Chapter Two:Capture and Escape
"Flat Note!" I jumped out of the attack's range, and it harmlessly hit the ground. Using my mysterious device-presumably some new model of Digivice-I concentrated on making the glowing rectangle grow. In just a few seconds, it was like a small door to the Digital World.
Flutemon gave me a death glare, but I could see fear in his eyes. He hadn't completed his mission. I knew it was impossible for the Ultimate to be acting alone, and an Ultimate-or-higher master dosen't take kindly to failure. This was my chance.
In a heartbeet, I flung myself through the digital door. I hit the ground hard. My device clattered away several feet and the door shut behind me. After a moment to recover my senses, I slowly lifted myself up and brushed off some loose gravel. As I headed towards my device(I had an instinct that I would need it), I heard noises coming from below me. I was on a trail on the side of a cliff, leading down to a canyon. The particular noise I heard was a scream. That can get almost anyone's attention.
My eyes cautiously peered over the edge. The scream had come from Miyako "Yolei" Inoue as a dark binding had wrapped her up. The binding caried her to a giant clock face on a wall of the canyon. The other Digidestined watched with horror in their eyes as the dark binding attached itself to a small hook on the '1.'
"Well it looks like we have some visitors." a mysterious and evil voice said. From a dark cave, a cloaked figure walked out. But his cloak was not made of cloth, but of darkness. This figure looked like a walking shadow. "Why don't you stay a while?" he taunted.
"Sorry, but I've already got an apointment." A Digidestined known as Davis smirked back. "Get'em Exveemon."
"Help'em Stingmon!" cried Ken Ichijoji, who used to be known as "Boy genius" but then as "Digimon Emporer" and then "Davis's sidekick."
"Exveemon...Stingmon...DNA Digivolve to...Paildramon!"
The Dragon Man Digimon aimed his cannon at the mysterious figure. "Either surrender, or you won't get the chance!" Paildramon yelled boldly. The shadow giggled as if Paildramon had made a good joke instead of a threat. This, apparently angered Davis.
"Give it everything you've got!" he cried.
"Right!" the DNA Ultimate responded. "Desparado Blaster!" He fired out his biggest blasts yet. All of a sudden, a chorus of words too numerous to disquinuish came from the cave. What must have been a couple thousand attacks of Rookie and Champion levels zoomed out at Paildramon. Needless to say, Veemon and Wormon were soon lying on the ground moaning.
The telltale light of dedigivolving lit the dark cave, yet only for a second. It looked like a photo negative of the entiere town with the excpetion of me and the Digidestined, with each person having a Digimon somewhere around them. Then, it was pitch black again.
In that time, the shady figure had binded the rest of the available Digidestined to the clock face, each to a different number. I noticed that there was only one hand on the clock, which appeared to be a minute hand. That hand looked sharper than a Snimon's blade, and it's tip was bent back so that if it passed anybody on thd clock, it would behead them.
In one hour, all of the Digidestined could die. In fact, one of them could die in just five minutes.
While I was watching the evil trap the Digidestined, I was half-absentmindedly
bringing my Digivice closer to me. However, something lept onto me!
I thrust around, trying to knock it off. It was red with black spikes,
and it had the semi-common featherlike fur. It appeared to be about
Rookie level. It kept squealing "Mine! Mine!", but quietly.
It wasn't dumb enough to disturb this great power.
I delivered a sharp blow to the thing's stomache. It cried out and
fell back. The shadow-person's head snapped around. I saw the
blade-hand almost at Yolei's throat. I had to act soon.
I snapped my device away from the Digimon and pointed it at the dark binding that held the Digidestined of Love and Sincerity. SSAP! A beam of light cut across it, leaving it in several dark pieces. Yolei quickly fell to the ground. "Create a diversion!" I said, tossing the mystery Digimon towards the mysterious figure. It landed on top of his head, and brushed it off like pidgeon poop. In that short time, my beams of light had freed three more Digidestined.
SSAP! SSAP! SSAP! SSAP! SSAP! SSAP! Now all of the children except for Yamato "Matt" Ishida were free, and heading towards the cave. As I looked towards it, I saw that it was empty. But I hadn't seen one of the people in the cave leave, much less all of them. Extremely odd, but nothing made sense in this world.
Our enemy had apparently finished with the Digimon that I had found. The shady figure threw the red-and-black creature into the cliff wall with such force that the entire formation began to shake. The ground under me cracked away, sending me tumbling to what could very well be my doom.
I was caught by a birdlike creature. It looked like a giant eagle with horns. Aquilamon I remembered. I quickly shot out a beam of light at the final bindings, freeing Matt.
"Blast Rings!" Aquilamon called, but the energy rings phased out in mid-air. As my ride landed, a feline I immediately reconized as Gatomon ran towards it.
"Aquilamon...Gatomon...DNA Digivolve to...Silphymon!"
The bizzare Digimon jumped down to meet the figure with the shadow cloak. Sylphimon punched several jabs at him, but it kept moving back so they never made contact. The Ultimate flew up in the air gathered energy around it. It(it was hard to tell whether Silphymon was male or female) dove at the enemy, but when it halted the energy didn't keep going. It just paused along with Silphymon until it phased out. Something was keeping Silphymon from damaging the humanoid figure.
Our mystery man(who couldn't look less worried) delivered a fierce punch
to Silphymon's jaw. The DNA Digimon collided into the rock wall and
soon reverted into Hawkmon and Gatomon. However, the wall was still
cracking and soon enough it broke lose into a giant rockslide.
The Digimon and Digidestined emerged from the cave. They were all
in pairs for riding on flying Digimon Digimon. Five of the six were
already departing. Kari and Izzy on Kabuterrimon, Jyou(or Joe) and
Cody on Digmon, Tai and Takeru(TK for short) on Pegasusumon, Matt and Ken
on Stingmon and Sora and Yolei on Birdramon. Their partners followed
them. Davis on his Exveemon lowered himself to the ground.
"Want a ride?" he asked with an idiotic smile on his face. I cautiously
climbed aboard.
"Wait for meeeeee!" Called the small creature I had encountered.
It had apparently regained conciousness from hearing the rockslide, and
jumped onto one of Exveemon's legs.
As I looked behind at the rockslide and the evil we had narrowly escaped,
I slowly checked my watch. 4:03. Me and Kali had started playing
our last game of chest at 3:00. It took about ten minutes.
In less than an hour, my life had changed darastically.