Chapter 7:
New York City....
The people screamed in terror, pushing and pulling through the crowd. People were pushing down to the ground, showing and stepping over others, while some were ready to do what ever was necessary to run. It was mob rule, and the rule was 'Every man for himself.'
Behind the escaping crowd was a large massive gorilla with a cannon for an arm. The irony was not lost on the crowd, but they did not find it funny, watching a massive creature tear down building after building was not their idea of a joke.
The creature raised his hand, ready to crush a small store, when he was blasted by a beam of cold energy. When he recovered, he glared at his attacker. "A Frigamon?" he asked, "Why are you attacking me?"
"Because," he said,"You're attacking my friend's home!"
The creature looked confused, then realization dawn on him. "You area Digidestined Digimon, aren't you?"
"That's right, Gorillamon," Frigamon said,"And you are going down!"
Frigamon stormed forward, his fist ready to attack, when Gorillamon blasted him with his cannon. While Frigamon was recovering, Gorillamon shot forward, ready to move in for the kill. Frigamon recovered and slammed his knee into Gorillamon's stomach. The invading Digimon stumbled back. Frigamon slammed his fist into Gorillamon's face. The digital ape fell over, his eyes rolling into his head. "Yes!"
"Nice work," a human boy said, running out of an alley to join Frigamon.
"Thanks," the Frigamon said.
The human sighed. "But," he said, looking around at all the screaming people,"Our job has just begun."
In France, a green, slimy creature was terrorizing a group of people in front of the senate building. Out of all of them, only one had the courage to stand up to the creature. "What are you? What do you want with us?"
The creature didn't answer.
"I am a U.N. representative!" he said,"I demanded to know what is happening!"
"I'm a Nuememon!" it said,"And you are my prisoner!" It moved its slimy face towards him,"Maybe I'll start by eating you first."
He opened his mouth, when, he was suddenly blown away. When the human man opened his eyes, he saw a familiar blond haired girl and plant creature at her side standing in front of them. "Y-you!" he said, shocked,"You're the Digidestined that spoke at the U.N. Senate!"
"And you are zee one zat argued wiz me," she said,"I hope you now realize zat Digidestined are not all dangerous. Just remember, a Digidestined saved your life."
She and her Digimon turned and started to run down the street, when something caught her eye. She ran to a motorcycle with a side car. "Pardon moi," she said, turning to the group,"Iz zis one of yourz?"
"Yes," the man said,"Its mine."
"I beg your forgiveness, misouer," she said,"But, I need to borrow it."
A second later, she and her Digimon were flying down the streets of Paris, avoiding all the destruction around them. "Catherine," her Floramon said,"Are you sure itz safe to leave now?"
"Tai needs to know about the invasion of France," Catherine said,"And all phone linez to Japan are down. We will get help, zen return. Viva la France!"
Tai waited patiently while the elevator moved down its shaft, but, when the elevator doors slide open, he charged through the halls of his underground base. He tore open the door to the computer room. Inside, he found Izzy typing away at the keyboard, staring up at the screen. "What have you got for me, Izzy?" he asked.
Izzy hit a button and a flat map of the planet appeared. Spots of light started to blink. "What are those?" Tai asked.
"Digital Gates," Izzy said,"Ones that have opened in the past hour."
Tai's eyes shot open. "Those are Digital Gates? What are they doing?"
"Opening," Izzy said,"Digimon are crossing over into this world."
Tai stared at the blinking lights covering the land masses. "There must be hundreds of them! Its an invasion!"
"We need to do something," Izzy said.
Tai sighed. Izzy could tell that he was thinking, debating something. Tai reached inside his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. He dialed a number and waited until he heard someone answer. "Hello?"
"Matt," Tai said,"It's me."
"T.K.?"
"No, its Tai."
"Tai?" Matt asked. He then laughed. "I was expecting your call. I guess you've heard about what's happening."
"We need to talk, face to face."
"Agreed. The pizza shop?"
"Deal."
