Chapter 31—Taking a stand—
From there, things were really uneventful for the rest of the day… Josh, Xavier, Hugh, Kayla, Tiffany, Ariel and I never really got to do anything and simply patrolled the base. At the beginning of the next day, I was patrolling the base once again… but then I felt my digivice vibrate! I checked it and saw I had gotten a message… and it was from Herbert. I checked it and I saw it had actually been addressed to all of us. It said: "Josh, Xavier, Hugh, Kayla, Tiffany, Ariel and Mark—please return to the conference room where we met before. We are now ready to give you your first assignment from us. From, Herbert." Of course this was no problem—after having gone in laps around the base so many times, I knew exactly where everything was!
I then heard Lillymon say: "Mark? Did you get a message?" "Yeah. It was from Herbert… he said I'll need to go to the conference room. Apparently they have a mission for us, as well as Ariel and everyone else." I replied. "Finally! At this rate, it felt like we'd be patrolling the base forever!" Gryphonmon said. "At least we're going to get to do something new now… I hope. Let's go see, Mark!" Sakuyamon said. And I nodded before we hurried off to the conference room.
When we arrived, I saw Herbert, Lewis, John, Larry and Sabrina… but not Josh, Xavier, Hugh, Kayla, Tiffany or Ariel… it looks like we got here first! I then stepped forward (and my Digimon followed) before Herbert and the others turned to me and he said: "Ah, Mark. Welcome." and then as we came up, Lewis said: "Heh… you've still got your Digimon behind you, I see." "Yes, that's right… are you saying that's a problem this time as well?" I asked. Sabrina then said: "Of course not. The only reason we didn't allow it the first time was because we wanted to see who stood with us and who didn't. But now that we know all of you are with us, it's not a problem anymore." and then she turned to Herbert and said: "Isn't that right, Herbert?" "Absolutely. Go on and have a seat, Mark." Herbert said. And I smiled and nodded before I did and my Digimon stood behind me.
Eventually Josh, Xavier, Hugh, Kayla, Tiffany and Ariel all came and then Larry said: "Alright, everyone's here. Now let's get started." and Herbert nodded before he said: "Yes… welcome, everyone. Now I wanted to explain some details relating to your first assignment before we jump right into it." and we all looked at him attentively as he went on: "To begin with, I will tell you what your assignment is first: we want all of you to split up into teams and install malware all over Amaterasu Server. In order to accomplish this—" and then Ariel said: "M-malware?! I'm not a hacker! I wouldn't know where to begin!" and then Sabrina said: "Don't worry—we didn't expect any of you would come from backgrounds where you would know how to install malware. That's why we developed something to make it as simple as possible for you." "Huh? What's that?" Xavier asked. "These…" John said as he set down some odd devices on the table… they were similar to our digivices, only smaller and with keychains attached (and he set them down by their chains, I noted… he was very careful not to touch any device itself) and then he went on: "These are what you'll be using to install the malware—contagion remotes. Rather than teaching you all how to install malware—which would simply take too much time—we have programmed these remotes to recognize certain locations in Amaterasu Server and install malware when you prompt it to in that location. All you have to do is press a button and then confirm that you want to install malware there and it will do the rest—but only if it's in a location that we programmed into it."
"Heh-heh… not to shabby. I'm familiar with tech, but this is a pretty interesting invention…" Hugh said. "Indeed. And this is crucially important for us—the malware will make it possible for us to collect important information on our enemies. It will surely prove a table turner." Lewis said. "Interesting… but how many locations did you program into these that we'll need to install malware into?" Tiffany asked. "That is a bit of a longer answer—as I have mentioned, we want you to install malware all over Amaterasu Server… in 3 locations in every area. In order to ensure your safety and success, we will be splitting you all up into teams of 2 or 3 people and sending each team to a target location. We have already determined what those teams are going to be in each area, so each person's contagion remote is unique, based on what teams they're on and what target location they were assigned to in each area. You can view your teammates for the current project—and the next one—as well as which teams have installed the malware at any time on your remote. In total, there are 12 locations, but in order to reach them all, you will all have to explore the entire server in the teams we've assigned." Herbert said.
"That's really something… and each person's remote is unique, you said?" Kayla asked. "Yes. We'll be calling you up one at a time to get your special remote." Larry said. Then he went on: "Now it's important that you pay attention to this part, because we have to do this right the first time: you must only touch the remote we direct you to. This is because we have installed a safeguard on each remote that registers the fingerprint of the first person to touch it, using it as login information, in lieu of a password. In other words, the first person to touch a contagion remote becomes its only recognized owner. So don't even think about touching someone else's remote."
