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Protectorate 9

Glenn with the help of Piximon had set up one water balloon above each Digidestined, except for Sora who slept with Tai now. He walked over to the sleeping form of Sora, she now usually slept in Tai's arms each night, this bugged Glenn. Sure they are old enough to make their own decisions, but don't they think they are moving a little fast? Well so long as they didn't do anything else but sleep they should be alright, but the minute Tai tries something, WAM! Glenn would kick his butt. Glenn shook away that train of thought, "train now, be protective brother later," he told himself. He gently removed Sora from Tai's arms and woke her with a kiss on the forehead.

Sora opened her eyes expecting to see Tai, but she saw Glenn staring down at her with a small smile on his face.

"C'mon sis you get to enjoy the show," Glenn told her helping her to her feet.

"Huh, show what are you talking about," Sora asked Glenn simply gestured to the water balloons hanging above her friends heads. He then pulled a string near him and all the balloons fell simultaneously. The teens woke ups shouting a spitting out water.

"Aaahhh, my hair," cried Mimi.

"What's going on! Where are we," shouted Joe.

"Aaah," was all that came from the two youngest children.

"What's the big idea," demanded Tai.

"T.K. are you alright," Matt asked hearing his brother's yell.

"Where did this water come from," Izzy asked looking down at his soaked shirt.

"Time to rise and train," Glenn said loudly enough to draw everyone's attention, "now that I have your attention we will begin," Glenn waited till everyone had gotten to their feet, they were all giving him pretty dirty looks. "Now then, I will be training you in the manner in which my uncle did so train me," Glenn said pacing back and forth trying to look like he knew what he was doing, when in truth he was only guessing, his uncles training taught Glenn how to fight human opponents. Glenn had to retrofit the exercises to teach them how to deal when they are attacked by monsters who could fire lasers. "In this training you will have fun, my uncle always told me a man would only give his all if he was having fun or in great danger. So in this first training exercise you will be taught to dodge enemy attacks that include range damage."

"And how will we do that?" Tai asked still a little ticked that he had got drenched, then he realized Sora wasn't wet like all of them, "and why wasn't Sora soaked?"

Glenn looked at Sora then looked back to the group, "favoritism, besides your all going to be getting wet anyway," Glenn told them with a shrug, "now follow me," he said walking out of the hut, the Digidestined all looked at each other than followed. Outside Piximon flew above them by a few feet carrying a basket full of water balloons by a strap over his back. Glenn turned to the group, their Digimon had joined them, they were looking alright, "Digimon, you all will be training with the other Digimon," he pointed to where Leomon and the rest were standing. The little creatures looked to their respected human counterparts, then they all went over to the large Digimons. Glenn then brought the attention of the Digidestined back to him by clearing his throat loudly, "now the object of this game is to avoid the water balloons Piximon will be throwing at you," Glenn then yelled up to Piximon before they could argue, "all right pinky let'em have it!" He then quickly got out of the way. He heard the teens start yelling and running to escape the saturating attack of Piximon. Glenn walked of the a rock face near by and looked up to the hole in the roof of the cavern that provided light to the whole place. He than sat down and watched as the Digidestined desperately tried to avoid getting soaked, Sora used Tai as a human shield many times as did Mimi to Joe, this caused Glenn to laugh, this went on well into the day, a good three hours.

Matt feel to the ground and felt five water balloons hit him, he didn't care he was too tired and hungry to care. He then heard Glenn call to Piximon to stop, "finally," he thought. He did have fun, but after about two hours you forget the fun and are just trying to keep on your feet.

"Very good everyone," Glenn congratulated, "now we eat, rest then we continue," Glenn stared to walk towards the biggest huts.

"What more work, my feet hurt," Mimi whined.

"Yea, I feel like I just ran a marathon," Joe agreed.

"Why aren't you doing any of this," Tai asked while he tried to catch his breath.

"Cause I'm in charge," Glenn said over his shoulder, he didn't bother to turn around till the last minute, he knew they had all thrown water balloons at him, and now he'd show why he didn't need the training, "Shield of the Protectorate," he commanded turning to face the surprise attack. A shining wall appeared between him and the balloons and they exploded against it. Glenn then dropped the shield with a smug smile on his face, "that's why I don't..." Glenn was cut off as round after round of water balloons crashed into his body, it ended after a few seconds with all the Digidestined laughing at him. Glenn laid on the ground surprised, he had fell back during their onslaught, why did he drop his guard so quickly?

Matt walked over and put his hand out to help Glenn to his feet, all the while laughing at his now equally drenched friend.

Glenn smiled, they were fooling around with him like he was normal, he liked it, maybe he didn't have to leave. Glenn roughly pushed that train of thought out of his head, of course he had to leave! He then took Matt's hand and pulled himself up with his help. Glenn couldn't help but start laughing when he looked himself over, "well for now I'll forget myself, and enjoy this," Glenn thought to himself.

