It was time.

Chika sighed and looked over at Takeru and Ikuto, her hands held at her sides. "This place sure is different than when we were here last."

Takeru nodded. The three of them were hiding in the more... desolate parts of the city, but even so there were several Virus Buster digimon around than she could've hoped for.

Ikuto sighed, walking a bit in front of her. "How long is it going to take Captain Yagami to start the attack?" he asked. Chika looked over at him, and even at his age he was bouncing in place. She almost couldn't blame him really, this waiting was driving her crazy as well.

"No idea," Takeru answered. "But we're in as deep as we can be right now." The blond leaned against a nearby building, arms crossed over his chest as he watched the street, his digiivice with Patamon stored inside it hidden from the view of any passing digimon.

Chika fidgeted a bit, adjusting the scarf she had covering the bottom of her face. Like Takeru, she and Ikuto had their partners' in their digivices, and they weren't in uniform. No reason to give themselves away after all.

"I know that!" Ikuto exclaimed, somehow managing to keep it quiet. Chika figured that it was only because of years of practice.

Chika sighed, wishing that her face wasn't so well known among the Virus Busters at this point, but her reputation as a fighter that she gained in the last few years would've made that hard even if she and Piyomon hadn't defeated Dominimon back on File Island. But factoring that in? It was completely impossible. Even so, she was a little bit annoyed that Ikuto and Takeru weren't taking the precautions to hiding their face that she was. There had been at least one passing Greymon or Angemon that Chika was almost sure had recognized the two men with her.

"Ikuto!" Falcomon shouted from inside Ikuto's digivice, his voice sounding panicked. "Something's coming right for us!"

Chika's eyes widened as she felt something prick at the back of her head. She knew this feeling well enough. "I sense it too." Relena had evolved enough times recently that if Falcomon hadn't said anything she might not had even realized it was there. A bio-hybrid was heading their way. Chika grabbed her digivice and quickly realized Piyomon, who only took a brief moment to stretch his wings before getting ready for a fight.

Ikuto and Takeru followed her lead, just in time to see a white armored sphinx passing over them, being chased by both a mix of Angemon and Gizmon.

Chika's eyes widened. She knew who that was. "Miyako-chan!" she shouted, looking over at the others. "Forget the plan. Our cover's going to be blown soon enough anyway unless Miyako manages to kill all those things." She didn't even wait before turning around and getting ready to evolve Piyomon to see the sphinx, Bio Nefertimon... no, Miyako, slam into the nearby ground.

Chika wasn't going to waste any time, her digisoul flaring around her body as she slammed her hand down on her digivice. "Digisoul Full Charge!" Chika shouted, her digisoul flashing into a solid orange, and in the next moment Garudamon was charging into the sky. There was a flash of green--ish black in the edge of Chika's vision, and in the next moment Takeru's Neo Devimon was flying after Garudamon. Hopefully they wouldn't get yelled at too much from Commander Satsuma for this...

There was a shout of "Digisoul Charge! Overdrive!" from Ikuto at the same time as explosions started going off around the city.

Looks like the attack had begun... but there was no longer any chance of the diversion working.

.o0o.

Broken Dreams

Written by CustomMagnum

Chapter 25: The Strike Begins...

.o0o.

Ravemon joined the other two digimon and Chika took the time to run over to Miyako. "Are you alright?" she asked, resting a hand on the backside of the other bio-hybrid and wincing as she felt blood on her hand.

Miyako let out a pained cough as she struggled to her feet. "About time you guys showed up," she grunted before collapsing on the ground again.

"Don't try to get up!" Ikuto shouted, running towards the two of them.

Miyako just groaned. "Right? And I should just..."

A red ball of energy slammed into the ground behind Miyako, sending Chika staggering backwards a bit and slamming into the ground; Miyako screamed in pain. Chika just winced and got to her feet, compared to what had just happened with her friend the pain that she felt was nothing. Chika looked up at the sky and stared in shock at Silphymon. He was hovering in the air above them, smirking. "Looks like I still have a chance at recovering that data from you after all Daimon."

Chika let out a growl. "I'll tear you apart this time!" she shouted, her fist clenching, violet digisoul enveloping her body before she quickly evolved to Bio Holsmon. She heard Miyako let out another pained gasped and looked over at Takeru and Ikuto. "Take care of her!" she shouted, spreading her wings. "I'll take care of this guy!" And with that she took to the sky.

Silphymon smirked. "Give it your best shot!" he shouted, gathering up red energy and throwing it towards her.