And Herbert nodded as he went on: "Now then… it's time to start. Josh… please come to the front." and Josh stood up before Herbert directed him to pick up a red remote… he did so and paused as he touched it before Herbert told him to return to his seat. After that, he called Xavier up to the front and he got a dark green remote, then Hugh got a gray remote, Kayla got a pink remote, Tiffany got a gold remote, Ariel got a purple remote… and I got a blue remote when I was called.
When I headed back with my contagion remote, Herbert went on: "Now it's about time to start. To begin with, you will all start by installing malware in the immediate area outside of the base—you can access it by using your digivice as though you were leaving your Digihome. We will be sending you maps to your digivices, so check them on your way to your team's destination. Also—once your team successfully installs the malware—make sure to tell the other teams that you've installed it, but this is to be done by text message only. Once all 3 teams have installed the malware, you will all rendezvous and get into your new teams before moving on to the next area. Because our base is in the far north of Amaterasu Server, you will be heading south to the next areas. Also note that you can access your Digihomes from where you install the malware, so keep that in mind. Are there any questions?"
"Yes! Once we've installed all 12 pieces of malware… how are we supposed to get back to the base? On foot?" Ariel asked. "No. You can access the base from your Digihome. So once you've made it to the opposite side of Amaterasu Server, you can message the other teams to let them know you're done, access your Digihomes from where you installed the malware and then access our base." Sabrina said. "Ah, what an excellent system!" Xavier said. "Indeed. Now then… it's time to start. We'll announce your teams now, so pair off as we call your names." John said.
We all nodded as Herbert said: "Xavier and Hugh…" and then they got into a team as Herbert continued: "Mark and Josh…" and I approached him as Herbert went on: "And Kayla, Tiffany and Ariel." and they all got together as Herbert said: "These are the teams for the first area. And now it's time. Everyone, go out there and install the malware! Show the developers what we can do!" and Josh, Ariel, Hugh, Kayla and I cheered (while Xavier and Tiffany nodded) and we all used our digivices to leave the base.
When we left the base, we were out in the middle of a snowy mountain with cold flurries of wind! "Whoa! Just look at how cold…! I think I prefer the base…" Kayla said. Tiffany shook her head as she said: "Amaterasu is the top point on the star-like pattern the servers are on, so it gets colder as you head further north—which is where we are now, hence the fact we're headed south, in the opposite direction. If you don't like it, you can look forward to getting to warmer climates later." "Definitely! Besides, this isn't any time for complaining anyway! We've got an important job to do! Let's get to work!" Josh said. "You're right about that Josh… I'm not up for wasting any more time. I can see my breath for crying out loud…" Kayla said before we laughed and then we all took out our digivices and looked at where we were headed before the other teams went their separate ways and Josh came over to me. He then said: "It looks like I'm with you… let's make this work!" and I smiled and said: "Yeah!"
Josh and I then headed out in the direction our digivices had specified. We started walking up a hill as Josh said: "It's good to meet you, by the way. Your name was Mark, right?" and I nodded as I said: "Yup, that's right. And you're Josh, I believe?" "Got that right! But I suppose that's obvious enough, since Kayla just said it!" Josh said. And then we laughed together. He then went on: "But man, I am pumped for this! Digimon View was fun enough, yet alone when we got to help the international police!" and I smiled and nodded before I said: "That is a good way to look at it… even though it is a serious mission, it does have a lot of potential to be an adventure too…" and then we went back to following the directions on our map. But it wasn't too long before we bumped into some more staff members!
When they spotted us, I heard one of them say: "Hey…! Those are…!" and then he and another man with him ran up to us and one of them said: "More users… you must be with those hackers who copied confidential information from our servers! Well now you're going to get it! Once we defeat you, we'll be sure to get the information regarding where your leaders are hiding out of you… one way or another!" "Bring it on! You don't scare us!" Josh replied. "Hmph! Such arrogant brats! Fine then! Take this!" The other man replied.
And then they sent out 2 Digimon! One of the men sent out a ChaosGallantmon and the other sent out a RustTyrannomon! I then said: "Go for it, BanchoLeomon!" and he came running in as Josh looked at ChaosGallantmon and said: "You call that a Gallantmon Digimon? I'll show you what a real one looks like!"
