Chapter 4: Hail to the Chief
The Digidestined have arrived in Washington, DC, and are on their way to the White House on a bus. "Exactly how do we get to the President?" Matt asks. "We can't just ask to see him!"
"I know," Izzy says, "We have to come up with a plan to get past all the security."
"I have an idea." Ken says. Then he turns to Izzy. "Izzy, can you pull up anything on the White House that'll help us out, like uniforms or interns or something."
"I know they have interns, there." Mimi says, "That's all they talked about a year or two ago."
"Good, we'll just disguise one of us as an intern, get the proper clearance, and see the President." Ken says.
"But none of us look old enough to be in college." Kari says.
"What about Lillymon?" Gatomon says to Kari, "She'd pass for a twenty year old."
"Yeah, we'll make Lillymon look like an intern," Joe says, "but how will she get the proper clearance? They don't just give that kind of thing away!"
"I could use my Flower Necklace on anyone that gets suspicious." Lillymon says. "I've never used it on a human before, but it will probably work."
"Flower Necklace?" Davis asks.
"That's when Lillymon uses a ring of flowers to calm someone down." Mimi explains. "She used one on DarkTyrannomon to make him stop attacking, so it could work."
"This is the White House we're talking about here!" Joe says. "It's not like we're gonna be able to just walk in and talk to this guy!"
"Joe's right, we need to have a distraction or two." Sora says.
"I can help!" Gomamon says. "I'll use my Marching Fishes attack and make them fly around. Flying fish should get their attention!"
"Don't you all realize that this is a lot easier said than done?" Joe says.
"Yeah, but we don't have a lot of options!" Tai says, "besides, if we get caught, Lillymon will just take her disguise off and we'll tell the whole story. They'll have to believe us then!"
"Can I just wait outside, then?" Joe says, unsure of his friends' plan.
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"Here it is" Mimi says, pointing to the White House.
"Wow, it's really big!" Biyomon says while poking her head out of Sora's backpack.
"OK," TK says, "Me, Patamon, Kari, Gatomon, Lillymon, and Mimi will go in with the tour groups, and you guys can wait outside the gate."
"Wait a minute!" Davis says. "Why do you get to go with Kari? Why can't I?"
"Davis, the only reason they're going together is because their Digimon look the most like stuffed animals." Ken explained "Veemon's too big to pass off as one." Davis was thinking, "Why couldn't he be DemiVeemon right now!"
"OK, here are the straps," Matt says to TK and Kari, "Tie them to Patamon and Gatomon." Following Matt's orders, TK and Kari tie the straps to their Digimon to make them look like backpacks. Kari puts Gatomon on her back, and TK puts Patamon on Mimi's back. "Wait," Patamon says, "Why can't I ride on your back, TK?"
TK smiled, "Sorry, pal, but stuffed animal backpacks aren't exactly a guy thing!"
Sora was digging through a suitcase that they brought with them. "It's a good thing Mimi's mother let us borrow some of these clothes!" she says. "Here Lillymon, this should look professional enough." she says as she hands Lillymon a red business dress and sunglasses. Then she gets out a beret. "And here's a hat for you to wear, too."
"Wait Sora!" Mimi says, "Don't give her that!"
"Why not?" Sora says.
"Uh, well..." Mimi says, not exactly wanting to explain the whole Monica-thing. "Because it wouldn't fit! Use this instead!" she says as she gives Lillymon a turquoise Sunday hat.
"Great!" Lillymon says as she puts the dress on over her other dress. "How do I look?"
"Wonderful," Tai says, "You could be a regular model."
"Enough flattery, you guys." Izzy says, "I've printed out an exact replica of the keycard the interns use. I've entered you in the roster of interns as Lillian Roseman, so don't use your Flower Necklace until it is absolutely necessary! And another thing, your name will only remain on the roster for 30 minutes, so you have to hurry!"V
"Got it, but I don't know what floor it'll be on." she says.
