Chapter 6: Digi-Egg Hunt
Three fighter jets streak across the sky over Baton Rouge. They finally land about a mile from the Capitol building of Louisiana. Mimi, Kari, and Gatomon crawl out from the plane, looking sick.
"I'm not feeling very good," Kari says. Her Digimon wasn't looking to good either, "I feel like I'm gonna throw up."
"You should be used to it, Gatomon," Kari says, "You fly when you're Angewomon and Nefertimon."
"Yeah, when I'm Angewomon and Nefertimon," Gatomon explains, "but this feline ain't used to Mach 2 speeds!"
Mimi could sympathize with them. "That plane ride makes a roller coaster look like a love-tunnel!" she says as she tried to balance herself on her white high-platformed shoes. She looks up to see Lillymon laughing as she zips around in the air, "You three should fly more often!"
"Excuse me, but we need to head over to see Governor Foster now." the pilot says as the car rolls by to bring them.
As Mimi gets her bearings straight from that wickedly fast plane ride, she says, "Hey, Kari, maybe we could get some beignets after we get my digiegg!" (Author's note- Beignets pronounced ben + yays are a New Orleans pastry that tastes like a funnel cake).
"You're hungry!" Kari says, "after taking a plane ride like that!"
"Yeah, I hear they're great." Mimi answers.
"Sorry ma'am," the driver says, "but beignets are made in New Orleans, and you don't want to be there right now!"
"Why not?" Mimi asks.
"Didn't you hear?" the man says, "Half of the French Quarter up and sank into the ground an hour ago! I figured it was bound to happen; New Orleans is below sea level."
"Mimi," Kari says, "Bigger and bigger things are being sucked into the DigiWorld!"
"I know," Mimi says, "We'd better get the digiegg to go!"
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Back at the Air Force base, the other Digidestined kids try to figure out what the riddles are supposed to mean. They haven't gotten any farther.
"What land talks to heaven?" Tai asks the group. "Do they mean the Vatican? Jeruselum?"
"No, Tai, it's gotta be in America, remember?" Sora says. Then she looked at her riddle again, "where exactly would you find a rainbow out of ivory?" she wondered.
"These riddles sure are hard. At least Mimi knows the answer to hers, though." TK says. A man walks into the room. He says, "I have two more possible answers to the riddles."
"For who?" Izzy says.
"The one's for Friendship and Love." He says.
"That's ours!" Matt and Sora say together. "What are the answers?"
"Matt, we think yours is somehow imbedded inside the Statue of Liberty's torch." the man says.
"That makes sense," Matt says, "It's a torch that is made of steel, and it can guide ships when the light is turned on inside."
"What about mine?" Sora asks.
"Yours may be under the Gateway to the West. It's a white arch in Saint Louis, Missouri. It kind of looks like an ivory rainbow." the man says. "We have four jets coming to bring you two there."
"Four?" Sora says.
"Yeah, we're going with you guys." TK and Yolei say. "Mimi's not the only one that needs a bodyguard."
The man continues to speak. "We also have some guesses on some of them. One of them may be in Houston, but we don't exactly know where. We've also sent diving teams down to every lake in America for the Reliability one. The last one, though, could be in any frozen section of the world."
"Figures mine has to be the hardest," Izzy says, "After all, I have the crest of Knowledge."
"We still need to work on the last three, though." the man concludes. "After we put it through a super computer and by the eggheads at NASA and Los Alamos, we'll tell you three." the man says to Tai, Joe, and Izzy.
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Mimi, Lillymon, Kari, and Gatomon are escorted to the top floor of the Louisiana Capitol building. As the elevator doors open, they see a beautiful white and mauve colored magnolia under a glass display case. Some of the petals are open at the bottom, while the rest are closed into a bud. Condaleeza was right; the bud does look somewhat like an egg. On the front of it is a crest engraved into it. It kind of looks like a tulip, except it has a 'V' coming from the top of it.
"It's beutiful!" Mimi says.
"And it's yours," the governor says, holding up the executive order from the President, "good luck picking it up, though. No one was ever been able to pick it up. They had to chop down the magnolia tree to bring it here, but they weren't able to separate it from the tree. The bottom is actually a part of the original tree." The governor finished up his story as he unlocks the display case and takes the glass off. "Here you go, ma'am."
Mimi slowly walks up to the magnolia. "I sure hope that NSA lady was right." she says as she touches the egg. "OK, 1...2...3..." She pulls hard on the egg, and it is lifted easily. It was so easy that Mimi fell over on her back! "Umph!"
"Mimi, are you all right?" Kari asks her friend.
"Wow, you are one strong little girl!" the governor says with his eyes wide open.
Suddenly a pink light shot out from the digiegg's wooden base. It shot into Mimi's digivice. Mimi held her digivice in her hand and watched it as it changed into a D3. "Wow, I have a D3, Kari! And my very own digiegg!"
"But not for long!" a voice said from behind them.
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Matt and TK arrive at the Statue of Liberty. Because of the monster attacks, no tourists bothered to come to New York City. TK jokes about it a little, "At least we don't have to wait in any lines!" Matt couldn't help but laugh.
"Let's head up there now." He says. They walk inside and push the button for the elevator, but nothing happens. "Looks like the elevators out. We have to take the stairs."
"Oh, no." Gabumon whines, "it's like Infinity Mountain all over again!"
"It could be worse," Patamon says, "we could be climbing up those stairs to Pixiemon's house this time!"
"Easy for you to say," TK says, "you can fly!"
