Chapter 5
Henry looked around at the insides of the van. There were computers and monitors on both sides and most had one man working at them. The boys were quite comfortable; sitting in padded chairs, considering that they had just been captured by employees of the man the Tamers had resisted for so long. The two men the three males had come to know as Mitsuo and Shin were next to where they sat, Shin guarding them and Mitsuo walking around them holding what looked like a palm pilot.
"Who are you? What do you want with us? Where are you taking us?" TK demanded. Mitsuo looked up from the small screen and walked over to TK.
"Takeru, right? Well, Mr. Takeru, did you realize that in a matter of days, you will be nothing more than a few scattered molecules floating toward a dimensional wormhole?" Mitsuo stated.
"What!" TK exclaimed. He didn't realize it was going that fast. "How do you know?"
Mitsuo held up the palm pilot.
"I've been monitoring the destabilization of data in your body; the break up of the digital bonds is getting more rapid." Mitsuo explained. "Now, to answer your questions. My name is Yamamoto, Mitsuo. I'm the chief scientist at Hypnos and head of Special Operations Unit three. My team, as you can see here, is made up of engineers and programmers specially trained to handle important programs and equipment used to locate, track and in certain cases destroy digital creatures and anomalies that cannot be handled from inside the main observation deck. We are taking you to Hypnos for further analysis. In case you do not know, you are the largest scientific breakthrough in Dimensional physics in years."
"But Mr. Yamamoto," TK protested. "You said it yourself, we'll be dead in a few days!
No one answered because all of the sudden the van stopped and the truck door swung open. A team of Hypnos security was standing there.
"What in the word are you people doing here? Does Yamaki really think that we need a SWAT team to bring two eleven-year-old boys up to Hypnos?" Mitsuo said, annoyed. He jumped out with the three boys and his partner flanking him.
"Sorry for the inconvenience, sir. But we have orders to take the anomalies to a holding area until further notice." The headman said monotonously.
Mitsuo pressed his lips together in annoyance, but didn't say anything. The two digidestined were immediately surrounded by the guards and were walked quietly to the elevator. Henry, who had also been standing there, looked up at the head of SOU 3 in hatred.
"Happy now? They're going to die unless they get back to their own dimension, you know that. And you just sealed their fate." Henry said defiantly. Mitsuo glanced at the tamer, then looked at his partner.
"Shin? Do you mind delivering Mr. Wong his son? I'm sure he'd appreciate it and you know almost everyone who works in the program wing." Mitsuo said. The program wing held the top computer engineers and program designers for Hypnos and Shin had done a great deal of work there.
"That's not a problem. I'll meet you in the laboratory. Come on kid, let's go." Shin said, putting a hand on Henrys shoulder and steering him towards the stairs that led to Hypnos.
***
Janyuu Wong couldn't believe what he read. One of his collage partners had e-mailed him, saying she saw the anomalies and was amazed that they had found them so quickly. Janyuu, thinking it was a fluke, continued to work until:
"WONG!" A male voice rang through the cubical he was working at. Janyuu jumped, making him badly misspell a word as there was a pounding at his sidewall.
"Yes? What is it?" Janyuu said, walking over to the opening. A man he had seen many times in the program room stuck his head in.
"You've got a visitor, Wong. A special delivery from SOU 3 to you." Shin joked. He moved out of the way and Henry stepped into view.
"Henry? What on earth are you doing here?" Janyuu exclaimed.
"He was with the anomalies, Wong." Shin said. He then leaned close to Janyuu and the tone of his voice changed immediately and it became much softer. "Don't let me catch you holding back information like that again, or I won't hesitate to report you, your son and that stupid rabbit digimon of his to Yamaki." Shin leaned back and smiled as if nothing was wrong. "See you later."
Shin disappeared and all three people in the cubicle sighed in relief. Shin walked speedily down the hall toward the laboratory. He walked past a side hall then stopped and backpedaled. There, standing with equally angered looks on their faces, were Yamaki and Mitsuo.
"I mean no disrespect, sir, but you can't just interfere with me and my team's work. Those anomalies, those kids are-" Mitsuo gritted.
"Not your responsibility. I completely understand your concern for the children's treatment, however your concern is extremely misplaced. Your task has been completed and I'm sure you have more important things to do. I guess that means you can go back to that research paper you were so desperate to finish before this little problem came up." Yamaki said calmly.
"These anomalies are my research. I must get information from them." Mitsuo argued.
"All in due time, Mr. Yamamoto." Yamaki said, with slight annoyance in his voice. "You'll have your information, but until then, let my biologists do their job and you stop worrying about trifles in which you have no control over. Is that clear?"
"Crystal, sir. But I must inquire; did you get my e-mail?" Mitsuo asked quietly but with great anger.
"Yes."
"Then you must know of the anomalies condition. So how do you plan to extract the information needed for a true analysis?" Mitsuo said. Yamaki gave a small smile.
"I believe the biologists have, a bit reluctantly, suggested the scan used on Darklizamon as the best method. As soon as it's ready, I promise you that you will get all the information you desire." Yamaki answered. Mitsuo's eyes widened and he leaned against the wall for support. Yamaki started to walk away.
"Sir, you can't do that!" Mitsuo said almost in a whisper. "That's immoral and wrong. A digimon is one thing, but these are humans and they aren't completely digital either. I won't let you do this, Yamaki. I won't!" Yamaki stopped walking, turned around and took off his sunglasses.
