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New Threats--Part XI
Matt set TK on the floor of an abandoned building before sitting down himself. He had easily escaped from the dogs after another sudden burst of speed. It was still strange for him when reality seemed to move as though it was on replay.
TK was steadily regaining health and the bite marks were almost invisible already. His skin, which had only minutes ago been white as snow was regaining its color.
And then his eyes began to flutter as the last of the bite marks disappeared.
Matt hovered anxiously above TK, watching as his eyes fluttered one final time, then slowly opened.
"Thank goodness you're all right!" Matt exclaimed, helping TK to his feet.
TK looked around at the new surroundings and wondered: "where are we?"
"Creed caught us when you were still unconscious, but we got away. Well, everyone except for Mimi anyways. We're in here because a pack of wild dogs was chasing us," Matt explained.
"Where are the others?"
Matt thought, trying to figure out where his other friends had gone, but he had no idea.
TK took the silence as this and said: "I think I can get them here…"
~*~
Meanwhile, halfway across town, Joe, Sora, Izzy, Kari and Tai were trapped in an apartment as the dogs continued to ram the door. The wood was splintering more openly now.
Another ram and the door shuddered and for a moment all the children thought it would fall in. But it didn't and they remained safe for one moment more.
"We've got to get out of here," Sora muttered, looking for any exit that could work but finding none other than the window. Unfortunately, they were on the second story and a drop like that could break a person's leg or maybe even kill them if they landed wrong.
Another dog rammed the door and this time it broke a hole in the bottom, but still the door remained standing. But the dog was trying to squeeze through the hole and it had nearly succeeded.
Its head was already through and its front paws were scrabbling on the floor in front of it, trying to pull itself through.
Kari was very scared and it took a lot of effort to refrain from crying as the dog continued to pull itself through the hole.
Then it was through and it stood facing them all, crazed eyes flashing, jaws working in anticipation of its meal.
It went for Kari, lunging through the air toward her. Tai was too far away to help Kari and the young girl dropped to the floor as the dog came closer to her.
But then there was a flash of incredibly bright light that made everybody shield his or her eyes. It gradually faded a bit to reveal a multi-colored glowing sphere and Kari was in the center of it.
The dog bounced off of the light and yelped in surprise. Then the sphere of light raced at the dog, encasing it inside and lifting it high into the air. It yelped once again before being dropped to the ground, unconscious.
Kari looked wide-eyed at the dog, then at the others, very surprised at what just happened. But there was no time to contemplate what was happening as more dogs were squeezing into the room through the hole in the door.
Joe felt as though every nerve in his body was filled with adrenaline. The feeling startled him, as he knew he would usually panic in this type of a situation. But he felt calm.
The charged feeling came stronger, energy coursing through him as a huge dog raced through the door at him.
The dog was growling at him, foam dripping from its snout, eyes ablaze. But still he wasn't worried.
Then there was a flash like lightning and the dog keeled over, out cold after being zapped with electricity.
Joe stood silent for a moment as realization hit. That wasn't one of his friends who had knocked the dog out. It had been him. He had zapped the dog with electricity. But his astonishment was put on hold when he noticed Sora hitting dogs with light blue beams. Even from across the room, he could feel the cold radiating from the beams of ice.
But dogs were flooding into the apartment now. There was no way they could all be beaten in time.
It was a mass of dogs, and so many more were waiting out in the hall. They were filling the room, lunging for the five children inside, jaws snapping.
Then the dog that had jumped through the window went for Izzy, its own blood dripping on the ground and there was no way Izzy could avoid it…
~*~
Mimi felt so useless, unable to tell her friends what they had to do and why Creed wanted them dead.
The heavy chains would give not even in the slightest and she sighed, slumping down against them.
I wonder if the dogs found them yet, Mimi thought. She shuddered thinking what it would mean for them.
But her wondering was replaced with a touch of fear when she realized she was glowing. And then the chains around her wrists disappeared, as did the walls of Creed's surveillance room.
Then she was in one of the abandoned buildings in town along with Matt, TK, Izzy, Joe, Tai, Kari and Sora.
"What--?" Joe muttered, looking around expecting to see the pack of dogs.
Izzy also surveyed the surroundings, but saw none of the dogs that had been attacking him.
"TK, how did you--" Kari cried, extremely happy to see TK awake and well again.
TK shrugged but before he could reply Mimi shouted: "I have to say something! I know why Creed wants us all dead!"
"Why?" chorused the seven other children.
"Well, he's from the future, right? In the future we kill him."
"We've got to get to him first then," Tai stated.
And so the eight former Digidestined set to planning…