"Don't worry, I know it." Mimi says, "I did a report on the White House for my Interior Decorating Basics class last year."
"Great, now go." Izzy says, 'and Gomamon will make a distraction."
TK, Kari, Mimi, and their Digimon head towards the tourist entrance. As they enter, the other kids heard screams coming from behind them. People were running out of the Washington Monument. They were screaming "Ghosts! Help!"
"Ghosts? They could be Bakemon!" Tai says. "Let's go get them."
"Wait, maybe we shouldn't rush into it." Cody says.
"Yeah, let's do a little spying of our own." Izzy says. "Tentomon, go to the top window and see what's going on, but don't get caught."
"All right, Izzy." Tentomon says, flying off to the top of the monument.
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To your left is a painting of President Ronald Reagan, who was..." the tour guide says. But the Digidestined had more important things to take care of.
Suddenly, fish begin to fly out of the fountain and around the windows. "Look," TK says, "Flying fish!"
Everyone runs to the window. While they are distracted, they head through the hallways towards the Oval Office. Lillymon, with her fake ID card pinned to her business dress, walks confidentally with Mimi, TK, and Kari following them. "Excuse me, ma'am!" a man in a suit says to her. "May I see your clearence?"
"Sure," Lillymon says, as she hands the card to the man.
"Lillian? Are you new here?" he asks.
"Yes..." she says, thinking of a reasonable story, "I just got hired"
"Nice to meet you," the man says, "but who are these kids? You have to have special clearence for them."
"Oh, these kids are...um..." she says, not able to think of an excuse to let them in.
"We're with the Presidential Honors Program!" Mimi says, "We're this year's winners!"
"Oh, OK," the man says, "but I still have to go get clearence. You wait here, and I'll get the proper papers for you kids."
"Sure thing," TK says.
As he walks past them and into a hallway, the Digidestined sneak off to the restricted area of the White House. "We need another distraction! Otherwise, we'll be caught!" Lillymon says.
"Don't worry," Gatomon says, "I can do it!" Seeing a chandelier, she unstraps herself off of Kari's back and runs around the room. "MEOW!" she yells as she gets everyone's attention. Guards and Secret Service agents try to catch her, but she uses her agility to dodge them. She then jumps on the chandelier and climbs into the center of it.
"I'll stay behind to keep an eye on Gatomon," Kari says, "You four go find the President!"
Mimi leads Lillymon, TK, and Patamon. "The Oval Office should be straight ahead. All we have to do is get past the secretary." They walk in and Lillymon walks up to the secretary.
"I'm here to take these kids to see the president." Lillymon says. "They are the winners of the Presidential Honors Program."
"And who exactly are you?" the secretary says skeptically.
"My name is Lillian Roseman. I'm a new intern..." she says, but the secretary interrupts her sharply.
"Young lady, I have reviewed each intern to enter this building," the secretary scolds, "and I know that I did not hire you. Now tell me who you really are while I have the guards throw you out!" But before the secretary can push the red button to call for security, Lillymon takes her disguise off. The secretary is in total shock. "What the hell...!"
FLOWER NECKLACE
Lillymon flies into the air and spins around the secretary at a super-sonic speed. A ring of flowers wraps around the secretary and she falls to the ground with a smile on her face.
"She'll be sleeping and having happy dreams for about 5 minutes," Lillymon explains, "then she'll wake up and not remember that we were even here!"
"Good, now let's go see the President," TK says as he opens the door to the Oval Office. They all walk in to find a man sitting behind a desk. He looks up from his papers to see two kids and a lady with a flower on her head and leafs for wings. "Let me guess, your with Greenpeace, right?" he asks.
Lillymon says, "No, Mr. President, we're here to save you!"