So they start climbing up the stairs- except for Patamon, of course. To pass the time, Matt remembered what happened about 4 years ago. "Hey TK, remember when I made a model of the Statue of Liberty out of sugar cubes for my World Geography class, and you ate the head off of it!"
"Oh, God, you got so mad at me after that!" TK says, laughing. "I felt so bad that I ripped the head off of my GI Joe and glued it to your statue! But at least I got you an A on it, though!"
"Yeah, my teacher thought is was a good metaphor for America's military during the Cold War." Matt says. "He probably thought I was a hippie or something!"
They both started to laugh. Their Digimon start laughing because they were laughing. After they got halfway up to the top, TK asks Matt something. "Matt, do you sometimes wish Mom and Dad were back together?" Matt was taken by surprise by the answer. Ever since they got back from the DigiWorld after defeating Apocalymon, they never talked about their parents to each other.
"Well...yeah," Matt says, "but I know it wouldn't happen. Ever since we got back from the DigiWorld, I knew it."
"What do you mean?" TK asks.
"When we left, I thought that would make them love each other." Matt says, "but when we came back, they took their different directions. But at least they let us visit each other more often."
"Yeah, but it's not the same, " TK says, "Why can't they just get back together for our sake, don't they care how we feel?" He was doing all that he could to not cry.
"TK," Matt says to him. "Mom and Dad feel this is the best for us; you were young and you don't remember, but when they were together they would fight all the time. In fact, Mom threw a vase at Dad's head and put him in the Emergency Room!"
"What?!" TK says, amazed that Mom could actually do something like that to anyone, let alone Dad!
"Yeah, so you can see why they divorced," Matt says. "But they still love us, you know that, right?"
"Yeah," he said as he looked away. Matt knew TK hated to cry in front of people when he got older, so Matt did TK a "favor." Matt grabs TK's arm behind his back and pulls it up as hard as he could. TK screamed in pain. "Damn, Matt, this is no fricken time for this!"
"What do you say then?" Matt says.
"Ahh, Matt is the coolest guy to walk the Earth!" TK screams out to get Matt to stop. Tears of pain and madness rolled down TK's cheek. "What the hell was that for!"
"No reason." Matt says. He's not going to tell TK the real reason. He'd rather see him cry in pain than cry in sadness.
After a while, they reach the torch of the statue. "OK, so how do we find the digiegg?" TK asks Matt.
"I was hoping you would know," Matt says, "Maybe it's inside, but how do we get inside the torch?"
"We could always break it open," Gabumon suggests, "I don't think anyone would mind, since we're saving the world and all."
But before they smashed the glass, a dart stabbed into it. Matt and TK spin around, and they see Mike and CJ standing on top of the Statue of Liberty's head, with Psychemon and DemiDevimon beside them. "Looks like the good bros. and the bad bros. are gonna have a duel on Lady Liberty!" Mike says. "Psychemon, attack!"
BROWN BLASTER
Gabumon reacts quickly
BLUE BLASTER
The two Digimon shoot each others' attacks. They battle to overcome the other's blaster. Patamon flies forward and rams Psychemon in the stomach to make him stop. Gabumon's Blue Blaster hits Psychemon, and he falls on his back. DemiDevimon flies up and headbutts Patamon. Then he attacks Matt and TK.
EVIL WHISPER
He sends waves of psychic energy at the two Digidestined. They become confused and their vision blurs. TK falls over the railing, and Patamon flies down to him.
"TK, make me digivolve!"
"OK," he says drowsily. Then he uses his remaining strength to say
DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE
Patamon...armor-digivolve to...
...Pegasusmon
As TK passes out, Pegasusmon swoops under him and catches TK before he hits the concrete ground. "Don't worry TK," Pegasusmon says, "I gotcha." Then he looks up and sees that the two evil Digimon are digivolving.
Psychemon...
DemiDevimon......digivolve to...
...Goruramon
...Devimon
"Devimon!" Pegasusmon says as he remembers that day in the DigiWorld. Devimon was going to grab TK and destroy him, so Patamon digivolved to Angemon. But Angemon used up all his energy to defeat Devimon, and they were both deleted. Pegasusmon didn't plan on getting deleted by this creep twice!
EQUA SPEED
Pegasusmon shoots out a blast from his forehead, but Devimon knocks the blast away with his hand. Devimon attacks.
TOUCH OF EVIL
His hand grabs Pegasusmon by the neck and sends black volts of electricity through his body. Pegasusmon screams as he crashes against the Statue of Liberties tablet. "At least it didn't turn me into his slave," Pegasusmon says as he gets up. Meanwhile, Matt was just getting over the Evil Whisper, and Gabumon tried to keep Goruramon distracted.
"Look at me, you big ugly wolf!" Gabumon says. "I bet you can't catch me!"
"I don't need to catch you," the evil Digimon growls.
BLACK HOWL
The black waves of sonic energy nearly knock Gabumon off, but he manages to grab hold on the Statue of Liberty's crown. The Black Howl, however, didn't stop. Instead, it hit one of the World Trade Center buildings. The surround ing buildings' windows shatter and the top part of the tower begins to fall. It crashes against the second World Trade tower. The second tower begins to buckle, but it still stays erect.
"That was fun!" Goruramon says with a sadistic grin. So he does it about 3 other times.
BLACK HOWL
Building after building began to topple over. They looked like dominoes falling as the shattering glass reflects the moon's light. Mike was not as impressed, though.
"You can play Manhatten Bowling later, Goruramon!" Mike yells, "but right now you need to get rid of this stupid Digimon. Go on and have yourself a little snack!"
