Hey everyone, I know this update is a little late (like a week late) but here it is anyways, so enjoy yourselves, and try not to be too angry!
Disclaimer: And, I'm back! Those fools at Toei thought that a prison cell would hold me! Poor guys should have remembered Digmon! Hahahahaha! Now if only I'd managed to find the rights to digimon I could post this as a claimer rather than a disclaimer…
Last Timeish: The Safe group made it to Drill City, a large underground digimon city, where they planned to stay and recuperate. Matt woke up from being knocked out, and he and Mimi really hit it off as they toured Drill City. The day after being awoken though, the ruler of Drill City, a digimon called Grademon, called for Matt, and informed him of the large army that was just starting to besiege the city.
Chapter 25 The Siege of Drill City
Kari
I moved as quietly as possible down the deserted street, Gatomon on my shoulder remaining as quite as possible as well. I had to pay very close attention to where I was walking, since the illumination here in Drill City had been scaled down to almost 0.
The last week had been both the most intense and the scariest one of my life. It all started the day that Matt went to see the ruler of Drill City, Grademon.
~Flashback~
I was just finishing up some coffee with Hawkmon (the only digimon member of our group who didn't sleep until midafternoon) when Matt came back to the hotel we were staying at. I'd watched him leave with a pair of chess piece like digimon, which Hawkmon had identified as PawnChessmon, to go see Grademon a few hours before, when Hawkmon and I had first come down into the lobby.
He'd looked worried when he'd come up to me.
"We need to get the others, now." Matt said to me.
"Why?" I replied, surprised at his serious voice. I hoped things hadn't gone badly with Grademon. Maybe he was throwing us out of the city.
"We just all need to get together right now." Matt replied sharply, and I gave him a look. He was my brother's best friend and my boyfriend's brother, and one of my close friends, so I knew when something was up, like now.
"Ok, Hawkmon and I'll go get Mimi and Yolei, you get the boys." I said, after a slight pause. Matt nodded, and we headed upstairs. I opened the door to my room and proceeded to wake up the occupants (a dangerous task itself).
Not twenty minutes later (a very surprising fact since it was Mimi and Yolei that I was waking up and waiting to get ready) all of us were gathered in the lobby of the hotel, looking at Matt expectantly.
"Ok Matt, what's this all about?" Yolei asked, with a rather short voice, obviously not happy about being woken up before the crack of noon.
"Follow me, I'll explain on the way." Matt replied, not waiting for a reply and heading for the door.
Something's defiantly up with him… I thought to myself as we all followed after him. Matt wasn't one to be all mysterious like this, unless he was attempting to impress a girl, and he wouldn't have dragged the rest of us with him like this just to impress Mimi.
We all exited the hotel building and out into the street, which was uncharacteristically crowded. Digimon were generally like most human teenagers, they didn't get up much earlier than midafternoon and usually spent most of the night awake. The last three days combined I hadn't seen this many digimon up and about this early in the day.
"Whoa, why are there so many digimon up and about?" Cody asked before I had the opportunity to ask. He usually woke up just as early as Hawkmon and I did, but hadn't this morning for some reason.
"That's what we're going to see Grademon about." Matt replied from where he was leading our group, walking right towards the center of Drill City. "There's a tiny complication."
"Well, what is it?" T.K. asked, looking over at his brother.
"Well, Puppetmon is here, with an army." Matt said continuing to push through the steadily growing crowd of digimon clogging the streets. I didn't have a reaction at first, thinking that the crazed puppet was trying to attack us in this city full of friendly (to us) digimon. Then the last three words of Matt's statement started to sink in.
"What?" Joe asked, obviously recovering faster than I had.
"Puppetmon's after Drill City, and he has an army with him." Matt replied, looking over his should at all of us. "I know, a digimon army? I hadn't really thought that such a thing existed either, but I saw it myself."
"A whole army of digimon, under Puppetmon's control?" Mimi asked looking up to Matt, who nodded. "What are we going to do?"
All of us looked at the others, then at the digimon rushing around us. My first thought was to get out of Drill City. We were supposed to be the safe group, trying to get away from Piedmon, not one that was about to be in the middle of a city in battle. That was my very first thought. As my panic faded though a different feeling came over me.
