AN: So uh I don't have much to say here, so enjoy the chapter and I'll see you next time.
Digimon Tamers: Hazards Sorrow
Episode 15: An Explosive Countdown
The Digital World
The air was stale and calm within the dark castle hidden deep within the digital world. Sounds of screaming could be heard as Beelzemon the demon lord of gluttony sat in his chair. Lilithmon the demon lord of lust stood before him with a puzzled look on her face. After several minutes she broke the silence, "So what's this plan of yours Beelzemon?" Beelzemon smiled, "I had been thinking back to my time in the human world and I had a realization on how to truly hurt these Tamers."
Lilithmon raised an eyebrow, "Oh and how do you plan to do that?" Beelzemon laughed, "Simple toots, I'm gonna drop a bomb on the city." Lilithmon frowned at the simple idea, "And what makes you so sure this will work?" Beelzemon scowled at her doubt in his plan, "It'll be fine, either the digimon lands in the middle of their city and goes boom, or one of them stops it and explodes themselves." Lilithmon realizing the genius of his plan smiled, "Oh that's good actually, either way we'll be damaging them."
eelzemon laughed once again, "Yup that's right, now we just sit back and wait since it'll take a day for the digimon to fully make it into the real world." Lilithmon walked forward smiling and sitting in Beelzemon's lap. She grabbed his chin and whispered into his ear, "Well if this works then we'll have to celebrate." Beelzemon smiled, liking the sound of her promise of celebrating when his plans succeeded.
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Shinjuku, Japan(Night Time)
It was night time in Shinjuku and the HYPNOS building was filled with life as sirens rang out signaling some kind of emergency. Mitsuo Yamaki arrived in the main room and called to one of the two people in chairs raised above the ground, "Riley what the hell is going on." Riley typing away in her chair sighed "Sir, we have no idea all we know is there's a large surge of digital energy trying to come into the world and every attempt we've made to delete it with the Yuggoth program but it didn't do anything." Yamaki scowled, "Great just great we got an unknown coming in and no ways to stop it."
Riley looked at her annoyed boss, "Want me to call the tamers?" Yamaki shook his head, "No they should be on their way." On cue Henry, Alice and Jeri arrived looking tired and confused on why they were called in when it was a school night. Henry looked at the screens now displaying the large dot signaling the digimon, "Yamaki what's going on?" Yamaki frowned, "Something is coming and we can't stop it, hopefully you kids have an idea." Alice looked at the screen and shook her head, "I have no idea what it means or even how we'd stop it."
Jeri smiled slightly, "Maybe we should call the other, Takato might have an idea." Yamaki scowled at the mention of Takato, "I'd rather not go and beg Matsuki for help." Tally having been diligently typing away called her boss, "uh sir I think I figured something out, this energy that's surrounding this digimon is explosive according to our sensors." Yamaki's eyes widened, "I need you two analyzing it constantly, I want a confirmation on that." Henry raised an eyebrow at the possible bomb coming into the human world, "So something is sending a bomb here?"
Yamaki nodded, "If our sensors are accurate, which they should be, yes." Jeri frowned as she stepped between the two, "Still think it's a bad idea to call Takato?" Yamaki sighed "As much as I hate to admit it, call him he might know how to stop whatever is coming through." Alice scowled, "Great we gotta work with the psycho." Henry sighed and pulled out his phone, "Unless you have a better idea Alice then yes, we'll be calling in the psycho." Alice said nothing as Henry dialed Takato's number, secretly hoping that he'd be willing to help and not decide to potentially doom them all.
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Meanwhile across town Takato and Ryo were sitting in the dark in Takato's apartment watching TV. The room was completely dark and the two seemed to be enthralled with what was on the TV. Ryo finally broke the silence, "So what do you think of this one so far?" Takato shrugged, "Much better than the video games one, the suits are a little weird but I like the characters so far." Ryo nodded, "So out of the two of us who'd be Banjou and who'd be Sento?"
Takato shook his head and sighed , "Neither of us would be Sento, neither of us are smart and we usually solve issues by punching things." Ryo shrugged, "That's fair" As the two went back to watching the TV Takato's phone began to ring. Takato sighed and answered it, "Hello you've reached Takato Matsuki, the world better be ending or else I'm hanging up." Ryo tried to listen to the voice on the other end of the phone as Takato responded to it, "Oh hey Henry what's up, yea Ryo is here with me, no Rika is at home probably sleeping, wait what's going on, OH COME ON I WAS JOKING."
