Chapter 18 - Infiltration

She laughed happily when she managed to bring down Dynasmon with one single attack. Now she put a sword on his neck and giggled. The ultimate-level digimon growled in frustration and looked to the side. He had inadvertently given himself an opening, which she had immediately used.

"Do you always intentionally give yourself an opening, or does it just feel like that?" she asked him after she had pulled back her sword.

"Just feel like that," Dynasmon growled, straightening up.

Frustrated by the defeat, the ultimate-level digimon turned away and beat his wings powerfully.

"Are you angry again?" she sighed, entwining her arms in front of her chest: "We just trained. Don't be so frustrated when you lose."

"I'm frustrated because I would have died if this had been a real fight."

"But it was just training."

"That's why."

"You' can be really exhausting sometimes, you know that?" she sighed again, dropping her arms to the side.

"And you're really cruel sometimes, you know that?" he raved.

"Me and cruel?! What do you think?!"

"Well..." he rolled his eyes: "You always fight here with unjust means. Hostage-taking, torturing the opponents to the death... You're pretty, no... totally sadistic."

"I'm not sadistic. I'm just following my justice... Unjust means are sometimes necessary."

"After all, you're a virus type..."

"It has nothing to do with that!" she quipped.

"Oh yes. You virus types are always so cruel."

"That's not the case for everyone!"

"Right... Gallantmon is not cruel.", he flapped his wings and flew up: "But you are!"

"What?! I will show you how cruel I can be!"

"Maybe another time!"

With that, Dynasmon flew away.


"Hmph..." Wanyamon said, opening his eyes.

He looked out the window of Izzy's study place. The redhead himself once again sat behind his computer and typed something. Tentomon flew across the room and offered everyone snacks and drinks.

Still, there was a depressing feeling in the room. Nobody really dared to say anything. They all mourned Eldoradimon and its inhabitants, even though they had been dead for more than three days.

The whole group had gathered at Izzy once again. Wanyamon himself was still asleep until a few seconds ago because he hadn't sleep very much last night. He, his partner, Sera, Shin and Falcomon had a conversation yesterday deep into the night.

Since it was weekend Akira did not have to go to school let alone Shin to work. Now Wanyamon's partner was half asleep on the sofa. Next to Akira sat her older sister and her boyfriend Shin.

Both insisted on coming along because they were former DigiDestined and mourned Eldoradimon's death. They themselves had explained to the DigiDestined that they were also some, but had no contact with their partner. Many reacted in shock because they did not think there were older DigiDestined. Tai, however, reacted calmly because he had learned of Daigo Nishijima, who had died a year ago.

Falcomon was also in the room. He sat on the floor and looked silently at the "new" DigiDestined.

"Argh!" Yolei yelled at one point: "Say something, anything! I'm going to get mad!"

"We couldn't save Eldoradimon..." Dorumon said in a soft voice as he waved his tail slightly.

His expression seemed very sad and depressed. He seemed to be particularly concerned that they could not save Eldoradimon and the others. His ears and wings hung as if they had no power. The purple digimon growled quietly before lowering his head further and closing his eyes.

"Even after three days..." Agumon said, but interrupted.

DemiVeemon himself also seemed very depressed. He thought about Quetzalmon. Why exactly had she called him someone else in her last moment? However, he could only hear the first syllable of the name... Ma... MagnaAngemon? Magnadramon? Who exactly did she mean? But he didn't get rid of the feeling that he had somehow known her.

"What... are we doing now?" asked Hackmon, looking uncertainly at Meiko.

She shrugged.

"Can we even win against this digimon?" was Joe's question.

"Do you mean this gigantic Gizmon?" Matt asked him.

"Yes..."

"No idea... We need data," Izzy said.

"Is this thing even a digimon?" was Sora's question.

"No," Tentomon replied, "Gizmon is something like a machine."

"Hm... Machines that absorb the data of digimon..." Sera said, sighing heavily.

"Let's get back to the information... How can we get them?" was Shin's question.

"By searching and infiltrating the place of origin of the gizmon," said the redhead.

"What?!" Mimi said, terrified: "How are we supposed to find this place?!"

"A few days ago I found a virus on my computer. The data he had sent went to Shinjuku," Izzy said.

"Do you know where exactly?" asked T.K.

"No," the redhead shook his head.