I was a digidestined, one of the protectors of the digital world. I was supposed to protect the digital world from dangers like Puppetmon, I was supposed to protect Drill City from something like this army, not run away from it. I don't really know where this feeling was coming from, whether a sense of duty as a digidestined, or some of my brother's protectiveness and adventurousness finally coming over me, or a mixture of both, I knew that I didn't want to leave the city and run away.
"What are we going to do?" I asked, speaking before Matt had really formed a response to Mimi. "We're going to help keep this army away from Drill City, that's what we're going to do. It's our duty as the digidestined to do that, and it's exactly what going to happen."
I looked around at the others, who had all stopped as I was speaking, and they all nodded at me, and I thought the looks of sudden determination on their faces mirrored the feelings I was having. Before I, or anyone else for that matter, could say anything else all of the digimon around us let out a cheer, apparently I'd said my statement loud enough for everyone to hear me loud and clear.
After that our progress was a faster, as all the digimon would clear a path for us, and cheer. Apparently word that we were staying to help had spread like wildfire, and all the digimon were thrilled. It was kinda like one of those movies, where the hero or heroes would go through the big city before a battle. All the people in the town would come out to cheer them on, just like the digimon were doing now. In a way I guess that's how things were. As the digidestined we were the digital world's heroes, even if we didn't usually think of ourselves in that way.
It didn't take us long to reach the Sanctuary at the center of the city, and we were quickly shown into one of the rooms just off of the main entrance. Inside was a fairly large conference room. In the center of the room was a large table with some sort of projector hovering over it. Most of the rest of the room was fairly unremarkable, except for a decent sized stone tablet hanging on one of the walls. My attention however was quickly diverted from the tablet as I noticed the room was already filled with a number of digimon, several of whom I'd never seen before.
There was an Andromon standing on the far side of the room, though I knew this was a different one than the one we knew. He had patches of yellow something strapped on top of his metallic parts, giving him a distinctive look.
Next to Andromon were two digimon I'd never seen before. Well, that's not entirely true. One of them was a green version of the digimon Willis's partner Terriermon had Golden Armor Digivolved into during the whole Kokomon incident, Rapidmon I think he was called.
The other was another humanoid digimon who looked vaguely like an armored wizard. He wore a red suit that was covered in silver armor. His head was covered in what looked like a purple wizards hat, and a purple cape covered his back. His hand was resting on a sheathed sword as he talked to the other two digimon.
I looked at the three digimon for a few more seconds before my eyes started to look over the room again, finally spotting the two digimon looking into the room from above. I could only see their heads as they looked into the room. One looked nearly identical to Agumon's Ultimate form, MetalGreymon, but I could see several subtle differences in his metal mask and the head under the mask. The other head I'd never seen before, though it belonged to a digimon just as massive as MetalGreymon. The bottom half of his head was incased in armor, opposite of MetalGreymon, and he had a red and white color scheme to him, compared to MetalGreymon's orange and blue one.
Finally the golden armored leader of Drill City stood off from all the gathered digimon, conversing with BanchoLeomon. He looked up a few seconds after we entered, and seemed to conclude his conversation with BanchoLeomon.
"Welcome digidestined." His gruff voice boomed across the room, drawing everyone's attention. "We can now begin."
The digimon all nodded, the three in the room heading for the table in the center of the room, which contained twenty seats, enough for everyone to have their own. I looked to Matt, as did everyone else, but he was already moving towards the table, so the rest of us followed, sitting down.
Grademon however remained standing until everyone was seated, and BanchoLeomon just stood off to the side of the table, not joining the group there. Once everyone was seated Grademon activated a large hologram of Drill City on the table, and began talking.
"As I'm sure all of you know by now, Puppetmon has arrived in our cavern, with a full army." Grademon began, looking out at all of us, digimon and human alike. "Our defenses are prepared, but with the addition of the digidestined to our defenses we need to discuss a change in strategy."
"How is the addition of the digidestined going to change our strategy." The Wizard like digimon asked Grademon. "They can't really change the battle dynamics that much. All of their partners are rookies or champions."
I looked at the digimon with a feeling of surprise at his statement. I guess everything about what we had done wasn't known to every single digimon.
