[Author's Note] Sorry this one took so long but I guess I was just being a little lazy, plus the fact that nearly every time I got the itch to do something with this I was either working or pulled off the computer to do stuff around the house. Well I hope you guys like Chapter 5 of Dark Mirror, and remember always Read & Review! Thanks.
Dark Mirror
Chapter 5
The Overlord's Castle, The Digital World
Day of the Overlord's Attack - 1:07 P.M. Tokyo Time
Matt walks into his main computer room, slamming the doors open as he entered. Many Bakemon and Hagurumon, a digimon seemingly made out of gears, are working furiously on the computers and all are wearing dark rings. As the doors slam all the digimon in the room jump, especially the lead one, the Ultimate level digimon, Vademon. He's the one digimon not wearing a dark ring, Matt walks over to him and he can be seen visibly shuddering as his master comes near.
"Ma...Master, how may I help you?" He stuttered as he went in to a bow, still shuddering slightly with nervousness.
"I need to know if you triangulated the Presidents location from his transmission." As Matt spoke his voice was sharp and to the point, with just a hint of anger in it.
"I...I'm afraid not Master." At this news Matt's face began growing even angrier, Vademon began sweating rivers at this sight. It was no secret that when the boss got mad heads rolled, he was, after all, the tenth digimon to fill the position of computer head, and that was just in the last two months. "But I am sure that if they transmit again that we will be able to find it then, the Bakemon and Hagurumon will not have a break until we find it Master." Vademon said quickly in hopes to keep his head, apparently it worked even though Matt was still quite angry.
"See that you DO." Matt said through his teeth giving extra emphasis on the last word. "What can you tell me that will be of use?"
Vademon quickly ran away and came back with several folders of information, which he handed over to his Master with slightly shaking hands. Matt quickly grabs the folders away and begins looking into them as Vademon begins talking. "From what we can tell they are using technology similar to that of mechanical digimon, however, it appears that it can only be used for defense. As we saw when our first wave attacked, their fighters were having very little effect against the Devidramon. If this is the case with the other nations of their world than we should have no problem in our attacks." He finished trying to give a false smile to make it look like he was positive of what he was saying.
"And what about the Guardians?" Matt asked as he looked at Vademon.
"Our information on them is in the second folder." Vademon said nervously "We've been having slight problems with our computer storage so we decided it would be best to have this information only in hard copy."
"What kind of storage problems?" Matt asked
"It appears there has been some unauthorized access to certain files, we are doing all we can to find out who they are and where they are hacking in from." replied Vademon
"See that you DO find them, and I will review this data latter. However, right now I want you focusing your efforts on finding the President. Destroying him is vital to my plans because without a leader the world will crumble to me." Matt explained shaking his fist for emphasis. "Also, find the ones that are helping them, they will pay just as much for withholding my prize from me."
Matt turned around, his black cape flowing behind him, and heads back towards the door. As he is halfway to the door he suddenly drops to the floor on his knees, the folders hit the floor as his hands quickly grab his head and he screams out in pain. Many of the digimon in the room run over to him, including Vademon.
"Master...Master are you alright?" Vademon asks as he reaches Matt.
Seemingly just as quickly as Matt's attack of pain began, it vanishes. He quickly gets up, after recovering the folders, pushing off the small attempts of help from the digimon.
"I'm fine." He says quickly and then continues out of the room seeming in an even worse mood then before.
Guardian's Library, Grace Hill
1:30 P.M. Tokyo Time
The Guardians, Sora, Biyomon, Gennai, and Yolie were the only ones in the room; everyone else had gone back to the Guardian's main head quarters to coordinate their people. A small, nearly inaudible groan is heard in the room. It was so small that only Sora heard it because she was standing next to the person it came from. Sitting behind Sora, in a recliner was Nathan, leaning back with his hands on his head. On the small table next to him are a half drunken glass of water and an open bottle of Tylenol. Everyone else in the room is busy doing something, even Gennai who has the former Digimon Emperor explaining some of what they're doing to him, so she decides to go and see what's wrong.
"Is something wrong?" she asks as she pulls up a chair and sits next to him.