"We should bring at least one other member with us."
"Right," Tai nodded, even though Matt couldn't see him," our siblings?"
"I don't think so," Matt said,"In case you haven't noticed, they have a hard time controlling their tempers around each other."
"I'll meet you there."
"See you soon."
Myotismon felt the sting in his hands when he tried to free himself from the death grip of the handcuffs that bound his wrists. He gasped for breath. "I...I have never felt pain such as this," he said to himself,"It may appear that I am truly their prisoner."
As he continued to follow the Digimon in front of him, he thought of his capture. How the leader of the ones calling themselves, the Black Army, had not shown himself at all during the battle. The general called, Skull Satanmon had fought him instead, and defeated him. Myotismon did not even know where he was being held, but he was sure it was the Digital World.
"Excuse me," he to the Digimon in front of him,"Can I at least have the pleasure of knowing where I am being held?"
His captor didn't answer.
Myotismon growled,"You openly attacking my castle, my people, and myself. You've defeated me, no doubt burned and pillage my lands, the least you can do is allow me to know where I am being held!"
"Your lands have not be harmed, nor have your people," Skull Satanmon said.
"What?" Myotismon asked. "They only wanted me?" he asked himself,"But, why?"
"But, make no mistake," Skull Satanmon said,"your lands will be captured when we move towards the Digital World, but, first Earth must be taken!"
"Earth?" Myotismon asked,"Why earth?"
Skull Satanmon just laughed. "I fear the worst for Earth," Myotismon said to himself,"Kamiya, Ishida, I wish you luck."
Tai couldn't help but smile as he walked into the pizza parlor. Despite what was happening to the world, the restaurant was still open. "I'm surprise that they haven't evacuated yet," Mimi said, as she and Tai walked into the shop.
"Well," Tai said,"For some odd reason, there have not been any Digital Gates opening in Japan. So far, we are safe from a Digital World invasion." He sighed,"All we've got to worry about is those Dark Towers."
"Kamiya, over here!"
Tai took a deep breath, and he felt Mimi tense up at his side. "Here we go," she whispered.
Mimi took Tai's hand, and both of them walked to the booth were they saw Matt and Sora seated. "I still can't believe that a nice girl like Sara is with someone like Matt," Mimi said.
Tai sighed. "Mimi, her name is Sora."
"Sora?" she asked,"Who's Sora?"
Tai sighed again. "Just...let me do the talking, okay?"
Tai and Mimi sat down across from Matt and Sora. Matt and Tai nodded at each other, while the two girls, reluctantly, said hello to each other. There was an uncomfortable silence before Tai said, "I guess we should get started."
Matt nodded. "Yes."
"Well," Tai said,"you've all heard about what is happening all over the earth, right?"
Matt and Sora nodded. "Arukennimon has to be behind it," Matt said,"She's the only one, other than the two of us, who knows about Sam Ichijoji's technology."
Tai nodded. "Yes, and she has effectively eliminated any digivolutions on earth."
"Yolei and Joe also say that the Dark Towers are slowly moving," Sora said, "Converging on Tokyo."
Tai sighed,"It seems that someone takes great pains in their effort to destroy us."
"Tai," Mimi said,"You said that Sam Ichijoji was working on armor that could block the Dark Light?"
He nodded. "Yes, but, he never finished."
"Yes," Mimi said, turning to Matt and Sora,"Doesn't Willis's Digimon use an 'Armor' to Digivolve?"
"We all ready tried that," Matt said, sadly,"It didn't work. Joe says its because when the Dark Towers were erected, the Dark Light somehow contaminated his Golden Armor."
Tai leaned forward and rested his head on his hands. "If only there was some way of discovering if the legends of the ancient armor were true or not."
"There's something else to," Matt said,"We have discovered that there was a massive battle in the Digital World."
"Really?" Mimi asked,"Then, whoever is behind Arukennimon, has really set his sights high, huh? Earth and the Digital World?"