"Mistymon, your years of solitude have left you misinformed." Grademon replied to the digimon. "Unlike the Chosen partners you are familiar with, these partners are able to digivolve to higher levels at will with the help of their human partners. Most of these rookies you see around you are just as powerful if not more so, than you, my five generals."
Mistymon looked at Grademon for a second then at all of our partners around the room, who were giving him the evil eye. He looked for a second more, and then bowed his head at Grademon.
"It appears that my information is incorrect them Lord Grademon." He said, and Grademon nodded.
"Now, as I was saying, this gives us several new abilities, as we know have a force of Ultimate and Mega Level digimon that are not needed at one of the specific city fronts." Grademon said, and then looked up to the two digimon looking into the room. "Therefore RizeGreymon, WarGrowlmon, your forces will now be responsible for the north and south sides of the city. Mistymon your forces will be moved to the west side, to fight alongside Rapidmon's forces in the area that should see the most fighting. Andromon, your forces will remain on the east side."
Each of the digimon nodded as Grademon gave them their orders, and a section of the hologram glowed as he named each area.
"My own forces will form the main reserve for the city. With different strike groups waiting at key locations all across the city." Grademon continues, several golden dots appearing around the city, spread behind the perimeter a good deal.
I didn't know a lot about strategy, I usually left that to the boys because there were things that interested me a lot more, but what little I knew suggested that Grademon was being pretty smart about his force deployment. At least, I think he was.
Grademon looked to us next.
"Digidestined, I'd like to use all of you as part of the reserve." Grademon said. "My forces consist of my own Knightmon and Chessmon corp, which are also needed throughout the city for different functions, even during a critical battle like this one. That limits the size of our reserve, unless you are willing to fill it."
Matt leaned forward a few seconds after Grademon spoke. He looked back and forth at all of us, and I just gave him a nod. I mean, it's not like any of us were going to say no, but Matt was the type of person who was going to make sure everyone was onboard with the plan rather than just deciding for all of us, like Tai would have. That's not to say that my brother's way was wrong, but it was different.
"Of course we can Grademon." Matt replied. "We'll be happy to help in any way we can."
"Excellent." Grademon replied, and then proceeded to work out how we would be split up and which areas we would cover.
~UnFlashback~
We'd eventually been split into pairs for the most part, which is why I was moving through the streets right now. I was heading for where I was supposed to meet up with Yolei, my partner. T.K. was partnered with Cody, and the two of them were on the south side of the city. The way we were partnered up put the strongest two Ultimates with the two digidestined who couldn't digivolve to Ultimate. Joe and Mimi were partnered, and currently on the north side of the city. Matt was on his own since Gabumon could go to Mega, and on the west side with me and Yolei.
Well, this week certainly has been…different. I thought to myself as I continued through the city. I'd gone back to get a change of clothes for myself and Yolei. We hadn't packed more than a couple of outfits for our stay at the front, thinking we'd be done with the battle relatively quickly, but this siege seemed to be lasting forever.
Gatomon was riding on my shoulder, half asleep I'm pretty sure, still exhausted from the last day's battle. Fighting nonstop like this wasn't something she'd done for a very long time, and she was thoroughly exhausted, in fact all of our partners were. I reached a hand up and scratched her in the spot she liked, right behind the ear.
I smiled as she let out a soft purr, and I was just about to turn a corner when suddenly there was a loud pop.
"Oh no…" I breathed. Gatomon's eyes shot open, and she was suddenly fully alert. Seconds later there were several more pops, and then all of the area around me was lit up, brighter than day.
"FLARES!"
"INCOMING!"
Dozens of voices started shouting, and I abandoned all my attempts at being quiet, instead running forward. A few seconds later the ground started shaking, and loud explosions started to rip through the air.
"Hurry Kari!" Gatomon urged me as I rushed through the streets.
"I know Gatomon." I replied, maybe a little sharper than I'd intended to, but the last week had frayed everyone's nerves quite a bit.
I rounded another corner and finally came into view of the defensive walls that were surrounding Drill City, and which were currently getting blasted with multiple explosive something or another.
I rushed right to the defenses, heading for the concealed entrance I knew was in the back of the wall ahead. I pushed through the concealment and into the main command post of this fortification.
