Here's the newest chapter, and sorry to say, but not much action in this one, in fact not much happens at all. Very short, but its the part you've been waiting for, when they meet all the Japanese Digidestined, I had actually intended for this Chapter to be part of the next one, but I later decided that it would be best to get something up than make you wait a while, since I won't be able to write for a while (not a long time just two days), and it's better than making you wait all week for something. Anyway enjoy the what's probably the shortest chapter
But first I don't own Digimon, this is just fan fiction so please don't sue.
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Chapter 18: The Meeting of the Two Teams
Scorpiomon's many blade like legs cut through the water like knives, swimming towards Japan at speeds no man made craft could even match, and he wasn't even going his full speed, he had slowed down so Paildramon could keep up. Paildramon lowered his altitude so he was just skimming over the water, next to Scorpiomon and the rest of us. It was then I noticed something about Cody's Digimon, he wasn't Armadillomon anymore, he was smaller, Armadillomon's In-Training form. Why had he gone down to In-Training form, Submarimon was only a Champion, it shouldn't take up that much energy. It couldn't because he was in the real World instead of the Digital one, because all of our Digimon could remain in their rookie forms in the real world, and it wasn't just us, Mimi's Digimon was able stay as a rookie. What did we have that they didn't? Maybe it was the crests, we had crests they didn't, not yet anyway.
"Hey guys!" I yelled to Ken Davis and Cody.
Paildramon moved flew closer to us, so I could be heard.
"Yeah," Davis asked.
"I've got something that we believe belongs to you guys," I said as I pulled the three crests that we received from Baihumon.
The crests reacted immediately to Davis and Cody. The golden one and the sandy yellow began glowing, however the red one stayed the same.
"These," I said holding up the crests.
"Crests?" Davis said. "Tai told me about those, they let your Digimon Digivolve to Ultimate."
"That's what they've done for us so far," I said motioning to my own crest. "And I believe these belong to you."
"Are you sure?" Cody asked. "There are lots of Digidestined, what makes you think they're ours."
"Look at the way they're glowing," I answered. "Whose else could they be?"
I tossed the respective crests into Cody and Davis's hands, and continued to glow even brighter. As Cody caught his the light from it hit his Digimon.
"Upamon Digivolved to………………Armadillomon!"
"I'm a rookie," Armadillomon said. "And I'm not in the Digital World."
"Just as I thought," I said. "The crests are what keep our Digimon in the rookie level."
"So does that mean that Demiveemon will be Veemon when Paildramon dedigivolves." Davis asked.
"I guess," Exveemon's voice said from Paildramon.
"Sorry Ken," I said. "Baihumon only gave us three, and I don't think this third one is yours, its not glowing."
"That's okay," Ken said reaching into his shirt pocket, and pulled out a crest just like ours minus the tag. "I've already got a crest, I got it after my base was destroyed, and I gave up being the Digimon Emperor, it's the crest of Kindness."
"Just like Andrew," I said.
"What?" Ken said.
"Your successor, I guess I only told you about the upcoming threat, and not the one we faced before this one."
"Speaking of which," Davis said. "What exactly is going on here?"
Sean glanced over at Ken. "You didn't tell them yet!"
"Didn't have time," Ken said. "We detected Marinedevimon on our D3s a while ago, then I got your e-mail. I put two and two together and assumed he had been sent to stop you from getting here, I didn't have time to explain to the others, and the only ones I could get at such short notice were Davis and Cody."
"So we haven't told them anything?" I asked.
Ken shook his head.
"All he told us was that we need to get to the ocean to rescue some fellow Digidestined," Cody said. "We knew there were other Digidestined besides us, but were pretty surprised to find out that you had crests. We thought all the other Digidestined only had Digivices."
"Like I said before!" Davis yelled upset he was being ignored. "What is going on here?"
"I'll explain when we get back," I said. "That way I can tell all of you at once, and I won't have to explain it twice."
Ken nodded his head agreeing with me.
"Do we have to," Davis whined. "I don't want to wait that long."
"Be patient Davis," Paildramon said. "We can wait."
Davis crossed his arm and sighed. I couldn't help but laugh, he was almost as bad as Dan.
"Oh Ken," I said remembering something. "I think I do have something for you." I reached into my pocket and pulled out the only remaining blank tag that Frigimon had given us. "This, it might come in handy."
I tossed the tag into Ken's hands. The second he caught it both began to glow and his crest of Kindness slid behind the glass of the tag, just like what had happened when I had found my crest.
"You're right," Ken said admiring his new tag and crest. "It'll be nice being able hang my crest around my neck, rather than being afraid it'll fall out of my pocket."