"Matt," Tai said,"Let me be frank. This is bigger than our personal enmity. We need to join our forces together."
Matt half smiled. "You know you need help, huh? Well, fine, we'll work together." He held out his hand, which Tai shook. "Partners?" he asked.
"Reluctant partners," Tai said, smiling.
"I've got some help coming in," Matt said, as he and Sora got up,"I might suggest you do the same. I'll, um, assemble my team, and, meet at your place?"
"Wait," Tai said,"Why my place?"
"Yeah," Mimi said,"Its a mess. His parents just fired the maid, and.."
Tai held up his hand,"That's enough Mimi. My place will be fine. I'll have my team there as well."
After Matt and Sora left, Mimi turned to her boyfriend. "You of course know they're not going to like this."
"Well," Tai said,"If we don't do something, it's going to be the end of the world. They'll get use to it."
When Tai and Mimi walked into the computer room of his base, he was surprised to find all of his team all ready assembled, and even more surprised to find his publicist there. "Catherine," he said, a smile crossing over his face.
"Oh, Bonjour, Misouer Kamiya," she said,"It iz so good to zee you again."
Tai knelt down and kissed her on the back of her hand. "Greetings, Mademoiselle. To what do I owe the honor of your visit?"
"That is Catherine?!" Mimi whispered fiercely into Kari's ear.
Kari nodded. "Yeah, that's her."
"I don't believe it!" Mimi said, watching Tai's kiss Catherine on the back on the hand,"Why is he doing that?"
"I don't know," Kari said,"I think that it's customary in France, though."
"They..uh..they don't have anything going on between them, do they?" Mimi asked.
Kari shook her head. "No, they did once, but that was a long time ago."
"I came to tell you about a Digimon invasion in France," Catherine told Tai,"But, upon my arrival here, I now know that zis iz a problem all over ze Earth. I know offer you my help."
"Great," Kari said, interrupting,"Now we're even."
"What?" Tai asked.
"One of Ishida's Digidestined from Australia just arrived in Tokyo," Davis said," With this beautiful girl here, we're matched up."
Catherine blushed and Tai said,"Well, I've got something to talk to you about..."
The door to the computer room opened and a group of people walked in. "T.K.!" Kari shouted,"Team, get ready to..."
"Stop!" Tai shouted, standing in front of Kari.
"Stop?" Kari asked,"What are you talking about? The Ishida team is right there.."
"I know," Tai said,"I invited them here."
"What?"
Matt moved through his team and stood next to Tai. "Now listen," he said,"The threat to earth is much bigger than either of us. We need to join together, before the earth is destroyed."
Kari stared at T.K., who was standing cross armed in front of the Ishida team. "But, Tai," Kari told her older brother,"We could handle it..."
"You can't handle it," Tai said.
"Don't worry," T.K. said,"I'm not any happier about this than you are."
"Now," Matt said,"The fist thing we need to do is get rid of all the Dark Towers. As long as they're up, our Digimon can't digivolve, thus, we can't battle the invading Digimon."
"So," Tai continued,"We are going to send you to the Digital World to search for the 'Digi-armors.' Sam was working on something based on that legend, so, they are our best bet for Digivolving at this time."
"A good idea," Ken said,"But, where do we begin?"
"Geni would know where they are," Matt said.
Tai nodded. "Yes, find Geni first, then look for the armors."
"All of us?" Cody asked.
"No," Tai said,"Matt and I will be staying here, as well as one other. Izzy, I want you to stay here with me."
"Sure," he said.
"Joe," Matt said,"We'll be at my base."
He nodded. "Right."
"Are you going to fight the invading Digimon?" Mimi asked.
"No," Tai said,"Our Digimon can't digivolve, until we can destroy the Dark Towers, we are helpless. We will have to rely that the other Digidestined around the world that all ready have Champion Digimon can hold off the invasion until we can help.
"I don't like it," Davis said,"But.....we don't have any choice."
Tai addressed the rest of them,"You guys are going. Good luck, we're all counting on you."
