Authors notes: Sorry if I got any attacks wrong.
Chapter 5.
They were flying again, but this time it was different. After the breakfast conversation, the digidestined packed up everything and Ken got to take his whip back as well. Everyone was more relaxed and even Cody was laughing at some of Davis's misplaced jokes. Ken did decide to reveal the location of his base, and the thought of the digidestined worst enemy being gone forever enlightened everyone. Though, Ken still didn't think digimon were real and would keep changing his attitude from kind Ken Ichijouji to the digimon Kaiser, everyone could tell he was beginning to lighten up. Now that they were all together as a team, there was barely any need for suspicion. So, to Davis's delight, Davis was sitting with Kari and Veemon on Nefertimon, Cody was holding on to Wormmon and Armadillomon with TK on Pegasusmon, and Ken was straddling Halsemon holding Yolei's shoulders for balance and support.
"I don't feel so good." Davis whined
"Stop complaining Davis." Kari yelled behind her. "Ken said the base is dead ahead."
Davis looked at all the trees that lay in front of him in an endless wall.
"Dead is what I'm going to be if this ride doesn't stop soon."
"I quiet agree with you there, Davis." Ken yelled from above him. "My Airdramon are much better flyers and there are no feathers to get in your face."
"Hey, watch the feathers." Halsemon warned.
TK, who unfortunately listened to that discussion, shook his head. Then TK opened his D-terminal to the map and his eyes widened in fear.
"Oh shit, PULL UP!" He yelled to everyone
VENOM EXPLOSION
The psychic voice was so loud that everyone held their heads in pain and the flying digimon just barely got out of the acid's way in time.
"We need to get below the tree line!" Ken yelled "The digimon can take him in the air, but we're sitting ducks on their backs!"
"So what are you proposing?" Yolei yelled in terror
"That we..."
So, I finally meet the famous digidestined. Vexilmon said You will be a pleasure to destroy.
The liquidated head looked at them. It stopped at Halsemon, and if Vexilmon had eyes, they would have been wide with shock.
YOU! Well, it looks like the digimon Kaiser lives. This is going to be even more fun. Not only will I destroy the digidestined, but now I get to kill the Kaiser, again.
Ken waited for the digimon to become completely under Vexilmons control, but instead, Vexilmon just did another venom explosion.
"JUMP!" Ken screamed. He took Yolei's wrist and pulled himself and her off of Halsemon just as the acid went whizzing by where they had been. Halsemon was able to barely evade the acid.
All the digidestined, seeing how close their companions had come to being killed, followed that same suit and jumped toward them. Wormmon leapt out of Cody's arms and fell towards his partner. Ken turned his head to look at the green worm falling and approaching him.
"Use your attack!" Ken yelled, remembering Cody telling him how Wormmon saved his life. "Your sticky net is the only thing that will save us." Then Ken reverted back into the Kaiser mood. "And this time, Make sure it's strong."
"OK Ken! Sticky net." Wormmon yelled back. He had started calling Ken by his real name ever since Ken smiled, and for some reason, Ken didn't yell at him.
Wormmon hooked a huge net onto the limbs of four trees standing about fifteen feet apart from one another. Ken and Yolei were the first to land. They were flat on their backs when they landed and bounced once. They instantly rolled to the edges and stood up as TK and Davis landed were Ken and Yolei had just been. As Kari and Cody were falling, unfortunately, Vexilmon tried to hit them with acid. The acid didn't hit, but the force made both of them blow off course and Kari almost didn't make it but was able to catch the side of the net with her hands. Cody, being the lightest, wasn't going to make it without help.
"Cody!" Yolei screamed
Seeing the end, Cody took Armadillomon's paw. Armadillomon was hugging onto Cody's side as he had seen Veemon do.
Whoosh!
Ken, being greatly skilled with the whip, hurled it towards the falling boy. Instead of being slapped with it, the whip wrapped itself around Cody's arm. Ken gave a hard tug and in midair, Cody moved and was able to land in the center of the net. Ken then bent down and unwound his whip without a word and the whip retracted into it's resting position.
"You...you saved my life" Cody managed to gasp.
Ken, who was most definitely now in one of his Kaiser moods, just looked up at the battle above him and didn't acknowledge anyone else's existence. The combat between the digidestined digimon raged. First, Halsemon tried his "tempest wing." All it did was spray the acid everywhere. Nefertimon then tried using her Rosetta stones, but they just disintegrated on impact. However, when Pegasusmon used his Aqueous Beam, the attack made Vexilmon back up.
AARGH He screamed in the digidestined heads
"Of course! No physical attacks will work, but energy beams can hurt him." Kari realized.
Davis cupped his hands to his mouth and shouted "HEY! USE YOUR BEAM ATTACKS!!!"
"Right." Nefertimon said "Did everyone hear that. Energy beam attacks are our best shot."
"Hawks Eye."
"Cat's Eye Beam."
"Aqueous Beam"
All three beams hit on target and were able to drive Vexilmon back. Still, being a mega, not much of his strength was lost and he attacked.
Venom Explosion!
Halsemon and Pegasusmon evaded the attack, but Nefertimon was hit. Instead of bursting into dust though, she just dedigivolved and was weakened.
"Gatomon! Hang on." Halsemon yelled as the cat digimon fell. Halsemon went into a dive after her. The sudden events distracted Pegasusmon and Vexilmon took this as a chance to hit him with acid. By the time Halsemon caught both weakened rookies in his talons, Vexilmon had fled. Halsemon sighed and spiraled down to drop Patamon and Gatomon into their partners waiting arms.
"Good job Halsemon." Yolei said, patting him on the head as he came to rest on a branch.
"We'd better get going." TK said hugging his digimon. "Vexilmon may have left for now, but he is a mega and he will be back. Let's get to safety before sundown."
"It's not far, Takashi. The question is, are your digimon up to it." Ken said, almost annoyed.
"Are you guys OK?" Kari asked Gatomon
"Yeah."
"All right then. Digi-Armor energize."
Soon, they were all back in they air. But now Cody was looking at the map at all times.
"Vexilmon's most definitely regrouping. He knows that we know his weakness." TK yelled to the group from Pegasusmon's back
"Which means that we need to be more strategic. What I want to know is why he just didn't take control of the digimon and set them against us?" Ken yelled back
"Because he couldn't, even though he desperately wanted to." Nefertimon yelled. "I could feel him going around in my head, but there's something about us that makes it impossible to be subject to mind control."
"I'm willing to bet that being chosen as digidestined digimon have something to do with it." Yolei contemplated out loud
Kari looked where they were headed. The trees came to an abrupt stop and a vast desert started. As soon as they started to fly over the desert, a major wave of intense heat washed over them.
"Hot. This is very hot." Yolei complained
"This place is called silicon desert for its abundance of the metal." Ken explained
"And why would you build anything here." Davis asked, fanning himself
"What do you think control spires are made of?" Ken said, raising a brow.
Then, all of the sudden, the digimon went over a cliff and a large metal dome came into view.
"There it is. There's my base." Ken said pointing at it from Halsemon's back.