Gabumon's eyes opened wide. "Uh, you don't want to eat me! My meat is tough, and I need me alive more than you need a snack!" But Goruramon inched closer, licking his lips. As he was just about to pounce, a small spinning green ball comes from nowhere.
BETA SLUGGER
Goruramon is hit in the temple and falls off the statue and into the water. Devimon swoops down with CJ to catch him. The little green ball unwraps itself- it's Betamon.
"Where did you come from Betamon?" Gabumon asks as he pulls himself onto the spike of the crown.
"Me and Michael swam here," Betamon says, pointing up at Michael.
"Michael?" Matt says as he sees the American Digidestined in a wetsuit and goggles.
"Yep," he says as he takes the scuba goggles off, "Yolei called and told me that you guys were in town, so I decided to come on over. I would've taken a ferry, but I saw that there was a battle going on and decided to sneak up here. Trust me, I wouldn't have swam through the Hudson Bay if it weren't important!"
"You have good timing!" Matt says.
"I brought you something, too." Michael says, taking out a large camcorder-like device from his backpack. "It's from Mimi's dad- it's an X-ray scanner. Look through it like a camara, and you should see the digiegg easily!"
"Good thing Mimi's dad is a businessman for a defense contractor!" Matt says. Just then, Pegasusmon flies up with TK on his back. TK is still a little drowsy.
"TK! Are you okay?" Matt says.
"Yeah, I'm fine, let's just get out of here." TK mumbles.
"We have to find the digiegg, though." Gabumon says.
"Who cares about the damn digiegg!" TK yells. He doesn't know why he said it, but he did. A black beam of light shoots out from his digivice and engulfs Goruramon. He is able to digivolve.
Goruramon...digivolve to...
...WaruGoruramon!
It looked like a black and purple WereGarurumon, except he had leather pants and skulls tatooed on both of his biceps.
DARK WOLF CLAW
WaruGoruramon slashes the air with both his claws. The slashes from his claw form a black energy that shoots at the torch. They slice under it like a knife through air, and the torch begins to slide off the statue's hand with the kids on it still.
"Oh my God! We're gonna fall!" Betamon says. "I wish I could digivolve to Seadramon right now!"
"Pegasusmon!" Matt orders, "keep the torch on while I look for the digiegg!"
"All right!" Pegasusmon yells. He flies around and pushes his chest against the railing to keep the platform from falling. However, WaruGoruramon was creeping closer to them.
"We'll stop him!" Betamon says.
BETA SLUGGER
Betamon spins faster and faster at the evil Digimon, but WaruGoruramon backhands him away. Betamon flies in the air and falls into Michaels arms, dazed and confused. Pegasusmon stretches his neck over the railing and shoots WaruGoruramon
EQUA SPEED
The beam hits WaruGoruramon and knocks him on the statue's head.
Matt looks through the scanner to find his digiegg. After a few seconds, he finds it- embedded inside one of the steel beams. "How am I supposed to get it, now!"
"Let me try," Gabumon says
BLUE BLASTER
After a short time, the steel melts away. The digiegg is revealed. It has sharp swords protruding from the top and bottom. A crest is engraved on it. It looks like a spade on a deck of cards, except it has the symbol for 'infinity' on it- the sideways 8.
"OK Gabumon, are you ready!" Matt says as he takes his digiegg.
"Ready as I'll ever be!" Gabumon says. Hearing that, Matt yells
DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!
Gabumon...armor-digivolve to...
...Sabremon, the Sabre of Honor
"Wow, this crest represents Honor?" Matt says. He looks at Sabremon. His arms are two large machetês (dagger-like swords). He was a metallic blue, and he looked somewhat like a medieval knight. He has a row of sharp blades along his back. His eyes look serious, yet calm. A beam of light shoots from the digi-egg and transforms Matt's digivice into a light grey D3.
"All right, WaruGoruramon," Sabremon says in a monotoned voice, "let me trim those claws of yours.
GINSU SPEAR
His two arms stretch out and strike at WaruGoruramon, but he leaps into the air to dodge them. As Sabremon retracts his machetê arms, WaruGoruramon attacks him.
GORURA KICK
He attempts to hit Sabremon, but he rolls out of the way just in time. WaruGoruramon gets his leg caught in the statue's head. Sabremon slashes WaruGoruramon in the back. He screams in pain and de-digivolves back into Psychemon. Suddenly, two black hands reach out to them. One hand scoops Psychemon up, the other attacks Sabremon.
TOUCH OF EVIL
The attack sends the bolts of black energy surging through Sabremon's metallic body. Seeing Sabremon in danger, Pegasusmon told Matt, Michael, and Betamon to climb on with TK, let the torch fall, and rammed Devimon's arm.
"You think that'll stop me!" Devimon says. TOUCH OF
But Pegasusmon strikes first.
STAR SHOWER
Dozens of stars stream onto Devimon. He screams in agony as he falls into the bay. Mike and CJ curse aloud at the Digidestined's victory. But Devimon arises from the water and does one last attack
BLACK GEAR
He throws a Black Gear at Pegasusmon before de-digivolving back into DemiDevimon. Seeing the gear fly towards them, Pegasusmon swoops to the right and dodges it. Sabremon jumps down from the statue to dodge it, also. "It seems you have missed us," Sabremon says.
"Who said I was aiming at you!" DeviDevimon yells, "Come on, CJ, let's escape through the computer!"
"All right." CJ says as he and Mike hold their black digivices to the small computer he took out of his pocket. Before leaving, Mike yells to Matt and TK, "Oh, and you Digidestined...make sure you show the little lady a good time in New York tonight! Ha Ha Ha Ha!" After that, they all disappeared into the computer, which self-destructed a couple of seconds after they left.