Dozens of digimon were bustling about the room, which was filled with a giant holographic map of the battle area. Now this is definitely something that Tai and Davis, and Izzy and Ken for that matter would have been interested in, but I'd learned just how useful it could be as well.
I could see that the walls were taking quite a beating, again, from the forces that Puppetmon had arrayed opposite of the walls. I turned from the hologram over to where Yolei and Hawkmon were leaning against one of the outer walls, trying to stay out of the way.
We didn't really serve any specific purpose here in the defense center, but the hologram allowed us to know exactly where we would be needed during an attack, so it was the best spot for us to be. Matt would be in a similar one here on the west side, while the others would be in matching ones on the north and south sides.
"Got us some fresh clothes." I said, pulling my backpack off as Gatomon jumped off of my shoulders and onto the ground next to Hawkmon.
Yolei nodded as I sat down next to her. Looking out into the defense center we both sat down to begin the first part of every one of these battles, the waiting.
Each of the battles we'd been in over the last week could be divided into two parts, the waiting and the terror as I thought of them. The waiting would go like this. We'd sit here, sometimes for hours, sometimes for bare minutes waiting for some part of the battle area to need us, and then the terror would start. We'd rush to that area, and enter into the battle, which was terrifying for multiple reasons, as I'm sure any of you can imagine.
"I'm really starting to hate all this waiting." Yolei said after a few minutes. We'd stopped trying to avoid talking about the battles or the siege a long time ago, but this was a new topic for us.
"It's better than the actual battle." I replied. Yolei shrugged before responding.
"I'm just getting tired of letting them decide when the attacks will happen. It's exhausting." Yolei said back to me, and then leaned her head back against the wall.
"You can say that again." Gatomon said from where she was curling up for a cat nap. I smiled a tiny bit at the two of them. They were both use to a higher level of sleep than we were getting now, and it looked like it was starting to get to them. Luckily I knew they were both strong enough to get through it.
"Hmmm, it looks like you aren't the only ones tired with just sitting here." Hawkmon said suddenly, causing me to look at him, and Yolei to sit up.
"What?" She asked, and Hawkmon pointed at the hologram in the center of the room. I looked over at it, and noticed the group of blue colored icons moving from Drill City towards Puppetmon's army.
"Matt."
Matt
"Ice Wolf Claw!" Dozens of missile swept out and impacted on the flying fortress of a digimon, who proved to be no match for MetalGarurumon's attack, bursting into data seconds later.
"Alright!" I cheered, pumping an arm into the air before quickly grabbing a hold of MetalGarurumon with both arms again.
The digimon we had just destroyed was one of the ones that had been terrorizing Drill City all week. It was a CannonBeemon, a large flying digimon with a dozen different missile silos all over its body, each one capable of firing out a massive barrage at the city's defenses. Now there were a few less of them.
"Rapid Fire!" I turned to see Rapidmon send out a few missiles at another of the flying CannonBeemon, which also burst into data. The huge flying digimon had a good long range attack, but if you got in close to them they were easily taken out.
Most of Drill City's flying digimon were currently up in the air attacking the cumbersome CannonBeemon. Grademon had lured Puppetmon's general, a digimon called Tactimon, into leaving the CannonBeemon nearly unprotected. By never attacking them Grademon had lured them into a false sense of security.
Though not quite as secure as I would have hoped… I thought to myself as dozens of Mekanorimon rose from the ground from where they'd been waiting to attack the city.
"Savage Emperor!" I looked to see Crowmon, another of the Ultimates who was with us, fire two powerful energy blasts at the rising champions, deleting a swath of them as they rose into the sky.
"Missile Storm!" Dozens of voices shouted out as the Pteramon who made up most of Drill City's aerial forces launched missiles as the Mekanorimon as well.
Most of Puppetmon's army was made up of the Mekanorimon, but like Drill City's forces there were a few Ultimates to provide support for those champion level digimon.
"Nuclear Laser!" A beam of energy shot up right in the middle of the formation of Pteramon, instantly deleting any of them that it touched. They scattered as the ground based attack continued, and the entire formation broke up. The MetalTyrannomon which had been waiting with the Mekanorimon looked up to the sky and attempted to pick off the other digimon in our formation, and protect the few remaining CannonBeemon.
