Authors note : What the hell, I'm actually writing again. Well I got no idea why, but I'm currently in a writing mood, so lets see how long its gonna last.
Chapter 11
We are so dead
„Thank you, thank you or whatever there is out there." Tai mumbled towards himself as he walked through the hallway, finally he had finished all the exams and he was pretty sure that he didn't completely messed up.
Poor Makusu was still nearly dying in the classroom, so Sora was the only person he could talk with.
"We made it, finally." He said towards her and she replayed, still exhausted
"But only for now, until the next exam phase." She was right, but for now they could relax a little bit.
Well they would have, if John hadn't approached them and they both knew what this normally meant.
"So, you guys survived ? Did my instructions help ?" Sora had no idea what the young brit was talking about, but Tai answerd
"Yeah, pretty much saved my ass today, thanks again." John had actually helped him and Makusu the last few days, since they had warmed up with each other a little bit after the last missions.
"Well, seems like todays gonna get even better." Sora finally said after getting a message on her D-Terminal.
"Hmm, strange, reconnaissance ?" John mumbled to himself, before they hurried for the DRU.
Davis and Kari were still not ready for another mission and the only reason why commander Honda let John do a mission was because he wouldn't do it alone.
To be honest, he wouldn't let any of them go on any mission if he could, he would send soldiers there, who were trained for such mission and not some kids, who by accident were accompanied by some monsters.
But, they were the only humans that could enter the digital world, only kids with digivices could do this.
They were working on a solution for this problem, but it would still take too long until they would solve it, time they didn't have, if what Wizardmon told him was right.
"Alright, today you're going on a reconnaissance mission. You'll form a four man group."
Tai and the others had not realiced that Matt was also here, they had hardly seen him for the last weeks.
"You sure about this Matt ?" Tai asked him while they were getting ready for the mission.
"Yeah, I got to do something. I got to find a way to get my brother home and going to digital World is the best thing I can do at the moment." Matt answerd, but neither Tai nor Matts partner Gabumon were really satisfied by this answer.
"Alright here is the plan." John now approached them, wearing a full military uniform, giving them some radios.
"These work in the digital world, so we'll use them. I'll scout the area while you stay back and work as the reserve." Tai wanted to protest against it, he didn't join the DRU just to sit in the Digital world and wait, but the fact that John wore camo and they didn't made the reason for this clear.
They then enterd the digital world, while the Commander bit his lip watching them, he hated this.
There was obviously something or somebody in the digital world who wanted to attack the children, they had just avoided an disaster and he was sending them into the Digital World again.
"Get me a phone line to Britain." He orderd one of his man while walking into his office.
"Alright Commandramon, we are in the right position, right ?" John whisperd towards Commandramon, as they crawled along the small cliff.
They were observing a small village they had visited a few months ago already.
"This was supposed to be a Koromon village, but there are only Pagumons in there." Commandramon replied, something wasn't right here, why should the Koromon simply leave their home and why should a bunch of Pagumon move in ?
Somebody must have forced them out of there, but who would do something like this.
"Should we visit them and ask ?" Commandramon asked, but John only shook his head and radioed the others.
"We got a strange situation here. Something must have happened to the digimon living in the village, come here so we can plan what to do." Commadramon poked him now and pointed down to the village again.
Some digimon had appeared out of the forest, a Tyrannomon, which wasn't the one they knew, accompanied by a group of Gazimons, bipedal, dog like digimon.
"Maybe we should follow these guys ?" John mumbled to himself, as a voice interrupted him.
"Well, seems like I got some groupies."
"So you and John are getting along better now ? At least it looked like it today." Sora asked as they walked through the forest.
They had been a mile behind John and the forest was pretty thick, slowing them down.
"Yeah, he's not that bad, he helped Makusu and me with preparing for the exams, he's alright." Matt didn't really agree to this, since his experiences with John had not been very good.
They were interrupted by the sound of breaking wood and moment later, Commandramon broke through the bushes, collapsing in front of them.
"Help, they got John." He mumbled, while he tried to get back on his feet.
The others immediately rushed towards him, he was coverd in bruises and Agumon and Gabumon assisted him in standing up.
"What happened Commandramon, were you attacked by something ?" Sora directly started to take care of Commandramons wounds, she had the first aid kit with her.
"Get down." Suddenly Commandramon bursted out and dragged Sora in the next bush and signaliced the others to follow.
"Just do it, trust me !" he said and the others did as they were orderd, just in time.