And then he sent out a Digimon that looked almost exactly like the man's ChaosGallantmon, only it had white armor all over, except for red armor on its ankles, knees, shoulders and midsection and the mask on its forehead was red too, as was its cape. Its shield was also colored white and had a yellow circular ring around the edges and 9 yellow triangles in it inside a yellow circle in the middle.
I then felt my digivice vibrate and I checked it. It said: "Left to right: ChaosGallantmon scan data: 10%. RustTyrannomon scan data: 10%". Luckily, I had fought both of these Digimon recently enough to not even need to check their elements… I knew ChaosGallantmon was a darkness Digimon and RustTyrannomon was a machine Digimon. Josh then said: "Gallantmon, show that ChaosGallantmon poser who's boss! Falling star!" and his Digimon said: "Falling star!" and he sent a black line into the air… and then the entire area above us turned into a starry sky! Gallantmon then leapt up and eventually went so high, he was no longer visible… and soon we saw a white streak through the sky coming down! It descended very fast until soon it was getting close and we saw it—it was a smaller falling meteor, and Gallantmon was riding it! He steered it towards ChaosGallantmon and then dismounted it before it crashed into him—he took it really hard too! "ChaosGallantmon, get him back! Use Demonic disaster!" one of the men said and ChaosGallantmon said: "Demonic disaster!" and his lance became coated in darkness before he flew at Gallantmon and rammed into him! "BanchoLeomon, get them! Use mudslide!" I said before BanchoLeomon said: "Mudslide!" and a massive torrent of mud, bark, dirt, rocks and debris came flying at them! It slammed right into them and RustTyrannomon took it hard as they got up before the other man said: "RustTyrannomon, get in there! Use glitch program on BanchoLeomon!" and RustTyrannomon said: "Glitch program!" and he made an odd distortion wave appear around BanchoLeomon… and then BanchoLeomon suddenly turned into an 8-bit version of himself… he was pixilated…
"ChaosGallantmon, get that kid's Gallantmon back! Use demonic disaster on him again!" one of the men said and ChaosGallantmon said: "Demonic disaster!" and once again his lance become coated in darkness before he rammed into Gallantmon. "Gallantmon, hit 'em back! Use falling star!" Josh said before Gallantmon said: "Falling star!" and he made the sky above us become a starry sky again before he leapt up and crashed a meteor into ChaosGallantmon! ChaosGallantmon was already looking worn down before I said: "BanchoLeomon, hit RustTyrannomon with blocky bubbles!" and he sprayed them at RustTyrannomon, although they sure didn't do much good… the other man then said: "RustTyrannomon, hit Gallantmon with a terror cluster!" and RustTyrannomon said: "Terror cluster!" and he got down on all fours as he leaned forward and fired lasers out of the cannon on his back at Gallantmon! Gallantmon took it a little harder, but then started to look overcome by pain… he must be paralyzed…
"ChaosGallantmon, get BanchoLeomon! Use mental drop!" one of the men said before ChaosGallantmon said: "Mental drop!" and he lowered BanchoLeomon's damage resistance against magical attacks… the other man said: "RustTyrannomon, use piston punches on Gallantmon!" and RustTyrannomon said: "Piston punches!" and then he ran up to Gallantmon before he swung his tail at him, hard and then headbutted him before he ran back. "BanchoLeomon, spray blocky bubbles at RustTyrannomon!" I said before he did so. "Gallantmon, now's your chance! Smash ChaosGallantmon with falling star!" Josh said. Gallantmon then started to stand up… but then slumped his shoulders and shook his head…
"BanchoLeomon, get RustTyrannomon! Spray the blocky bubbles!" I said and he did so. One of the men then said: "ChaosGallantmon, attack BanchoLeomon with cry in the night!" and ChaosGallantmon said: "Cry in the night!" and the entire area went pitch black before several giant bolts of white lightning zapped BanchoLeomon! "RustTyrannomon, get Gallantmon! Piston punches!" the other man said before he swung his tail at him and then headbutted him. "Gallantmon, try again! Use falling star on ChaosGallantmon!" Josh said before Gallantmon stood up straight and said: "Falling star!" and he attacked with it… and then ChaosGallantmon went down! "What the…?! Ugh, how annoying!" the man said before he called ChaosGallantmon back and then said: "Go, MetalGarurumon!"