"You mean beside a headache the size of a Destiny Stone?" Nathan joked causing Sora to give a slight giggle.
"Yeah, besides that." she said with a smile.
"It was my talk with Tunskmon, he always was some what of the prankster of the group but now, he seems to have become extremely stubborn. I was trying to explain to him how to integrate our bases software into what we have here so we could track events from there. The only problem was he insisted he knew what he was doing and just started working and ended up frying a good amount of the communication systems. I put Starmon in charge of fixing it, at least he knows how to follow instructions." Nathan explained as he began rubbing his temples.
"Don't worry, from what I've seen I'm sure Starmon will have it back up and running in no time." Sora said placing a hand on his knee and giving him a smile.
Nathan smiles back and nodded his head. "Thanks. If you don't mind I'd like to have a look at your sword and dagger, I was meaning to ask you earlier but I didn't have the chance." He said changing the subject.
"Sure, I'll just go get my sword." She said with a smile as she handed him her dagger and went off to get her sword.
Nathan removed the dagger from its sheath and ran his hand over the side of the blade. The blade seemed to be made of blue steel, for it had that feel and tint to it, but when he moved it around there was also a slight hint of gold to it. He turned his attention to the handle, it was nothing special, and it was undoubtedly made of gold but was not overly encrusted with jewels. What caught his attention the most as the image of the Crest of Love emblazoned upon it. Sora arrives and he sheaths the dagger and sets it off to the side to get a grip on the sword. He removes the sword from its sheath and examines it. It appears to be of identical construction to the dagger only it has a more golden tint to the blade.
"Tell me, where did you get these?" Nathan asked as he continued examining the sword.
"That's the thing, I'm not really sure. I remember though when I got them, it was the morning after Matt had given me my crest. I woke up and they were sitting on the nightstand next to me. Latter that day I was about to ask him about them but something stopped me. Biyomon and I were standing in one of the halls when we were suddenly surrounded in a bright red light, the next thing I remembered was that we were running away from the castle with Matt chasing after us. It was like suddenly I realized what he had been doing was wrong and I had to get away." Sora said in a sad tone but then turned her head back up with a questioning gaze. "Why do you ask?"
"Because," Nathan said as he re-sheathed the sword and handed it back to Sora with the dagger, "they are identical to my sword."
"Your sword?" Sora was quite confused now, and also somewhat shocked.
"Follow me." he said with a smile as he got up and headed for the door. "Erin keep an eye on things for a second, I've got to go show Sora something."
"Sure no problem." Erin replied as she watched the two leave the room.
They walk further down the hallway to the door at the far end, Sora had seen this door but couldn't get into it because it was locked, which had seemed strange because they had told her that she was welcome to explore any part of the house. Nathan reaches into his pocket and pulls out a set of keys, he picks one and uses it to unlock the door and enter the room.
"You see Sora when I said your sword was identical to mine, I should have said it was identical to ours." Nathan flipped on a switch, which brought light to the room. Sora's gaze immediately falls on the far wall and she gasps at what she sees. On the wall are four sheathed swords propped up vertically to look like crosses, each of the swords look identical to the one in Sora's hand, with the exception of the crests they bear. "Sora I give you the Guardian Blades."
She walked over to them and quickly began examining them, looking back and forth between them and her own sword. "But, this is impossible, Gennai said that my sword was one of a kind."
"In a sense that's true," he said as she turned to him, "only you can posses the Blade of Love. As for our swords, they were given to us long ago by beings know as the Digi-Spheres they were the ones that chose us to be the Guardians as well as gave us our special digivices." Nathan said as he showed her his golden digivice.
Sora was in near shock. "But that looks almost identical to..." Sora had been pulling out her own digivice and as soon as it came close to Nathan's it erupted with a bright flash of golden light, when the light faded it was now the same golden color as Nathan's. "...mine."