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Tentomon hovered by the window of the Washington Monument. He peered out from behind to see the Dark Digidestined having a meeting while the Bakemon fly around and guard them. Israel and Jack were working on a bunch of computer terminals they had hooked up in the monument. Karla was using her Tarot cards, hoping to figure out what their next move will be. The rest were sitting in a circle, discussing what was happening.
"Did they reach Washington?" Sara asked.
"Yeah, but we don't know where they are now," Mike says.
"Damn them," Trey says, hitting his fist against the ground. "Why can't they just die like normal people!"
"Do you think they've figured out what we're doing?" asked CJ.
"I don't think so," Trey says.
"They have gone to seek the kings wisdom according to the card of the King of Cups and the card of the Sword." Karla says, flipping the cards over. "They are in the White House right now!"
"Damn it!" Mike says, "How did they figure our plan out!"
"Don't worry," Amy says while filing her nails, "it's not as if they can actually reach the President and tell him about us. I mean, no one would believe them!"
"But we can't take that chance" Wiltmon says to Amy. "What will we do?"
"I say we destroy them all!" Bagumon says. "Level that whole place!"
"No, we need the President alive!" Trey says. "I say we kidnap him first, then we handle those other Digidestined. CJ! Karla! Go get our Ninjamon army! They should be able to handle this."
"Right," they say. They walk up to a computer monitor and take out their black digivices. They look like the older models, except they are made of a shiny black metal. They hold them up to the screen and are sucked into the Digital World. Amy says, "You do realize that something else will be sucked into the DigiWorld, don't you?"
"Do you think I care?" Trey says bitterly.
"You should; that's the reason the Digidestined got suspicious, remember?" she says smugly.
"Shut the hell up! No one cares what you think!" Trey says, with his face turning a deep red. Amy just smiled and laughed to herself.
Just then, Israel and Jake walk up to them. "We've just finished converting the monument into a Control Spire!" Israel says. "We will be able to launch the White Rings around Washington within the hour!"
"Great!" Mike says, "As soon as we take this city, we will be able to control the entire government, and then the world!"
"But first we need to get the President away from those Digidestined!" Sara says.
"Don't worry," CJ says through the computer. "The squad is on it's way." After saying that, the Ninjamon popped out of the computer one at a time.
"Oh no!" Tentomon thinks to himself, "I gotta tell the others!"
He flies down to Izzy to tell him about the urgent news. "Izzy!" he yells, "They're going to attack the White House soon, we've got to hold them off!"
"Anything else?" Agumon asks Tentomon.
"Yeah, they turned that monument into a control spire!"
"Are they trying to capture our Digimon?" Ken asks.
"I don't know, but we'd better armor-digivolve!" Cody says.
DIGI ARMOR ENERGIZE!
Veemon...
Hawkmon...
Armadillomon......Armor-Digivolve to...
...Flamedramon!
...Shurimon!
...Digmon!
Just then, the fleet of Ninjamon rush out from the monument.
"Don't worry, Matt, we'll help too!" Gabumon says.
"OK, we're going to piss off a lot of Americans, but we may have to destroy the Washington Monument." Izzy says. "I don't see any other way!"
"OK, Digmon, you heard Izzy!" Cody yells. "Attack it now!"
Digmon yells
GOLD RUSH
and sends his drills towards the monument. But a barrier- exactly like the kind surrounding America- prevents his drills from hitting the monument.
"Oh, no!" Sora yells. "They put a barrier around it! What'll we do know?"
"We'll just stop the Ninjamon one at a time!" Davis says. "Flamedramon, get them!"
"Sure thing, Davis!" he says as he charges at them. But they are too fast for him. Flamedramon then attacks with his FIRE ROCKETS attack, deleting three of them. Shurimon, the samurai of the Digimon, uses his DOUBLE STAR attack and nails two of them. He then is surrounded by them, but before they can hit him with their ninja stars, he uses NINJA WIND to teleport away from them. Digmon then comes out from underground and uses ROCK CRACKING and they are swallowed up by the earth.