And he called out a Digimon that looked exactly like the BlackMetalGarurumon I had encountered in Aurora Icecaps, only the metal on his body was colored blue and his paws were colored baby blue. Now the man had lost one of his Digimon, but ChaosGallantmon's defeat wasn't the only piece of good news—BanchoLeomon then returned to normal! He did look worn out, though… nonetheless, I grinned as I saw this and said to the man behind RustTyrannomon: "Alright! Now you're going to pay! BanchoLeomon—mudslide!" and BanchoLeomon said: "Mudslide!" and he made a torrent of earth crash into MetalGarurumon and RustTyrannomon and RustTyrannomon took it hard… but he still got up! The man behind RustTyrannomon then said: "RustTyrannomon, keep BanchoLeomon under control! Use glitch program!" and RustTyrannomon said: "Glitch program!" and he made a distortion wave appear around BanchoLeomon… and then he was pixilated… not again…
One of the men then said: "MetalGarurumon, get BanchoLeomon! Use metal wolf claw!" and MetalGarurumon said: "Metal wolf claw!" he drew his head back… before he started to blast BanchoLeomon with icy cold breath! "Gallantmon, attack RustTyrannomon! Falling star!" Josh said before Gallantmon said: "Falling star!" and he attacked RustTyrannomon with it…and he went down! "Argh…" the man behind RustTyrannomon said before he called him back and said: "Get out there, Ravemon!" and he called one out, like the one Ariel and I had fought in Sunset Shores. I then said: "Alright BanchoLeomon, that'll do! Now come back here!" and he came back as I said: "Go for it, Lillymon!" and she flew in.
Josh then said: "I think that's enough for now too! Good work, Gallantmon!" and he called him back before he said: "It's time to get 'em! Go TyrantKabuterimon!" and he called out an enormous, terrifying insect Digimon… it had a humanoid upper body, but its lower body was a tail that had a silver sickle-like blade attached to the end—it also had a strand on either side of its tail with silver spiky ends. Its entire lower body was colored magenta and its midsection consisted of 3 blue-violet cables with a magenta ring in front of them with a red-orange orb in the center—it also had gray crescents wrapped around its waist that pointed forward in the front. The sides of its chest were colored magenta and the center was colored gray, with a black colored area in the shape of 2 rhombuses with a thin line connecting them in the center and red-orange eye-shaped spots on either side (making it look like a face)—there was also a similar area in between its chest and jaw that looked like a face too. Yet its real face— located on its head—was colored magenta and had cyan eyes (each with a blue-violet stripe behind it) and silver jaws with sharp-looking teeth. It also had a silver crest in the middle of the top of its head. It had magenta shoulder armor with spikes pointing upward on the far side of each on its shoulders (although I could see its shoulders were actually blue-violet underneath the shoulder armor) and tiny silver biceps, yet magenta forearms that were absurdly huge and had 4 silver claws at the ends of each arm. It also had silver guards on the backs of its forearms that had silver pincer-like hooks curving at the ends. It had 4 red and orange wings that were beating very fast on each shoulder and 4 more wings of the same color on either side of its waist. It looked 8'1 tall.
The man behind MetalGarurumon then said: "Blast away, MetalGarurumon! Ice wolf claw!" and MetalGarurumon said: "Ice wolf claw!" and all kinds of metal plates on his body got lifted up, revealing ports to fire projectiles from! He then shot several small missiles that bombarded our Digimon! The other man followed up and said: "Ravemon, you join in! Use celestial blade!" and Ravemon said: "Celestial blade!" and his katana started to crackle with lightning and he thrust it into the ground before him before it zapped TyrantKabuterimon and Lillymon with electricity! "Lillymon, strike back! Use flower cannon on MetalGarurumon!" I said as she said: "Flower cannon!" and she flew up above MetalGarurumon and put her wrists together before a big flower made of energy formed over them and she fired it at MetalGarurumon! He took it hard too!
Josh then said: "TyrantKabuterimon, get MetalGarurumon! Use briar patch trip!" and TyrantKabuterimon said: "Briar patch trip!" and he conjured a massive patch of thorny, spiky bramble before he flew over to MetalGarurumon and did a backwards somersault, whipping MetalGarurumon with his tail, as he sent him flying into the bramble! MetalGarurumon soon howled and leapt out as one of the men said: "Ravemon, do it again! Use celestial blade!" and Ravemon said: "Celestial blade!" as he electrified his katana again and thrust it into the ground and zapped TyrantKabuterimon and Lillymon with electricity. "Lillymon, get MetalGarurumon! Use flower cannon again!" I said before Lillymon said: "Flower cannon!" and she flew up and shot another flower at him. "MetalGarurumon, get TyrantKabuterimon! Metal wolf claw!" one of the men said and then MetalGarurumon said: "Metal wolf claw!" and he drew his head back before he blasted TyrantKabuterimon with cold breath.
