[Author's Note] All right sorry it's taken so long to get this chapter out but I've had a lot of distractions around home and had times when I've been kicked off the computer because my siblings have had homework. Let's just say that this is the chapter where things start to get a little interesting. At least I think so. ^_^
Dark Mirror
Chapter 3
Tai is standing on what appears to be the roof to his apartment building. He is just standing there looking up at the clear night sky, with the moon out bright and not a single cloud to spoil the view, one can only stare in awe at its beauty. He is standing there thinking about everything that had been laid upon him that day when a brunette girl walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Tai, I understand if you never want to trust me again after everything you learned today but I want you to at least hear me out." Tai remained silent as he continued to stare upward. "Look Tai believe it or not I worked for Nathan because I wanted to help you. I've only been working there for three years, and I went there because I knew if I found out more things that I would be a bigger help to you. Imagine my surprise when I saw TK there, I hadn't seen him since we graduated and he move away. Apparently Yolie and Ken had been working there a long time too, and Joe and Mimi had only signed on two years before me." Tai continued to look at the stars, his expression was not cold but it wasn't warm either. His face had the look of either someone in great thought or in great disappointment but Kari couldn't be sure. "I understand if your hurt because I never told you about it, and I really did want to, but that was Nathan's rule. No one outside could be told, it's not like he didn't think that you couldn't handle it, it's just that if you knew somehow the government could find out and they would order him to turn everything over to them." Kari stepped right in front of him and look at him face to face but still his gaze never left the night sky. She then lowered her head and slowly began to walk away. "I'll be inside if you want me." Her voice was very depressed as she slowly sulked back towards the elevator.
"The stars."
"What Tai?" her face's expression immediately lifted at realizing that he was talking to her.
"The stars, they're so beautiful." he said his gaze still upward.
"They are, aren't they." she said as she stepped back by his side and looked up at the sky as well.
"I haven't taken a good look at them in ten years." his voice sounded almost relieved. "I guess sub consciously I've been putting off looking at them thinking I'll do it tomorrow, first it was when Matt and Sora disappeared. I did all I could to try to find them and when I couldn't I guess I just felt helpless thinking there was nothing I could do. Then came the problems on the Internet and how it was slowing down, we did the best we could but we still couldn't figure out what was going on. Then when we lost contact with the Digi-world and it started turning black I had even more unanswered questions, questions that I needed to have answered but I knew there was no one able to answer them. Until today, when Matt invited me to that chat room. He told me that he and Sora had been in the Digi-world this whole time and that he was the one responsible for everything that's been happening. I know it's wrong, with all that's happening right now, but right now I feel at peace. All my questions have been answered and now I wonder why I'm needed any more, I feel like finally my job is done and I don't need to do anything anymore." He lowered his head and looked right at Kari, her face had on a large smile, which caused him to crack one of his own.
"Tai I know you're not useless, I have always looked up to you. Just because I worked for Nathan didn't mean you stopped being my hero." she said as she looked at him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Now let's go inside, we need to have plenty of rest for tomorrow."
"Thanks Kari," he said as they started walking back towards the elevator, "oh and I don't hate you Kari. In fact I'm proud of you, you were able to make a decision on your own and be a lot of help to Nathan. If I had ever thought of it I might of done the exact same thing."
"Thanks Tai." she said as she put her head on his shoulder. Her head suddenly shot strait up as she and her brother looked at a strange monster in front of them. It was a large white looking gargoyle type creature, it had a small white wings on its back, large claws on it's hands and feet, and an 'X' on his left arm and an 'O' on the other.
"All right what do you want?" Tai said as he pulled Kari behind him, just because they had grown up didn't mean that he still didn't want to protect her.
"I am Gargoylemon, and what I want is to please my master and the way to do that is to destroy you! Freezing Wing!" the creature said as a cold, cold wind started coming out of his wings and blowing on Tai and Kari, his wings were then glowing with energy just before that energy shot towards them.
We're dead meat. Was all that Tai could think of.
"Get down!" a man jumped out of nowhere and tackled them down just as the attack flew over them. Tai was still in shock at seeing a digimon after all this time that his eyes never left Gargoylemon who now looked very angry. Then Tai saw a woman with long red hair jump out of nowhere and kick Gargoylemon right in to the roof. She was wearing weird clothing and had a sword and dagger at her sides.
