It Matters Not For Reasons Why…
It Matters Not For Reasons Why…

Unicron searched for more small concentrated energy and locked on to his next target. It was somewhere on Cemetery Hill. He headed in that direction, but he was not the only one going that way. Kerensky's group was headed there too. T.K. and Patamon walked kinda behind Robert, Tenchi, and Sage. Sage and Tenchi both knew something was up. Sage was using his wisdom ability to seek out the dragonball. Tenchi fell back to talk to T.K. "What's wrong guy? You okay?" "Yeah, I guess, I miss my brother, I wonder if he made it okay." "T.K. you should better sense than that, I'm sure your brother is fine. We'll find him." "I hope you're right." At that moment, Quatre and Trowa sprang out of the trees and into the group. "Hey Guys, how's things?" "They've been better Tenchi. They've been better." "What happened Quatre?" "Unicron. He's practically unstoppable. He trashed the Gundams." "Is Matt all right?" "Sure, T.K., Matt's fine, we just got split up somehow," answered Trowa. They had no idea trouble was so close.

T.K. was not sure about his brother. Somehow he doubted that he was alive. He didn't know why. He concerned himself. Patamon saw T.K.'s concern, but did not know what to say. If Matt was truly gone, Patamon did not want to be the one to suggest the news. T.K.! "Who said that?" T.K. looked around for the producer of the voice. Tenchi, Trowa, and Quatre were arguing among themselves. Kerensky was disappeared somewhere with Sage. T.K.! It's me, don't you recognize my voice! "You're not Matt, could you be…" It's Piccolo, I'm communication with you telepathically. "Piccolo! What's wrong?" It's your brother, T.K.; he didn't make it, Gabumon either. "No, not Matt, noooo, Piccolo, you're not serious." I'm dead serious, T.K. But when you find the dragonballs, he can come back, and I can too. Don't give up hope. Your time will come. T.K. wiped away his tears. "I'm ready, Piccolo, Patamon and I will get Matt back." Patamon looked at T.K. He had no sense of the moment that just occurred, but he figured that T.K. was not losing it. "What's going on there, T.K.?" asked Patamon pointing toward Tenchi.

Tenchi knew that Trowa and Quatre were not telling the truth. He was a couple of years older than they and knew they were lousy liars. "You numskulls, why didn't you tell him the truth?" "How do you know the truth, Tenchi?" asked Quatre. "You two are so easy to read when you're distressed," Tenchi frowned. "And you decided to not tell T.K. about his own brother. You know, that was rotten. Just plain rotten. Now you've probably sent his hopes up, expecting Matt to come charging down the mountain with Gabumon in tow to save us all. It just won't work that way. He'll find out sooner or later and he'll be devastated. I'll have nothing to do with that. Tell him now. After all, he's our friend, we're supposed to be there for him." Kerensky and Sage ran toward the group. Robert was holding a dragonball, but it was clear they were being pursued by something. Looking up, they saw Unicron. The destroyer had found a new target.

Sage and Robert had been caught in the act of picking up a dragonball, and now they ran for their lives. They stopped momentarily when they ran into Tenchi and the others. Tenchi turned on the two Gundam pilots. "I'll show you how a true friend fights." The light hawk wings appeared and Tenchi had changed clothes. The master glistened into the form of the light hawk sword. Tenchi was going to stand against incredible odds.

"You guys get back, I'm going to stop this thing." Unicron fired on the ant attacking him. Tenchi formed a shield that held off the corrosive mouth blast. Tenchi leaped onto the foot of the creature. Unicron bent down to grab Tenchi, but his hand was prevented from closing by Tenchi's energy. Tenchi executed a huge jump and flying for a minute or two, landed on Unicron's shoulder. He tried to slice into the head of Unicron, but the best he could do were some scratches. Unicron raised his left hand to smack Tenchi off, but Tenchi's agility enabled him to attack the chest of Unicron. More scratches were all he could do. The eye laser could not break Tenchi's shield. Tenchi maneuvered quickly to attack the rear of Unicron. He hacked away at the back. Unicron was growing annoyed at this pest, he began to lean backward and fall over. If he did this he would be vulnerable for a little while, but he would crush the member of the Jurai line and his power, that was very much to fear.

T.K., help Tenchi now! If you wait a minute longer it will be too late. He's fighting to avenge our friends. Do it! "My god, he's going to be crushed! Patamon, go!"

Patamon…digivolve to…ANGEMON.

Angemon saw he had little time. He swooped and grabbed Tenchi, pulling him away from the rear of Unicron just as Unicron fell over. Tenchi was thankful that Angemon had saved him, but he was frustrated that he could not do anything more other than scratch Unicron. He still wanted to fight the brute. Angemon dropped him onto the ground and Tenchi powered up his sword once more, more than it had been any other time. He charged into the air and brought the sword down on Unicron's thigh, leaving a gash that was noticeable. Unicron's face showed no pain, but his voice thundered, "Little pest, at one time I would have considered sparing the lives of you and your friends, but now you will witness their dismemberment!" Angemon knew that Unicron would go after T.K. first, so he decided to preempt this.

HAND OF FATE!