"Ravemon, attack them! Use celestial blade!" one of the men said before Ravemon did so. "MetalGarurumon, join in! Use ice wolf claw!" the other man said before MetalGarurumon said: "Ice wolf claw!" and he bombarded Lillymon and TyrantKabuterimon with missiles again. "TyrantKabuterimon, show them your power! Shine of bee!" Josh said before TyrantKabuterimon said: "Shine of bee!" and then he caused a red-orange fiery explosion to completely engulf MetalGarurumon and Ravemon before white and gray smoke was left behind… when it cleared, MetalGarurumon and Ravemon both got back up, but MetalGarurumon looked badly hurt and Ravemon had taken the attack really hard… but then TyrantKabuterimon fell forward on the ground… "Lillymon, finish off MetalGarurumon! Use flower cannon!" I said before Lillymon said: "Flower cannon!" and she did so… and took MetalGarurumon down!
"What the…?! Oh man!" one of the men said before he called MetalGarurumon back and stepped back… I then said: "That was great work, Lillymon! Now come on back!" and she flew back before I said: "ShineGreymon, let's finish this up!" and he came in. "Ravemon, get ShineGreymon! Use tornado!" the man behind Ravemon said before Ravemon said: "Tornado!" and he conjured a tall tornado where ShineGreymon was! He was tossed up high in the air before he came back down, hard… but he still got up. TyrantKabuterimon still couldn't get up, though…
"Ravemon, celestial blade!" the man said as Ravemon did so before I said: "ShineGreymon, get him! Use GeoGrey sword!" and ShineGreymon said: "GeoGrey sword!" and he conjured a gigantic white and red sword in his hand before he flew at Ravemon and slashed at him with it! He couldn't get up, either!
"Wha…! This isn't good!" the other man said as he called Ravemon back and then he turned to the other man as he said: "Oh man, what do we do now?! The admins are going to be furious if they find out we lost to the enemy!" "All we can do is run away now and pretend it never happened later!" the other man said as he and the man ran off… TyrantKabuterimon got up as Josh said: "Tch… they sure do talk big."
Once the men were gone, BanchoLeomon returned to normal and Josh turned to me and said: "Well good work out there, Mark! You really are a talented tamer." and I laughed before I said: "Thanks Josh, but you really swept up the spotlight there—especially your TyrantKabuterimon! My gosh, did he ever do a good job damaging MetalGarurumon and Ravemon!" and TyrantKabuterimon chuckled before Josh said: "Ha ha! That's true too. We both did well, though." and then he went on: "Well come on—let's get to the destination." "Of course! But first thing's first…" I said as I used an HP ultra recharge on BanchoLeomon before Josh nodded and said: "Yeah, that's a good idea! We should heal our Digimon for the road ahead." and then he called out his Gallantmon and healed him and TyrantKabuterimon before he called them back.
And then we went back to looking for the location where we were supposed to install the malware. We kept our eyes open for more staff members for a while, but we didn't see any, so eventually Josh said: "Well this is quieter than I thought it would be… that's lucky." "Yeah… but that's no reason to let our guard down. You can bet there'll be more staff members on the way." I said. Josh nodded before he said: "Of course! That goes without saying!" and I chuckled before he went on: "By the way Mark, I see you let your Digimon walk with you… that's interesting. How come you don't keep them in your digivice?"
And I grinned before I said: "Because they're my dear friends. I've always traveled with them, even when I started playing Digimon View—I wanted to learn more about them and for us to be a closer team. The Digimon are what make Digimon View special and I wanted to experience them all the time—it's no fun without them." and my Digimon smiled before Josh grinned and said: "Well said, Mark! I hadn't thought about doing anything like that before, but your way sounds great too!"
And I grinned before we kept going. We had another battle with 2 more staff members on our way, but we defeated them. As we continued to our destination, Josh eventually said: "Well, we've made it pretty far now… how much further do we have to go?" and I checked my digivice before I smiled and said: "It's not far now—we've almost arrived!" "ALRIGHT! Let's go and leave our mark on this area, then!" Josh said. I nodded as we continued to our destination.