"I think it's time to help everyone out a little." I said talking to my partner.
"Right." He replied, looking down at the four MetalTyrannomon who were picking off digimon one at a time. "Giga Missile!" MetalGarurumon did a little midair flip, as I held on for dear life, and launched a missile at the center MetalTyrannomon, which completely destroyed the massive monster. They may have been powerful digimon, but they weren't powerful enough to stand up to a Mega.
"Dark Side Attack!"
"Genocide Gear!"
A pair of voices called out a pair of attacks, and I looked up in time to see four missiles heading right for us. Luckily MetalGarurumon saw them as well, and moved to dodge them. His maneuvers however were a little too sudden for me, and I suddenly found myself falling towards the ground, fast.
"AHHHH!" I shouted as I plunged downwards, spinning through the air. I caught bits of the mid-air dogfight that ensued as Gigadramon and Megadramon entered the fight, and some of the Mekanorimon reached altitude. Missiles were flying everywhere and explosions dotted the sky. I took all of that in over the few seconds I spun around, and then I finally hit something solid.
"Gotcha." Rapidmon said as I landed right in his arms.
"Good catch." I said as MetalGarurumon caught up with us.
"Next time don't fall!" Rapidmon replied with a laugh, before taking off, right for Megadramon.
"We should probably back him up." I said after a second, and MetalGarurumon nodded before taking off after the mechanical bunny digimon.
"Ice Wolf Claw!" MetalGarurumon fired a barrage of missiles at the dark dragon digimon as it tried to take on a few of the Pteramon. Megadramon was a bit more resilient than the CannonBeemon had been, surviving the blast of the missiles, and turning towards us.
"Dark Side…" He started to shout, but was cut off mid attack.
"Tri Beam!" Rapidmon spread his body out so that his arms and legs formed a triangle, which in turn was filled by a green triangle. A beam shot straight out of the triangle, and cut through the distracted Megadramon, literally.
Megadramon had a second to scream in pain before he burst into data as well, and that pretty much signaled the end of the aerial battle. Gigadramon fell back, still outnumbered in ultimates despite having destroyed the Cyberdramon that had flown with us, and all the Mekanorimon had been destroyed.
More importantly a large force of Tankmon were rolling out of the city, along with a number of different Ultimate level digimon. This seemed to trigger a general withdrawal out of Puppetmon's army, retreating right for the defenses they had established around their camp. MetalGarurumon held up in the air as the battle shifted to a land battle, whose result was already determined.
"Looks like another stalemate." Rapidmon said as he floated over next to us.
"Yep, another stalemate." I replied as the battle continued just as it had every other day so far. Puppetmon's army would attack, we'd repulse the attack and counter attack, only to stop short of their camps defenses. Then later in the day it's repeat. That's how this entire week had played out.
"Rapidmon!" A voice called out suddenly, and I looked up to see a Flybeemon, a small digimon that worked as a messenger for Grademon, flying towards us.
"Yes Flybeemon." Rapidmon replied, looking at the smaller digimon as it hovered in front of him. "What is it?"
"Lord Grademon needs to see all of the digidestined, immediately." The digimon replied, and I looked at him, suddenly very interested.
What could cause Grademon to need to see all of us digidestined right at this moment? I thought to myself as I looked at him. Only one way to find out…
Kari
Yolei and I were the last ones to arrive at the Sanctuary, entering into the same conference room that we'd met in a week before. All the other digidestined, and BanchoLeomon were gathered there waiting for us.
"Ok, everyone's here. Now what's up Grademon?" Matt asked seconds after Yolei and I took our seats. It was more than unusual for any of us to see the others, let alone all of us to be called into a single place at one time. I'd hardly seen any of the other digidestined for most of the week, let alone all of them at once.
"We've received a message, from Gennai." Grademon said looking around at all of us. His statement however had all of us instantly sitting forward. A message from Gennai? It could have something to do with the others we'd left behind, and I know I was excited. From the way everyone else was leaning in they were just as excited.
"What did he say?" Matt asked after a slight pause.
"Did something happen to the others?" I asked, hoping that nothing had happened to any of them, especially Tai.