Chika effortlessly dodged out of the blast's path and kept on target, firing a blast of her own from her eyes. But Silphymon just dodged under the beam and started speeding towards her as well. Red energy gathered in the perfect digimon's hands, and Chika realized that he was going to wait until she was right next to him before he fired. Chika had no idea if she was going to be able to dodge it in time.

Thankfully a blast of lightning from Ravemon meant that she didn't have to, as Silphymon was sent flying. Chika changed her direction and began diving, claws outstretched as Silphymon stopped his descent. Chika swiped her claws forward and kept from grinning as they claws tore through Silphymon's chest. Chika felt both elated and disgusted with herself as she heard Silphymon scream and saw him fly back. But she was in the middle of a warzone now, so she couldn't worry about this now. She charged towards Silphymon again, but was forced to stop short as two blasts from an Angemon and a Gizmon sped towards her.

Chika didn't realize that Silphymon had fired another blast until it was too late, the blast slamming into her and sending spiraling into the ground. It didn't take her long to right herself again just in time to see Silphymon get punched in the back of the head by Garudamon. "Mach Impulse!" Chika shouted, firing two beams from her eyes at Silphymon's chest.

Silphymon let out a gasp as the blasts connected. Chika took the moment it bought her to look down at Miyako, Ikuto, and Takeru. So far, everything seemed fine for them, Takeru was easily able to parry any attacks coming towards them with that oversized sword that he liked using. But that looked it like might not last that much longer, as more of the Angemon were heading towards them. Chika was about to go fly down towards them, but Ravemon beat her too it, landing on the ground and started slashing at the approaching digimon.

Chika turned her attention back to to Silphymon. "Give this up!"

Silphymon glared at her, but soon found himself having to turn around to block another attack from Garudamon. Chika flew forward and clawed at Silphymon's unprotected back, but th enemy perfect broke away from Garudamon and dodged her swipe at the last moment. Chika was barely able to keep her claws out of Garudamon's flesh. Both of them turned to look at Silphymon. The bird-man flew back and a few Gizmon flew in front of him. Chika glared at the war machines, and hoped that they could get through this.

The Gizmon fired, and she and Garudamon were forced to fly in opposite directions to avoid the beams, and the machines kept up the firing and kept them divided.

Slash Angemon didn't seem to be an option right now.

.o0o.

Relena walked off of the ship that she had taken to the city, and she sighed. For a city that had been invaded not even a month ago, Yokohoma was in pretty decent shape, even if it had a bunch of digimon inhabiting it. She shook her head to turned to look over at V-mon, who had walked over to her side. "Are you okay?" he asked her.

Relena nodded and forced out a smile. "Yeah, just brings some bad memories back."

V-mon just hugged her suddenly, and all Relena could do was kneel down to help her back. She kept hugging him for a moment, even as she saw the Angemon looking over at her. And they weren't happy at all. "Relena...?" she heard V-mon ask. Relena just shook her head. "It's fine." Not that she was going to not keep her eye on the Virus Buster digimon. No telling when a "stray"attack from an Angemon that remembered her from back during their invasion would try to hit her.

It was then when her eyes fell on a familiar face. "Takuya..." Relena whispered.

V-mon pulled away from her and looked over at where she was staring. Relena felt like she could actually ifeel/i V-mon tense up a bit. She didn't know if he could sense that Takuya was a hybrid even though he was in his human form for some reason, or if he could tell that she and Takuya had made out at some point. But she didn't have that much time to think about it anymore, as Takuya noticed her.

The two of them stared at each other for a few moments. Part of Relena felt happy to see the boy; another part felt sad; yet a third part just wanted to ignore both of those parts and run. She had no idea how she was supposed to feel. She had come to like the boy during their short time together, yet they had delivered her straight to...

… her grandmother, but he and his friends didn't know that at the time. They probably thought that they were giving her to Kurata for the type of experiments that he was known for. Even if Takuya seemed not to know about that little detail called 'handing her over', Relena still couldn't be sure.

"It's good to see you," Takuya said after a long moment.

"Same here," Relena answered, turning away from him and looking out at the ocean. Maybe the waves would calm her down a bit. She moved her hand down to pat V-mon on the head after a moment and turned back to Takuya. "V-mon, this is Takuya. It's because of him that I was able to find you. He's a good friend of mine."

V-mon relaxed and turned to look over at Takuya. "Thank you!"

Takuya just blinked at the small digimon.. "You're welcome?" he asked.

