than what meets the eye."

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"Master, come on, please, you have been working in this lab for hours now. You need to sleep."

"Shut up, Patamon. I need more data. Do we have any worthless digimon in our army right now?"

"Frankly, Master, I don't think any digimon is worthless in your army." As soon as Patamon said that, he closed his eyes. 'I shouldn't have said that.'

He felt a sharp pain on his back and fell down. His Master had kicked him, hard.

"Look, I asked you a question, Patamon." His Master's voice was unusually calm. "If you don't have an answer then just keep quiet. But come to think of it, you are pretty worthless too. You don't have that much data but even a small amount will help."

Patamon froze in fear. 'Master wouldn't do it, would he?'

But his Master just shook his head. "As much as I hate it. I owe you weakling. I just have to keep you alive until I get a chance to save you from something one day."

Patamon looked at his Master. 'So the only reason Master keeps me alive is because he owes me for saving him? Huh! Who knew that he even remembered my little favor?"

"Would he do?"

Patamon looked up to his Master with a puzzled expression.

"Would Bakemon do? The one who I appointed to keep an eye on those pathetic prisoners."

"But Master, Bakemon did not do anything wrong, did he?"

"He is useless anyway."

"But-"

"Look, Patamon, just go and get Bakemon. I don't have time."

Patamon shook his head and got up. Just as he was about to go, his Master stopped him.

"Leave it for now, Patamon. I will do it some other time. And you were right, I do need some sleep." And with that, his Master walked out of the room.

But unknown to them, two eyes watched in horror from the corner of the room.


Thomas slowly opened his eyes. He sat up with a yawn and stretched his arms. He looked at the empty place beside him. Gaomon was already awake. He stood up and brushed down his shirt.

He looked around. Noone was in sight. He couldn't spot any digimon.

"That is funny. Where did everybody go?"

He walked into the woods. Then a dreadful thought came into his mind.

'What if something bad happened? Did the enemy attacked them while I was asleep?'

Thomas shook his head and forced the thought out of his mind. "I was not dead. If something like that happened, then I would have woken up."

Then suddenly, a digimon appeared right infront of Thomas's face out of nowhere. Thomas fell back in surprise. It was a Bakumon.

"General Thomas! I need your help and you have only about 2 days time!"

Thomas stood up and looked at Bakumon.

"What is it? And would you mind telling me where is everyone?"

Bakumon shook his head. "You'll see. But I have more pressing things at hand. Your friends have been captured by my Master."

"Yes, I figured that."

"And you have only about 2 days to rescue them. Because," Bakumon pressed to stop Thomas from interrupting. "My Master away for now, and when he comes back, he will scan the data of your partner digimon.

"And if he does that then it will be the last time you will ever see them. But please don't doubt me. The only reason I am telling you this is because I fear for the future of the digital world but I cannot do anything. And pay caution! My Master, for some reason, despises you the most."

"Yes, I understand that." Thomas said. "How should I rescue them if I don't even know where they are?"

Bakumon closed his eyes for a minute and then opened them. "Look, my Master has built a lair deep underground."

"We have to dig?"

"No! We have a hidden entrance at different places. The nearest one over here is near a cave."

"A cave? There are thousands of caves over here."

"Remember that Gatomon took Yoshi to a certain place?"

"Do you mean the place with the glow-in-the-dark flowers?""

"Yes. Quite near that place, there is a cave and just outside that cave is a huge rock. But beneath the rock, there is a passageway that leads to our lair."

Thomas smiled. "Really? That easy?"

Bakumon gave out a sheepish grin. "Well, we do have guards, you know."

Thomas looked up and stared at the clouds. "I see..." He then looked at Bakumon and smirked. "Well, I guess your 'Master' has a traitor in his army."

Bakumon's gaze fell to the ground. "It's nothing like that. You see, I am forced to do this. But now that my friend's life is in danger..."

He looked at Thomas with determination in his eyes. "I believe you can save us. Well, guess this is goodbye for now."

"Wait! Where are-?"

But Bakumon vanished from Thomas's sight.

Thomas's eyes shot open. He was lying down. 'That was a dream?'

He looked to his side. Gaomon was sitting, gazing at the sky. Gaomon noticed the movement and looked at Thomas.

"Sir, you are awake."

Thomas sat up. "Gaomon, come on, I know where the others are."

"Ummmm...You do?"

"My dream. A bakumon came in my dream and showed me his 'Master's' hideout." Thomas said, standing up.

"After we have had some breakfast, we will hatch a plan and set out."

"Y-yes Sir!"

"Sir, you sure?"

"Well, Gaomon, I don't think that it was simply a dream." Thomas said, standing up


"Bakumon?"

Bakumon opened his eyes. "Yes, Gatomon."

"Don't try acting so innocent with me." Gatomon said in her sly voice

Bakumon began to panic. "Wh-what do you mean?" 'Damn it! She couldn't have come to know, could she?"

"So, whose mind did you penetrate? It was Thomas's, wasn't it?"

"What are you-"

"I told you already, stop acting. You were caught spying on Patamon's and Master's conversation last night."

Bakumon's eyes widened in shock. Gatomon had suddenly dug her claws deep into Bakumon.

"You filthy little traitor!"

Bakumon's eyes slowly began to close. "I was only doing what was right..."

With that, Bakumon's eyes closed and he burst into a digiegg. Gatomon caught the digiegg.

"I should give this to Master when he comes. Hmmm...I should better strengthen the security at the entrance. Guess Thomas is not so clueless after all."


Chapter 11 complete! I would like to thank Jackpot 2 for pointing out that my fic was labeled as complete. I didn't even notice it. R&R!