Saving The Internet
Part 8
"Okay. Let me get this straight. Your worst enemy has made a deal with the Dark Masters?" Tai asked incredulously.
"Yes. Exac…" Philzurfer began. But he didn't get to finish his sentence. Suddenly, the Authors were gone! They had disappeared!
"Ah!" Digitally Obsessed exclaimed as she hit the ground with a soft thud. She looked around. She sat in the middle of a vast desert, with nothing in view but tall cactus. She slowly stood to her feet.
"Great!" she muttered. "Stuck in a desert with no food, no water, and not a person in sight!" She looked around again, flipping her white, black, red and brown streaked hair over her shoulder as she did so.
"Hello!?" she called out. No answer. She was alone.
"Whoa!" 'Cuno cried as she fell towards a large body of water. She flapped her cerulean blue wings, filling them with air, and soaring upwards and away from the water. Suspending herself in midair, she glanced around. All around below her, stretched clear, sparkling water. No land in sight. At least, when she first looked. On her second glance around, she noticed a small, tiny island, about twice the size of her room at home. She started towards it to rest.
"I wonder if any of the others are here…" she wondered out loud. "Hello? Anyone there?" no one answered. "I guess I'm alone," she said.
"Ahhh!" Lillyanna* shouted as she tumbled towards a green sea of treetops. She felt the wind rushing past her body. She quickly spread out her white wings, and slowly glided towards one of the top branches of a large oak tree.
"Is anyone else here? Kyra? Sumi? Anyone?" Upon getting no answer, she glared down towards the ground. The ground was carpeted with pine needles, and barley any light showed. She slowly flew down the ground below, to get a better look at where she was.
Evil Zeramon looked around his new surroundings. Looking down, he noticed that he was probably a thousand feet up in the air. He cautiously backed away from the edge of the mountain on which he was standing. No reason to enlarge the chances of falling, he thought. He stole another glance towards the ground, noticing, as he did, how the wind blew the edges of his white robe around in the air.
If it wanted to, the wind could blow me down to the bottom, he thought. He looked around, even though it was obvious that he was alone.
"Where in the world am I?" Kyra asked herself, even though there was no one around to hear her. It was almost pitch black, and after a quick glance around, she realized that she was in a cave.
"Great! And Izzy's not here, either!" she added. She quickly stole another glance at her surroundings. "There's nothing here! No food, no water, and no people! And how did I get here? Izzy?"
She shook her head, her auburn ponytail waving in the air as she did so.
7 of 11 sighed and glanced again at the metal factories that surrounded him. "A metal factory town with no people?" he questioned out loud. "There has to be someone around here!"
"If we see someone burn him?" 7 of 11 considered his invisible leprechaun's advice. "I disagree! If we see someone, we find out who they are first!" He seemed to listen again. "Then we burn them? Okay! But the way things are looking, there's no one else here!"
Sumi sighed and sat down. Just a moment ago, she had disappeared from the Internet where she had been wandering around with the Digidestined and the other Author's, and now, she was in some underground cave.
She ran her hand through her dark blue and purple highlighted hair, noticing, as she did so that the dark blue band around her forehead had fallen off, somewhere. She pulled her glove off of her right hand, and felt around, finally finding it.
She listened closely, trying to catch some sound. But there was no sound other than the sound of her own breathing, and she knew that she was alone.
"Wonderful!" Mysterious muttered. She gazed at tall prairie grasses swaying in the wind. The wind carefully blew her black hood down, letting it fall against her black robe. She quickly snatched it up and pulled it back over her head. She looked up at the blazing sun that beat down intensely on her.
She glanced around again. Nothing. There was no life anywhere that she could see, except for the birds circling in the sunlight and the small bugs on the grass. "I'm alone," she said out loud.
Philzurfer sighed. All around him, were hills. Rolling, green hills. But he saw nothing else. He ran his hand through his brown hair. It seemed that he was alone.
"Philzurfer?" came the voice of his brother.
"David? Where did you come from?" Philzurfer questioned.