A few seconds after the last of them had hidden, something else broke through the woods, something far more threatening than Commandramon.
It was some sort of humanoid creature, wearing an orange monkey suit and black shades, it looked hilarious, but Commandramon started to shake in panic the moment he saw it.
"Where are you ? Where are you little soldier ? I know you're here . Come out and you can have your friend back." The digimon said and just now they noticed that he carried an unconscious John on his shoulder.
For a few minutes the creature looked around him, but luckily he didn't find them, so he finally walked away, with John.
For a few minutes, Commandramon kept on shaking and they stayed hidden, until they were completely sure that the digimon was away.
"Who was this and what happened ?" Tai finally asked as they stood up again and Commadnramon replied, still in panic.
"This digimon, Etemon came out of nowhere and attacked us. He knocked out John and I got thrown in the forest. I then ran towards you guys as fast as I could. But, he got John and I couldn't protect him." The dragons was started to shake and he cried as Sora hugged him, trying to comfort the little digimon.
They were all shocked, they had never seen Commandramon, who was normally in control or relaxed, like this.
And how were they supposed to save John ?
"Etemon is an ultimate-level digimon. He's stronger than any of us, not even Sealsdramon or Greymon can do much against him." Gabumon explained, shocking their human partner.
"Then how are we supposed to fight him ? There must be a way, right ?" Tai asked and everybodies eyes were focused on Commandramon.
"We can't fight him. Not even all of us combined have any chance against him, he would crush us like flies. Even with everybody on their champion-level and maybe even with Flamedramon and Nefertimon, we would still loose." The little dragon stopped speaking then, he was beaten down and tired.
"Maybe we won't have to, all we need to do is save John and get of here without having to fight Etemon directly. He seems to be pretty arrogant will surely take any challenge offerd.
Garurumon and I could lure him away, we're the fastest team and maybe we'll be able to save John."
"This would put you guys in danger, are you sure ?" Tai asked, he didn't like this plan, it could mean that they simply exchange Matt for John.
"I trust Gabumon, he'll keep me save, right ?" Gabumon blushed as Matt addressed him, but he nooded in agreement.
"I may have an idea where they could be. We saw a village that was taken over by some digimon, maybe they work with Etemon, at least the former inhabitants seemed to be scared by him." Commadramon said and they agreed to the plan.
It took them half an hour before they reached the village and Commandramon was right, Etemon had returned to it and was now talking with the other digimon, who seemed to be his followers.
Matt and Gabumon had already sneaked to another part of the village, getting ready to grab everybodies attention once they located John.
"There he is." Tai mumbled, the still knocked out John was tied up and leaned against one of the small houses.
They waited, it was Matt turn and then everything happened very fast.
A beam of light blinded everybody and Garurumon, with Matt on top, charged towards the group, knocked down Tyrannomon and shoot a large flame at Etemon.
The monkey didn't seem to care about the attack and threw a punch, which the wolf hardly evaded.
"They're too strong, let's get out of here !" Matt screamed and Garurumon ran, as fast as he could, away from the village and Etemon.
"You're kings gonna catch the human and you're gonna secure the other human." Etemon orderd, before he charged right after Garurumon, faster than anybody would have expected him to be.
Tai and Sora now waited, it would be no use if they attacked the moment Etemon left, he would simply return directly and crush them.
So they waited, maybe three minutes and then attacked.
Another beam of light appeared and Greymon broke out of woods, directly charging on Tyrannomon, who got caught compeltly surprised.
"Spiral Twister !" Biyomon fired a green flame into the Gazimon, which directly ran away, they were obviously no fighter.
"John, partner I got you." Commandramon directly raced to his partner, he simply ran over an poor Gazimon, and tried to lift him, which was even to much for him.
"I'll help you." Tai now also ran towards John and both him and Sora took one of his arms over their shoulders and lifted him together.
"Now retreat !" Commandramon screamed, Greymon had pretty much knocked out the Tyrannomon and the Gazimon were simply panicing, but there were more enemies.
A Monochromon charged at them, it had hidden nearby and nearly run over Commandramon, who could jump aside just in time.
The dinosaur then changed targets, Greymon was still busy with a bunch of rather brave Gazimon, so nothing stood between him and the humans.
"Sora !" Biyomon tried to jump in front of them as Monochromon charged at her partner.
A beam of light erupted from Soras digivice and engulfed Biyomon, changing the bird digimon.
Biymon, digivolve to….. Birdramon !