END OF PART: 7
New York City....
The people screamed in terror, pushing and pulling through the crowd. People were pushing down to the ground, showing and stepping over others, while some were ready to do what ever was necessary to run. It was mob rule, and the rule was 'Every man for himself.'
Behind the escaping crowd was a large massive gorilla with a cannon for an arm. The irony was not lost on the crowd, but they did not find it funny, watching a massive creature tear down building after building was not their idea of a joke.
The creature raised his hand, ready to crush a small store, when he was blasted by a beam of cold energy. When he recovered, he glared at his attacker. "A Frigamon?" he asked, "Why are you attacking me?"
"Because," he said,"You're attacking my friend's home!"
The creature looked confused, then realization dawn on him. "You area Digidestined Digimon, aren't you?"
"That's right, Gorillamon," Frigamon said,"And you are going down!"
Frigamon stormed forward, his fist ready to attack, when Gorillamon blasted him with his cannon. While Frigamon was recovering, Gorillamon shot forward, ready to move in for the kill. Frigamon recovered and slammed his knee into Gorillamon's stomach. The invading Digimon stumbled back. Frigamon slammed his fist into Gorillamon's face. The digital ape fell over, his eyes rolling into his head. "Yes!"
"Nice work," a human boy said, running out of an alley to join Frigamon.
"Thanks," the Frigamon said.
The human sighed. "But," he said, looking around at all the screaming people,"Our job has just begun."
In France, a green, slimy creature was terrorizing a group of people in front of the senate building. Out of all of them, only one had the courage to stand up to the creature. "What are you? What do you want with us?"
The creature didn't answer.
"I am a U.N. representative!" he said,"I demanded to know what is happening!"
"I'm a Nuememon!" it said,"And you are my prisoner!" It moved its slimy face towards him,"Maybe I'll start by eating you first."
He opened his mouth, when, he was suddenly blown away. When the human man opened his eyes, he saw a familiar blond haired girl and plant creature at her side standing in front of them. "Y-you!" he said, shocked,"You're the Digidestined that spoke at the U.N. Senate!"
"And you are zee one zat argued wiz me," she said,"I hope you now realize zat Digidestined are not all dangerous. Just remember, a Digidestined saved your life."
She and her Digimon turned and started to run down the street, when something caught her eye. She ran to a motorcycle with a side car. "Pardon moi," she said, turning to the group,"Iz zis one of yourz?"
"Yes," the man said,"Its mine."
"I beg your forgiveness, misouer," she said,"But, I need to borrow it."
A second later, she and her Digimon were flying down the streets of Paris, avoiding all the destruction around them. "Catherine," her Floramon said,"Are you sure itz safe to leave now?"
"Tai needs to know about the invasion of France," Catherine said,"And all phone linez to Japan are down. We will get help, zen return. Viva la France!"
Tai waited patiently while the elevator moved down its shaft, but, when the elevator doors slide open, he charged through the halls of his underground base. He tore open the door to the computer room. Inside, he found Izzy typing away at the keyboard, staring up at the screen. "What have you got for me, Izzy?" he asked.
Izzy hit a button and a flat map of the planet appeared. Spots of light started to blink. "What are those?" Tai asked.
"Digital Gates," Izzy said,"Ones that have opened in the past hour."
Tai's eyes shot open. "Those are Digital Gates? What are they doing?"
"Opening," Izzy said,"Digimon are crossing over into this world."
Tai stared at the blinking lights covering the land masses. "There must be hundreds of them! Its an invasion!"
"We need to do something," Izzy said.
Tai sighed. Izzy could tell that he was thinking, debating something. Tai reached inside his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. He dialed a number and waited until he heard someone answer. "Hello?"
"Matt," Tai said,"It's me."
"T.K.?"
"No, its Tai."
"Tai?" Matt asked. He then laughed. "I was expecting your call. I guess you've heard about what's happening."
"We need to talk, face to face."
"Agreed. The pizza shop?"
"Deal."