All of the Rookie Digimon guard the Digidestined from the Ninjamon.
STICKY NET
PEPPER BREATH
BLUE BLASTER
SPIRAL TWISTER
SUPER SHOCKER
MARCHING FISHES
However, they were unable to stop them all, and about a dozen or so leaped over them and headed towards the White House.
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"Excuse me, miss, but who are y'all?" President Bush asks Mimi.
"I'm Mimi, this is TK and Lillymon. She's a Digimon." Mimi answers.
"Digimon?" Bush asks.
Mimi explains the whole thing about the Digimon and the Dark Digidestined that are supposed to attack. President Bush is even more confused, and a little skeptical.
"Young lady, that's a mighty hard story to swallow." President Bush says. "Next you'll tell me that pigs can fly!" Just then, Patamon unstrapped himself and flew to the President. "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" Bush yells, "You're a flying pig!"
"No, silly!" Patamon says, "My name's Patamon!"
"So you're a Digimon, too?" Bush asks.
"Yep, but we're nice Digimon." Patamon says while sitting on top of his head. "We like people!"
"Yeah, but there are bad Digimon, too!" TK says. "And we think that they'll try to get you, which is why we had to see you!"
"This is all too unreal! First there's a cat stuck in the Nancy Reagan chandelier, and now some kids are telling me that I'm in danger by digi-somethings." the President says in denial.
"Mr. President!" Mimi says in anger, "We didn't break into the White House and risk getting arrested for terrorism or something for you to not believe us after we have a pixie Digimon in an interns uniform and a flying Digimon laying on your head! I mean, my parents voted for you; the least you could do is believe us!" Everyone was in shock. TK couldn't believe that Mimi was scolding the President of the United States! What's next- Ogremon winning the Mr. Universe contest?
"I'm not doubting you, little lady, but it's gonna be a while before all this can soak in," Bush says, "But I tell you what; y'all seem to know more about this than I do. I'll call my Cabinet over for y'all to discuss this with them." Suddenly, though, breaking glass was heard.
"Uh, oh!" TK says, "We'd better get you out of here!"
"Sure thing, I'll call Marine 1 over here!" Bush says.
TK leaves the Oval Office to see what was happening. Kari ran up to meet him, and Nefertimon was holding the Ninjamon back.
ROSETTA STONE
she yells as she sends a stoned tablet of energy at the Ninjamon. It explodes and deletes one of them. The rest of the Digidestined meet up to help Nefertimon out, but another dozen of Ninjamon follow, throwing their ninja stars at them.
Marine 1 lands on the South Lawn. Secret Service agents and Army soldiers exit it and enter the White House. The soldiers fight with the Ninjamon while the Secret Service agents search for the President. TK and Kari meet up with them, while Pegasusmon helps out Nefertimon. "The President is with our friends in the Oval Office!" Kari yells. The agents follow her to the Oval Office.
"Mr. President, are you okay," the head agent asks.
"I'm fine, but where's Laura?" the President asks about his wife.
"Help!" a woman screams.
"Oh my God!" Bush says as he recognizes his wife's voice.
"Don't worry, we'll save her!" the agent says, "but we have to get you to the plane!"
"I'm not leaving my wife!" he yells in protest.
"Look, Mr. President!" Mimi screams as she sees a Ninjamon holding a woman in a yellow business dress hostage. It is the First Lady, Laura Bush, and she has a samurai sword to her throat. "Give up, or your wife will die!" the Ninjamon says.
"All right, but don't hurt her!" Bush says.
"Mr. President, you can't!" TK says. But just then, the Ninjamon screams in agony as he is drilled in the back by another ninja star. It is Shurimon. The Ninjamon was deleted, and the First Lady fell to the ground. The President runs to her, "Laura, are you all right?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine," she says, still confused about what was happening, "What's going on, George?"