Tai walked over to Glenn, "well now if your done acting all high and mighty we can eat," Tai then grabbed Sora's hand and charged for the hut where the smell of food had been coming from for the past half an hour. Sora let out a quick scream when he started to drag her, but she quickly matched his pace then it turned into a race between them.

"All right food," exclaimed T.K. taking off for the hut.

"I think I pulled a muscle," Joe moaned.

"I think I broke a nail," Mimi whined.

"Finally I can check the internet," Izzy said already falling into his own little world.

"Wait for me T.K." Kari called trying to catch the other young teen.

"C'mon man we better hurry or they'll eat it all," Matt said slapping Glenn on the back.

Glenn smiled at Matt, if any of them could be called his friend it was Matt, Glenn nodded to him then started off for the hut. They mostly ate lunch in silence, only talking long enough to through a playful joke or comment at each other. A few were thrown at Glenn, he accepted them with good humor, he didn't throw any himself. He was to scared they might take it as a real insult.

Once he was done Tai leaned over to Sora who had finished eating a little while ago, "let's get out of here before Glenn starts throwing bath tubs at us," he said jokingly.

"I'm not sure that would be a good idea Tai, what if they get worried," Sora asked in a hushed tone.

Glenn was about to get everyone back on their feet, but he decided against it. Always wait half an hour before getting into the water, people would always tell you. So Glenn just laid back and started to chat with Epsilon who was still out Leomon and the other Digimon training.

Matt leaned against the wall behind him and started to play his harmonica.

T.K. and Kari talked to each other.

Izzy was on his computer.

Mimi was rubbing her feet.

Joe was looking at one of his legs mumbling about how it isn't safe to work a person so much.

Tai and Sora left the hut, when they were sure they were alone they sat down, Tai sat against the stone wall and Sora sat between his legs with her back to his chest, he wrapped his arms around her waist. They didn't say anything, they just wanted to enjoy this moment.

Glenn opened his eyes and looked around, Sora was gone and so was Tai, "I hope they are behaving themselves," Glenn thought to himself. He then sat up and looked at Matt, "nice song man," Glenn said trying to make conversation.

"Thanks," Matt said with a grin, "you play and instrument?" Matt asked hoping for a partner.

"No, my skills fell into the halibert and knife throwing," Glenn said with an embarrassed grin.

"Oh," Matt said sounding a little disappointed, then it hit him, "knife throwing?" Matt had seen that on T.V. once, it looked kind of cool.

"Yea," Glenn pulled out his set from his top left vest pocket, "wanna see? Better yet, do you wanna try?" This is something Glenn could show off.

Matt nodded, then they got to their feet and left the hut, Matt watched as Glenn put up a wood plank against a nearby stone wall then walked a few meters away.

Glenn turned and concentrated on the middle of the plank, he got in the right position then whipped his arm down letting go of the dagger at the right moment sending it flying into plank a few inches off where he was aiming. Glenn smiled, "so you wanna try Matt?" Glenn said handing a dagger to Matt.

Matt took the handle of the knife and looked it over, he went through the motions Glenn did, then he let the knife fly, it struck the wood and stayed for a second then it fell the stone floor. Matt heard Glenn chuckle a bit.

"Better than my first time, I hit the target with the back of the knife," Glenn said patting Matt on the back, "the problem is you let go to soon," Glenn explained taking out a knife then going through the motions slowly.

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"What do you think they're doing," Agumon asked Gabumon.

"I don't know but as long as Matt's happy so am I," Gabumon said looking to where Glenn was showing Matt how to hit a piece of wood with a sharp metal object.

"I wonder why people learn to do things like that," Palmon said joining the pair.

"To impress girls I think," Agumon said.

"Why would they want to do that," Gabumon asked looking at Agumon.

"I don't know, but Tai once tried to bounce his soccer ball one hundred times on his knees and when I asked why he said to impress girls," Agumon explained. The other Digimon looked skeptical, so they continued to watch.

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Glenn was having so much fun just hanging out with Matt that he didn't notice till it started to get dark that he forgot to train them more, "darn," he though looking up to the hole the light came through, "better check on the Digimon's training," Glenn told Matt he'd be right back then he ran across to where Leomon was, "how's the training going," Glenn asked trying not to sound intimidated, but it was hard, this guy was huge!

"It's going fine the Digimon of the children are powerful," Leomon said not taking his eyes off the now sparing Digimon.

Glenn had expected a little more, but if that was all, that was all. Glenn then returned to Matt.

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Sora opened her eyes, she had felt so relaxed in Tai's arms that she had fallen asleep.