It was Nathan's turn to be shocked; he had just seen an ordinary digivice transformed into a golden digivice, a digivice given only to him and the other Guardians, a digivice of immense power. It took him a few moments for his shock to wear off and his face to take on a serious look again. "I guess this means your one of us now Sora. Come on lets go tell the others, and we're going to get you started on some training for being a Guardian." He placed a hand on her shoulder and began leading her back to the others. There's only one person that would be capable of forging and giving Sora the sword and dagger other than the Digi-Spheres, there's just one small problem. If he is still alive, then where is he and why hasn't he contacted us.
Meanwhile Back at Digi-Corps Building
Tai and the other had arrived just ten minutes after 12:30, and they had been swamped with questions since they arrived. Izzy and Cody had both been swept over to computers as soon as they set foot in the building. Davis was their best Virtual Pilot, in the sense that he ran the Virtual Hood in computers, and so he was swept away with Izzy and Cody to be hooked up to give the scientists information on what was going on in the V-Net. Tai had nobody to take him anywhere but he knew he had to get to his office; there would undoubtedly be a flood of messages for him from his superiors. What he found, however, was not something he wanted to find. Amy, in his opinion, was having her butt royally chewed out by Mr. Fugiama for not knowing where Tai was. Of course she did actually know, due to the e-mail that had been on her terminal when she arrived at work that morning, Nathan had sent it to make sure she knew what was up and due to her loyalty to him there was no way she could ever tell Mr. Fugiama where he was.
"Young lady I demand that you tell me where Kamiya is this instant or so help me I will make sure you never work in this town again." Mr. Fugiama demanded, to his surprise her resolve didn't waiver nor did her tone of voice and answer.
"As I have already told you Mr. Fugiama, I have no idea as to Mr. Kamiya's current location. He did not report in to work this morning, but if you want my opinion it must have been for a good reason. I have heard rumors that there could possibly have been an attempt on his life last night." her voice was completely unwavering in it's tone, it was still a calm but authoritative voice that she had been using ever since Mr. Fugiama arrived. Apparently ever since the American Presidents speech a little after 11 the higher ups had been in a panic, Mr. Fugiama had called down several times to find out what Tai knew but each time she gave him the same answer that she had just given him, even when he came storming into the building and up towards her. Tai didn't know but she had noticed him come around the corner and the shocked expression he had at how she was keeping her cool when Mr. Fugiama was nearly blowing a gasket, but his threat did strike a cord in Tai.
"Mr. Fugiama, I will not have you threatening my employees." Tai said in his own very practiced angry and authoritative voice. Even though he was younger than him Mr. Fugiama would always flinch whenever Tai used that voice. "Now why are you here and why do you want to see me?" He demanded taking secret pleasure in seeing Mr. Fugiama flinch.
"I...I..." he stuttered before he shook himself out of his stupor, but he had lost his ability to sound commanding. "I came down here because my superiors are screaming at me to find out what's going on and your secretary would not connect me to you. Now why don't you tell me where you have been when all of this has been going on." Mr. Fugiama finished being able to regain a small amount of his demeanor. Just as Tai was about to break into a sweat for not thinking up a good excuse for where he had been the phone on Amy's desk rang and her conversation caught their attention.
"Hello, Mr. Kamiya's office ... yes ... yes... Okay I'll tell both of them ... Thank-you." Amy finished as she hung up the phone and turned to face the two men. "That was the front desk, several men have just arrived. Apparently the government has just called an emergency meeting of the top officials of Digi-Corps and these men are acting as the governments liaisons, and they are heading up hear as we speak. Oh, and about Mr. Kamiya's location Mr. Fugiama. It states right hear in his planer that he had scheduled a meeting with the other digidestined to discus the recent events, which I hadn't had the opportunity to look at until just now because of how you kept interrupting my work." she said using a tone and voice that put even Tai's practiced one to shame.
"Well there you have it Fugiama." Tai said with an almost sarcastic tone to his voice, after which he looked up at the clock on the wall. "Now, it's already fifteen past one and the officials are most likely heading for the conference room as we speak so we should probably not keep them waiting. Amy, call down to computers and get Izumi up here and also call up our other top offices and have our people there prepare for Holo-conferencing." Tai turned away from Mr. Fugiama and began walking away quickly all the while smiling to himself. I have to remember to thank Nathan sometime. I kinda enjoy having someone who can scare the daylights out of Fugiama more than me, not to mention doing an excellent job covering for me.