"Hm... What if we check the Internet? I mean in the media is constantly reported about this Kato... By now, the place should be known, right?" said Cody.

"Good idea!" shouted Davis.

"I've been thinking about it... But the place is strictly secret... There is also a website... but it is password protected. I'm not getting in there," Izzy smashed the idea at the same time.

"What do we do then?" was Ken's question.

"We have to stop this Kato! He's just destroying digimon as if they were just objects!" cried Kari.

"Kari..." said Gatomon, putting her paw on her thigh.

"Hmph..." Akira, who had fallen asleep, said, "Why are you so loud?"

"We're just thinking about how we can infiltrate the place where the Gizmon were created," Shin explained.

"And how much do we know?" she asked.

"The place is located in Shinjuku. We don't know any more," Sera said.

"Hm... Hack... Hackmon..." Joe muttered to himself: "Hackmon... Hack... Part of Hackmon's name is Hack... more precisely from hacks... Couldn't he just hack into the website to find out the place?"

"Good idea," Mimi replied enthusiastically: "Try it, Hackmon."

"Huh? But I don't know how to hack," the four-footed dragon replied.

"It would have been too good," Matt said.

"Yeah..." Tai shrugged.

"I've got it!" suddenly Izzy shouted, "I have the exact address!"

"Great!" said Davis, "Then we all go there and destroy the whole building!"

"No," Wanyamon said, "We can't all go."

"That's right," Cody agreed with the in-training digimon.

"I suggest that only six people go into the building," Dorumon said.

"And who should go from us?" asked Yolei.

"I'll go. I want to know why he's changed so much. The Kato I know would never do anything like that," Falcomon raved, flapping his wings in anger.

"Surely we find a lot of information there," Gabumon said, "I definitely want to go along with it."

"If Gabumon goes, I'll go," Matt said.

"I want to go as well.", exclaimed Dorumon.

"I'm going too!" cried Davis, standing up.

Demonstratively, he had clenched a fist at chest level to show his determination.

"You? That's not a good idea, Davis," T.K. said.

"Why?!" the red-brown-haired man asked.

"Because you're reckless and hasty, that's why," Akira said.

"We're going, right DemiVeemon?" continued Davis.

"Hm..." he just said.

"DemiVeemon!"

"Hey? Yes, we should."

"Is there something wrong with you, DemiVeemon?" asked Biyomon.

"You are so absent... Did anything happen?" continued Sora.

"I'm still grieving over Quetzalmon..." the little blue dragon replied, "That's all."

"We also mourn for them..." said Meiko, depressed.

"But you seem to be grieving especially for Quetzalmon," Ken said.

"What's the reason for this?" was Mimi's question.

"I feel like I know Quetzalmon from somewhere," DemiVeemon admitted, "Did I ever meet her?"

"We don't know," Kari replied.

"Are we not somehow going off now?" growled Wanyamon.

"Yes, we do..." Dorumon agreed with him.

"But I want to go along so that DemiVeemon comes up with other thoughts," Davis said firmly.

"Fine," Tai sighed.

"Tai?!" Matt said, terrified.

"Don't worry. I'm going to take care of him," Falcomon said.

"Good... Then I'll give you the address," Izzy finally announced the address.


Matt, Gabumon, Davis, Veemon, Dorumon and Falcomon stood in front of a large building. It was guarded by two men standing in suits. The six had hid in bushes and quietly discussed how they got into the building.

"Tch... If Mr. Nishijima was still alive, we could use his help," said the blond-haired man, clenching his hands to fists.

"Maybe a distraction would be helpful." said the bird digimon.

"Then scream, Falcomon," Davis laughed.

"Are you crazy," Falcomon said.

"Get use to his stupid ideas.", sighed Matt.

"They are not stupid!", defended the teenager.

"Maybe you can pretend to be a worker in there, Matt.", suggested Dorumon.

"That's a good idea.", complimented Gabumon.

"Okay. I'll try.", the blond-haired man nodded and ducked through the bushes until he couldn't see the security guards anymore.

Then he came out of his hiding place and went to them. Before he did that he thought about a name to use it.

"What do you want here?" one of the security guards asked.

"My name is Daigo Nishijima. I come on behalf of the supreme mayor of Tokyo to review the research on the Gizmon," Matt said.

"You are not announced, Mr. Nishijima," the other security guard replied, "Go away."