Ryo winced slightly from Takato yelling into the phone before he watched his friend hang up and mutter a curse under his breath. Ryo raised an eyebrow at his friend, "Everything ok?" Takato frowned, "No because turns out the world might be ending and my joke wasn't helpful to Henry's attitude." Ryo laughed slightly, "I told you, you weren't funny." Takato laughed sarcastically, "Yeah hahaha very funny now get your fucking coat." Ryo got up and went over to where he had left his coat, "Why? Where are we going?" Takato was busy putting on his coat and responded now sounding annoyed, "Did you not hear me, the world might be ending and Henry is freaking out, so we're going to HYPNOS."
Ryo began to follow him out the door as Takato began to walk a bit faster, "So should we call Rika or?" Takato stopped and looked at him, "No, because if it's a problem I can solve I don't feel like getting my ass kicked by an angry Rika." Ryo nodded, "Right well this is gonna be an interesting night then." Takato rolled his eyes as the two entered into the elevator, "I swear if this is somehow Yamaki's fault I am going to murder that man." Ryo laughed at his comment, "Well then Rika will be mad that she wasn't there to see." The door closed as Takato looked annoyed at Ryo's comment and turned to him, a slapping sound and an "Ow" could be heard as the elevator slowly moved down to the first floor.
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Shinjuku(5 Years Ago)
It had been about a week since Takato had his dreams come true and his very own Digimon came to life. He was a Digimon tamer and his partner Guilmon was the coolest thing he'd ever seen. The best part was the he had created a digimon, who could ever say they got to do that.
Now he was in his parents bakery collecting some day old bread to take to Guilmon. As he finished up he walked through the bakery and out the door, he barely heard his mom tell him to be back before dinner as he started sprinting down the street excited to go see his partner.
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It had been an hour and after having fed Guilmon, he and Takato were now walking through the park, careful not to let anyone see them but not worrying if anyone did. Suddenly they heard someone yell something from out of nowhere "BADA BOOM" A small fireball hit Guilmon causing his eyes to turn into slits as he began to growl and sniff for whoever attacked him. Takato looked up to see a purple digimon standing on a tree branch with another fireball on his finger. Curious Takato took out his Digivice to scan the digimon, "Impmon a rookie level virus type, special attack is Bada Boom"
Takato frowned at Impmon, "Hey what's the big idea, attacking my partner like that." Impmon smiled, "The big idea? That is the big idea you moron, don't cha know Digimon gotta fight to get stronger." Takato looked at Impmon shocked, "What are you talking about, Guilmon doesn't want to fight." Suddenly Guilmon let out an attack of his, "PYRO SPHERE" The red sphere hit Impmon causing him to be knocked off of the tree and as he fell to the ground Takato couldn't resist laughing at him. Impmon scowled at him, "Yea yea doesn't want to fight coulda fooled me there google head."
Impmon prepared another fireball to launch at Guilmon but before he could throw it a voice rang out, "There you are Impmon don't run off like that." Another boy Takato's age arrived behind Impmon, he had brown hair shorter than Takato's, brown eyes and wore a purple shirt and jeans. Takato could see a purple DIgivice clipped to his belt and figured he was a tamer. Impmon frowned at his partner, "I told you I sensed a Digimon, Mako least you coulda done is hurry up." Mako was about to respond before he turned around and saw Takato staring at them. Mako smiled at him, "Uh hi, are you a tamer too?" Takato nodded, "Uh yea, My names Takato Matsuki and this is my partner Guilmon" Mako smiled at him, "Well my names Mako Kurosaki and this is my partner Impmon, sorry that he attacked your partner."
Takato waved it off, "It's fine, he didn't know that Guilmon was my partner, I've never seen another tamer before how long have you had Impmon?" Mako nodded at him, "I've been with Impmon for about two weeks and we've never seen another Tamer either, just some wild digimon." The two got to talking as Impmon stared at Guilmon who was watching a butterfly, the way Impmon looked at him it was almost as if he was studying him to see how he could take him down. Though neither Takato or Mako noticed as the two began talking about how they could form a team and be like the Digidestined from the show.
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Shinjuku(Present Day)
Takato and Ryo entered into the HYPNOS building and were met by security guards who escorted them into the main room. Takato feeling annoyed already at being there entered rather loudly, "Alright I'm here, what'd you guys fuck up" Ryo followed him and decided to go for a simple hello and a question, "So he kind of just cursed and ranted the entire way over here, what's going on?" Yamaki walked towards them and frowned at them, "I don't like this any better than you do Matsuki, but please try to be civil as this is a very real threat."