45 minutes latter
The meeting had been going on for nearly a half hour and Tai was not having a good time with it. Tai was sitting at the end of the long conference table with Izzy on his right and a quite flustered looking Mr. Fugiama on his left. On the left side of the table sat the three men that had arrived from the government, one of which was actually a good friend of Tai's. It was Mr. Ishida; he had been appointed to be of the Digi Corps advisors due to his extensive involvement with digimon in the years prior to the formation of Digi Corps. The other two he had no idea who they were but the seriously reminded him of the old movie Men in Black, after all the were dressed exactly like them, right down to the black suits and sunglasses which they refused to take off. On the table's right side were what appeared to be five transparent humans sitting in the conference chairs. This was the wonder of the Holo-conferencing technology. It allowed people to be represented in some form or another at other places on the planet. Two of the holograms were of Mr. Takenouchi and his protégé Jim Kido, they were Digi Corps top researchers when it came to myths and legends of the digital world. Next was Catherine, the same one Tai and TK had met when they had gone to France and destroy the Control Spires, she had become quite the go getter since they were children and had worked her way up to the head of the European main office. Next to Catherine sat Micheal he was Digi Corps American head person and had been based in Washington until the Devidramon attacked it. Sitting next to Micheal was a person Tai never expected to speak with over a communications screen let alone in person, this person was the President of the United States himself, apparently the UN had believed he should be included in this meeting due to the fact that it was his country that had been attacked first.
"All of this information is well and good Kamiya but I would like to know your source of this information?" asked one of the men behind the sunglasses. He was the older of the two and appeared to be in his late fifties, he was of average height, lightly wrinkled skin and silvery grey hair.
"Yes correct us if we're wrong but you have had no actual contact with the digital world to find out the truth about these claims you are making about the Control Spires and Dark Rings." stated the other man behind the glasses. He was younger, in his early forties, he was somewhat taller than his older counterpart and had pitch black hair and a somewhat smug grin on his face.
"You are correct, we have had no contact with the digital world to confirm this." Tai lied threw his teeth while tiring to sound convincing. Only two other people new the actual truth, one was his best friend Izzy who had been backing up everything he had been saying, the other was the American President himself who hadn't said a word since the meeting had began. "However, I am still convinced that what I'm saying is true. The events that have been taking place on the Digital Worlds map are exactly the same as what happened ten years ago when we had fought the Digimon Emperor."
"And besides," Izzy said again backing up his friend, "when we received the data spike we received great amounts of data that would tend to confirm our suspicions."
"Yes but you don't have any solid proof now do you." sneered the younger man in an almost sound of mock victory.
"Mr. President, what do you make of all of this? After all, we heard you in your speech mention that they are being controlled." asked the older man with sunglasses.
"I am agreeing with the young Kamiya on this one, our monitoring stations in America received the same data spike and our people have came to the same conclusion he has. Am I not correct Micheal?" The President asked to the hologram of the young man sitting next to him.
"Correct sir." Micheal quickly responded.
A sudden knock came to the door as Amy quickly stepped in and over to Tai whispering a few things to him.
"Excuse everyone but I think that there's something that we should see." Tai stated as Amy walked over to the far wall and two panels slid away to reveal a large screen TV which she quickly turned onto the IBC (International Broadcasting Company) channel as the lights automatically dimmed.
"As we just reported to you minutes ago, the United Nations has received a video tape from the person whom the American President has identified as the one responsible for the attacks on Washington ... Wait, I've just received word that IBC has been able to obtain a copy of the tape. We are going to switch over to that tape now and show you our viewer what this Overlord has to say." said the female news anchor as the screen went fuzzy for a few seconds and then switched over to a shadowed person who's face was giving off know distinctive features.
"Delegates of the world, I am the Overlord. I am the one in control of the Digital World and I will be the one in control of yours very soon. I give you this ultimatum; if you do not surrender to me by the end of one week's time then I will come to your world and take it by force. Remember, there will be no negotiating, you have one week to surrender or you shall face my wrath." The shadow finished speaking and the picture went fuzzy again before it switched back to the news anchor.