"From the same place you did," David replied. "And I think we're lost!"
Digitally Obsessed stopped walking and pushed her hair away from her face. It was so hot! She had been walking for what seemed forever, now. She carefully sat down near a cactus, hoping the catch a bit of shade. She hadn't seen anyone since she had disappeared.
"I wonder if any of the others disappeared too?" she wondered out loud.
She felt the wind flying past her, and she felt like she was falling. Looking down, she realized that she no longer sat in the desert, but was falling towards the ocean!
'Cuno looked down. She had been flying for over an hour, and she was beginning to feel tired. She saw another Small Island, a bit bigger than the last one, below her.
"Finally!" she exclaimed, dropping down towards it.
"Ahhhh!" she suddenly heard someone scream. Looking about, she realized that someone was falling towards the ocean! Even more amazing, it was one of the other Author's! Digitally Obsessed, to be exact!
Swooping towards the other Author, 'Cuno grabbed Digitally Obsessed by her wrist, and gently dropped her onto the small island.
Digitally Obsessed looked up. "Man, is it good to see someone!" she said.
Evil Zeramon looked down once more. He had climbed several hundred feet downwards, but it still seemed like forever to the ground. At least I'm still alive, he thought.
He shook his head, and looked down. "What!?" he shouted. Instead of hanging onto a large, protruding rock, he now hung on a leafy birch tree branch.
Lillyanna* sighed. She had been walking, sometimes flying, through the gloomy forest for some time, with no one in sight. Suddenly, she thought she heard something. Looking upwards, she noticed Evil Zeramon hanging from a branch of a birch tree!
"Evil Zeramon?" she called out.
Evil Zeramon dropped to the ground. Lillyanna*?"
"How did you get here?" Lillyanna* questioned incredulously.
"I have noooo idea!" came Evil Zeramon's reply.
Kyra sighed and leaned against the damp wall of the cave. How long did this cave go on? She had been walking in the dark for quite awhile, now. She was pretty sure that her green shirt was covered in dirt.
Suddenly, everything seemed bright. Looking up, she saw that she was no longer in a cave, but in a town made up of metal factories!
7 of 11 looked up, hearing a gasp of surprise. He had been going in and out of metal factories for over an hour. Looking around, he noticed that Kyra was standing a few feet away, leaning against one of the metal factories!
"Now where am I?" he heard her question. "Still no Izzy?"
"Hey, Kyra!" he called out, starting towards her.
"7 of 11?" she looked surprised. "It's good to see someone, even if it isn't Izzy!" she exclaimed.
Sumi dropped onto the ground. The underground tunnel had been getting smaller and smaller, and now, it was almost closed in around her. She couldn't even back up, much less turn around. The air was starting to get thick, when suddenly, she was free, standing in tall, prairie grass. Up ahead, she saw a figure in a black robe.
"Mysterious!" she called out.
Mysterious turned, and waved. "Hey, Sumi!" she replied.
A girl with short blond hair that was pulled back in a ponytail rubbed her head. She had blue eyes, wore a pink and white sundress, and a small, amber locket. She stood in the middle of a prairie, the wind whipping her hair around, the ends of her dress swirling around her legs. She was waiting.
"He said that they would be here…" she murmured, when suddenly eight mystified Authors appeared before her.
"Where are we now?" Kyra sighed.
"And who are you?" Evil Zeramon added.
"I'm Gatomon_1," the girl replied. "Gennai said that you, the other Author's, would be here."
"Gennai?" Mysterious inquired.
"Yes. He told me that I would be needed to help defeat the Dark Masters. Whatever he meant by that."
"I see you have survived," came a new voice.
"Gennai!" 'Cuno exclaimed.
"Yes," Gennai replied.
"What just happened with us disappearing?" 7 of 11 asked.
"It was a test!" came Gennai's answer. "To see how well you could survive on your own."
"I take it we passed?" 'Cuno asked.
"Yes. And Gatomon_1 will be joining you. I will now transport you all back to the Internet!"
To be continued…
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