CHAPTER 21
12.34 p.m
Cloudy day
GRAND HALL
"Takato, it's time for lunch." said Takato's mother.
"Hurry up or we will leave without ya, boy," added his father.
"Okay, I am coming. Wait for me!" Takato rushed out of his room with Guilmon behind him. They exit their room and walked down stairs into the grand hall, where everyone had started to eat. When Takato entered the hall, he saw Lee walking towards him.
"What's up?" asked Takato.
"Commander Wargreymon wants to see us in the briefing room after lunch," explained Lee.
"Huh? Why?" Takato's eyes widen.
"Well, he said he will need our digimons' helps by tomorrow."
"What's wrong with tomorrow?"
"The "Hunting season"," replied Lee.
"Hunting season? Great! What are we going to hunt?" said Guilmon excitedly. Lee stared at Guilmon with a half opened mouth.
"Err… he meant destroying the huge robot, Guilmon," corrected Takato, trying to control his laughter.
Today's meal will be potato salad with 'hot dogs' in it, yummy.
After lunch, people started to went back to their rooms, including the digidestined's parents.
"Mon, dad, Guilmon and I will go back later. We had something to do first. Okay?" explained Takato.
"Sure, boy but don't get in trouble," replied his father and gently padded his son's head. After watching their parents disappeared into the lobby, Takato and Guilmon walked toward their friends, who were gathering at the center of the hall.
"Hail, guys," greeted Takato like an old version of soldier. His friends quickly turned their head to him.
"Hiya," replied Terriermon.
"Say, had anyone seen Veemon?" added Takato after he realized one of his friends was missing.
"Oh, he is with Roy," said Lee.
"Roy? Oh. You mean the new red head," replied Takato and they giggled.
"We better get going, guys." hissed Ruki, bored by waiting.
"Right, to the briefing room!" said Takato hastily.
-- CASTLE BASEMENT
"So, Roy, how long had you work for the military army?" asked Veemon, checking the machines around him from time to time.
"Err…. I think it's about 4 years already," replied Roy (wearing goggle). He was busy repairing a large mechanic gun.
"Wow, that's was a long time, man. What did you actually created?" asked Veemon again. His eyes never stop roaming around the scene.
"Err… a missile gun, but it can only store 4 rockets, so I think it's a failure ; and a special automatic shotgun, which… had explosive bullet…….. Nah, nothing else. I spent most of my time repairing the vehicles or broken machines. That only leaves me enough time to sleep and eat," said Roy and continued his work.
"What about these?" Veemon pointed at the different colored grenades on the table. Each of the grenades had written words on them.
"Oh, this? It's only some stupid experiments." Roy giggled after taking a look.
"Really, what will they do, Bing and Bang?"
"Nope, side effects, like releasing stink gases, mud, light and so on… I made them just to play trick on 'April fool's' day."
'I see… can I take some?"
"Err… sure, but don't involve my name when you used them."
"Hehe… okay," Veemon quickly took three and analyzed them.
"Some how, I must warn you that don't let the stink bomb get to close to fire," said Roy when he saw Veemon took the stink grenade.
"Why?"
"Because it will end up exploding," explained Roy.
"O-kay," replied Veemon.
"What are you making? I mean now."
"A plasma gun, a new creation for my gun collections," explained Roy; his fingers never stop moving around inside the unfinished gun. Veemon could see lots of wires inside the gun, blue, red, green…… Roy simply cut and reconnects the wires at different places.
"Man, you sure are good at it." The blue lizard started to feel headache looking at the wires and gears inside the gun.
"So, how does it work?" asked him again. Roy put up his goggle and took a breath.
"Firstly, I loaded in some uranium shells into this container. Of course…… the uranium shell must be in liquid form," Roy pointed at a huge container which is covered by a thick layer of irons. There is a long tube connected the gun to the container.
"Then, when I released the pressure in this gun by rotating this thing," Roy point at the valve-like thing at the side of the gun. "Next, high pressure inside this container will push the uranium shell to the main gun through the tube. At the same time, this flashy mirror will gather as much solar energy as possible."
"Okay…. Then?"
"Then, the gun will shoot all the solar energy out in a form of ray mixed with some of the molecules of uranium shell, just that simple. There are lots of complex things happened when the liquid is in the gun, but it will take forever to explain. So, let's skip it."
"Yeah, I truly doubt that I will understand either."