Takato waved him off, "Yea yea very serious, now really what did you do?" Yamaki scowled at Takato, "We didn't do anything, why do you assume we did." Takato signed, "Because big government agencies tend to mess with things they usually don't understand and nearly destroy the world because of it, c'mon Mitsuo don't you watch any TV?" Before the two could kill each other Henry stepped in, "Actually Takato, there's a Digimon bio emerging and it looks like it could explode." Takato looked at him not impressed, "And?"
Henry sighed, "And it looks like it could take out the entire city so we were really hoping you could stop it." Takato sighed , "Alright let me take a look, depending on how far it is into bio emerging I could maybe stop it, but I'm not exactly a computer guy. You'd be better off getting someone who understands the digital world better."
Takato walked over to the main computer and began looking at the screen before taking out his digivice and displaying it's screen. A keyboard appeared and he began to type away at it as Ryo came up behind him, "So any chance you can stop it?" Takato didn't respond as he continued to type away before he held up one finger and cursed under his breath, "So good news and bad news." Yamaki came up to the screen and looked at Takato, "What's the bad news?" Takato stopped what he was doing and turned to them, Ryo for the first time saw fear in his eyes, "I can't stop the digimon." Yamaki dropped the phone he was holding, "What's the good news?"
Takato frowned, "I figured out what digimon it is and it shouldn't completely level Tokyo, just Shinjuku." Yamaki growled at him and grabbed him by his shirt and got in his face, "You call that good news?" Takato grabbed Yamaki's hands and pried them off of him , "It's better than what could happen, listen, I can't do anything but I know someone who potentially could." Yamaki cursed under his breath and looked at Takato recomposing himself, "Ok so what do you need us to do?" Takato took out his phone and frowned, "Evacuate the city, the digimon is coming in about 6 hours, I'm calling Rika to come over here to help out as best as she can. I'll go get my friend who could maybe help and maybe just don't do anything stupid while I'm gone."
He began to walk towards the door as Ryo followed him, "So what do you want me to do?" Takato stopped and turned around, "Stay here, explain what's going on to Rika when she gets here and basically make sure no one does anything stupid." Ryo nodded, "I can do that, but If Rika is grumpy and gets violent then you owe me dinner." Takato nodded, "Ryo if we get out of this alive then I'll buy everyone dinner." The two shared a laugh and bumped fists before Takato went running out the door, off to get the person he thought could help. Ryo was now left alone with a very silent room as people watched him, unsure of what he'd do.
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Shinjuku(5 Years Ago)
It had been about two months since Takato had met Mako and those two months had been crazy. At first they alternated dealing with wild digimon unless a Digimon needed both of them. Then the digimon started getting stronger and Impmon and Guilmon learned to digivolve, and even better they been joined by other tamers. Mako's sister Ai had gotten a partner called Dracomon and Takato's friend Kazu had met a digimon named Hagurumon. Things were fine for the most part besides things between Him and Henry. He had told Henry early on about him being a Digimon Tamer and since then Henry acted differently towards him.
He was a lot harder on him and tried to tell Takato how he'd do things and how Takato was doing everything all wrong. Now a group of Digimon called the Deva's appeared and Guilmon had digivolved to ultimate. After that Henry really starting getting worse telling him he needed to take things more serious and that the world could be in danger. Takato sat against Guilmon's shed and looked up at the sky, unsure why his friend was acting the way he was. Suddenly he heard a voice, "You look down, what's wrong?"
Takato sat up to see Ai staring at him concerned, "Oh hey Ai it's nothing really." Ai frowned and shook her head, "No something's definitely up, you only stare up into the sky when you're upset." Takato sighed, "Fine, Henry and I had a fight" Ai sat down next to him, "He still being harsh with you?" Takato nodded, "He told me I wasn't taking being a tamer seriously." Ai shook her, "Well he's wrong about that, I think he's just jealous." Takato looked at her confused, "Why would he be jealous?" Ai let a small smile appear on her lips, "Because you're getting to do what every kid only dreams about, having a digimon partner."
Takato looked down, "You really think Henry would be that petty?" Ai nodded, "We're all young and immature Takato, anyone would be jealous." Takato nodded, "I guess, but I still don't like fighting with him." As he said this he felt something land on his head and a high pitched voice came from it, "Who's fighting? You know friends shouldn't fight."