"I can call my manager. He will not be pleased that you will not let me in," the blond-haired man said, "and I can make sure that you are terminated without notice."

Matt looked seriously between the two security guards. His heart pounded violently, while his face looked freezing cold. He only hoped that they would buy the story.

"Go away. Or I'll call the security," the security guard said.

"Don't you belong to security?" was Mr. Kawa's question, tilting his head to the side.

"We are belonging to them... But we're just guarding the entrance," the other security guard replied, "Go now!"

With a hand gesture, he shaved Matt away. He went back until he disappeared from the field of view of the two, jumped again behind the bush and ran ducked to the others.

"Didn't go very well," Veemon said.

"Visits are announced," the blond-haired man replied.

"What now? Does any of you have an idea like we come in?" asked Gabumon.

"Unfortunately no," Falcomon replied.

„I will cause a distraction.", said Dorumon confidently

"No.", Veemon disagreed: "You could be killed by a gizmon."

"Don't worry about me, Veemon. I can handle this. Do you remember? I've already killed several gizmon.", the purple digimon jumped out of the bushes right in front of the men.

"A Digimon!" shouted one of the men.

"Hello," he greeted them slightly bowing.

The security guards looked at each other in silence. They had never seen a digimon speak. But then they approached him with slow steps. Dorumon began to turn around and run away.

"After it!" one of the men shouted, "Don't let it escape."

The purple digimon continued to run while the others were able to enter the building. They saw a long hall that was a little glamorously decorated. There was nothing to suggest that the gizmon were created here. The group proceeded with slow steps, unsure where exactly they should go. After a while, they came to a halt in a hallway.

"It's unusually empty here. As if it were," Matt began.

"A trap," Veemon interrupted him.

His partner noticed that the blue dragon was unusually tense and also looked very cool.

"How do you come up with it?" asked Davis, unaware of how they got there.

"Normally, such buildings are fuller," the blond-haired man said.

"I see... So they might expect us," Falcomon said: "But we're ready,"

"We must not rush things..." said Matt: "When we meet people, you shouldn't digitize all of them... They'll probably use the gizmon."

"Don't worry. All the gizmon became one," said a well-known voice.

Kato stepped out of the shadows and walked into the group with slow steps and a smile on his lips. He himself wore a lab coat in his pockets.

"Kato!" shouted Falcomon and wanted to fly to him, but Gabumon stopped him by holding him by the arm.

"Do you know that the gizmon is in the digital world... I'm going to wipe out this black knight digimon.'

"Black Knight Digimon... Are you referring to Alphamon?" asked Gabumon.

"I see. So that's its name," Doc Azuma smiled.

"Hey! There's a reason Alphamon is like that!," Veemon exclaimed angrily.

"Veemon?" his partner said, because he didn't expect the blue dinosaur to defend Alphamon.

"Who cares," Kato made a hand gesture.

Several men surrounded the group. Inevitably, Matt's partners, Falcomon and Veemon began to growl.

"Gabumon digivolve to…," the reptile digimon shouted.

"No, Gabumon!" his partner intervened, grabbing him by the arm before whispering to him, "No."

"If we don't do anything, who knows what's going to happen!" he growled.

Kato, meanwhile, laughed out loud.

"It's hopeless..." he laughed: "Just give up..."

"Why?" the bird began to ask, "Why did you change so much?! Where is the boy I considered a friend?!"

"A friend?" Kato said in an eerie tone: "Do you really think we're still friends, Falcomon?"

"Of course! Kato! Look at me! I am your friend! And that will always be the case!," Falcomon shouted beside himself.

"You are no longer my friend and my partner, Falcomon... You're just a digimon who invaded here!" Doc Azuma walked slowly toward him, then he kicked him.

The bird screamed in horror as it was thrown to the ground. Meanwhile, Matt clenched his fists. How dare that Doc Azuma to hurt his partner? How dare he?

"That's enough!" shouted the blond-haired man, plunging at the scientist.

He brought him down with a punch to the face.

Kato laughed loudly, rising before wiping the blood from his corner of his mouth with his back.

Then he rushed to him and wanted to overthrow him. But Matt grabbed his wrist and within seconds he turned his whole arm.

"Argh!" Kato screamed angrily, before attacking the blond-haired man with his free fist.

The security men, the humans and the digimon watched idly as the two beat each other. After about half a minute, both of them stood on the floor with heavy breathing and trembling legs and looked at each other.