"You won't hurt them." said the girl, Tai couldn't see her face but something in her voice made him think that he knew her.
"So, the traitor has come to the real world. The master will reward me greatly when I bring you back to him." said Gargoylemon as he looked at the girl who's back was to him.
"You won't have the chance." she replied, by this time Tai and Kari were back on their feet staring at the spectacle in front of them and not even paying attention to the man that had saved them.
"Please, you can not defeat me. I am one of the masters strongest assassins." He said with a sneer in his voice.
"But you are not the strongest. Maybe I can't defeat you, but an Ultimate can." she said as she pointed behind him. He turned around and was horrified by what he saw, a large bird man was flying right at him and when her heard it's attack he froze in fear.
"Wing Blade!" said the birdman as it turned into a large fire arrow and went strait for the evil creature.
"Noooooooo!" was all the creature could say before it blasted apart into a million pieces.
"Ga..Ga..Garudamon?" Tai said as the woman began walking over to them as Tai still looked at the large creature that was in front of him.
"Are they okay?"
"Yes I believe so. We got here just in time." said the man who then removed his hood.
Kari gasped at who she saw. "Gennai!" This time Tai snapped out of his trance and looked right at Gennai.
"But then who is.." he turned around just in time to see Garudamon surrounded by a red light and then land next to the woman as a Biyomon.
"What's the matter Tai? Don't you remember me."
"Sora!" Both Kari and Tai said as they ran over and nearly tackled her when she opened for a hug between the three of them.
"I'm so happy to see you two." Sora said threw the tears of joy, she had finally made it back to her friends just like she promised herself she would the day she left Matt's castle.
"It's so good to see you again Sora." Kari said threw tears of her own, Tai was extremely happy too because one of his best friends were back, of course there were other reasons he was happy that she was back but he wasn't going to let anyone know them.
"Look at you two, Kari the last time I saw you, you were still a kid and Tai." She just stopped and looked at him, he sure had grown and he looked like he had been through just as much as her even though it had been her that was in the digital world.
"Don't worry Sora I know exactly how you feel, the last time we saw each other was the week before we were suppose to start school."
She smiled at his comment. School, I've been through so much that I hardly thought about it. Even though I've probably learned just as much as Tai, maybe even more and yet the first thing he mentioned was about school. She then frowned. I'm sure that someday I'll have to go back to learn everything I missed but right now we have bigger problems. "Look guys we better wait until latter to talk because right now we have some big problems."
"No kidding, we have to talk about what Matt is planning." Tai said as he stared at both Gennai and Sora who were standing next to each other looking very serious.
"We do have much to discuses but right now we need to find some people and we hopped you might know were to find them." Gennai said, as he looked strait at Tai. Tai looked calm but his brain was in overdrive again just like when Matt had told him about himself.
"Who do you need to find?" asked Kari
"The Guardians." Sora said like they should have known.
"Nathan?" Tai and Kari exclaimed in shock, they hadn't expected to hear them called by that name again, they had called them by their names for so long and so when Sora had said it, it shocked them.
"Do you know where they are?" asked Gennai
"I think Kari can get you to them the fastest." Tai said as he pushed her forward. She immediately spun around to look him in the eyes.
"But..."
"No buts. I trust you Kari and I know you can do this. Take them to Nathan and the others, I'll tell mom that something came up and you had to go. I'll see you tomorrow Kari." Tai smiled at his sister and patted her on the shoulder as he walked past her.
He trusts me. Kari thought as she smiled, she still had her back to the others.
"Kari where do we need to go?" asked Sora "I'll have Biyomon digivolve to Garudamon and she can carry us there."
"There's no need for that, both of you just need to grab one of my shoulders and have someone hold Biyomon." Sora and Gennai both walked over to her with Biyomon in Sora's arms. "Alright now hang on guys."
Then in a bright flash of light they were gone. The sky was peaceful but if you would have been looking at the moon you would have seen two shadows fly past it.
"NO!" Someone dressed in black picks up and throws a vase across the room causing it to shatter to pieces. "Twice now my plans to kill that accursed Kamiya have failed and now I find out that Gennai and Sora have made it to the real world." A Ninjamon can be seen trying to sneak to the door without being noticed, just as it reaches the door. "YOU!" It jumps and turns around to face the very angry human. "You were the one that choose to send Gargoylemon, I told you to send my best assassin. For your failure you will now share his fate." Matt's hands began to glow with dark energy, the energy then shot directly at the Ninjamon.