Relena giggled... and then clutched the side of her head as s harp pang slammed through it. It felt familiar somehow...

… and then Relena realized what it was. A bio-hybrid had evolved nearby. She wasn't sure how she knew that exactly, but it didn't matter. Not now. The only time she had felt something like this was when... Chika had become Bio Holsmon that one time, even if she was still too distracted to realize it at the time.

Chika was here!

Relena gabbed her digivice and gathered her digisoul into it her palm, focusing on her rage at that murderer more than anything else, but not enough to turn V-mon into a monster. That wouldn't help anyone. "Digisoul Charge!" she shouted, slamming her palm down on her new digivice. The artifical digisoul suddenly burst blue and shot out at V-mon.

V-mon began glowing and quickly evolved into Lighdramon, and Relena moved over and jumped on his back. "Daimon Chika is here!" She shouted, turning her head to face the digimon that her grandmother had sent along with her. "I'm going on ahead." She then turned her attention to Takuya. "If you want to help me, get on."

Takuya didn't say anything, he just got on her partner's back and wrapped his arms around her waist. Relena didn't even blush as Lighdramon started running in the direction that she pointed at. Chika was here.

And she was going to die.

.o0o.

Chika let out a scream, blasting at Silphymon another time. This was getting them nowhere fast. Almost every time she'd attack he'd dodge and throw back an attack of his own.

Silphymon grinned. "Got to do better than that!" he yelled, firing a blast of energy right into Chika's face, sending her crashing into the ground. He then charged right down towards her, fist pulled back.

Chika rolled out of the way and made it to her feet, firing a blast of energy at Silphymon's back. This time the energy hit him and sent him staggering forward, shouting in pain. Chika saw Takeru and Ikuto run over to her, slashing away at the two blasts that came speeding towards them. "What are you doing?!" she shouted. "Go back to Miyako!"

Miyako climbed to her feet and spread her wings. "Go to hell!" she shouted, the jewel on her forehead glowing pink for a moment. In the next instant, a beam fired out of it directly into Silphymon's chest, sending him staggering backwards.

Garudamon charged backwards, fire gathering around his body. "Shadow Wing!" he shouted, spreading his wings as a bird-shaped blast of fire shot off of his body and charged towards Silphymon. The blast slammed into Silphymon's back, covering the perfect digimon with fire.

Neo Devimon charged forward and slashed at Silphymon's chest with his claws.

Silphymon let out a scream as all the attacks hit him and started falling to the ground, his body glowing and shrinking as he did so.

A Hawkmon slammed into the ground right where Silphymon would've landed.

Chika's eyes widened as she stared at the helpless child digimon resting on the ground. She knew that Hawkmon, she could tell instantly. She turned to look over at Miyako, and although Bio Nefertimon's mask wouldn't show it, Chika knew that the other hybrid was staring at the child. Even so, Chika couldn't believe it. Miyako devolved and ran over to the child digimon, bending over to scoop him up in her arms, but a Gizmon's beam slammed into her chest and sent her flying back.

Chika turned to get ready to attack the lone Gizmon that was left, but the thing suddenly decided to be fast, speeding down to the ground and grabbing Hawkmon before any of them could react and flying away from the battlefield.

"It looks like that was the last one," Takeru commented, walking over to her.

Chika didn't say anything, she just got ready to chase after it... when a blast of lightning headed towards them. She did the only thing that she could think of, she jumped in front of the blast. Chika screamed as lightning coursed through her body, making every nerve seem like it was on fire. But this attack... it was different from Relena's.

"Die bitch!" Relena shouted. Chika's eyes widened. This attack was still too weak to be Relena, but what did...

… And that's when she was Relena headed towards her, riding on the back of a Lighdramon, who had already prepared another blast. "Blue Thunder!" the digimon shouted, the blast of lightning speeding towards her.

Ravemon flew down in front of the blast and blocked it with his sword. "Stop this Relena!" he shouted.

Chika noticed a familiar looking boy jump off of the Lighdramon's back, a barcode-like digisoul appearing around his body for a moment. In the next moment, standing in the boy's place was a combination of both the fire-armor wearing man and the fire themed armor wearing dragon that he had used before. It looked like Takuya had been hiding some power that he had back on File Island.

Relena jumped off of Lighdramon's body, digisoul flaring to life around her entire body. Chika noticed that there was a digivice in her hands, and in the next moment, the girl's hand slammed down on it.

The Lighdramon started glowing.

"Digisoul Full Charge!"