Matt's chest lifted and sank. Kato, too, seemed to have some injuries as well. Then Doc Azuma smiled viciously.

"Get them! Take them captive!" he ordered.

The men rushed to the DigiDestined and their digimon.

"Davis!" shouted Veemon.

"Good... DigiMental of Courage! Up!" Davis summoned the said DigiMental.

"Veemon armour-digivolved to... Flamedramon!"

"Didn't I say, no digivolutions?!" asked Matt.

"But we're in danger right now!" growled Gabumon: "Gabumon warp-digivolve to... MetalGarurumon!"

"Falcomon warp-digivolve to… Hippogriffomon!" with outstretched wings, the griffin looked at the people: "Matt, Davis. Get on my back," Hippogriffomon whispered, "I then shoot a hole in the roof, which allows us to escape."

"You don't think I'm just fleeing like that?!" Veemon's partner exclaimed angrily.

"Yes. We don't want to hurt anyone."

"He's right, Davis. We have to flee," said the blue dinosaur.

With his teeth crunching, he climbed on the back of the griffin. The blonde-haired man himself climbed onto his partner's back, while Flamedramon returned to Veemon before also jumping on MetalGarurumon's back.

"Heatwave!", Hippogriffomon fired several fireballs from his beak onto the ceiling, creating a hole.

"Don't let them escape!" Kato exclaimed angrily as he watched the two digimon took off.

But the men could not pursue the digimon. So they escaped. When the digimon and the DigiDestined disappeared from Doc Azuma's field of vision, he angrily stepped against the wall. He himself had also sustained injuries from the fight against that blond-haired brat, but these were not too heavy.

"Doesn't matter," he said, "Don't pursue them. It's pointless. I'm going to go to the lab. You're going back to your positions."

With that, Kato went to the lab. He himself smiled darkly as he thought:

/ I will now implement the final plan and destroy every digimon that is in my gizmon's field of vision!/


In a darkened room in the digital world, Alphamon knelt in front of a small pedestal. On this pedestal was a bullet floating. The black knight himself held his right hand on the left shoulder plate. His left knee was on the ground, while his golden eyes looked at the ball.

"You called, my lord," Alphamon said, but immediately calmed down again.

"The Homeostasis is looking for you... and has already summoned up a few... It wants to destroy a dangerous digimon... I want to use this digimon and you to destroy the human world," said one voice.

"Tch.," another mocking voice said: "But these humans are strong. We saw it then Apocalymon, Diaboromon, MaloMyotismon and Ordinemon thought them, King Drasil..."

"It was just because they have Omnimon as an ally," said a female-sounding voice.

"Don't underestimate humans," said a third voice.

"Otherwise we're going to lose a lot," laughed a fourth voice.

"Silence!" King Drasil shouted at them: "Alphamon... I want you to attack these humans."

"Don't worry," said the black knight: "I will continue with this task... However, I am concerned about a very specific human... As you probably know, a human has created a weapon that can kill digimon without them being reborn."

"I already know that, Alphamon... So what's your plan?"

King Drasil became curious. Unlike the other three digimon, Alphamon kept coming up with ideas on how to defeat their enemies. But the god did not expect it any other way. The black knight had once led a union of thirteen digimon.

"Both, we and these foolish DigiDestined, want to destroy this weapon at all costs, so I propose a short-term alliance with them," Alphamon said.

"What?!" the third voice shouted: "Let's ally ourselves with the DigiDestined?!"

"No... Just me... They know nothing of your existences," the black knight replied.

"That's crazy!" laughed the fourth voice.

"In fact," the third voice agreed with the fourth: "As if the DigiDestined were entering into an alliance."

"There is a saying in the human world... The enemy of my enemy is my friend," Alphamon said.

"Good, Alphamon. Do it," King Drasil said.

"And when they are parched after the fight against this gizmon, I strike. I'm going to kill them all," Alphamon said, laughing darkly, before falling silent and grabbed by his head.

"No!" the black knight suddenly shouted: "To kill the DigiDestined would be-"

Without hesitation, King Drasil dropped a red-and-black flash on Alphamon. When he was caught by it, he screamed in agony. After ten seconds, the lightning subsided and the black knight sank to his knees. With his hands on the ground, he thanked his lord before getting up and bowing. Then he turned around and went through a distortion.