"What does that mean?" Michael asks. But he soon learns the answer when he hears the loud creaks of metal. Matt, Michael, and the Digimon look up to see the Statue of Liberty was infected by the Black Gear, and was ready to attack. As she stepped off her pedestal, they knew that they were in some deep trouble...
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Kari and Mimi turn around. It was Amy and Karla. Karla was using her Tarot cards, and she begins to prophecize Mimi and Kari's fate, "I see that the Death card trumps all, and we trump you. BlackSalamon, get them!"
"You too, Alraumon! And make it fast, I wanna get out of this swampy hell-hole!" Amy says.
"Consider it done!" the two evil Rookie Digimon say. Alraumon attacks first.
POISON OAK
Sharp stalks of wood shoot from Alraumon's hands and shoot at Mimi and Kari. They narrowly dodge it, but the stalks pin the governor to the wall by his business coat. The sharp ends break off, leaving the governor stuck to the wall. The rest of the stalk retracts and resharpens to be used again. BlackSalamon starts to attack now.
SIREN SCREECH...YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
A loud yell blasted through the room. Mimi and Kari were holding their ears, but the noise was too loud. They fall to their knees, and Mimi drops her digiegg. Amy picks it up and laughs in triumph. BlackSalamon's screaming gets louder, but Lillymon retaliates.
FLOWER CANNON
The blast of energy shoots towards BlackSalamon and knocks her against the elevator door. "Looks like my Flower Cannon isn't useless against a Rookie like you, eh!" But Alraumon attacks Lillymon.
POISON OAK
The sharp spears hit Lillymon in the wings and pins her to the ceiling. She screams in pain as the spikes cut through her leafy wings. Gatomon stops Alraumon from attacking, though.
LIGHTNING PAW
A quick fist to face sent Alraumon reeling back and falling on her face. Lillymon falls from the ceiling and onto the governor's desk. Amy was furious, "Get off the ground and digivolve!"
Alraumon...digivolve to...
...ExTogemon!
She looks exactly like Togemon, except she has a large "X" scarred across her chest. And she also looks meaner than Mimi's Togemon.
EX-NEEDLE SPRAY
She spins around and thrown needles at Mimi and Kari, who were hiding behind the desk. The needles looked like little X's, and they were sharp. One of them hit Kari in the finger, and she yelled in pain, "Ahh!" she yells angrily, and then she yells
DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE
Gatomon...armor-digivolve to...
...Nefertimon!
Nefertimon stands in front of Kari to guard them. She begins to attack.
ROSETTA STONE
The stone shoots forward, but Amy and Karla dodge it. The stone destroys the entire wall, and they can see the city of Baton Rouge, burning in the backround. Mimi and Kari gasped in horror and disbelief.
"Oh, dear Lord!" the governor says as he sees the city in flames.
"They didn't have any good sales here," Amy said devilishly, "so we had the place torched. Don't worry though, Mimi, they didn't have a very good selection of malls anyways! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"
"You...you...you bitch!" Mimi yells, surprised that she actually said something like that. Suddenly, a black beam of energy shoots from Mimi's digivice and engulfs ExTogemon.
"Thanks you very much, Mimi," Amy says slyly, "your negativity helps us get stronger. Goes to show that you're the Digidestined's worst enemy!"
ExTogemon...digivolve to...
...PoisonLillymon!
PoisonLillymon looked like Lillymon, except the flower on her head was black and red. Her hair was made of willow vines, and her eyes were horribly sinister. The dress she wore was gray, and it was tattered and torn. Thorned vines covered the dress, too. She also wore high-heel boots covered with moss. Finally, here wings were a deep green, and they had sharp, spiked edges to them, like a holly leaf. Suddenly, her hands come together and form a red and black flower
POISON FLOWER CANNON
A blood-red blast of energy shoots from her flower and hits the floor. The floor turns all black under Nefertimon's feet, until it shatters like glass. Nefertimon, surprised by what had happened, fall to the floor below them.
"Nefertimon!" Kari yells.
Amy, as smug as she is, then turns to Karla, "Where are my manners? Karla, would you like to finish these two fashion-freaks off?"
"Sure, I'd be glad to," Karla says, placing a Tarot card down to see what strategy she'll use. "BlackSalamon, time to digivolve."
"Right," the evil Rookie Digimon says.
BlackSalamon...digivolve to...
...BlackGatomon!
BlackGatomon was exactly like Gatomon, except she was as black as the night. She also had sharp teeth and claws.
"BlackGatomon!" Karla says, "Use your Black Cat's Eye attack! Let's have a little fun messing with their heads!"
"Sure thang, Karla" BlackGatomon says as she leaps into the air.
BLACK CAT'S EYE
A blue light forms in her eyes. She shoots it at Kari, but she dodges it. The ball of energy bounces against the back wall, and it ricochets towards Mimi. Kari sees this and jumps in the way, saying "Mimi, look out!" She is hit by the attack and she faints.
"Kari, wake up!" Mimi yells.
"Let's make it two-for-two!" BlackGatomon says as she attacks again.
BLACK CAT'S EYE
As her eyes glow, Mimi gets up and runs into the governors office to get to Lillymon. But as Lillymon wakes up, Mimi is hit with the blast in the back. She uses all of her might to fight it, but the room started to get darker. Mimi falls to her knees and outstretches her hand to her Digimon friend. "Lillymon...help...me..." she gasps as she falls to the ground, as Lillymon watches in horror.
