Chapter Twenty-one
Paul's story had amazing implications. Whatever he had done was directly responsible for the activation of the digital gate. Did that mean that was also the reason for my own gate activating? More importantly, was the person we spoke to Yggdrasil, or someone else? I had no time to think about such things at the moment, for we had recently been told there was an attack.
As we hurried onto the command center we heard a deafening alarm. It seemed the entire base was now aware of the problem. After climbing to the central station at the top of the now extremely active room. Orders were being shouted from the Datamon to the Monitamon and they, respectively, shouted towards the Guardromon.
"Status report!", Leomon barked
"Sir, the base itself is not under attack, but a squad is engaged near access port 2B", a Datamon answered.
"That's way too close to the city, they would never dare bring an army here!"
"Who's in that squad?", Paul asked
"It's the guard in the area. We were running low on personnel and the Fourth Shinobi squad offered. There seem to be only a few enemies, perhaps under ten."
"That's the Ninjamon that brought us here!", I blurted
Paul rushed over to the nearby console and began typing. I noticed all the lettering was in the same language that all the other thins seemed to be written in this world. Patamon seemed extremely confused, but when I asked him what was wrong he replied by stating that he felt something strange. Within about a minute Paul returned with a grim look of his face.
"There are no nearby reinforcements available"
"Then we'll go! We have to do something", I stated and Paul chuckled; scratching his head thoughtfully.
"Always going in head-first, but you're right; we must go. Monitamon! Tell Halsemon to stand by for EVAC. Charlie, Leomon, let's go"
"You forgot me!", Patamon yelled.
"Right…you too Patamon", Paul said as he started heading down the stairs.
We rounded the command center and exited through the eastern hallway and eventually ran up a set of stairs with a familiar patch of dirt for a roof. While Paul fumbled for his digivice I had raised mine in anticipation and lifted it, causing the roof to collapse and revealing our exit. Leomon smirked as Paul finally produced his digivice.
It only took a second for us to locate the battle. About four hundred meters or so from the exit was the sound of clashing metal. In between the Ninjamon and us were three large dinosaur digimon.
All I could see behind the digimon were about five different Ninjamon battling with other creatures at incredibly high speeds. It reminded me of the battle between JagerLowemon and Omnimon, although I could tell these digimon were not on par with Royal Knights.
"DarkTyrannomon", Leomon said as if pronouncing a vile disease
"Damn it!", Paul spat, "These are all Champion level"
"Champion level?", I asked
"I'll explain later…right now…Leomon it's time"
Paul lifted his digivice and a string of code burst forth from Leomon's body. The set of code then enveloped him, forming an oval shape that was constantly shifting, as the data seemed to be going through a scanning process. The shape seemed to stop its motion and then quickly broke apart, revealing Leomon, but this time his coloration was different. Instead of the vibrant yellow, his whole body was pale white. He was otherwise unchanged and his aura seemed, colder. He roared and exclaimed his name for all to hear:
"IceLemon!"
While many digimon have the potential to become creatures of great power, such as a Veemon becoming Magnamon, not all digimon are destined to do so. Various factors including environmental interactions and the current circumstances of the digital world make a difference in such outcomes. Some believe that Yggdrasil also plays a role in this, something the Royal Knights have publicly denied.