Biyomon had turned into a giant, burning bird, it looked a little bit like phoenix and it fired several fireballs from its wings at Monochromon, which stopped him.
"Sora, I'll carry everybody away, so we can escape. Jump on my claws and hold on to my legs." Birdramon told them and they did so.
"Greymon, devolve !" Tai rose his Digivice and Greymon turned back into his rookie form.
Both Commandramon and Tai did their best to hold on to John, who was still knocked out.
"Liftoff !" Birdramon took off and they were somehow able to stop John falling off, as a fireball from Tyrannomon missed them only by inches.
"We did it." After a minute and once they were high in the air , Tai said what was obvious, they had saved John and got away.
"I'm the king of the digiworld, yeah,yeah,yeah." Some faint music was audible from the ground, for some reason Etemon had started to sing, and sang terribly.
"That's Etemons attack, he weakens his opponents with this terrible music, but hes out of range." Commandramon explained.
"Matt are you alright ?" Tai now finally radioded Matt and directly got an answer
"Yes but it was close." Matts voice crackeld through the radio, he was panting and sounded pretty exhausted " He nearly got us, but then he saw the light from your digivice and directly ran back. How did you make out in time ?"
"Well Biyomon had a trick up her sleeves or feathers, we're high in the sky and we'll meet at the TV." Tai answerd and the conversation ended.
It only took a few minutes for them to reach the TV and a minute later Matt and Garurumon arrived and the giant wolf devolved the moment they saw their friends.
The mission had been a failure but at least they didn't loose anybody.
But what they didn't except was the Commanders reaction, he didn't say anything, he directly went to his office the moment he saw them and didn't come out anymore.
"He got a concussion, a few days of rest and he'll be alright." The doctor in the DRU said them, John was still knocked out and was laying in one of the beds in the room, with Commandramon sitting next to him.
"Shouldn't he be in a hospital ?" it was strange , a concussion was normally serious enough for an hospital stay, but the doctor only sighed and replied
"The rules for the DRU say that wounded agents are only send to hospital if its really necessary, to avoid any questions. I'm not happy with that, but the people in charge decided this."
They had no idea how politics worked, so they left, John was in good hands and it was already getting late.
"This was far too close today. We nearly lost John and Matt only got away by luck." Tai and Agumon were sitting in their room, Kari was doing some school stuff at Davis place and his parents were still not home, so they were alone.
"Etemon is strong and none of us is able to fight him. But I got no idea how we could change this." Agumon was not happy with this, it was simply a terrible situation for them,
"Maybe we should just avoid Etemon until we know how to beat him ?" Tais solution was not good but Agumon had no better idea.
Tai now looked at the clock and his attention changed, it was late and they were both hungry, so he went to the kitchen.
At the same time, Sora was sitting in her room, while Biyomon only watched her.
It had been like always, mom had complained that she was late and Sora had simply stormed into her room.
"Everything alright Sora ?" Biyomon finally asked but Sora simply ignored her partner and went to sleep, leaving the confused digimon alone.
The next day at school, Davis was amazed by Tai and others adventure and directly agreed with Kari to visit John after school.
" We can't just visit him with empty hands." Kari told Davis as they walked towards the DRU, so they took a small detour and went to flower shop, where they bought some nice flowers.
"What a nice, little gentleman you are young man. Buying flowers for your little girlfriend." The old woman owning the flower shop told Davis, while Kari picked the flowers, causing the boy to blush heavily and deny.
"No we are just friends. We're buying the flowers for a sick friend." The woman chuckeld about the boy replay, before she turned towards Kari, who had not heard the little conversation.
"Are you alright Davis ?" they were outside the shop again and Davis face was still slightly red, so Kari got a little bit worried.
"Yeah,yeah everything is good." He answerd with a smile and Hikari smiled in return, causing the boy to blush again.
She turned her attention towards the flowers again and Davis looked at her, blushing a bit more as the old woman thoughts went through his head.
But it took him only a few moments before he shook his head and returned his attention to something else.
John was awake when they visited him and smiled as he saw them, he didn't expect any visitors, so it was a nice surprise.
Commandramon, who was very happy today, directly waddled away, getting a vase for the flowers.
"Was Etemon really as strong as Tai said ?" Davis asked him after they had greeted each other and John only scratched his head, replaying
"To be honest, I got no idea, Etemon directly knocked me out, so I can only tell you what Commandramon told me." Just like he heard his catch phrase, Commandramon waddled back into the room, Kari and Davis had never seen the little soldier-digimon like this before and said
"Etemon's stronger than anything we ever fought before. He's an ultimate-level digimon, he's far beyond my power level and would easily crush each of us."