"As of yet UN officials have released no official comment on this ultimatum but we will keep you updated to any further developments. This is Carol Worthington for IBC News." finished the news reporter as Amy turned the TV off and the lights resumed their normal brightness.
The cell phone of the older man in sunglasses suddenly rang; he picked it up and listened to it for a few seconds before putting it away and rising to his feet. "I'm sorry everyone but I'm afraid I will have to call our meeting short. My associate and I have just been call away. Good bye everyone." The older man said very dismissively as he and his younger companion bowed to the group and then left.
"Well if this meetings over then I should be going my self, my wife will kill me if I'm late again." Mr. Fugiama said as he quickly got up and left the room himself.
"Okay the coasts clear." Amy said to no one in particular and suddenly there was a quick flash of light and Nathan was standing at the end of the room next to Amy. Both Mr. Takenouchi and Jim jumped in surprise, as well as Mr. Ishida, at seeing someone they didn't know pop in out of nowhere, but none of the digidestined or the President jumped.
"Wait what's going on here?!" Mr. Ishida demanded rather loudly.
"Relax Mr. Ishida he's a friend." Tai said tiring to explain to the older man. "One that I'm glad is here."
"Thank you Tai, I'm glad you feel that way. Anyway Mr. Ishida, Mr. Takenouchi, Mr. Kido, my name is Nathan Pepper one of a special group that was chosen to protect the digital world long ago. I am also a digidestined and I am here to give you some information on what has been going on." Nathan explained introducing himself.
"Pepper, I assume you just saw the Overlords ultimatum as well?" said the President to the newly arrived man.
"Indeed I did Mr. President, it was the reason why I sent Amy in here to tell Tai." responded Nathan quite calmly.
"I assumed so. Never the less, this change of events greatly disturbs me. The UN has received threats from terrorists in the past but nothing of this magnitude before. I must be going, I will need to speak with my advisors and then get in contact with the UN. If we find out any information I will let you know." stated the President with a very grave tone to his voice.
"We will do likewise Sir." replied Nathan, the image of the President nods his head and then blinks out.
"Will someone please tell us what's going on now?" demanded Mr. Takenouchi trying to sound as nice as possible.
"Of course, I shall start at the beginning." Nathan said as he started to begin explaining exactly who he was and what was going on.
"Now, are there any further questions?" asked Nathan after over a half hour of explaining, leaving out certain details about the Overlords actual identity because he would tell Mr. Ishida when it was a little more private.
"I must admit Nathan zat I did not know all of zat about what waz going on in ze Digital World. I do have a queztion zat iz a little of topic zoe. Who were zoe's men zat came in with you Mr. Ishida?" Catherine asked Mr. Ishida after all the information that Nathan had explained sank in.
"I have know idea, I was expecting to meet some of my colleagues when I got the call to come down here, but instead they were here saying they were from a government committee." he responded to her question but it was not the answer she was hoping for.
"Well if they actually work for a government committee then it has to be a secret one. I ran their bio-scans from the front desk through every government employee on the planet and I came up with nothing. I even ran them through the civilian files an I still got next to nothing, I couldn't even get a name." Explained Amy who was still in the room standing next to Nathan.
"Well whoever they are, the give me the creeps." said Tai as his body slightly shudders.
"I know what you mean Tai," said Micheal, "I may not be there physically but I got the same feeling."
"For the time being we will not worry about who they were, however, if it becomes obvious that they pose a threat to stopping the Overlord then we will have to search into them more." Nathan said as he looked at every one at the table. "One thing I must ask is that everything that I have told you, you must not tell anyone else. There will come a time when our existence will become known to others with the exception of the Americans but now is not the time. For now, though, we should all get back to what needs done where we are. Oh, and Mr. Takenouchi, be prepared for a surprise when you end this link." Mr. Takenouchi's face took on a slightly quizzical look before his hologram blinked out with the others.
"You sent Sora there didn't you." Izzy said with a grin on his face.