When we arrived, we stopped and I turned to Josh and said: "Here's our destination—now it's time to take out your remote." and Josh nodded as we took out our contagion remotes and used them to install the malware. When we did, Josh looked excited and said: "Awesome! Now it's all set to go!" and I said: "Yeah… at least our first mission was a success…" and then I went on: "Still though, we'd better text the others to let them know we did so successfully…" "Oh, right! Alright, leave it to me, Mark!" Josh said before he texted the other 2 teams.
Then he turned to me and said: "Alright, our message has been sent!" and I smiled and nodded before I said: "Great! I'll check where the other groups stand…" and then I used my contagion remote to check how the other teams were doing… and they were already done! "Oh wow…" I said before Josh said: "What is it, Mark?" "Well it seems we were the last ones to reach our destination… the other 2 teams have already finished…" I said. "Aw, that's too bad… but it's still important for the mission as a whole, so that's fine." Josh said. I nodded before I said: "I know how you feel… but now that we're all done, we're going to have to decide where we'll rendezvous before we leave for the next area…"
We all then communicated with each other by text before we decided that we would all meet at Xavier and Hugh's position, which was the closest to the next area—we also decided that we would always meet at the team's location that was closest to the next area in future missions as well. Josh and I then headed off to where Xavier and Hugh were. As we went, we kept our eyes open for other staff members, but we never found any… eventually, Josh said: "Well that was one successful first mission as a team! Now the next step will be getting into our new teams…" "Yeah… I'm looking forward to seeing who I get paired with next, but I enjoyed working with you too, Josh. You had a great attitude." I said. Josh then grinned and said: "Thanks, Mark! You were fun to work with too." and I grinned back before we hurried off to Xavier and Hugh's location.
When we arrived, we saw Xavier and Hugh… but Kayla, Tiffany and Ariel were nowhere to be found… when we closed in, Xavier grinned and said: "Hey, over here!" and we approached before Hugh said: "Finally, another friendly face! C'mon guys." and then I said: "Where are Ariel, Kayla and Tiffany?" "They haven't arrived yet. We'll just have to wait." Xavier said. We then stood by, talking together, until we heard a: "Sorry to keep you waiting!" it was Kayla… we then looked up to see her, Ariel and Tiffany closing in!
When they approached us, Xavier said: "Okay, so now all the teams are here… that means we'll need to split into our teams for the next area. But first, we should go to our Digihomes and give our Digimon some rest." "Exactly right, Xavier! Then we can split into our new teams from there!" Ariel said. And we all nodded before we entered our Digihomes!
When I arrived in mine, ShineGreymon gave a sigh of relief and said: "Ahh, thank goodness… now we're finally out of the cold! I can't imagine staying there for much longer!" and Dianamon chuckled before she said: "How like you, ShineGreymon… fortunately, we will not have to—after this, we will be off to warmer lands in Amaterasu Server. That is to your liking, right?" and we all laughed before I said: "Well before we can think about any of that, you'd all better get some rest—you'll need to be in perfect condition for the journey ahead." "Alright then! That works for me too—after that long battle, I'm all ready to hit the hay…" Lillymon said as she flew off to her hammock and dozed off.
Everyone else laughed before they got into theirs and rested up. I simply thought ahead as I waited for them to wake up and eventually, they did! When they were all awake, I said: "Alright everyone! Now that you're all rarin' to go, what do you say—are you ready to install wave 2 of the malware?" and they all cheered before I chuckled and we left the Digihome.
When we were back out in the mountain, some of the others were there, but not all of them… we waited until everyone returned from their Digihome and then Tiffany said: "Okay, so it looks like we're all here… what were the next teams?" "I'll read them off now…" Xavier said before he said: "Ariel and Josh…" and then they got into a team before he went on: "Mark, Hugh and Kayla…" and then we all got together as he turned to Tiffany and said: "And Tiffany… you're with me." and she went with him as he said: "Alright then—now we just need to head south to the next area! Let's go!" and we all nodded as we took off.
Hugh, Kayla and I then went off and then Kayla said: "Well, looks like I'm with you boys this time—and it's my second time in a group of 3 no less! Let's make this work!" and I smiled as Hugh said: "I hear ya! Between the 3 of us, we've got this!" and I smiled before I said: "I think so too! I know we can do it!" and then I went on: "Though I can't really say I've worked in a group of 3 yet… this should be interesting." and then Hugh said: "I know what you mean. Even so, that'll make things all the easier. Now let's go—the next destination awaits!" and Kayla and I said: "Yeah!" as we headed off further south into Amaterasu Server.