Takato put his hands on the top of his and removed the being who had landed on it and stared at it, "No ones fighting Calumon don't worry." The small digimon was one who they'd encountered by chance while dealing with a digimon. They had no idea who he was or where he came from but he was a nice little guy and as Ai put it, adorable so they didn't mind him being around. Calumon smiled and laughed, "That's good cause people shouldn't fight, no siree fighting is bad." Takato nodded as he jumped out of this hands and ran over to Ai who smiled at him and gave him a hug. As she hugged him she frowned, "You know I'm worried about Mako, he's getting more violent and wants to fight more digimon."
Takato raised an eyebrow, "Yea I've noticed, but I think that's just Impmon's influence." Ai nodded, "Yeah I hope you're right." Takato smiled, "Let's not worry about the future right now and just hope everything will turn out alright." Ai nodded and smiled, "Yeah sounds good." The two continued to sit in silence, content with just watching the sky together because as long as they were all together then things would be fine.
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Shinjuku(Present)
Gorou "Shibumi" Mizuno slept soundly in his bed, his small apartment completely devoid of light or sound. He had gone to bed early that night determined to fix his broken sleep schedule. Sadly though that was not meant to last as he began to hear banging outside his door. He felt groggy as he got up and slipped on a robe to hide his sleeping attire. Slowly he made his way to the door and he could make out loud screaming of, "SHIBUMI"
Whoever was here knew him by his college nickname so it must've been Digimon related. He opened the door to his young friend Takato Matsuki breathing heavily and sweating as if he had just run a mile to get here. He had known Takato for about 5 years and had taught him about the digital world and at one point he called Takato his protege. Shibumi looked at the boy rather confused, "Uh Takato what can I do for you at this hour?"
Takato caught his breath for a moment and started speaking a mile a minute, "Digimon, gonna explode, can't stop it, help!" Shibumi put a hand on the boys shoulder, "Woah Takato slow down, what's going on?" Takato breathed in, "A Digimon is gonna bio emerge in the city, but the Digimon is basically a giant bomb and if it's not stopped it could wipe out all of Shinjuku." Shibumi nodded, "And you tried to stop it?" Takato nodded, "It's too far along for me to do anything, we need you." Shibumi nodded, "Come inside and tell me everything while I get dressed."
5 minutes later Shibumi emerged from his bed room and looked at Takato who had mostly recovered, "So this HYPNOS is that government agency you see in movies that usually makes things worse?" Takato nodded, "Yeah but they didn't cause this one." Shibumi looked at him, "And you trust them?" Takato frowned, "Hell no but if we want to stop this thing then we need their technology." Shibumi nodded, 'Right enemy of my enemy, so do you think this was them?"
Takato hesitantly nodded, "Someone had to have sent this, it doesn't just happen randomly." Shibumi frowned, "Well I'll let you take care of that part, for now let's go see what I can do." Takato nodded and the two headed out the door, hoping there was still time to stop the bomb.
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Meanwhile back at HYPNOS Rika had arrived and now the tamers all stood off in a corner watching as Yamaki, Riley and Tally tried to organize an evacuation of Shinjuku. Sadly Yamaki's superiors weren't listening to him and didn't want to evacuate if it was a false alarm. The tamers watched helplessly not able to do much without a digimon to fight so they sat in the corner with their partners. Ryo broke the silence, "So it's been awhile since we've all been together." Jeri smiled, "Yeah too bad it couldn't be under better circumstances."
Rika looked at Alice, "So I just got here, how bad is this?" Alice frowned, "Well it's bad enough that even Takato was freaking out." Rika cursed under her breath, "So that bad then." Henry intervened before it could get any pessimistic, "We have no reason for worry yet, Takato said he knew someone who could help." Alice scowled at the remark, "And you trust him? For all we know he fled and we're on our own." Rika glared at the blonde, "Have a little faith in the goggle head, he's not gonna let the city blow up."
Alice's voice began to get louder, "Do we really know that Rika, we all know he's unstable, maybe this is what he wants." Jeri got in the middle of the two as they were inching closer to each other, "Can we all just calm down, the literal bomb hanging over us is making us all a little on edge. Alice I know you don't like him but Takato wouldn't just leave a city to get bombed." Henry nodded to his girlfriends comments, "Let's just all calm down and wait for him to get back, then we can bite his head off if he screws us over."