"Really? Okay, to what I am guessing for, the range within the ray is very hot; we are talking about high temperature and high pressure right now."
"Cool!"
"But this time I had mixed some other material into the liquid. So, instead of burning red, it will burn with deep blue. This will make lots of damage too, even to a metal."
"Wow, I must say you are truly a genius, Roy."
"Thank you."
--
THE BRIEFING ROOM
The surrounding was peace and quite. Everyone greeted them as the kids passed by. Before entering the briefing room, Renamon knocked on the door like the way she did .There was a pause before someone in there finally replied.
"Come in." said a voice gently. The kids nodded at each other and went into the room with their digimons; Renamon closed the door behind them after entering the room. In there, they saw Wargreymon busy measuring a city map in the middle of the room.
"Ah, yes. You finally arrive. Do find a seat for yourselves. "said him when he saw them.
"What did you called us for, sir?" asked Takato, when they sat down.
"I hate to draw you kids in this…. But you are the only ones that can aid us perfectly in the coming operation," sighed Wargreymon, looking at the papers on the table.
"You want us to help you destroy the monster, right?" snarled Ruki, folding her arms.
"As the matter of fact, you got me."
"So, what's wrong with that? We would like to help!" said Takato.
"Careful as you speak, boy. This mission will be tougher than the previous one. And in case you don't know, this monster had just destroyed 5 of our tanks…...easily with one go."
"What? But the tanks just arrived this morning," said Lee.
"Yes, we quickly sent 5 of them to hunt down the monster. This is just to test its skill."
"So…. No death?" asked Ruki hastily.
"Yes, no death. All are fully automatic."
"Cool," Takato clapped his hand excitedly.
"Yes, cool… During the attack, we had collected enough information about our new opponent, which hopefully is worth the 5 tanks. Here, take a look. It might save your life," said Wargreymon and pushed a few photograph across the table for the kids. They each take one and scanned the picture in their hand carefully. Then, all of them widen their eyes one by one.
"It seemed that John had greatly increased the monster's strength," added Wargreymon when he saw their reaction.
"Yeah, nice job, John," hissed Ruki. Inside her picture, she saw a missile launcher on the monster's left shoulder.
"Yes, rocket launcher, heavy armor, extended giant claws and two horned helmet for two large heads. I also heard that the monster could blow fire."
"Blow fire?" asked Guilmon, feeling surprised.
"No doubt about it, John might have installed a flamethrower at the mouth point."
"But, how did he get all this weapons? They can't just pops out in front of him," said Lee. His friends nodded their head and looked at Wargreymon. Wargreymon didn't reply immediately, he thought for a while, calling back his memorizes.
"If I am not mistaken, John had broken into the war factory in Vanes the night he gained control of the monster," explained him.
"I see…." said Takato while scratching his head.
"So, how did you want us to help?" asked Ruki hastily.
"Simple, all you need to do is trying to support the troops when they are facing the monster….. Ah yes, I nearly forgot. Here, you will probably encounter this person," said the commander and gave the kids a photograph of a man.
"Isn't this Fread?" asked Takato after checking the picture.
"Yes, during the operation at museum. Most of our troops encountered this traitor, including Renamon," added Wargreymon. Renamon simply nodded.
"It seemed that this was one of the spies from John….. Who turned back on his old friends just for money."
"What a pity….." said Lee and sighs.
"One of his friends, Kane… had been missing, some said that he was eaten by dinosaurs; but Renamon corrected that he had been buried alive, am I right?"
"Yes," confirmed Renamon.
"Well, whatever it is, please follow Digmon's orders. I know he can tell you what to do when you see this person," continued Wargreymon.
"Yes, sir," replied the boys together, acting like soldiers.
"What's your plan anyway?" asked Ruki.
"I heard John want to destroy this castle. So, along his way here, we are going to set up an ambush for him."
"Wow, an ambush. I never had the test of ambushing someone, this will be great," said Ruki grimly. The boys shake their head since they all knew Ruki's personalities.
"Can't we just face him right on?" said Takato, feeling disappointed by the plan.
"I thought about it before, but I fear we are far too weak for that monster."
"No way!" shouted Takato.
"Besides, if we failed to stop the monster, this castle will be ruined. In order to prevent that, we must take any opportunities we had."
"I think he is right," said Lee.
"Okay, guess we had no other choices left," Takato gave a sigh.
"Okay then, dismissed."