Three fighter jets streak across the sky over Baton Rouge. They finally land about a mile from the Capitol building of Louisiana. Mimi, Kari, and Gatomon crawl out from the plane, looking sick.
"I'm not feeling very good," Kari says. Her Digimon wasn't looking to good either, "I feel like I'm gonna throw up."
"You should be used to it, Gatomon," Kari says, "You fly when you're Angewomon and Nefertimon."
"Yeah, when I'm Angewomon and Nefertimon," Gatomon explains, "but this feline ain't used to Mach 2 speeds!"
Mimi could sympathize with them. "That plane ride makes a roller coaster look like a love-tunnel!" she says as she tried to balance herself on her white high-platformed shoes. She looks up to see Lillymon laughing as she zips around in the air, "You three should fly more often!"
"Excuse me, but we need to head over to see Governor Foster now." the pilot says as the car rolls by to bring them.
As Mimi gets her bearings straight from that wickedly fast plane ride, she says, "Hey, Kari, maybe we could get some beignets after we get my digiegg!" (Author's note- Beignets pronounced ben + yays are a New Orleans pastry that tastes like a funnel cake).
"You're hungry!" Kari says, "after taking a plane ride like that!"
"Yeah, I hear they're great." Mimi answers.
"Sorry ma'am," the driver says, "but beignets are made in New Orleans, and you don't want to be there right now!"
"Why not?" Mimi asks.
"Didn't you hear?" the man says, "Half of the French Quarter up and sank into the ground an hour ago! I figured it was bound to happen; New Orleans is below sea level."
"Mimi," Kari says, "Bigger and bigger things are being sucked into the DigiWorld!"
"I know," Mimi says, "We'd better get the digiegg to go!"
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Back at the Air Force base, the other Digidestined kids try to figure out what the riddles are supposed to mean. They haven't gotten any farther.
"What land talks to heaven?" Tai asks the group. "Do they mean the Vatican? Jeruselum?"
"No, Tai, it's gotta be in America, remember?" Sora says. Then she looked at her riddle again, "where exactly would you find a rainbow out of ivory?" she wondered.
"These riddles sure are hard. At least Mimi knows the answer to hers, though." TK says. A man walks into the room. He says, "I have two more possible answers to the riddles."
"For who?" Izzy says.
"The one's for Friendship and Love." He says.
"That's ours!" Matt and Sora say together. "What are the answers?"
"Matt, we think yours is somehow imbedded inside the Statue of Liberty's torch." the man says.
"That makes sense," Matt says, "It's a torch that is made of steel, and it can guide ships when the light is turned on inside."
"What about mine?" Sora asks.
"Yours may be under the Gateway to the West. It's a white arch in Saint Louis, Missouri. It kind of looks like an ivory rainbow." the man says. "We have four jets coming to bring you two there."
"Four?" Sora says.
"Yeah, we're going with you guys." TK and Yolei say. "Mimi's not the only one that needs a bodyguard."
The man continues to speak. "We also have some guesses on some of them. One of them may be in Houston, but we don't exactly know where. We've also sent diving teams down to every lake in America for the Reliability one. The last one, though, could be in any frozen section of the world."
"Figures mine has to be the hardest," Izzy says, "After all, I have the crest of Knowledge."
"We still need to work on the last three, though." the man concludes. "After we put it through a super computer and by the eggheads at NASA and Los Alamos, we'll tell you three." the man says to Tai, Joe, and Izzy.
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Mimi, Lillymon, Kari, and Gatomon are escorted to the top floor of the Louisiana Capitol building. As the elevator doors open, they see a beautiful white and mauve colored magnolia under a glass display case. Some of the petals are open at the bottom, while the rest are closed into a bud. Condaleeza was right; the bud does look somewhat like an egg. On the front of it is a crest engraved into it. It kind of looks like a tulip, except it has a 'V' coming from the top of it.
"It's beutiful!" Mimi says.
"And it's yours," the governor says, holding up the executive order from the President, "good luck picking it up, though. No one was ever been able to pick it up. They had to chop down the magnolia tree to bring it here, but they weren't able to separate it from the tree. The bottom is actually a part of the original tree." The governor finished up his story as he unlocks the display case and takes the glass off. "Here you go, ma'am."
Mimi slowly walks up to the magnolia. "I sure hope that NSA lady was right." she says as she touches the egg. "OK, 1...2...3..." She pulls hard on the egg, and it is lifted easily. It was so easy that Mimi fell over on her back! "Umph!"
"Mimi, are you all right?" Kari asks her friend.
"Wow, you are one strong little girl!" the governor says with his eyes wide open.
Suddenly a pink light shot out from the digiegg's wooden base. It shot into Mimi's digivice. Mimi held her digivice in her hand and watched it as it changed into a D3. "Wow, I have a D3, Kari! And my very own digiegg!"
"But not for long!" a voice said from behind them.
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Matt and TK arrive at the Statue of Liberty. Because of the monster attacks, no tourists bothered to come to New York City. TK jokes about it a little, "At least we don't have to wait in any lines!" Matt couldn't help but laugh.
"Let's head up there now." He says. They walk inside and push the button for the elevator, but nothing happens. "Looks like the elevators out. We have to take the stairs."
"Oh, no." Gabumon whines, "it's like Infinity Mountain all over again!"
"It could be worse," Patamon says, "we could be climbing up those stairs to Pixiemon's house this time!"
"Easy for you to say," TK says, "you can fly!"