"We should bring at least one other member with us."
"Right," Tai nodded, even though Matt couldn't see him," our siblings?"
"I don't think so," Matt said,"In case you haven't noticed, they have a hard time controlling their tempers around each other."
"I'll meet you there."
"See you soon."
Myotismon felt the sting in his hands when he tried to free himself from the death grip of the handcuffs that bound his wrists. He gasped for breath. "I...I have never felt pain such as this," he said to himself,"It may appear that I am truly their prisoner."
As he continued to follow the Digimon in front of him, he thought of his capture. How the leader of the ones calling themselves, the Black Army, had not shown himself at all during the battle. The general called, Skull Satanmon had fought him instead, and defeated him. Myotismon did not even know where he was being held, but he was sure it was the Digital World.
"Excuse me," he to the Digimon in front of him,"Can I at least have the pleasure of knowing where I am being held?"
His captor didn't answer.
Myotismon growled,"You openly attacking my castle, my people, and myself. You've defeated me, no doubt burned and pillage my lands, the least you can do is allow me to know where I am being held!"
"Your lands have not be harmed, nor have your people," Skull Satanmon said.
"What?" Myotismon asked. "They only wanted me?" he asked himself,"But, why?"
"But, make no mistake," Skull Satanmon said,"your lands will be captured when we move towards the Digital World, but, first Earth must be taken!"
"Earth?" Myotismon asked,"Why earth?"
Skull Satanmon just laughed. "I fear the worst for Earth," Myotismon said to himself,"Kamiya, Ishida, I wish you luck."
Tai couldn't help but smile as he walked into the pizza parlor. Despite what was happening to the world, the restaurant was still open. "I'm surprise that they haven't evacuated yet," Mimi said, as she and Tai walked into the shop.
"Well," Tai said,"For some odd reason, there have not been any Digital Gates opening in Japan. So far, we are safe from a Digital World invasion." He sighed,"All we've got to worry about is those Dark Towers."
"Kamiya, over here!"
Tai took a deep breath, and he felt Mimi tense up at his side. "Here we go," she whispered.
Mimi took Tai's hand, and both of them walked to the booth were they saw Matt and Sora seated. "I still can't believe that a nice girl like Sara is with someone like Matt," Mimi said.
Tai sighed. "Mimi, her name is Sora."
"Sora?" she asked,"Who's Sora?"
Tai sighed again. "Just...let me do the talking, okay?"
Tai and Mimi sat down across from Matt and Sora. Matt and Tai nodded at each other, while the two girls, reluctantly, said hello to each other. There was an uncomfortable silence before Tai said, "I guess we should get started."
Matt nodded. "Yes."
"Well," Tai said,"you've all heard about what is happening all over the earth, right?"
Matt and Sora nodded. "Arukennimon has to be behind it," Matt said,"She's the only one, other than the two of us, who knows about Sam Ichijoji's technology."
Tai nodded. "Yes, and she has effectively eliminated any digivolutions on earth."
"Yolei and Joe also say that the Dark Towers are slowly moving," Sora said, "Converging on Tokyo."
Tai sighed,"It seems that someone takes great pains in their effort to destroy us."
"Tai," Mimi said,"You said that Sam Ichijoji was working on armor that could block the Dark Light?"
He nodded. "Yes, but, he never finished."
"Yes," Mimi said, turning to Matt and Sora,"Doesn't Willis's Digimon use an 'Armor' to Digivolve?"
"We all ready tried that," Matt said, sadly,"It didn't work. Joe says its because when the Dark Towers were erected, the Dark Light somehow contaminated his Golden Armor."
Tai leaned forward and rested his head on his hands. "If only there was some way of discovering if the legends of the ancient armor were true or not."
"There's something else to," Matt said,"We have discovered that there was a massive battle in the Digital World."
"Really?" Mimi asked,"Then, whoever is behind Arukennimon, has really set his sights high, huh? Earth and the Digital World?"
"Matt," Tai said,"Let me be frank. This is bigger than our personal enmity. We need to join our forces together."