"Mhh hm. I figured he should see her now that she's back, before our fighting begins." Nathan said
"Wait, if Sora's back then that would mean..." Mr. Ishida had started with quite a happy tone but stopped when he saw the sad expressions on the others faces.
"Mr. Ishida, there is something that Tai and I need to tell you about your son. Amy, Izzy could you please leave the room and let us have sometime to talk?" Nathan asked with a somber tone.
"Of course I have some work to get done anyway, come on Amy." Izzy said as he and Amy walked out of the room.
"What happened to my son, is he..." Mr. Ishida tried to ask but could not bring himself to say the last word.
"No Mr. Ishida your son is not dead," Nathan said as relief washed over the other mans face, "however, you will not like what I am about to say. Your son, Mr. Ishida, is the Overlord."
Mr. Ishida was in as state of shock at this information. Nathan and Tai both knew it was going to take some time to explain it to him and to calm him down.
Unidentified Building, Location Unknown
A black limo pulls up in front of the building, all it's windows are tinted so that none can see in side. One door opens and out steps the younger man from the meeting at Digi Corps. Inside the car is the older man with a very impatient look on his face.
"Remember, don't get cocky on this. The Alliance will not stand for any more failures from this facility. This Overlord problem is big enough, you should have taken care of it long ago." scolded the older man.
"Sir, there is no reason to get angry. We have done everything possible to stop this threat, but don't worry, I already have a plan to stop this threat once and for all." The younger man said with a very wicked smile on his face.
"See that you do," He said as he began to close the door but then opened it back up to say one more thing, "you are already skating on thin ice as it is, these sabotage problems are not helping your standing within the Alliance. I suggest that you deal with this quickly, least you face the consequences." With that the door was shut and the limo begins driving away with the younger man cursing under his breath.
"Blasted fools, they don't understand what is happening. They just sit up in their offices and let us little men take the fall, well I'll show them, I'll show them all." The man ranted to no one in particular as he walked into the building and out of sight.
Guardian Base, Above Grace Hill
6:40 P.M. Tokyo Time
"There we go, the last circuit." stated Starmon as he replaced the last blown computer circuit and replaced the wall panel afterward. Tunskmon and Nathan are standing behind Starmon as he finishes up and faces them; Tunskmon is standing somewhat submissively next to his partner who actually had a somewhat hopeful gleam in his eyes. "Well that was the last of the blown circuits, the main comm. systems should be coming back online now."
"Good, this base's computer is far more advanced than the one in our library. Plus we will have more processing power since we'll have them working together." Nathan says as he turns his head down to face Tunskmon. "Now let this be a lesson to you, don't start into something unless you know for sure what you're doing or you have proper instructions."
"Ok, but it's just..."
"Your hopeless." said Nathan with more ease in his voice as he rubbed the top of Tunskmon's head.
"Yeah, yeah. You've been sayin' that for years." Tunskmon retorted
"I know, and you still haven't gotten it threw that thick skull." Nathan said as the three of them each gave a small chuckle at the short but true statement. "Starmon, contact Erin and tell her to get ready to switch main controls for the blocking program over to the base. I'll be up to the bridge in a few minutes, I have to swing by the Med. Bay to pick up something first." Nathan said as he began walking down the hallway.
"I will do that Sir, but what do you have to pick up in the Medical Bay?" Starmon asked as he watched Nathan continue down the hallway.
"Aspirin, for the new headache I'm no doubt going to get when I get to the Bridge." He said the last part in a sarcastic tone as he rounded a corner and went out of sight.
"You know, you're the reason for his headache." said Starmon mater-of-factly as they began walking down the halls to the Bridge.
"I am not!" Tunskmon said defensively.
"Oh please your one of his worst problems." Starmon said almost sarcastically in his western accent.
"Oh yeah, well you just don't have any sense of humor. Besides I already have a way to cheer him up. All it will take is..." Tunskmon began to mumble countless ideas off of how he was going to cheer Nathan up, most of which would only result in him getting an even bigger headache no doubt.