Rika and Ryo both glared at him as he put his hands up defensively, "Sorry was trying to make a joke." Ryo laughed slightly, "You know neither of you are funny." Henry nodded, "So I've been told." Thankfully Takato entered into the room followed by a man with long hair and a beard. Rika looked at them, "Takato why did you bring us a man who looks like a blond version of Jesus?" Takato laughed at the remark, "Because this man kind of is Jesus, well digital Jesus. Allow me to introduce my friend Shibumi, one of the creators of Digimon." Yamaki looked at the bearded man, "You know what I'm not even gonna ask how you know this man and just let him do whatever it is he's gonna do." Shibumi nodded to him, "I assume you're in charge?"
Yamaki nodded and stuck out his hand, "Mitsuo Yamaki at your service, I'd love to offer you a job if we make it out of this alive." Shibumi frowned, "Just show me to the computer please." Yamaki nodded and led him over to the computer. The other tamers approached Takato who was frowning, "You know I'm almost disappointed he didn't question it." Henry smiled slightly, "Ah, don't worry about it, he'll question you after the day gets saved."
Takato smiled at the thought, "Thanks Henry you really know how to make a guys 2 am" The tamers began to watch Shibumi type away at the computer as Takato found himself slipping back into memories.
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5 Years Ago
Things weren't good, not good in the slightest. Takato was pretty sure he was having the worst day of his life. Oh wait it hadn't even been a day, more like 12 hours. It all started when his parents found out about Guilmon and yelled at him, worried about his safety and telling him he couldn't be a tamer anymore. Around that time the latest Deva showed up and Takato needed to get over it, so he proceeded to curse his parents out and ran off to fight the deva.
Now unfortunately for him this deva was the pig deva and it appearing caused a massive earthquake just from bio emerging. And this digimon was big, so sadly as much as they tried to prevent collateral damage, by the time they had destroyed it there was a lot of destruction and according to the news a lot of people died. Worse they learned the actual objective of the deva's was to capture Calumon and they were powerless to stop it. A little good news was his friend Kenta had become partnered to a digimon called Penguinmon.
But the worst news arrived when he had learned his parents had followed him to the battle, and they ... They hadn't made it. He still couldn't say that they had died, he refused to because then it would actually be real. A million questions flowed through his mind but the most important was "What will happen now." He knew what would happen now, they would go to the digital world, rescue Calumon and defeat whoever the Deva's worked for. Guilmon had found a portal and they were going no matter what. To Takato it didn't matter anyway, no one would be looking for him. As he walked out from the bakery supplies in hand he was met by Henry who gave him a cold stare.
The two stared each other down as Henry opened his mouth to speak, "Where do you think you're going Takato?" Takato emotionless replied, "I'm going to rescue my friend in the digital world Henry." Henry frowned, "Enough is enough Takato, don't you think this game has gone on long enough." Takato glared at him, "This isn't a game Henry." Henry sighed, "Takato people are dead all because of that one digimon, don't bring him back to this world." Takato felt rage grow inside of him as he yelled at Henry, "MY PARENTS ARE DEAD HENRY! So I want to go and rescue my friend and maybe find out whatever is behind their deaths along with it."
Henry frowned again, "Takato your parents just died, you aren't thinking straight man." Takato began to walk away realizing he and Henry were no longer friends, "I'm thinking straight Henry and I won't let you boss me around." Takato began to walk away causing Henry to yell after him, "Takato c'mon man, what if you don't come back?"
Takato smiled and turned around, "Then there'll be no one here to miss me anyway." With that he turned around and walked away determined to go to the Digital world, and that was the last thing Henry heard his once best friend say for 5 years. Takato as he walked away from Henry's sight was met with Ai who smiled at him, "Are you ok?"
Takato shook his head, "No but as long as I have Guilmon and the rest of you then I'll manage." Ai nodded, "Then let's go save Calumon then." The two began to walk to Guilmon's shed, neither knowing that things would never be the same again.
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Present Day
It had been about 5 hours since Takato had brought Shibumi into HYPNOS and they had about 30 minutes left until the digimon appeared. Shibumi had been working on a virus that would hopefully eliminate the digimon or at least send it back to the digital world. As he stood ready to launch it, Yamaki turned to the tamers, "What happens if this doesn't work?" Takato knew the answer but he didn't want to consider it yet, "It'll work don't worry Mitsuo."