"He did not mention the other digidestined." Grademon replied, looking between Matt and me. "In fact I do not think that he even knew you were here."
"He didn't?" Cody asked looking over to Grademon.
"No, I never informed him, and word wouldn't have spread with the siege happening." Grademon replied. "Anyways, it appears that your fellow digidestined may have found a way to stop Piedmon."
"They have?" Mimi asked, and a sudden excited buzz filled the room. Grademon simply nodded.
"They think they have." Grademon replied. "They need one last part to complete the puzzle that is their solution."
"Well, why did they send you a message about this?" Joe asked. "I mean, it's nice to let you know about this and all, but why you specifically."
"That is rather simple Joe." Grademon replied. "The last part of their puzzle may be the tablet there." Grademon pointed at the stone tablet hanging on the wall that I'd noticed my first time in this room. "The only problem is the fact that no digimon has ever been able to remove it from that wall."
"So how is Gennai supposed to use it?" Matt asked. Grademon leaned forward to reply, but T.K. spoke before he could.
"Wait, you said no digimon had ever moved it?" T.K. asked, and Grademon nodded.
"Yes. The inscription around it says that only a hero of the digital world will be able to move the tablet." Grademon answered. "Many noble digimon have tried, and all failed. However, no digidestined has ever attempted to remove the tablet."
We all looked at Grademon for a few seconds, and then stood up. All of us moved to the tablet, forming a semicircle around it. Matt was the first to step forward, placing a hand on either side of the tablet. As he touched the tablet the writing on it glowed, and he pulled it right off of the wall without a problem.
"Astounding." Grademon said as Matt easily pulled the tablet off the wall. "Every one of the stories is true." He bowed at Matt and then at the rest of us. "We must arrange a way for all of you to get out of the city and bring that tablet to Gennai."
The next couple of hours were spent working out exactly how we would get out of the city during the siege. Luckily it turned out that there was a secret entrance on the east side of the cavern wall, one we could use to escape from Drill City and its cavern. We were set to leave in the middle of the night.
The first part of the trip was uneventful, sneaking across the abandoned and mostly dark expanse between the edge of Drill City and the far wall of the cavern. The journey through the tunnel was just as uneventful. BanchoLeomon led the way, he had come along as our guide, holding a torch to light up our path as we travelled.
Luckily the tunnel wasn't that long, and we were soon standing under the stars, finally out from under the mountain.
"We're finally out of that cavern!" Mimi exclaimed, with a sigh of pleasure. Apparently the cavern life hadn't sat well with her. I saw Matt nod next to her, and let out his own sigh of contentment. Apparently it hadn't sat well with him either.
"You all must journey quickly. Time is of the essence with that tablet." BanchoLeomon said turning to regard all of us carefully. "You must get the tablet to Gennai so he can use it to stop Piedmon."
"Stop Piedmon?" An annoying voice suddenly exclaimed. "Oh this is much better than just finding a way into Drill City's unprotected side!"
I spun to see Puppetmon, along with several dozen other digimon all appearing out of the forest surrounding the clearing that contained the tunnel exit. Puppetmon was at the head of the group, holding his hammer.
"Flash Bancho Punch!" A fiery blast flew past me, hitting Puppetmon and sending the digimon flying backwards into a tree. BanchoLeomon rushed forward before Puppetmon's minions could react, or Puppetmon could react. "King Lion!" He slashed his sword straight down, cutting Puppetmon, as well as the tree, clean in half.
We all stood their stunned at how easily BanchoLeomon had destroyed Puppetmon. We'd needed several days to pin the puppet down long enough to finish him off, and here BanchoLeomon did it in a few seconds.
"Digidestined, go, I'll hold them off!" BanchoLeomon shouted as a pair of armored digimon appeared on either side of him, and started attacking him. I didn't want to just go, especially since these digimon seemed to be holding their own against BanchoLeomon, but someone grabbed my arm, and dragged me away.
The last sight I saw before T.K. pulled me onto Pegasusmon was BanchoLeomon surrounded by the forces Puppetmon had brought with him, and then the clearing was out of sight.
~Chapter End~
Well, three down, only one left to go. Man, that Puppet lasted forever, even if he was destroyed in 2 seconds of combat. Well, hopefully you all liked the chapter, and have lots of questions about everything! Anyways, no preview for this week. After failing with last week's I need to sit down and plan them out a little better, sorry.