Floramon was only half right. Starmon thought as he rolled his eyes at Tunskmon's continuous mumbling. He's not nearly as bad as a Veemon; he is as bad as a Veemon. "Enough with your planning, if I were you I'd forget about it because it will most likely only get you into more trouble. Now let's just get to the Bridge and inform Erin that we're ready to begin."
"Alright alright, I get the idea." Tunskmon said as he threw up his hands/paws in defeat. No matter how much he hated to admit it, Starmon's logic was hardly ever wrong, especially when it came to him.
"Nathan walks onto the bridge and sees Erin's face on the main screen. Starmon and Gotsumon are at the two side console on the lower section of the bridge, Floramon is at the forward console (the Helm) making sure the base is still in a stable position. Jen is also on the bridge at the main Ops. Console, of the upper part of the bridge, preparing for the link up and Tunskmon is in the Captains chair acting like he's all-important and everything.
"Tunskmon!" Nathan said quite forcefully, Tunskmon jumped right off the seat in shock, he'd been rambling to himself so much he didn't even here Nathan come in. He turns around to face his partner with an embarrassed look on his face. "Get to station."
"Right away." He said as he quickly scurried to the one of the other consoles on the upper part of the bridge.
"Don't you think you might have been a little harsh?" Whispered Jen as Nathan walks further onto the bridge.
"Do you remember what he used to be like before I taught him some lessons, back when we all started?" Nathan asked as he stopped by her.
"Well yeah…Oh." Jen said as she realized what Nathan was getting at and he continued walking.
Nathan walks down and sits in the Captains chair and brings up a raised console from the side of the chair and swings it in front of him.
"We're ready to begin whenever you are Nathan." came Erin's voice from the screen.
"Alright, run the final systems checks and sound off when ready." Nathan ordered.
"Main computer is ready."
"All circuitry is running at peak efficiency and showing ready."
"All communication systems are ready for transfer. We're ready Nathan." said Jen as she finished off the checklist.
"Everything's ready on this end too Nathan, all Guardian computers worldwide are reporting ready for link up." said Erin.
"Alright, everyone get ready for anything. We've never tried anything this large before so there maybe a few problems while we begin the link up." said Nathan explaining to everyone. "All right begin the link up."
A humming could be heard as the gigabytes and terabytes of information began coming threw the linkup, which was right under the bridge. Several circuit boards near the communications console suddenly sparked and smoked but they kept going. A beeping was suddenly heard on the ops counsel.
"I'm picking up a slight variation in the signal, attempting to compensate." stated Jen explaining the problem.
"The power levels of the Core are starting to drain, if we don't finish this quickly I don't know if I can keep the engines going." stated Floramon from the helm.
"Don't worry we're almost done." said Nathan to calm everyone.
"Thirty seconds till the engines fail." said Floramon
"Almost." Nathan said as he began typing on his console trying to reroute any available power to the engines.
"Ten seconds." warned Floramon, several more seconds passed and she was just about to warn the five-second mark as the humming stopped.
"And we're done." Nathan said as he put away the console.
"The engines are back at full power to." stated Floramon
"Everything's still good on this end Nathan." said Erin from the screen.
"Good, we've got a few things to fix here but we seemed to stay in pretty good shape. I think we're going to let the computer handle anything that tries to get through tonight." said Nathan with a lighter tone at the end.
"Finally, I can get a good nights sleep." Erin said in a relieved tone.
"We all will, Jen and I will see you when we get everything fixed up here." Nathan said with a smile on his voice.
"You bet." Erin said as the screen turned off.
"All right Floramon, Gotsumon take care of the blown circuits here on the bridge, Starmon I want you to go down to engineering and see why the core started to drain and take Tunskmon with you, Jen and I will head down to the comm. room and see if there's anything blown down there. And remember Tunskmon, don't do anything unless Starmon tells you." Nathan said doing a little scolding at the end.
"Yeah, yeah I know." Tunskmon said as they all when about to their duties.
To be continued...
[Author's Note] Okay I'm sorry, no fighting in this one and a whole lot of new questions but hey I can't have tons of fighting and very little plot line and have a good story. But don't worry, I'll try to get some more fighting in soon and to answer some more of the questions that keep popping up. As always, please R&R.