Yamaki frowned, "Tell ya what Matsuki if we manage to get through this you and I can sit down and have a nice long talk about the earthquakes 5 years ago." Takato nodded, "Looking forward to it then." Shibumi finished a few types from his keyboard and smiled, "Alright this should work, so let's try it." He pushed the enter key and they could see the symbol for the program he had created called Palo heading towards the digimon shown on the screen.
The others watched in hesitation as it made contact and appeared to be working at first but suddenly an image appeared on the screen that only Takato seemed to recognize. Takato cursed under his breath, "Beelzemon" The screen they returned to normal as they were forced to watch as the digimon completely destroyed Palo. Their one chance to stop this had been destroyed and now they could only watch helplessly as the time began to tick away.
Shibumi stared at the screen unsure of what to do as Yamaki became angry, "Tell me you have another idea, there's something we can do." Shibumi shook his head, "No that was everything I had and something stopped it, it's going to hit, it's going to hit Shinjuku." Yamaki now panicking called up to Riley, "Riley please tell me there's enough time to evacuate." Riley worried shook her head, "No, no way it could be done in time, plus we'd have to get it ok'd by the higher ups." Yamaki threw the phone he had been holding on to the ground, "Dammit why couldn't those idiots have listened to us an hour ago."
The other tamers had been standing there in shock until Takato stopped Yamaki's mini tantrum and put a hand on his shoulder, "Mitsuo relax, I've got a way to stop it." Yamaki looked at the goggle head, "How do you plan to do that?" Takato smiled, "Don't worry about it, just promise me one thing." Yamaki nodded, "Anything" Takato looked away from him and at the tamers, "Take care of all of them." Yamaki was confused at what he was doing but Shibumi knew immediately, "Takato are you sure?"
Takato nodded, "WarGrowlmon is the only one who could pull it off and wherever my partner goes I go." Shibumi frowned, "Takato I… it's been nice knowing you." Takato nodded at him, "Thanks for everything you've done for me Mr. Mizuno." Takato walked away from him and up to the tamers. All of them were confused except for Henry who being smart figured out what Takato was planning.
Takato smiled at him, "Gonna try to talk me out of it again Henry?" Henry shook his head, "Nah you were too stubborn last time, it wouldn't help to try again." Takato nodded, "Take care of yourself and remember to lighten up a little." He walked over to Jeri next, "Jeri keep having that big heart of yours, it's important to any team." Jeri nodded at him still confused over what was going on.
He walked to Alice next, "Alice I won't ask much from you but do me a favor and talk to Rika, you two shouldn't lose your friendship because of me." Alice raised an eyebrow at him, "You aren't doing what I think you're doing?" Takato shrugged, "Us goggle heads are stupid like that."
Alice looked down not wishing to say more. Takato walked over to Ryo and put a hand on his shoulder, "Promise me you'll take care of everyone." Ryo nodded, "Yea sure but I don't get what you're planning man." Takato laughed, "Don't worry about it, someone will explain it to you later." Finally he walked up to Rika who was just as confused as Ryo, "I don't get why it sounds like you're saying goodbye to everyone, you're gonna go stop this Digimon and come back right?"
Takato said nothing as he looked at her as she continued to grow worried, "Tell me you're just gonna go stop this thing and come back." Takato shook his head, "Goodbye Rika, thank you for letting me feel cared about again." Takato began to walk out of the room as Rika looked over to Shibumi, "What does he plan to do?" Shibumi sighed, "Guilmon's ultimate form is strong enough to intercept the Digimon and lift it into the sky, but he won't be fast enough to get away from the blast." Rika glared at all of them, "So what, we're gonna let Takato sacrifice himself? We're tamers we can help him."
No one said anything as she began to get desperate, "Fine I'll do something myself." She ran out of the room following him. He heard her and stopped his walk out of the building. He turned around and frowned at her, "Rika go back, let me do this." Rika shook her head, "No we can help you, we're a team for a reason, we're your friends." Takato nodded, "I know that but you guys aren't strong enough to help with this, it has to be Guilmon and I." Rika scowled at him, "So what, that's it? You're going to walk out and go die and leave me like everyone else does in my life?"
Takato shook his head, "Rika I'm not leaving you because I want to, I can't be selfish and neither can you." Rika began to calm down, "I know, but I don't want to lose you, not when I've gotten used to you being in my life." Takato approached her and put his hands on her shoulders, "I know and I don't want to go, but I can let everyone in Shinjuku get blown up."