Scorpiomon swam onward, and Paildramon onward, towards our destination Japan.
* * *
The soft cool grass, of a park in Odeiba, one in which I'd played as a child when I visited my aunt and uncle. This time it served a different purpose, the meeting place of eighteen Digidestined.
"They're D3s all right," the red headed kid a year older than me named Izzy said as he handed me back my Digivice, after examining it.
We'd arrived in Japan about an hour ago, the eight Japanese Digidestined I had seen defeat Myotismon four years ago were all gathered here, including the four new ones, Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken. It turned out that Yolei was the owner of the new red coloured crest that Baihumon had given us, but there had been no surprise there, and just like it had for Cody, Yolei's In-Training Digimon Poromon had Digivolved to his rookie state, Hawkmon, the same had happened with Davis and Veemon, and Ken's Digimon Wormmon. Mimi, T.K and Kari's Digimon were the only ones of the original eight Digidestined that had their Digimon with them. Jenn had just explained the entire situation to them, including our battles with the Digimon Emperor and Empress, and obviously leaving out what Emily had planned for me.
"So you say that they were once like these," a girl a year older than me said holding up her Digivice, which looked exactly like what my Digivice did before the beam from the computer had changed it into a D3.
I nodded. "Yeah, then one day about two months ago a beam shot out of the computer and changed it into a D3."
"You mean it didn't happen to any of you?" Jenn asked.
"Well," T.K said clutching his green D3. "Kari and I's changed into D3s, but that was only after we got our Digieggs."
"And they only changed so Gatomon and I could Armor Digivolve," T.K's Digimon Patamon said. "For you and Kari there was a reason."
"And with us there wasn't one," Rob said. "They just changed, we never found any Digieggs, and we beat the Digimon Emperor and Empress with normal Digivolution. We probably didn't need them."
"They wouldn't just change for no reason," the kid I definitely recognized as Tai. "Whenever something happened to us it was always for a reason, there must be some reason."
"I'm not sure that's what we should be concerned about," T.K's brother Matt said. "At least that's something positive to worry about."
"Matt's right," Joe said. "What we should worry about is this upcoming threat whatever it is."
"Baihumon said that it was one of your old enemies," Janine said. "Any idea which one."
Kari's Digimon, Gatomon clenched her paws into a fist. The one I couldn't help but remember from being caught in the convention center, the one who I had once thought was my Digimon. "I just hope that it's not Myotismon, I don't know if I'd be able to handle that."
"That's the last Digimon I'd want to fight too," Kari agreed.
"I doubt it's him," Rob said. "Baihumon told us that Myotismon was a completely different dark force than Myotismon, so it's unlikely that he's one of his minions."
"I sure hope so," Gatomon sighed.
"It's Devimon," T.K said looked angry. "It has to be him, when that dark pool appeared I specifically remember seeing him, then he just disappeared, it's got to be him, I'd rather fight Myotismon than Devimon."
The other seven Digidestined, and Patamon looked at T.K in concern; apparently Devimon had done something to him, like Myotismon had done something to Kari and Gatomon. Something he didn't enjoy talking about, probably for the same reason I didn't want to talk about what Emily had planned for me.
"Actually," Izzy said. "I hope its Devimon, Devimon we could beat, he was only a Champion, Angemon beat him alone. Devimon wouldn't be that much of a problem, I'd be more concerned that he was one of our stronger enemies, like Apocalymon."
I remembered all the names of their enemies, Baihumon had told us about all of them.
"Don't be so worried," Davis said. "We guys beat whoever it was before you can do it again, especially now that you've got you're crests back, plus you've the four of us with you, and plus you six Canadian Digidestined, whoever it is we can beat them."
"I'd love to agree with you," Janine said. "But Baihumon told us that all of us will be needed, including the seventh Canadian Digidestined, and - and Andrew, he wouldn't have said that if it wasn't true."
"Then if that's true than whatever this new threat is it must be stronger than it was when we fought it before."
"Maybe it's Arukenemon and Mummymon," Yolei suggested. "We can't rule them out, we haven't exactly defeated them yet."
"You mean the guys you were fighting while we were fighting Emily and Andrew?" I asked.
Davis had told us about their battles in the eastern section of the Digital World, while we were flying/swimming to Japan.
"Azulongmon did say they were pawns of an even bigger threat," Cody realized.
"It's possible that Emily and Andrew were sent by Evamon to destroy you Canadian Digidestined, and Arukenemon and Mummymon to destroy us Japanese ones," Izzy said.