"Ahhhhhh!" Ninjamon then shattered into millions of digital bits.
"Let that be a lesson to the rest of you," he was now looking at the small group of digimon that were kneeling in front of him visibly quivering, "if any of you fail me you will share the same fate as Ninjamon. Am I understood?"
"Yes Sir!" chanted the group of digimon.
"Good." he said as he went and sat down in his throne. "Now go and prepare your troop, for soon we will take the real world and I shall be its ruler. Ha ha ha." he laughed evilly as the digimon joined in the laughter. The room suddenly shook as the sound of a giant explosion filled the room. A small Gekomon then came running into the room yelling.
"Sir the castle is under attack by some sort of ship!" screeched the small frog type creature.
"Ship?" Matt said just before he waived his hand to bring up the screens again. On the screens was the same ship that had stopped him from finishing off Sora and Gennai, it was in the shape of a square and on each side it had strange symbols engraved on its limestone white exterior. Why are they attacking us, who are they. What could we possibly have that? "The Crystal Chamber! Quickly follow me." he ordered as he ran out of the throne room with the small entourage of digimon close behind.
"Hurry you have to leave. If he finds you here he will destroy you." said a saint bernard looking creature with a horn sticking out of his head. The creature, however, did not look good. It was very thin in appearance with many pieces of it's fur missing and with several chips out of it's horn as well as the very tip of it missing.
"No way we're leaving you here partner." said a large star digimon in a western accent.
"Hey Starmon, I've got all the crystal now let's go." said a gravely voice that came from a small rock creature.
"Good job Gotsumon prepare to leave, Gabumon you have to come with us, you have nothing left here." said Starmon as he turned back towards Gabumon.
"But he's my partner." protested Gabumon
"I understand that, but right now his heart is as black as evil it's self and I know that you know deep down within your own heart that what he is doing is wrong. I'm sure that there might be a way to save him but in order for us to do that we will need you, and you won't be any good to him if you are dead. You have been lucky so far but once he finds out that you let us escape he will most likely destroy you on the spot." Starmon said as he gave him a very stern look.
"Your right, but I have to get something." Gabumon said reluctantly, he quickly ran over to a small compartment on the wall and pulled out a bag. He then ran back over to Starmon and handed him the bag.
"These are seven of the original crests, but where did you get them?" asked Starmon in great amazement as he looked in the bag.
"Matt had collected them so they couldn't be used against him, and that is his digivice. He abandoned it a long time ago and so I have been holding onto it ever since." explained Gabumon just before the doors to the room were blown off their hinges.
"How could my own digimon betray me?" exclaimed a very angry Matt as he walked into the room as the cloud of dust settled around him, the striking difference from earlier was that now he was surrounded by a cloud of dark energy.
"I'm doing it for you Matt, don't worry I'll save you." pleaded Gabumon
"Enough, I don't need saving. Now you die traitor!" A large blast of dark energy was then being shot directly at Gabumon.
"No!" Starmon screamed as he jumped right in front of and withstood the blast.
"What! How could you have withstood that blast?" Matt was now enraged, even his normal icy blue eyes were black with evil anger.
"Because, the power of my partner protects me." said Starmon as if he should have known.
"Your a digidestined digimon! But I captured all of you." Matt was now screaming at how his plans were being foiled.
"Well you didn't get us, and now you don't have any of them." said Gotsumon as he ran up beside Starmon with a large bag over his shoulder. "Now come on Starmon let's get out of here."
"Remember this Overlord," Starmon said as he pointed at Matt, "you will face the Guardians, and they will not go easy on you." as he finished the three of them disappeared in a flash of light along with the crest's, Matt's digivice, and the digimon of every digidestined on Earth and the Digi-world.
"NOOOO!" In a fit of rage the blond turned around and destroyed the small Gekomon that had given him the message of the attack in the first place. "This does not change anything!" he screams while looking up and shaking his fist in the air. "I will have the REAL WORLD!"
Three people are sitting in what appears to be a living room of a house. There were two recliners in which a man and woman were sitting, the man was Nathan and the woman had long sandy blond hair and deep blue eyes. On a couch there was sitting a tall man with black hair and emerald green eyes.