"Well good afternoon sleepy head," Tai teased.

Sora settled back into the comfortable spot she had been in against Tai's chest, "it's getting dark," Sora said looking up.

"Yup," Tai was really listening, he was staring at Sora, "we escaped the wrath of Glenn the barbarian," Tai said after her voice registered in his mind.

Sora was about to speak when they heard someone yell, "HIT THE DECK!" Sora and Tai then got up and raced to where the sound came from, they found Matt and Glenn on the ground laughing their heads off as Mimi yelled that it wasn't her fault and it isn't funny!

"What happened," Tai asked looking the odd scene over.

Glenn tried to answer but he was laughing to hard so Matt did, "Mimi saw us throwing knives and Glenn convinced her to try," Matt then fell back over laughing.

Then what happened, "Sora asked.

Glenn finished up for Matt, "well she did everything right in throwing the knife, but," Glenn worked hard to calm his laughter then continued again, "instead of going where it should she some how managed to make it go straight up!" Glenn then submitted to the laughter.

"I got the stupid target!" Mimi shouted at the pair while kicking them.

Tai looked over to what he thought was the target, it had two knives in the front of it and one embedded in it's top, "this guy carries knives too?" Tai though to himself.

Sora then began to laugh as the other teens showed up asking what happened. Mimi shouted at them it was none of their business! Tai told them and was forced to run like mad as Mimi tried to beat him over the head with her hat. The Digimon showed up a second later, then left when they saw what was happening.

"Having fun," Epsilon asked watching the scene with great amusement.

Glenn didn't answer, he knew Epsilon would just remind him of the training, and he just wanted to have fun right now.

Epsilon saw this, "good," the wolf thought to himself, "now maybe he'll want to stay," Epsilon hoped he did, Mimi had been one of the girls at camp how liked to pat him.

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Piedmon had been searching the country side for signs of the Digidestined, "where are they!" He shouted. He had to keep them busy like Maisoulmon had told him to! He didn't want to know what the penalty was if he failed him.

"No sign of them in the sea lord Piedmon," Metalseadramon reported coming out of his pool.

"Not in the forests either," Puppetmon said dropping from the ceilling.

"My troups report no sign of them," Machinedramon said coming from the shadows.

"Well look harder!" Piedmon shouted at them. He would not fail. The other Digimon bowed and left the way they had come. When Piedmon was sure he was alone he started to scan the country side once more with his telescope.

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Glenn had now been training with the Digidestined for a month, they were all pretty good at dodging now, Matt had taken a little liking to knife throwing, he was okay. Mimi, well she just stayed away from them. The base had changed a lot as well, When word got out that the Digidestined had returned good Digimon from all over started joining the rebels, the base size had tripled, and the rebels troops now numbered in the hundreds. Leomon and Piximon had Glenn and Epsilon training Digimon now, Glenn didn't really want to, he wasn't sure on how effective HIS tactics really were. Though the Digidestined were in the same boat, they were also training Digimon. Glenn was getting worried now, how could he leave without anyone noticing? Their were now guards posted at every entrance! Glenn sat down on a nearby rock to think while the Meramon hed been training continued to to spar with each other. He had them doing the same thing everyday now, how was that fun? How was he supposed to get them to give their all if he couldn't use his uncle's teaching techniques? Glenn sighed, "well it's better than nothing," Glenn then stood up, he better work them a little harder if he wanted any real results.

Matt and Gabumon were giving target practice to some Flymon who wanted to fight. They weren't the most co-operative of solders but Piximon said the rebels needed all the help they could get.

Joe was in a hut looking after Digimon who got hurt during training exercises, he looked over to where Mimi was tending a Yokomon, "man she is pretty," he though to himself. Joe pushed those thoughts out of his head, he had tried dating Mimi once, it didn't work out in the end.

Tai and Sora worked together with training Digimon to dodge explosive attacks, they had quickly become the best at dodging due to the running abilities they aquired from playing soccer. Tai watched as Sora helped a small weird looking Digimon back to it's feet after it feel down, "she's so nice," he thought to himself. He went back to training the small group of creatures he was given to train.

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"Lord Piedmon my spy tells me that the Digidestined are with the rebels at their base, shold I send in my Mechinorimon," Machinedramon asked, eversince that day that new Digidestined appeared Piedmon had been acting really weird.

"Do it," Piedmon said cooly. Machinedramon bowed then left. Piedmon was over joyed! That Maisoulmon had kept returning for updates and everytime he told him that they had yet to find the Digidestined and Glenn Maisoulmon had beat him. He wouldn't this time, no this time he'd reward Piedmon! He'd say he did a good job! Piedmon couldn't wait to see what Machinedramon did to those lousy rebels.

TO BE CONTINUED..............