Both Kari and Davis were again shocked a little bit by this, Tais story about the incredibly strong digimon had been unbelievable and it made them afraid.
"So is there really no possibility to beat this guy, to get stronger ?" Davis asked, but nobody really knew how to answer this question, but Commandramons mood was good so he tried to cheer everybody up.
"There's for sure a way for us fight Etemon, maybe we can somehow even reach a higher level and stronger form."
Vee-mon now materialized out of the D-Terminal, Gatomon had already been out and said, completely amazed by Commandramons words.
"So I can become even stronger than Flamedramon ? Davis, imagine how cool I could become !" Davis directly joined into his partners excitement, Flamedramon was already cool in his eye, but maybe Vee could become some sort of super-Flamedramon, who could fly and breath giant fire balls.
"Maybe I can help you with this." Wizardmon now came into the first-aid room, he had heard most of conversation and had an idea.
"There is something that could help you reaching the ultimate-level. They are called crests, holy symbols and talismans in the digital world. They were lost a long time ago, but if you could find them, they may allow your partners to reach a new level."
"Really, are you sure about this ?" Commandramon was surprised, he thought of himself as well informed, but he had never heard of the crests before.
"The problem is, I got no idea where we could search for them, they're propably scatterd across the whole Digital World."
Wizardmon went on and took away everybodys excitement and John then said.
"Did you tell the Commander already ? This may be some valuable information for him and the DRU." Wizardmon nooded as an answer, he had done this just before he came in.
"Well, at least we know what to do from now on. It may be hard, but we could do it while we're on missions." John said and Kari was for a moment surprised.
"But you're still hurt John, you should rest for some weeks before you go back into the digital world. You could hurt yourself otherwise." Kari lectured him and John was surprised for a moment, before he scratched his back-head and answerd, grinning
"Yeah, I'm not really taking care of my health most of the time, but thanks for caring. Seems like you guys have to go on a mission on your own, in case something happens while I'm still bound to the bed."
"Of course, you can count on us. We'll take care of any mission and save anybody who gets lost in the Digital World." Davis said, full of energy, just like his partner, he had even jumped of his chair.
"Just stay alert and make sure that nothing happens in the digital world. Maybe Commandramon could come with you guys and help you." John said, but the little dragon only shook his head, he had warmed up to them but he didn't want to be with them on his own, at least at the moment.
They kept on chatting for a few minutes, until they're friendly banter was interrupted, by a soldier charging into the room.
"The commander needs you two, now !" it was nearly a command and Kari and Davis directly hurried out of the room and John signaliced his partner to follow them.
"We got an emergency situation. A massive crack has formed in the digital world and it's a matter of hours at best before it enlarges to a critical point." One of the technicians explained and for the first time, Kari and Davis could see the Commanders pale.
"I'm sorry, but we have to send you two into the digital world right now. We'll get the others here as fast as possible, but they may be too late. Commandramon can you accompany them ?" The commander addressed them and Commandramons attitude has changed directly, he only noded in reply and hurried back to the first-aid room, to give John a short overview.
"Alright, get ready. You'll depart in 2 minutes." Honda mumbled, before he went to his office, obviously stressed by the situation.
This was the last thing he ever wanted to do, sending the youngest teams he had on a propably dangerous mission.
Two minutes and ten seconds later, they were in the digital world and Commandramon directly took the lead, addressing them seriously.
"The Commander didn't tell you, but this mission is gonna be dangerous." He started
"Such a large crack has never formed before and it shouldn't. Somebody must have caused this. You guys got to stay as silent as possible, we have to be ready to fight, so be ready to armor-digivolve at every moment."
Both Kari and Davis gulped, shocked by Commandramons words, this wasn't their first mission, but they were pretty much alone and supposed to fight.
But Davis regained his stance quickly and said
"Alright. We gotta do this, or people get hurt, right Commandramon ?" the soldier digimon noded and Kari agreed, they would stop this crack and whoever caused it.
Chapter 11
End
Well Chapter 11 done, Johns knocked out, Biyomon evolved and Davis and Kari on a dangerous mission. Oh and Etemon still sings terrible.
What's gonna happen ? Who could have caused the crisis ? Are Davis and Kari gonna be able to fullfil their mission ?
And most important... is Etemon one day gonna learn to sing ?
We'll see (hopefully) soon.
Leave a review if you like to, critic is always welcome ^^
Tobi out