"Hey Jen, where's that popcorn?" asked the man on the couch to someone not in the room.
"Why don't you get off your rear and find out Ken, after all you are suppose to be helping her." said the woman with sandy blond hair.
"Give me a break Erin, I had a tough day plus Jen said that she wanted to do it on her own tonight." said Ken trying to defend himself.
"Who wants popcorn?" said a woman with fiery red hair and blue eyes as she came out of what was obviously a kitchen. She had one large bowl and two smaller bowls full of popcorn.
"Just in time Jen," said Nathan as he took one of the smaller bowls, "and just as the movie is ready to start.
"Could you get the lights a sec Jen?" asked Erin
"Sure," she said as she turned off the lights and then sat down next to Ken, "so what's the movie about tonight?"
"Not sure, but it's suppose to have some good special effects." said Ken as he took a handful of the popcorn.
A flash of light suddenly filled the room causing Jen to throw her bowl striating the air, the popcorn goes flying just before the bowl lands back on Ken's head.
"Owe." moaned Ken as he took off the bowl and rubbed his head.
"You weren't kidding about the special effects." joked Erin as she looks over at him.
"Kari what are you doing here?" asks Nathan ignoring Erin's joke
"I had to bring these two," she said as she pointed to her companions, "you met Gennai and this is Sora."
"It's good to see that you're here, this means that they were able to make sure you were safe." he said as he walked over and shook their hands.
"What are you talking about Nathan?" questioned Erin as she looked at him.
"I sent a message to our digimon earlier, with the digital worlds base programming. I knew these two would be in grave danger, especially since I saved Tai earlier." Nathan said as he explained to her what he had done earlier.
"But how did you know that Nathan?" asked Kari, confused at what he had said.
"Well for one, from the few times I talked with Gennai I knew he wouldn't have let Matt do what he was doing without a fight. As for Sora, the way Matt talked when he mentioned her name showed that she had went against him too." explained Nathan
"You know you could'a told us you sent a message to our digimon." scolded Erin
"Give me a break I forgot." Nathan retorted
"Could someone please tell me what's goin' on, I think I'm getting a concussion from Jen throwing that bowl." Ken said as he got a slight jab in the side from Jen.
"Shesh, do I have to be the only one not joking." Nathan said as he let a big sigh.
"Guardians, we have some important information that we need to talk with you about." said Gennai as he tried to take charge of the conversation.
"And I'm going to need to stay here for the night too, Tai probably told mom I went to a friends." Kari said as she looked at Nathan.
"Okay, Kari go to the library and get it setup." Nathan said in an orderly tone, Kari nodded and with a press of a button on her watch she was gone in a flash of light. "Jen, Ken why don't you clean up this mess you made."
"But I..." started Ken
"The bowl landed on your head. Besides it's your night for the chores. Erin why don't you make us a big pot of coffee, I think we're going to need it." Nathan said
"Okay, you want regular of decafe?" she asked as she got to the kitchen opening. Nathan gave her a look telling her she should already know. "Ah regular, right."
"Alright, you three can come with me." Nathan said indicating Biyomon to come to.
Nathan, Gennai, Sora, and Biyomon go walking down one of the other openings in the room.
Tai enters his apartment thinking of the story he's going to tell his mom.
"Tai, where's your sister?" his mom asks after turning around from her position on the couch.
"She had to go help a friend with something, she won't be back until after work tomorrow." Tai said, he didn't like lying to his mom and technically that wasn't a lie, just not telling her everything.
"Oh, okay." she said as she turned back to the TV.
Boy she took that better than I thought. "I'm going to bed, it's going to be a long day for me tomorrow." Tai said as he walked towards his room.
"Okay honey, I'll see you in the morning." Tai's mother said just before he closed the door.
"I guess I better send everyone an e-mail telling them that Sora and Gennai are here." Tai said aloud as he walked over to his computer and turned it on. He opened the e-mail client and began typing.