Matt half smiled. "You know you need help, huh? Well, fine, we'll work together." He held out his hand, which Tai shook. "Partners?" he asked.
"Reluctant partners," Tai said, smiling.
"I've got some help coming in," Matt said, as he and Sora got up,"I might suggest you do the same. I'll, um, assemble my team, and, meet at your place?"
"Wait," Tai said,"Why my place?"
"Yeah," Mimi said,"Its a mess. His parents just fired the maid, and.."
Tai held up his hand,"That's enough Mimi. My place will be fine. I'll have my team there as well."
After Matt and Sora left, Mimi turned to her boyfriend. "You of course know they're not going to like this."
"Well," Tai said,"If we don't do something, it's going to be the end of the world. They'll get use to it."
When Tai and Mimi walked into the computer room of his base, he was surprised to find all of his team all ready assembled, and even more surprised to find his publicist there. "Catherine," he said, a smile crossing over his face.
"Oh, Bonjour, Misouer Kamiya," she said,"It iz so good to zee you again."
Tai knelt down and kissed her on the back of her hand. "Greetings, Mademoiselle. To what do I owe the honor of your visit?"
"That is Catherine?!" Mimi whispered fiercely into Kari's ear.
Kari nodded. "Yeah, that's her."
"I don't believe it!" Mimi said, watching Tai's kiss Catherine on the back on the hand,"Why is he doing that?"
"I don't know," Kari said,"I think that it's customary in France, though."
"They..uh..they don't have anything going on between them, do they?" Mimi asked.
Kari shook her head. "No, they did once, but that was a long time ago."
"I came to tell you about a Digimon invasion in France," Catherine told Tai,"But, upon my arrival here, I now know that zis iz a problem all over ze Earth. I know offer you my help."
"Great," Kari said, interrupting,"Now we're even."
"What?" Tai asked.
"One of Ishida's Digidestined from Australia just arrived in Tokyo," Davis said," With this beautiful girl here, we're matched up."
Catherine blushed and Tai said,"Well, I've got something to talk to you about..."
The door to the computer room opened and a group of people walked in. "T.K.!" Kari shouted,"Team, get ready to..."
"Stop!" Tai shouted, standing in front of Kari.
"Stop?" Kari asked,"What are you talking about? The Ishida team is right there.."
"I know," Tai said,"I invited them here."
"What?"
Matt moved through his team and stood next to Tai. "Now listen," he said,"The threat to earth is much bigger than either of us. We need to join together, before the earth is destroyed."
Kari stared at T.K., who was standing cross armed in front of the Ishida team. "But, Tai," Kari told her older brother,"We could handle it..."
"You can't handle it," Tai said.
"Don't worry," T.K. said,"I'm not any happier about this than you are."
"Now," Matt said,"The fist thing we need to do is get rid of all the Dark Towers. As long as they're up, our Digimon can't digivolve, thus, we can't battle the invading Digimon."
"So," Tai continued,"We are going to send you to the Digital World to search for the 'Digi-armors.' Sam was working on something based on that legend, so, they are our best bet for Digivolving at this time."
"A good idea," Ken said,"But, where do we begin?"
"Geni would know where they are," Matt said.
Tai nodded. "Yes, find Geni first, then look for the armors."
"All of us?" Cody asked.
"No," Tai said,"Matt and I will be staying here, as well as one other. Izzy, I want you to stay here with me."
"Sure," he said.
"Joe," Matt said,"We'll be at my base."
He nodded. "Right."
"Are you going to fight the invading Digimon?" Mimi asked.
"No," Tai said,"Our Digimon can't digivolve, until we can destroy the Dark Towers, we are helpless. We will have to rely that the other Digidestined around the world that all ready have Champion Digimon can hold off the invasion until we can help.
"I don't like it," Davis said,"But.....we don't have any choice."
Tai addressed the rest of them,"You guys are going. Good luck, we're all counting on you."
END OF PART: 7