"But underestimated both of us," Tai concluded. "So now he's sending an even an even stronger one to take us out all at once, of course it's just a theory we could be wrong."
"So what's our next step," Dan asked looking at me. "If you ask me the only thing we can do is sit here and wait for whatever the threat is to make his next move."
"We're not just going to sit here!" Tai yelled. "We can still do something, first of all by finding the nineteenth member of this team. Do you guys know where he might be?"
I sighed. "No, all we know that he's here in Japan, but I have an idea where he might be."
"Good," Tai said, and then glanced up at the sky. "But it's a little late now, we should call it a night."
"Why should we?" Dan yelled. Great, why was he doing this? He was embarrassing me in front of Tai, the guys I'd admired since I found out I was Digidestined, they guy I had strove to be like. "Kris is our leader, not you."
Now that caught me by surprise, Dan was the one always questioning my orders, and now he was showing that he was the most loyal.
"No," I said. "Tai has been doing this a lot longer than I have, he'd be a much better leader than me, I may lead the six of us, but Tai should be the one to lead all of us."
My five friends looked at me in shock, could it really be that hard to follow someone else?
"There's no reason we both can't be the leader," Tai said. "We both lead, plus I can tell that your teammates aren't going to listen to me even if you tell them to." I nodded in agreement. "Tonight those of us who don't have their Digimon with us will go into the Digital World and get them, then we'll rest for tonight and start the search for the nineteenth Digidestined in the morning. You guys have a place to stay?"
I shook my head. "I was hoping - well if this isn't too forward - well that -"
"Sure you can stay with us," Tai said. "Anything for the team."
"Great," I said happily. "But I think it would be best, if we tried to have two Digidestined at each house, if possible, so they can have backup if there's any attacks like the one at sea."
"Good thinking," Tai said. "I can see why you're the leader of the Canadian Digidestined.
I couldn't help but smile with pride as he said that.
"See," Elecmon whispered to me. "I told you you're as good a leader as Tai, Compassion is just as good as Courage."
I smiled at my partner. Maybe he was right maybe I was as good a leader as Tai. I'd been aspiring to be like him since we first put together our team, hoping that I could lead my team to victory the same way that he had done with his, and for the first time since I'd looked up to him I actually felt that I could.
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Like I said very short, just discussion and sutff, but its something that I thought was necessary. The next one will be better I promise, but I have to work right after school in the next couple days, and by the time I get home I'm dead tired, so I won't be able to write again until at least Wednesday, that's why I wanted to get this chapter up. Its short but better than nothing. Anyway stay tuned for the next chapter.
But first I don't own Digimon, this is just fan fiction so please don't sue.
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Chapter 18: The Meeting of the Two Teams
Scorpiomon's many blade like legs cut through the water like knives, swimming towards Japan at speeds no man made craft could even match, and he wasn't even going his full speed, he had slowed down so Paildramon could keep up. Paildramon lowered his altitude so he was just skimming over the water, next to Scorpiomon and the rest of us. It was then I noticed something about Cody's Digimon, he wasn't Armadillomon anymore, he was smaller, Armadillomon's In-Training form. Why had he gone down to In-Training form, Submarimon was only a Champion, it shouldn't take up that much energy. It couldn't because he was in the real World instead of the Digital one, because all of our Digimon could remain in their rookie forms in the real world, and it wasn't just us, Mimi's Digimon was able stay as a rookie. What did we have that they didn't? Maybe it was the crests, we had crests they didn't, not yet anyway.
"Hey guys!" I yelled to Ken Davis and Cody.
Paildramon moved flew closer to us, so I could be heard.
"Yeah," Davis asked.
"I've got something that we believe belongs to you guys," I said as I pulled the three crests that we received from Baihumon.
The crests reacted immediately to Davis and Cody. The golden one and the sandy yellow began glowing, however the red one stayed the same.
"These," I said holding up the crests.
"Crests?" Davis said. "Tai told me about those, they let your Digimon Digivolve to Ultimate."
"That's what they've done for us so far," I said motioning to my own crest. "And I believe these belong to you."
"Are you sure?" Cody asked. "There are lots of Digidestined, what makes you think they're ours."
"Look at the way they're glowing," I answered. "Whose else could they be?"
I tossed the respective crests into Cody and Davis's hands, and continued to glow even brighter. As Cody caught his the light from it hit his Digimon.
"Upamon Digivolved to………………Armadillomon!"
"I'm a rookie," Armadillomon said. "And I'm not in the Digital World."
"Just as I thought," I said. "The crests are what keep our Digimon in the rookie level."
"So does that mean that Demiveemon will be Veemon when Paildramon dedigivolves." Davis asked.