'Digidestined,
Hey guy's your not going to guess who I just ran in to. Well it's Sora and Gennai, they some how got here and ended up saving Kari and me from an assassin digimon. Who'd a thunk it huh? They had to leave before we could have a long talk so I guess we'll all find out more tomorrow. Kari brought them over to Nathan and I'm sure he'll tell us all about it tomorrow. Until then,
Tai'
Tai moved the pointer of the mouse over and pressed the 'send' button on the message. He then logged onto the Digi Corps mainframe and went about some of the work he had not gotten to earlier. It was scarcely an hour when he felt the pull of sleep begin to call him. He decided that he had done enough work for the night; he closed out his link and was about to shut down the computer when the window for the e-mail alert popped up suddenly with the title bar flashing.
I might as well see who it is. He thought as he pressed the open button on the window. The window opened and the message was so startling that he had to read it twice to make sure it was real.
'DIGIDESTINED ALERT!!!
All digidestined, report to Grace Hill at 8:00 am tomorrow morning. Important information about digital world activates and dark digital threats. Repeat this is a Digidestined Alert!!! Attendance is mandatory, be at Grace Hill at 8:00 am sharp.
The Digital Guardians.'
Izzy is driving a deep blue car on a road that appears to be somewhere in the country. It's a good thing the garage called to say that my car was fixed, mom and dad wouldn't have been to happy if someone was ringing the door bell at six in the morning. He thought as he drove along the country road. As he continued driving a hill came into view, on top of that hill was what appeared to be a large one-story house. The houses design was definitely not Japanese in origin; it was build like that of the old style ranch houses of America. The hill it rested on was nothing special, unless you were a digidestined. Over the years they had come to call it Grace Hill, because it seemed that everything around was peaceful and showed no signs of the troubles of the world and none of the troubles of the world seemed to make it here. In the past ten years the digidestined had come to this place many time's to relax and enjoy each others company, but this would not be one of those times and Izzy knew it. He knew Nathan would only send an emergency alert message if it was of extreme importance. Luckily he hadn't gone to sleep early or he would have had a rude awakening with his computer turning on and sounding an alarm. I can just imagine Davis nearly jumping out of his skin when his computer started going crazy. I do wonder though what could be so important to warrant this kind of an alert, whatever Gennai and Sora had to say must have been really important. Suddenly a cherry red sports car with twin racing stripes speeds past his car honking the horn like mad. What in the, Davis! I bet he woke up late again. Izzy couldn't help but smile, after all the years Davis was still Davis. A silver sedan type car suddenly zooms around him giving a short honk of the horn and takes off after the sports car. And that would be Tai. Izzy nearly laughed as he saw Tai's car quickly pass Davis's and then pull in the driveway for the ranch house. Izzy slowly pulled his car into the driveway deciding not to take it on two wheels as Davis nearly had. Pulling up into the curved driveway he could see that all the others where here. "Well Davis it looks like Tai won." He said as he exited his car and walked over to join the others.
"Don't rub it in." Davis replied in a disgruntled voice.
"Awe come on Davis, it wasn't that bad." Tai said in a cheerful voice as he came over and gave him a slight nudge on the shoulder.
"Speak for yourself." said the slightly shorter Cody as he got out of the passenger side of Davis's car looking a little green.
"Cody? What were you doing ridding with Davis? I thought in times like these you always rode with Yolie." Izzy said a little startled by the way Cody looked.
"Normally I would, but when I went to where her car was it was gone and all I got on her phone was her voice mail. So I had to call up Davis, I knew he wouldn't be gone yet." Cody said with a wryly smile on his face.
"Very funny Cody," he said as he cracked him a smile and then turned back to Tai and Izzy, "Tai your e-mail said that Gennai and Sora showed up at your place. Got any idea on what's up?"
"Not a clue, but we won't know just standing around here." Tai said as he led the group up the path to the front door and rang the doorbell once he got there.
"You know Tai, all of us got here right on time and yet when I walked past Yolie's car the hood wasn't even warm." Izzy said as he stood next to his friend.
"I know what you mean, the other cars are the same way." Tai replied, suddenly a panel with a lens, keypad, and speaker were revealed on the wall at the side of the door.
"Retinal authorization scan required." came a computerized voice from the speaker.
"This is new." Izzy said as they all gave each other quizzical looks.
"Why don't you give it a try Tai." Cody said, Tai merely shrugged and put his left eye up to the lens.
Several red lines could be seen dancing across the area of Tai's face around his eye as the lens did its work. "Retinal authorization confirmed, access granted." The speaker said just before the wall panel slid back down to cover it. The door opened to the normally softly lit and inviting hallway of the house, which was now brightly lit with nearly nothing in it. They just stair down the hallway in disbelief of how it's looks had changed when they suddenly saw Yolie run between openings on the far end of the hall.