So they start climbing up the stairs- except for Patamon, of course. To pass the time, Matt remembered what happened about 4 years ago. "Hey TK, remember when I made a model of the Statue of Liberty out of sugar cubes for my World Geography class, and you ate the head off of it!"
"Oh, God, you got so mad at me after that!" TK says, laughing. "I felt so bad that I ripped the head off of my GI Joe and glued it to your statue! But at least I got you an A on it, though!"
"Yeah, my teacher thought is was a good metaphor for America's military during the Cold War." Matt says. "He probably thought I was a hippie or something!"
They both started to laugh. Their Digimon start laughing because they were laughing. After they got halfway up to the top, TK asks Matt something. "Matt, do you sometimes wish Mom and Dad were back together?" Matt was taken by surprise by the answer. Ever since they got back from the DigiWorld after defeating Apocalymon, they never talked about their parents to each other.
"Well...yeah," Matt says, "but I know it wouldn't happen. Ever since we got back from the DigiWorld, I knew it."
"What do you mean?" TK asks.
"When we left, I thought that would make them love each other." Matt says, "but when we came back, they took their different directions. But at least they let us visit each other more often."
"Yeah, but it's not the same, " TK says, "Why can't they just get back together for our sake, don't they care how we feel?" He was doing all that he could to not cry.
"TK," Matt says to him. "Mom and Dad feel this is the best for us; you were young and you don't remember, but when they were together they would fight all the time. In fact, Mom threw a vase at Dad's head and put him in the Emergency Room!"
"What?!" TK says, amazed that Mom could actually do something like that to anyone, let alone Dad!
"Yeah, so you can see why they divorced," Matt says. "But they still love us, you know that, right?"
"Yeah," he said as he looked away. Matt knew TK hated to cry in front of people when he got older, so Matt did TK a "favor." Matt grabs TK's arm behind his back and pulls it up as hard as he could. TK screamed in pain. "Damn, Matt, this is no fricken time for this!"
"What do you say then?" Matt says.
"Ahh, Matt is the coolest guy to walk the Earth!" TK screams out to get Matt to stop. Tears of pain and madness rolled down TK's cheek. "What the hell was that for!"
"No reason." Matt says. He's not going to tell TK the real reason. He'd rather see him cry in pain than cry in sadness.
After a while, they reach the torch of the statue. "OK, so how do we find the digiegg?" TK asks Matt.
"I was hoping you would know," Matt says, "Maybe it's inside, but how do we get inside the torch?"
"We could always break it open," Gabumon suggests, "I don't think anyone would mind, since we're saving the world and all."
But before they smashed the glass, a dart stabbed into it. Matt and TK spin around, and they see Mike and CJ standing on top of the Statue of Liberty's head, with Psychemon and DemiDevimon beside them. "Looks like the good bros. and the bad bros. are gonna have a duel on Lady Liberty!" Mike says. "Psychemon, attack!"
BROWN BLASTER
Gabumon reacts quickly
BLUE BLASTER
The two Digimon shoot each others' attacks. They battle to overcome the other's blaster. Patamon flies forward and rams Psychemon in the stomach to make him stop. Gabumon's Blue Blaster hits Psychemon, and he falls on his back. DemiDevimon flies up and headbutts Patamon. Then he attacks Matt and TK.
EVIL WHISPER
He sends waves of psychic energy at the two Digidestined. They become confused and their vision blurs. TK falls over the railing, and Patamon flies down to him.
"TK, make me digivolve!"
"OK," he says drowsily. Then he uses his remaining strength to say
DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE
Patamon...armor-digivolve to...
...Pegasusmon
As TK passes out, Pegasusmon swoops under him and catches TK before he hits the concrete ground. "Don't worry TK," Pegasusmon says, "I gotcha." Then he looks up and sees that the two evil Digimon are digivolving.
Psychemon...
DemiDevimon......digivolve to...
...Goruramon
...Devimon
"Devimon!" Pegasusmon says as he remembers that day in the DigiWorld. Devimon was going to grab TK and destroy him, so Patamon digivolved to Angemon. But Angemon used up all his energy to defeat Devimon, and they were both deleted. Pegasusmon didn't plan on getting deleted by this creep twice!
EQUA SPEED
Pegasusmon shoots out a blast from his forehead, but Devimon knocks the blast away with his hand. Devimon attacks.
TOUCH OF EVIL
His hand grabs Pegasusmon by the neck and sends black volts of electricity through his body. Pegasusmon screams as he crashes against the Statue of Liberties tablet. "At least it didn't turn me into his slave," Pegasusmon says as he gets up. Meanwhile, Matt was just getting over the Evil Whisper, and Gabumon tried to keep Goruramon distracted.
"Look at me, you big ugly wolf!" Gabumon says. "I bet you can't catch me!"
"I don't need to catch you," the evil Digimon growls.
BLACK HOWL
The black waves of sonic energy nearly knock Gabumon off, but he manages to grab hold on the Statue of Liberty's crown. The Black Howl, however, didn't stop. Instead, it hit one of the World Trade Center buildings. The surround ing buildings' windows shatter and the top part of the tower begins to fall. It crashes against the second World Trade tower. The second tower begins to buckle, but it still stays erect.
"That was fun!" Goruramon says with a sadistic grin. So he does it about 3 other times.
BLACK HOWL
Building after building began to topple over. They looked like dominoes falling as the shattering glass reflects the moon's light. Mike was not as impressed, though.
"You can play Manhatten Bowling later, Goruramon!" Mike yells, "but right now you need to get rid of this stupid Digimon. Go on and have yourself a little snack!"