"I guess," Exveemon's voice said from Paildramon.
"Sorry Ken," I said. "Baihumon only gave us three, and I don't think this third one is yours, its not glowing."
"That's okay," Ken said reaching into his shirt pocket, and pulled out a crest just like ours minus the tag. "I've already got a crest, I got it after my base was destroyed, and I gave up being the Digimon Emperor, it's the crest of Kindness."
"Just like Andrew," I said.
"What?" Ken said.
"Your successor, I guess I only told you about the upcoming threat, and not the one we faced before this one."
"Speaking of which," Davis said. "What exactly is going on here?"
Sean glanced over at Ken. "You didn't tell them yet!"
"Didn't have time," Ken said. "We detected Marinedevimon on our D3s a while ago, then I got your e-mail. I put two and two together and assumed he had been sent to stop you from getting here, I didn't have time to explain to the others, and the only ones I could get at such short notice were Davis and Cody."
"So we haven't told them anything?" I asked.
Ken shook his head.
"All he told us was that we need to get to the ocean to rescue some fellow Digidestined," Cody said. "We knew there were other Digidestined besides us, but were pretty surprised to find out that you had crests. We thought all the other Digidestined only had Digivices."
"Like I said before!" Davis yelled upset he was being ignored. "What is going on here?"
"I'll explain when we get back," I said. "That way I can tell all of you at once, and I won't have to explain it twice."
Ken nodded his head agreeing with me.
"Do we have to," Davis whined. "I don't want to wait that long."
"Be patient Davis," Paildramon said. "We can wait."
Davis crossed his arm and sighed. I couldn't help but laugh, he was almost as bad as Dan.
"Oh Ken," I said remembering something. "I think I do have something for you." I reached into my pocket and pulled out the only remaining blank tag that Frigimon had given us. "This, it might come in handy."
I tossed the tag into Ken's hands. The second he caught it both began to glow and his crest of Kindness slid behind the glass of the tag, just like what had happened when I had found my crest.
"You're right," Ken said admiring his new tag and crest. "It'll be nice being able hang my crest around my neck, rather than being afraid it'll fall out of my pocket."
Scorpiomon swam onward, and Paildramon onward, towards our destination Japan.
* * *
The soft cool grass, of a park in Odeiba, one in which I'd played as a child when I visited my aunt and uncle. This time it served a different purpose, the meeting place of eighteen Digidestined.
"They're D3s all right," the red headed kid a year older than me named Izzy said as he handed me back my Digivice, after examining it.
We'd arrived in Japan about an hour ago, the eight Japanese Digidestined I had seen defeat Myotismon four years ago were all gathered here, including the four new ones, Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken. It turned out that Yolei was the owner of the new red coloured crest that Baihumon had given us, but there had been no surprise there, and just like it had for Cody, Yolei's In-Training Digimon Poromon had Digivolved to his rookie state, Hawkmon, the same had happened with Davis and Veemon, and Ken's Digimon Wormmon. Mimi, T.K and Kari's Digimon were the only ones of the original eight Digidestined that had their Digimon with them. Jenn had just explained the entire situation to them, including our battles with the Digimon Emperor and Empress, and obviously leaving out what Emily had planned for me.
"So you say that they were once like these," a girl a year older than me said holding up her Digivice, which looked exactly like what my Digivice did before the beam from the computer had changed it into a D3.
I nodded. "Yeah, then one day about two months ago a beam shot out of the computer and changed it into a D3."
"You mean it didn't happen to any of you?" Jenn asked.
"Well," T.K said clutching his green D3. "Kari and I's changed into D3s, but that was only after we got our Digieggs."
"And they only changed so Gatomon and I could Armor Digivolve," T.K's Digimon Patamon said. "For you and Kari there was a reason."
"And with us there wasn't one," Rob said. "They just changed, we never found any Digieggs, and we beat the Digimon Emperor and Empress with normal Digivolution. We probably didn't need them."
"They wouldn't just change for no reason," the kid I definitely recognized as Tai. "Whenever something happened to us it was always for a reason, there must be some reason."
"I'm not sure that's what we should be concerned about," T.K's brother Matt said. "At least that's something positive to worry about."
"Matt's right," Joe said. "What we should worry about is this upcoming threat whatever it is."
"Baihumon said that it was one of your old enemies," Janine said. "Any idea which one."
Kari's Digimon, Gatomon clenched her paws into a fist. The one I couldn't help but remember from being caught in the convention center, the one who I had once thought was my Digimon. "I just hope that it's not Myotismon, I don't know if I'd be able to handle that."