"What in the world's going on here?" Davis asked for the small group as they quickly began making their way down the hall not bothering with removing their shoes because the Guardians didn't mind in the hallways if they left them on. When they reached the hallway that Yolie had been seen running down they found that it to was unusually brightly lit. They saw that many of the rooms were open but there was one in particular that all of the sounds seemed to be coming from, the room that they had known as the library. They approached the room with the caution of not knowing what was going on. When they reached the library and looked inside their jaws nearly hit the ground at what they saw, no longer was the familiar room filled with shelves of books and scrolls. Instead there were screens on every wall displaying maps of the world, some maps showing the darkness that they had seen the day before, others showing hundreds of dots on nearly every inch of the globe. In the center of the room were Nathan and the other Guardians gathered around a table with Kari, Ken, and Yolie, they were all wearing ear pieces with mic's attached to them. TK, Joe, and Mimi are scattered around the room running in between panels on the wall getting readouts of data they couldn't begin to understand. At one end of the table stood a man of indeterminate age and a woman who appeared to be in her mid twenties, they were going over the countless maps and charts of information on the table and talking rapidly with the others there.
"What's going on here?!" Davis's demand never even flinched his friends; they all seemed to ignore his questioning. The only ones that looked up were the unknown man and woman. She quickly ran around the table and gave Tai a large hug causing Davis to become even more confused.
Tai hugged the woman back. "It's good to see you too again Sora."
"SORA?! Then that must be." Izzy, Cody, and Davis exclaimed as they looked down at the unknown man known as Gennai. Sora pulled away from Tai's embrace and looked with amusement at the three other faces. They got their first good look at her in ten years and they were impressed. She no longer had on the battered and torn garments of the night before, she wore brand new blue jeans with a pair of black boots underneath. She had on a stiff red shirt trimmed in white tucked in with a dark brown belt around her waist instead of her worn one. On her side she wore her long dagger with the Crest of Love emblazoned on the golden handle. Her hair was no longer tied back but flowing freely down her back being held away from her face with several hair pins. Tai was the only one to speak; the others were still in too much shock.
"It's good to see you looking better than last night but we need to know what's going on here?" Tai said, as he looked her strait in the eyes.
Her face turned serious as she spoke. "The Guardians will know a lot more than I do, but it has to do with Matt." Tai's face no longer looked happy as he started walking towards Nathan while trying to understand the conversations taking place.
"I just received a signal from our people in the North-Eastern US, their reporting ready and waiting." stated Yolie
"News services in South America are reporting data interruptions." stated Ken as he added to Yolie's report.
"Detecting early gate emergence patterns in Southern Africa, attempting to compensate." Tai hears Kari report just as he arrives at the table. Tai looks around to see the gravest faces the Guardians have ever had. Izzy, Cody, and Davis arrive just after Tai and Sora goes back over to Gennai's side.
"It appears that Matt has decided to step up plans for some reason." stated Gennai as he looked up from the table.
"So it would seem." agreed Nathan, Davis begins shaking his head in frustration of not understanding what's going on.
"Would you quit keeping us in dark?!" Davis yells again but only Nathan turns to face them this time.
"There's no need keep yelling, we have a serious problem at the moment that needs our full attention." Nathan said while giving Davis a menacing glare.
"Nathan could you please tell us what's going on? You told us to be here at eight but it looks like you've already been working for a while." Tai said in more of a calmed tone then Davis.
"All right, when you got here we were originally going to talk about the information Sora and Gennai brought us about Matt's plans, but then just before four our computers began going crazy with alarms. Digital emergence patterns began showing up signifying that Matt was going to try beginning his assault early, we worked franticly to stop it and we did just in time. I had Kari call us in some back up and we transported them over here cars in all. We've been working since then trying to keep anything from coming threw. We didn't call you because I figured you could use all the sleep you could get." Nathan finished, as their face's paled.
"Oh my goodness, you mean we could have been killed in our sleep by an attack." Izzy gasped.
"Gees, sorry I yelled." Davis apologized sounding nearly as horrified as Izzy.
"What in the world! Nathan I'm picking up a major energy signature in orbit." yelled TK from one of the side panels. "I think it's a gate!"