Review Replies:
Soratomustdie:…Sorry, can't do that. However, I did hear that theomegaman was planning something like that, and it was going to involve TK. You might want to check it out.
LyraXEthan: I'm sorry it's causing you headaches, but I'm glad it's confusing you, it's supposed to do that after all.
Animepotterfan: Thanks! and I'm glad you enjoyed it. And yea, sorry that was two weeks, not one.
TaioraWarrior: Now I've got a three chapter disclaimer going…maybe I should ask for ideas for the disclaimer next time…and no, Sora's not mentioned in the tablet at all. Just someone that looks like her lol. And yea, I actually was inspired on that by one of the comics, digimon next, so I can't claim full credit on it. And I like to think that Tai and Sora are connected (as I showed in chapter 3 with the whole Tai sense thing) so they know if they're ok or not.
TheOmegaMan: I'm actually thinking about using him in these disclaimers, it would be slightly less random, and I have a good idea for him…I really enjoyed writing the Chaosdramon fight, so I'm glad you liked it. And yep Gennai FTW…AND NO ONE CARES ABOUT NARUTO, SO DON'T QUOTE RANDOM NOBODIES FROM IT! Ok, I'm done now.
xOne N Onlyx: I'm glad you liked my comparison. I meant for it to be just like that, not to mention fairly funny I like to think. And you and me both…lol. And yes, they are based on that, so you should read up, you'll be a little less lost, and kinda figure out where I might be going, maybe.
Supershooter: The lame stuff is always the funniest in Digimon…lol. Good call with the last tablet, even if they didn't really have to find it, it was shown to them.
TheOtherGuy4544:You know, I was really dreading this as I was replying…yet really looking forward to it at the same time. Now, SUPER REVIEW REPLY POWERS ACTIVATE! (yea, I went there. That's for dropping the F-bomb in your DW review) Yea, I can't even remember, though it might have been legendary, that word always works. How was this chapter for less slow paced? I mean I had a giant battle, strategy sessions, and Puppetmon getting cooked. How's that for good? Biggest and best protected. Also, it wasn't the digital world's largest city, but it was harder than any of the other ones. Anyways, it's only been like a week or two. Piedmon has to build an army for Pete's sake! YEP, Davis FTW. And yea, I thought I would get all of that into the open for kicks and giggles, plus an interesting perspective. And yep, Davis and Ken FTW, though no Imperialdramon…sad day. And I usually do, but I'm trying this out to prepare for the sequel, which will have to have multiple perspectives to work. Or be under a million words. Exactly. And I only pick on Davis cause he's my second favorite. At least I'm not making him a complete idiot like most people do. Good thinking for you….what could happen when he gets the Digimental…hmmm, decisions decisions…and yet again, reading the manga will unconfused you quite a bit. And yea, I loved that line. And no. unless by popsicle you mean getting cut in half. Thought I'd change that up, just for you.
Jmeb0430: Thanks! I like to think all of them would learn and pass on their lessons, rather than make the same mistakes over and over again. I agree that Ultimates are powerful, but way outclassed by Megas. I tried to show a little of that here, hope you enjoyed. I thought those were particularly good myself, and yea, I like them better as well.
Jmeb0430: You can always leave an anynamous review, that always works. And yes Tai and Sora have a special connection, but no, it does not lead to DNA digivolution. Sorry, I don't like made up digimon very much, so I'll stick with the hundreds that are available for use.
Crimson G: ok, this ended up slightly not how I planned, with more of a mention than a use…maybe another chapter will have more…sorry. Things just sorta took on a life of their own when I started writing, and I didn't do things how I originally planned. Thanks!
Matani: I personally don't like made up digimon, I just may have to use one to fill a spot in another story, so I'm feeling out my readers. Thanks! and good call on your part!
Ezio Uchiha: Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying, and you like my Mimato. Thanks again! That's really something I've strived to do in this story! And maybe at some point. Right now I have 5 more decent sized fic planned and I've learned I can't do more than two at a time. There will certainly be more Mimato in some of my other fics, but probably not as a main couple, sorry.
Bekronthegreat: Thanks!