"That's the last Digimon I'd want to fight too," Kari agreed.
"I doubt it's him," Rob said. "Baihumon told us that Myotismon was a completely different dark force than Myotismon, so it's unlikely that he's one of his minions."
"I sure hope so," Gatomon sighed.
"It's Devimon," T.K said looked angry. "It has to be him, when that dark pool appeared I specifically remember seeing him, then he just disappeared, it's got to be him, I'd rather fight Myotismon than Devimon."
The other seven Digidestined, and Patamon looked at T.K in concern; apparently Devimon had done something to him, like Myotismon had done something to Kari and Gatomon. Something he didn't enjoy talking about, probably for the same reason I didn't want to talk about what Emily had planned for me.
"Actually," Izzy said. "I hope its Devimon, Devimon we could beat, he was only a Champion, Angemon beat him alone. Devimon wouldn't be that much of a problem, I'd be more concerned that he was one of our stronger enemies, like Apocalymon."
I remembered all the names of their enemies, Baihumon had told us about all of them.
"Don't be so worried," Davis said. "We guys beat whoever it was before you can do it again, especially now that you've got you're crests back, plus you've the four of us with you, and plus you six Canadian Digidestined, whoever it is we can beat them."
"I'd love to agree with you," Janine said. "But Baihumon told us that all of us will be needed, including the seventh Canadian Digidestined, and - and Andrew, he wouldn't have said that if it wasn't true."
"Then if that's true than whatever this new threat is it must be stronger than it was when we fought it before."
"Maybe it's Arukenemon and Mummymon," Yolei suggested. "We can't rule them out, we haven't exactly defeated them yet."
"You mean the guys you were fighting while we were fighting Emily and Andrew?" I asked.
Davis had told us about their battles in the eastern section of the Digital World, while we were flying/swimming to Japan.
"Azulongmon did say they were pawns of an even bigger threat," Cody realized.
"It's possible that Emily and Andrew were sent by Evamon to destroy you Canadian Digidestined, and Arukenemon and Mummymon to destroy us Japanese ones," Izzy said.
"But underestimated both of us," Tai concluded. "So now he's sending an even an even stronger one to take us out all at once, of course it's just a theory we could be wrong."
"So what's our next step," Dan asked looking at me. "If you ask me the only thing we can do is sit here and wait for whatever the threat is to make his next move."
"We're not just going to sit here!" Tai yelled. "We can still do something, first of all by finding the nineteenth member of this team. Do you guys know where he might be?"
I sighed. "No, all we know that he's here in Japan, but I have an idea where he might be."
"Good," Tai said, and then glanced up at the sky. "But it's a little late now, we should call it a night."
"Why should we?" Dan yelled. Great, why was he doing this? He was embarrassing me in front of Tai, the guys I'd admired since I found out I was Digidestined, they guy I had strove to be like. "Kris is our leader, not you."
Now that caught me by surprise, Dan was the one always questioning my orders, and now he was showing that he was the most loyal.
"No," I said. "Tai has been doing this a lot longer than I have, he'd be a much better leader than me, I may lead the six of us, but Tai should be the one to lead all of us."
My five friends looked at me in shock, could it really be that hard to follow someone else?
"There's no reason we both can't be the leader," Tai said. "We both lead, plus I can tell that your teammates aren't going to listen to me even if you tell them to." I nodded in agreement. "Tonight those of us who don't have their Digimon with us will go into the Digital World and get them, then we'll rest for tonight and start the search for the nineteenth Digidestined in the morning. You guys have a place to stay?"
I shook my head. "I was hoping - well if this isn't too forward - well that -"
"Sure you can stay with us," Tai said. "Anything for the team."
"Great," I said happily. "But I think it would be best, if we tried to have two Digidestined at each house, if possible, so they can have backup if there's any attacks like the one at sea."
"Good thinking," Tai said. "I can see why you're the leader of the Canadian Digidestined.
I couldn't help but smile with pride as he said that.
"See," Elecmon whispered to me. "I told you you're as good a leader as Tai, Compassion is just as good as Courage."
I smiled at my partner. Maybe he was right maybe I was as good a leader as Tai. I'd been aspiring to be like him since we first put together our team, hoping that I could lead my team to victory the same way that he had done with his, and for the first time since I'd looked up to him I actually felt that I could.
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Like I said very short, just discussion and sutff, but its something that I thought was necessary. The next one will be better I promise, but I have to work right after school in the next couple days, and by the time I get home I'm dead tired, so I won't be able to write again until at least Wednesday, that's why I wanted to get this chapter up. Its short but better than nothing. Anyway stay tuned for the next chapter.