Gabumon's eyes opened wide. "Uh, you don't want to eat me! My meat is tough, and I need me alive more than you need a snack!" But Goruramon inched closer, licking his lips. As he was just about to pounce, a small spinning green ball comes from nowhere.
BETA SLUGGER
Goruramon is hit in the temple and falls off the statue and into the water. Devimon swoops down with CJ to catch him. The little green ball unwraps itself- it's Betamon.
"Where did you come from Betamon?" Gabumon asks as he pulls himself onto the spike of the crown.
"Me and Michael swam here," Betamon says, pointing up at Michael.
"Michael?" Matt says as he sees the American Digidestined in a wetsuit and goggles.
"Yep," he says as he takes the scuba goggles off, "Yolei called and told me that you guys were in town, so I decided to come on over. I would've taken a ferry, but I saw that there was a battle going on and decided to sneak up here. Trust me, I wouldn't have swam through the Hudson Bay if it weren't important!"
"You have good timing!" Matt says.
"I brought you something, too." Michael says, taking out a large camcorder-like device from his backpack. "It's from Mimi's dad- it's an X-ray scanner. Look through it like a camara, and you should see the digiegg easily!"
"Good thing Mimi's dad is a businessman for a defense contractor!" Matt says. Just then, Pegasusmon flies up with TK on his back. TK is still a little drowsy.
"TK! Are you okay?" Matt says.
"Yeah, I'm fine, let's just get out of here." TK mumbles.
"We have to find the digiegg, though." Gabumon says.
"Who cares about the damn digiegg!" TK yells. He doesn't know why he said it, but he did. A black beam of light shoots out from his digivice and engulfs Goruramon. He is able to digivolve.
Goruramon...digivolve to...
...WaruGoruramon!
It looked like a black and purple WereGarurumon, except he had leather pants and skulls tatooed on both of his biceps.
DARK WOLF CLAW
WaruGoruramon slashes the air with both his claws. The slashes from his claw form a black energy that shoots at the torch. They slice under it like a knife through air, and the torch begins to slide off the statue's hand with the kids on it still.
"Oh my God! We're gonna fall!" Betamon says. "I wish I could digivolve to Seadramon right now!"
"Pegasusmon!" Matt orders, "keep the torch on while I look for the digiegg!"
"All right!" Pegasusmon yells. He flies around and pushes his chest against the railing to keep the platform from falling. However, WaruGoruramon was creeping closer to them.
"We'll stop him!" Betamon says.
BETA SLUGGER
Betamon spins faster and faster at the evil Digimon, but WaruGoruramon backhands him away. Betamon flies in the air and falls into Michaels arms, dazed and confused. Pegasusmon stretches his neck over the railing and shoots WaruGoruramon
EQUA SPEED
The beam hits WaruGoruramon and knocks him on the statue's head.
Matt looks through the scanner to find his digiegg. After a few seconds, he finds it- embedded inside one of the steel beams. "How am I supposed to get it, now!"
"Let me try," Gabumon says
BLUE BLASTER
After a short time, the steel melts away. The digiegg is revealed. It has sharp swords protruding from the top and bottom. A crest is engraved on it. It looks like a spade on a deck of cards, except it has the symbol for 'infinity' on it- the sideways 8.
"OK Gabumon, are you ready!" Matt says as he takes his digiegg.
"Ready as I'll ever be!" Gabumon says. Hearing that, Matt yells
DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!
Gabumon...armor-digivolve to...
...Sabremon, the Sabre of Honor
"Wow, this crest represents Honor?" Matt says. He looks at Sabremon. His arms are two large machetês (dagger-like swords). He was a metallic blue, and he looked somewhat like a medieval knight. He has a row of sharp blades along his back. His eyes look serious, yet calm. A beam of light shoots from the digi-egg and transforms Matt's digivice into a light grey D3.
"All right, WaruGoruramon," Sabremon says in a monotoned voice, "let me trim those claws of yours.
GINSU SPEAR
His two arms stretch out and strike at WaruGoruramon, but he leaps into the air to dodge them. As Sabremon retracts his machetê arms, WaruGoruramon attacks him.
GORURA KICK
He attempts to hit Sabremon, but he rolls out of the way just in time. WaruGoruramon gets his leg caught in the statue's head. Sabremon slashes WaruGoruramon in the back. He screams in pain and de-digivolves back into Psychemon. Suddenly, two black hands reach out to them. One hand scoops Psychemon up, the other attacks Sabremon.
TOUCH OF EVIL
The attack sends the bolts of black energy surging through Sabremon's metallic body. Seeing Sabremon in danger, Pegasusmon told Matt, Michael, and Betamon to climb on with TK, let the torch fall, and rammed Devimon's arm.
"You think that'll stop me!" Devimon says. TOUCH OF
But Pegasusmon strikes first.
STAR SHOWER
Dozens of stars stream onto Devimon. He screams in agony as he falls into the bay. Mike and CJ curse aloud at the Digidestined's victory. But Devimon arises from the water and does one last attack
BLACK GEAR
He throws a Black Gear at Pegasusmon before de-digivolving back into DemiDevimon. Seeing the gear fly towards them, Pegasusmon swoops to the right and dodges it. Sabremon jumps down from the statue to dodge it, also. "It seems you have missed us," Sabremon says.
"Who said I was aiming at you!" DeviDevimon yells, "Come on, CJ, let's escape through the computer!"
"All right." CJ says as he and Mike hold their black digivices to the small computer he took out of his pocket. Before leaving, Mike yells to Matt and TK, "Oh, and you Digidestined...make sure you show the little lady a good time in New York tonight! Ha Ha Ha Ha!" After that, they all disappeared into the computer, which self-destructed a couple of seconds after they left.