"We'll explain later" Shurimon says, "But we have to get out of here!" Shurimon then de-digivolves to Hawkmon. "I don't know how long we can hold them off; we're running out of energy!"
They leave the White House and head to the helicopter. The other Digidestined and the Rookie Digimon are waiting for them at Marine 1. Nefertimon and Pegasusmon are coming, also. They are still shooting their attacks at the Ninjamon.
CAT'S EYE BEAM
STAR SHOWER
They finally de-digivolve back to Gatomon and Patamon as they enter Marine 1. The helicopter quickly flies off and away from the battleground. The President looks at the White House. The columns have been cracked, the windows were smashed in. Smoke was coming from his office, which he just got in three weeks ago. "This is horrible." He mumbled to himself. Meanwhile, Davis was jumping up and cheering.
"Hooray!" Davis says, "We showed those fake Digidestined who the real deal is!"
"Yeah," Tai says, "but we still have to get the President to safety."
Just then the shield surrounding the Washington Monument disappeared. White Rings flew out of in. There were thousands of them.
"Oh, no!" Cody says. "They're going to get our Digimon!"
"Wait a sec," Sora says, "those are way too many to be going after only 12 Digimon!" As she pointed this out, the Digidestined see the real target of the Rings- humans. The Rings wrapped around peoples' necks and put them under the Dark Digidestined's spell. More White Rings flew into the Capitol building and the Supreme Court; there was no doubt that they were going after the senators, representatives, and Supreme Court justices of America.
"They weren't meant for Digimon, they were meant for people!" Matt says. He then sees about a dozen rings head towards them. "Hey guys! We have a problem!"
"Don't worry" Biyomon says, "We'll handle it!" She, Tentomon, Patamon, Lillymon, and Hawkmon fly out of the helicopter and begin to destroy the White Rings.
SPIRAL TWISTER
SUPER SHOCKER
BOOM BUBBLE
FLOWER CANNON
HAWK BUZZSAW (A/N- I don't know what the exact name is, but this sounds good)
They destroy some of them, but the rest pass them up. They race towards the helicopter. Veemon sees this and gets the rest of the Digimon to stop them.
VEE HEAD-BUTT
DIAMOND SHELL
LIGHTNING PAW
All the White Rings are destroyed, but there are thousands more that have captured Washington DC. "Does this mean that we've lost?" Yolei asks.
"They captured the government!" Davis says.
"Well, technically they've only captured the Federal government," the President tells Davis, "but each state has its own governing system. They do not need the Federal government in order to function. These other kids will have to capture each individual state in order to claim America."
"And that's not exactly very easy," Laura Bush says, "because each state has military bases in it, and since they know what has happened to Washington, hopefully they'll be ready to act."
"But ma'am," Izzy says to the First Lady, "if those kids make it look like nothing happened in Washington, then they will have total control of the military!"
"That must be why they wanted to conquer America first," Ken figures, "because it would be harder to do it when the US government saw what they were doing! By starting with America first, they gain control of the world's most powerful military!"
"But with them having to take over each state at a time, we still have a chance to stop them." Tai says.
"But how, young man?" the First Lady asks.
"We need to find these eggs" Izzy says, "by solving these clues."
"Mr. President," the co-pilot says, "The Vice-President and some of the Cabinet members are waiting for you at Andrews Air Force Base. We will be taking Air Force 1 to a remote location in Kansas for your safety. We're also bringing in your daughters to keep anyone from using them as hostages."
"Good job, sir," Bush says. Then he turns to the Digidestined, "I am still confused about all of this, and I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed! But I do know when to take advice, and you kids, and your Digimon, are coming with me to brief my Cabinet. You seem to know what you're doing, so America- and the world- is counting on you."
"Don't worry, Mr. President," Matt says, "We'll stop the Dark Digidestined,"
Marine 1 begins to make it's descent at the base. The President and First Lady escort the Digidestined to the gigantic jetliner-
Air Force 1.