"Word of advice, Mitsuo, if you ever have a new employer." Yamaki said, emphasizing the word "if" as though it were a threat. "Don't argue with your boss."
With that, he walked down the hall, leaving Mitsuo standing there. Shin, having just seeing that scene play out, walked up and waved a hand in front of his partners face to get him out of his stupor.
"We did this, didn't we?" Shin stated regretfully. Mitsuo looked up and nodded.
"I'm not going to let those kid's die. Not when I was the one who brought them here." Mitsuo said. Then he and Shin walked down another hall
***
Ken and TK squirmed in their restraints. Once up at Hypnos, they were brought to some vacant office, seated in chairs and had their hands wrapped around the chairs and tied in the back with the security guards handcuffs. TK was trying everything except demanding a lawyer to get the guard that was in the office with them to release him. Ken was simply staring at the painted wall.
"You know, Japan's a free country now. I think have rights too. Plus we're kids so why don't you just let us go?" TK persuaded. There was no reaction from the guard.
"Why don't you shut up, Takashi? It would save my ear and me a lot of pain." Ken said after a moment of silence.
"Well, I don't see you helping." TK shot back. Ken rolled his eyes, then, because he was so close to his enemy, Ken moved into a position, grabbed TK's hand and ran it along the back of Ken's chair. TK felt a screw that had jutted out of place and realized how Ken was going to free himself.
"Oh, you've got to be kidding me. We're wearing metal handcuffs. You'll break your wrists before you break the chain." TK whispered.
"No, the surface are of the nail is small enough to cut the metal with a strong hit. Look, why don't you be a good little digidestined and distract the guard. OK?" Ken said quietly.
"Well, what do you expect me to do?"
"I don't know, sing or something." Ken suggested impatiently.
"Fine." TK said. Then he actually started to sing the first song that came to his mid, which happened to be the national anthem. To make the guard be more focused on him, TK sang louder and louder on each word until by the time he sang "for the eternity that it takes for small pebbles to grow into a great rock and become covered with moss." he was practically shouting. During that time, he heard a clunking noise and saw the chain that had bound his wrists together was now hanging in two pieces. Ken's eye twitched which the only indication that he might be in pain. And by some miracle, the guard didn't notice.
"You're off a little, kid." The guard said gruffly. TK looked coldly at the guard, mad that anyone would think that he would be off on a tune, especially one as common as the anthem.
"No, I think you're off." Ken said calmly, making sure it looked as though his hands were still tied.
"Off what?" The guard said, walking toward the emperor. No a very brilliant move. When the guard was close enough, Ken, ignoring the pain in his wrists, grabbed the mans arm, stood up and flipped him on the ground. The man landed on his back, the wind knocked out of him. Ken grabbed the guard's gun.
"Off the security squad." Ken said angrily and whacked the guard on the side f his head with the butt of the gun. The man was instantly knocked out.
"My, aren't we the violent ones." TK said flatly as Ken grabbed the man's keys.
"Its called self defense." Ken said. He put the key in the first hole and unlocked it.
"I don't think karate teaches you how to flip and knock out grown men." TK said angry with what Ken had just done.
"I take judo, first of all. Second it just a matter of shifting your body weight and center of balance. If you know how to do that, you can take down anyone. Besides, I was angry." Ken said. He let the second handcuff drop to the floor and walked over to TK and kneeled down to take of his handcuffs.
"Well, if that's what you're like when you're angry, I'd hate to see when you're infuriated." TK joked. Ken stopped and glared at the back of TK's head.
"Do you want me to free you or not?" Ken threatened.
"Yes, please." TK said and kept his mouth shut until after the handcuffs were off.
"OK, let's go." Ken said and started towards the door. However, TK noticed something strange sticking out of Ken's pocked.
"Wait a minute. You aren't taking that gun with you, are you?" TK said, sounding a little panicked. Ken looked down at his pocket, then looked at TK like he was talking lunacy.
"Of course I am."
"But that's a loaded handgun!" TK protested loudly.
"Yeah, so? I'm not stupid and I know how to use a gun. I am part of the Tokyo rifle club, though the reporters usually steer clear from that little fact when they glorify my life." Ken said simply. However, TK wouldn't let it go.
"There is no way in the world that I'm letting you walk out of here with the possibility of killing another human. Don't you think that you do enough damage in the digital world with the killing of all those innocent digimon?" TK said angrily. Ken took out the gun and TK backed away a little. Ken walked real close to him and TK felt something placed in his hand. He looked and saw the bullet clip. TK looked at Ken, surprised.
"Let's hope, for our safety, that when those people come after us, we'll be close enough to hit them over the head with the gun." Ken said sarcastically.
TK sighed in relief. Ken walked up to the door put a key in and opened it. The two of them walked out into the empty halls of Hypnos.
Authors note: Please, please, please do not flame me about the gun scene. OK! I put it in for realism, because I believe that Ken would do something as stupid and dangerous as use a gun. In regards to the Anthem, I looked it up. The real words are Kimi ga yo wa / Chiyo ni yachiyo ni / Sazare ishi no / Iwao to nari te / Koke no musu made, and the English translation is: "May the reign of the Emperor continue for a thousand, nay, eight thousand generations and for the eternity that it takes for small pebbles to grow into a great rock and become covered with moss." If you want to hear what it sounds like, type in http://www.japanorama.com/kimigayo.html. Please review.