"Orbit?" Nathan began typing several keys, which caused one of the main screens to change to the image of a glowing circular Gate on a starry background. All eyes were watching the image as a large ship emerged from the gate.
"That's the ship that saved us." gaped Sora
The screen image changed to four digimon looking out threw it. They were Tunskmon, Floramon, Starmon, and Gotsumon.
"Hey Nathan, I hope you don't mind but we thought we'd drop in." said Tunskmon gleefully
"You couldn't have had better timing, but I thought I taught you better than to be joking around when there's trouble Tunskmon." Nathan said in a somewhat lecturing tone.
This was followed by Tunskmon getting slammed on the head again by one of Floramon's vines. "I told you this wasn't the time to joke. Sorry Nathan, since you guys left he's become nearly as bad as a Veemon."
"Sir, if I may ask what has been happening as of late?" asked Starmon
"Shesh, always with the formalities." sighed Gotsumon as he rolled his eyes. "But seriously, what's going on. We were going to come threw the same way we sent Gennai, but every time we tried the connection was blocked. So we thought we'd put that gate in orbit to use."
"Gate in orbit?" asked Tai, as he looked at Nathan very confused.
"It was something we set up a long time ago, even though we never thought we would have to use it." explained Erin for Nathan
"Sorry about the block guys, Matt has been trying to send his forces threw the gates." apologized Jen to the digimon.
"Wait a minute. According to Gennai's information Matt wasn't supposed to start attacking for another week, so, what did you guys do to make him change his plans?" Ken Blaze asked as he gave them a glare over the monitor.
"Kens right, you guys would be the only ones with access to tech that would be enough to scare him into upping his attack time." put in Nathan, the digimon could be seen cringing under the scrutinizing.
"Well Nathan, I guess it might be because we got the digidestined digimon free and that we've been giving them back to any digidestined in the digital world." Tunskmon said sounding somewhat sheepish.
"I'd guess it's because of the other things Starmon and Gotsumon got from his castle though." the small plant said as she pointed towards the star and rock digimon.
"What did you get Starmon?" Jen asked to her partner.
"Well for one we were able to free Gabumon when we escaped but we also took these with us." Starmon said as he held up seven tags and crests. They were the crests of Courage, Friendship, Sincerity, Knowledge, Reliability, Hope, and Light. All of the original digidestined were staring with mouths open in disbelief.
Kari was the first to snap out of the trance. "But wait, where's the Crest of Love?"
"I've got it." Sora said as everyone turned to look at her as she pulled it out from under her shirt. "It was a gift from Matt just before whatever spell he had over me wore off. When I think about it, it was the last good thing he did before he became what he is now." as she finished speaking there was the hint of sadness in her voice.
"Do not worry Sora, I'm sure we'll be able to save the good part of Matt eventually. What ever it was that cause him to become what he is now, I'm sure it wasn't natural." Gennai said as he patted Sora on the shoulder trying to ease her sadness.
"If they have our digimon, then that would mean..." Mimi started.
"That's right Mimi, you'll all be able to see you digimon again." Nathan finished for Mimi as all the digidestined began to cheer. "All right guys why don't you bring the base down and park it just above the house, we'll turn on the beacon."
"You got it." replied the mammoth as the screen switched back to the picture in orbit.
"Wait a minute, won't they be seen. That ship looked pretty big after all." Tai said as he looked at Nathan.
"No, it's surrounded by a digital field which blinds it from any kind of radar, and it has a cloak to make sure it isn't spotted by the occasional person looking around." Nathan explained to Tai.
"That's all and good Nathan but they won't be down for a little while, and right now we have work to do." Erin said as she turned back to the table and went back to work.
"You guys might as well sit this out for now Tai, we'll handle it for now." Nathan said as he gave him a reassuring smile and then went back to work, Tai, Davis, Cody, and Izzy just shrugged and walked around the room looking at what the others were doing.
To be continued...
[Author's Note] Well? What did you think? Next chapter I'm hoping to start the main attacks on Earth and give you guys even more questions about Matt's true motives. If anyone was offended by that little joke with Veemon I'm sorry, it just worked out so well with how Veemon's always a jokester. Well review the chapter if you liked it, you can even review if you don't like it just don't expect any response. As always please R&R.