Rika felt a tear escape her eye, "Please don't go." Takato frowned, "I'm sorry." Before she could respond he did something she wasn't expecting, he crushed his lips against hers and began to kiss. After the initial shock she embraced and closed her eyes, the two kissed for a minute before Takato pulled away and smiled at her, "Sorry I just wanted to do that before I go."
She was silent as he began to walk away from and pulling his hand from hers. As she watched him walk away all she could do is remember the feeling of his hands in hers and his lips on hers.
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There was 5 minutes left as Takato and Growlmon arrived to the scene where the digimon would emerge from. Heavy fog covered the land as the two walked side by side toward the area. Takato looked to his partner ever faithful, "You with me boy, this one last time?" Growlmon nodded, "I've always been with you Takatomon." Takato smiled, "Good, I'll try to open a portal for us to the digital world, but who knows what'll happen if we get caught in the blast radius." Growlmon nodded, "I'm ready." Takato nodded and took out his digivice, "Then let's do this, DIGIMODIFY: MATRIX DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE"
Growlmon glowed red and soon WarGrowlmon appeared from the fog, Takato got onto his shoulder with Digivice at the ready. The two got ready as soon the timer was up. They watched as BomberNanimon in all his giant glory emerged from a portal ready to explode. Takato meanwhile got a card ready, "DIGIMODIFY: SPARROWMON'S JETS ACTIVATE"
The jets materialized onto WarGrowlmon and he soon took to the sky like a jet, grabbing hold of BomberNanimon and he began lifting him into the air. Takato bracing himself nodded to WarGrowlmon, "DO IT!" WarGrowlmon threw BomberNanimon up slightly and charged his chest points, "ATOMIC BLASTER" The attack launched at BomberNanimon hitting and triggering his explosion.
Takato and WarGrowlmon got ready as the explosion got closer to them, they didn't get him far enough away and now it was closing in. Takato began to think about his life, "Mom and Dad I'm sorry I never got to say goodbye. Maki, Ai, Kazu, Kenta I'll see you guys soon. Rika, I wish we could've had more time together." He hit one last button on his digivice as the explosion hit them and all Takato saw was fire and then darkness.
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The others watched on the computer screen silently as the explosion occurred. They all waited for the indication of what happened to Takato and Guilmon. Soon though Riley announced it through tears in her eyes, "Takato and Guilmon's signatures are gone, they didn't make it."
There was silence as everyone didn't want to speak not knowing what to say. Rika dropped to the ground upset that she had once more lost someone in her life. She felt warm arms around her and was surprised to see it was Alice hugging her. She didn't say anything as she embraced the hug. Yamaki scowled and turned to Henry, "I didn't like Takato and he was a bit of an asshole, but in the end he sacrificed himself and proved he was more human than the rest of us and for that he has my unending respect."
Henry raised an eyebrow, "What's the plan now sir?" Yamaki grit his teeth, "We finish the Juggernaut program and make sure his sacrifice wasn't in vain." Henry could only bring himself to nod as that was all he could do. They lost the best of them and no one was sure what to do next or who would step up to fulfill his role.
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The Digital World
Meanwhile in the Digital World Beelzemon and Lilithmon were celebrating their victory. Beelzemon excited called to Lucemon who was in the room as well, "You see that Lucemon, Matsuki is dead, guess he wasn't that much of a threat after all."
Lucemon nodded, "I suppose you were right, although let's hope Matsuki didn't pull one last trick to survive." Beelzemon frowned as Lilithmon began to kiss his neck, "Do you always have to be a buzzkill?" Lucemon said nothing as he left the room, leaving his two fellow demon lords to celebrate.
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Elsewhere in the digital world an old digimon couple were sitting down to breakfast. Suddenly they heard an explosion outside. The male looking digimon went out to check as his wife called to him, "Jijimon be careful" Jijimon nodded and went out to check what was the matter.
Eventually he called his wife to come outside, "Babamon come out here, you aren't gonna believe this." Babamon wanting to see what was the matter stepped outside to see a crater and what appeared to be a very bloody and burned being in it. Babamon turned to Jijimon, "Is that a human?"
Jijimon nodded, "I wonder if it's alive?" Almost answering the eldely digimon, the human slightly moved their fingers, indicating they were alive. The two became alarmed as they rushed over to the crater, intent on helping the injured human and what appeared to be the red ball that had landed with him.