"What does that mean?" Michael asks. But he soon learns the answer when he hears the loud creaks of metal. Matt, Michael, and the Digimon look up to see the Statue of Liberty was infected by the Black Gear, and was ready to attack. As she stepped off her pedestal, they knew that they were in some deep trouble...
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Kari and Mimi turn around. It was Amy and Karla. Karla was using her Tarot cards, and she begins to prophecize Mimi and Kari's fate, "I see that the Death card trumps all, and we trump you. BlackSalamon, get them!"
"You too, Alraumon! And make it fast, I wanna get out of this swampy hell-hole!" Amy says.
"Consider it done!" the two evil Rookie Digimon say. Alraumon attacks first.
POISON OAK
Sharp stalks of wood shoot from Alraumon's hands and shoot at Mimi and Kari. They narrowly dodge it, but the stalks pin the governor to the wall by his business coat. The sharp ends break off, leaving the governor stuck to the wall. The rest of the stalk retracts and resharpens to be used again. BlackSalamon starts to attack now.
SIREN SCREECH...YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
A loud yell blasted through the room. Mimi and Kari were holding their ears, but the noise was too loud. They fall to their knees, and Mimi drops her digiegg. Amy picks it up and laughs in triumph. BlackSalamon's screaming gets louder, but Lillymon retaliates.
FLOWER CANNON
The blast of energy shoots towards BlackSalamon and knocks her against the elevator door. "Looks like my Flower Cannon isn't useless against a Rookie like you, eh!" But Alraumon attacks Lillymon.
POISON OAK
The sharp spears hit Lillymon in the wings and pins her to the ceiling. She screams in pain as the spikes cut through her leafy wings. Gatomon stops Alraumon from attacking, though.
LIGHTNING PAW
A quick fist to face sent Alraumon reeling back and falling on her face. Lillymon falls from the ceiling and onto the governor's desk. Amy was furious, "Get off the ground and digivolve!"
Alraumon...digivolve to...
...ExTogemon!
She looks exactly like Togemon, except she has a large "X" scarred across her chest. And she also looks meaner than Mimi's Togemon.
EX-NEEDLE SPRAY
She spins around and thrown needles at Mimi and Kari, who were hiding behind the desk. The needles looked like little X's, and they were sharp. One of them hit Kari in the finger, and she yelled in pain, "Ahh!" she yells angrily, and then she yells
DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE
Gatomon...armor-digivolve to...
...Nefertimon!
Nefertimon stands in front of Kari to guard them. She begins to attack.
ROSETTA STONE
The stone shoots forward, but Amy and Karla dodge it. The stone destroys the entire wall, and they can see the city of Baton Rouge, burning in the backround. Mimi and Kari gasped in horror and disbelief.
"Oh, dear Lord!" the governor says as he sees the city in flames.
"They didn't have any good sales here," Amy said devilishly, "so we had the place torched. Don't worry though, Mimi, they didn't have a very good selection of malls anyways! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"
"You...you...you bitch!" Mimi yells, surprised that she actually said something like that. Suddenly, a black beam of energy shoots from Mimi's digivice and engulfs ExTogemon.
"Thanks you very much, Mimi," Amy says slyly, "your negativity helps us get stronger. Goes to show that you're the Digidestined's worst enemy!"
ExTogemon...digivolve to...
...PoisonLillymon!
PoisonLillymon looked like Lillymon, except the flower on her head was black and red. Her hair was made of willow vines, and her eyes were horribly sinister. The dress she wore was gray, and it was tattered and torn. Thorned vines covered the dress, too. She also wore high-heel boots covered with moss. Finally, here wings were a deep green, and they had sharp, spiked edges to them, like a holly leaf. Suddenly, her hands come together and form a red and black flower
POISON FLOWER CANNON
A blood-red blast of energy shoots from her flower and hits the floor. The floor turns all black under Nefertimon's feet, until it shatters like glass. Nefertimon, surprised by what had happened, fall to the floor below them.
"Nefertimon!" Kari yells.
Amy, as smug as she is, then turns to Karla, "Where are my manners? Karla, would you like to finish these two fashion-freaks off?"
"Sure, I'd be glad to," Karla says, placing a Tarot card down to see what strategy she'll use. "BlackSalamon, time to digivolve."
"Right," the evil Rookie Digimon says.
BlackSalamon...digivolve to...
...BlackGatomon!
BlackGatomon was exactly like Gatomon, except she was as black as the night. She also had sharp teeth and claws.
"BlackGatomon!" Karla says, "Use your Black Cat's Eye attack! Let's have a little fun messing with their heads!"
"Sure thang, Karla" BlackGatomon says as she leaps into the air.
BLACK CAT'S EYE
A blue light forms in her eyes. She shoots it at Kari, but she dodges it. The ball of energy bounces against the back wall, and it ricochets towards Mimi. Kari sees this and jumps in the way, saying "Mimi, look out!" She is hit by the attack and she faints.
"Kari, wake up!" Mimi yells.
"Let's make it two-for-two!" BlackGatomon says as she attacks again.
BLACK CAT'S EYE
As her eyes glow, Mimi gets up and runs into the governors office to get to Lillymon. But as Lillymon wakes up, Mimi is hit with the blast in the back. She uses all of her might to fight it, but the room started to get darker. Mimi falls to her knees and outstretches her hand to her Digimon friend. "Lillymon...help...me..." she gasps as she falls to the ground, as Lillymon watches in horror.