"You look bad!" Sera exclaimed terrified: "What happened? And where is Dorumon?"

She couldn't hide the concern in her voice. Sera himself stood on the balcony of Izzy's work room and looked terrified at the DigiDestined and the digimon.

They quickly went inside after the humans jumped off the digimon and their partners returned to their rookie-level. Sera sat on the sofa, while all the other DigiDestned and digimon looked at the newcomers in dismay.

"What happened?" asked Joe and Gomamon at the same time.

"Me and this Kato beat us," Matt said.

"We don't know what happened to Dorumon," Davis continued.

"What?!" Mimi exasperated.

"And?" Akira quipped.

"And what?" the blond-haired man replied, "We couldn't get the information."

"Well, great..." Tai moaned, rubbing his forehead: "What now?"

"No idea," Sora said, biting his lower lip.

"We have to destroy this gizmon!" Yolei exclaimed beside himself.

"Yes... But how?" asked Cody.

"Maybe we should attack it first," Kari suggested.

"Yes... Maybe we'll get information," T.K. agreed.

"And risk the lives of our friends," Ken said, looking seriously at Matt's brother.

"It was just an idea," he said.

"It's a bad one," said Wormmon's partner.

"Do you have an idea, Izzy?" asked Hackmon.

"Actually, my idea was to get information from their quarters," said the person in question, shrugging his shoulders: "But this failed. That's why I'd take Kari's proposal."

"Are you insane?!" shouted Shin: "You want to sacrifice your digimon?!"

"We just have to be careful," Tentomon said.

"No! I don't want that. I've seen that before..." Meiko interrupted and looked at the floor: "I don't want to lose Hackmon as well."

"Meiko..." Tai approached her and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Sorry, but I join her... You can't just put the lives of your digimon at risk," Sera said.

"We don't even know how strong this fused gizmon is, so we shouldn't attack it!" raved Falcomon.

"But how else are we supposed to get information?" asked Cody.

"How about if I helped you, DigiDestined," said one voice.

Everyone was terrified and turned to the voice. There Gennai stood in his dark robe and smiled darkly.

"You want to help us, Alphamon?!" Wanyamon growled angrily.

"I don't want to help you. However, King Drasil wants to destroy this gizmon," he said.

"What exactly is King Drasil planning?" asked Sora suspiciously.

"First of all, destroy this gizmon," Gennai said.

"And after that?" was Izzy's question.

"That's a secret," he laughed a little.

"And we should just trust you, Gennai? You work with King Drasil, if we beat the gizmon, you will attack us," T.K. said.

"I'm not going to do that," the man in the black robe replied.

"And we should believe you?" Mimi hissed angrily.

"Believe me or don't believe me, it's your business. But you didn't want digimon to die, didn't you?" Gennai shrugged.

"I think we should unite..." said Sora: "We can use any help against the gizmon."

"I agree with Sora," Ken replied, "We don't know how strong the gizmon is, but if we have someone like Alphamon on our side, it shouldn't be a problem..."

"Should I remind you that along with Davis, Yolei and Cody you were defeated and kidnapped by him?" Joe reminded him.

"But we have no choice," Kari said, sighing heavily.

"Well, nice. We trust you until the gizmon is defeated," Tai said.

"Tai?!" Matt said, terrified.

"He is right. This Kato is unpredictable... That's why," Shin sighed.

"But Alphamon also unpredictable!", argued the blond-haired man.

"Don't worry. On my pride, I swear that I will not attack you until the gizmon is destroyed," Gennai vowed.

"Good," Wanyamon replied, "We can trust him. He will not attack us."

"Why?" his partner asked.

"He has sworn on his pride, and when he does it, he means it."

"Okay..." said Izzy and went to his computer.

Then he typed in an Internet address and read an article.

"We should go to the port immediately. Doc Azuma wants to send the gizmon from there to the digital world.", the redhead sounded alarmed.

"Wait. And what about Dorumon?" was Matt's question: "If he comes here and doesn't find anyone..."

"Me and Shin stay here...," Sera said.

"I'll stay here as well", Falcomon replied.

"Okay! Here is the plan!", Akira shouted: "We-"

"We have to stop the gizmon and Kato before they enter the digital world!", interrupted Wanyamon her.

"Hey!", she complained: "Don't interrupt me, Wanyamon!"