The blast was aimed at the gash in Unicron's leg. It augmented it, but Unicron kept coming. Angemon and Tenchi slowly backed off. They were not strong enough to stop it. Now they wanted to protect T.K. and hope helped arrived soon. The youth and the digimon kept their eyes on Unicron as they backed up and Unicron continued forward.

THUNDERBALL…CUT!

A surge of green energy came from behind them. It traveled quickly, piercing the gash on Unicron's leg. It was now literally a hole. But a small hole in the middle of a large gash. Sage had turned around to support his allies, but even still the three's combined power had little effect on Unicron, whose eye laser was directed at them again. "Sage, does Robert have the dragonball?" asked Tenchi, still retreating. Sage replied, "Yes, Tenchi he's with the Gundam pilots in those bushes over there." "T.K., Get Angemon to take you and Robert out of here, and go find another dragonball. We'll get this guy occupied," advised Tenchi. T.K. nodded, Angemon picked him up and headed over to get Kerensky. He retrieved Kerensky from the bushes and the three flew off to find the next dragonball.

Sage and Tenchi looked at their task ahead. There was no way to beat Unicron, but they might be able to hold him there, by playing a hit-and-run guerrilla style battle, otherwise this bucket of hope might run out.

The old Cavalry battlefield was a plain of grass. Charmander had to be careful not to start a massive fire. He decided to stay away from the grass while von Moltke, Hoover, and Winston scoured the plain for the next dragonball. At the sounds of battle coming from Cemetery Hill, they had considered getting involved by hurrying over, but they knew the plan. To find the dragonballs was their best hope. And now they struggled to find their second, although it would make five for the team. Winston's PKE meter was going crazy and he looked down. There it was, the next dragonball. Winston had no more readings in the area, so the group headed to Culp's Hill, to wait for the others to arrive. Approaching the hill, they noticed Quatre and Trowa waving them in, but the sounds of a fight were unmistakable from a short distance away. Quatre explained what was happening, but von Moltke decided there was no material help they could give Tenchi and Sage right now. The fight was moving farther and farther away from them, but they decided to sit tight.

Wheeljack hit the road south. The next reading was where Hagerstown, Maryland would have been. But the dragonball was sitting on the side of the road, just waiting for them. Dumars got out the car only to be shot at! Where had this come from? All enemies should have been terminated. Joe got behind Wheeljack. Churchill peered above the windshield and then he saw them, the McDougals! Lita transformed into Sailor Jupiter and got out of the car. Leon followed, hand on his pistol in the holster. His general's stars shown brightly in the afternoon sunlight. Wheeljack transformed. "General, who are these guys?" asked the confused Autobot. Churchill noticed the pair became a little uneasy after Wheeljack had changed shape. "I know their name is McDougal, but I don't know of anything about them, it appears they are after the dragonball too," answered Churchill, not liking this twist at all. The elder McDougal pulled out his staff and sent a massive shot down toward them. Sailor Jupiter broke it with her Oak Evolution attack. Wheeljack gave a double laser shot that followed the first strike so fast; neither McDougal could avoid the blast. The elder disappeared. But the younger was holding something, the last dragonball. Churchill pulled out his gun and walked over to the younger McDougal. "You didn't even give me a chance with your friend over there," the younger McDougal mouthed. Churchill looked down at him and said, "You were too good to give a chance."

"I reckon so," the younger McDougal smiled fakely and disappeared. Churchill picked up the dragonball. "We have four, I think we need to go to Culp's Hill to see how everyone else made out," Churchill exclaimed. He looked into the air and there was Angemon and two passengers, Robert and T.K. Wheeljack turned to them and asked, "How are things with ya'll?" "Not too good, Tenchi and Sage are holding off Unicron, Quatre and Trowa are on Culp's Hill." Churchill knew the next question would be painful to ask. "How did the diversion group make out?" T.K. turned to Leon and with a sniffle, "He got Matt, and Gabumon, too." Churchill sympathized with the small boy. Robert continued, "He also got Dinobot, and the Gundams are self destructed wrecks." Churchill turned toward the direction of Gettysburg. He had five in his possession; he had to hope the other two were at Culp's.

Wheeljack started getting a weird transmission. He began holding his head ad flailing in convulsions. T.K. thought he knew what caused it. He ran up with his digivice and placed it on Wheeljack. The convulsions stopped and a message appeared in T.K.'s digivice. It was from Izzy. It said, 'I've been monitoring the power reading in your world, and it really has gone through the roof. But I've noticed most of it is generated from a single source. The explosion of that source would probably cause enough energy to open dimensional rifts to all the worlds that ya'll were pulled from. Just my opinion, Izzy. P.S. Apologize for me to the big guy, I didn't have any other terminal to send things through.'

Churchill gathered this data together in his mind, it concurred with his thought for the last few minutes. Destroy Unicron and we go home. It seemed so simple, but it was going to be tough, and now the Culp's Hill trek was needed more than ever. "Guys, we need to move to Culp's Hill fast and call the Eternal Dragon before Sage and Tenchi run out of time." Wheeljack transformed, and Angemon took off. They were headed to Culp's Hill.