This one took a while. Sorry about that I had some serious writer's block this week, and just didn't feel motivated to right. I know I promise that their'd be Armor Digivolution in this Chapter, but there isn't. Next one I decided to make two smaller chapters instead of one big one. And once again not much happens in this Chapter, its another development chapter, but an important one none the less. So enjoy
Yeah disclaimer. You probably already know this but I don't own Digimon
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Chapter 22: Learning About the Enemy
Kris
Infermon continued to make chase, he wasn't tiring, the problem was, and Saberleomon was. I could barely breath, both because I was scared, and Jenn had her arms wrapped around my waist so tightly I could barely breath, I guess she was afraid of falling off, I didn't think Saberleomon was running that fast. She must have been tired too because she was resting her head on my shoulder. Maybe if I hadn't been in mortal danger at the moment I would have thought more of it, but I had more on my mind right now.
"How are you holding up?" I asked my Digimon.
"I'm starting to get tired," Saberleomon answered. "I'm a cat I'm meant for sprinting, not long distance runs."
"That mean's you'll go back to your rookie, or In-Training stage if you keep running." I said. "Then we'll really be in trouble."
"Time to fight?" Saberleomon asked.
"Yeah," I said hesitantly. "He is only an Ultimate, a strong Ultimate, but you're a Mega, you could still beat him."
Saberleomon nodded in agreement, and turned off the street, into a park and into a grove of trees, fortunately for us it was deserted. Saberleomon stopped turned and turned around to face Infermon, who also stopped a few feet in front of us.
"Maybe you guys should get off my back," Saberleomon suggested. "I can fight better that way."
"Yeah right," I said immediately jumping off my Digimon's back, Jenn and Rob cradling the In-Training Digimon in their arms.
Saberleomon took a step towards the giant bug Digimon. "So you want a fight huh? Then let's see what you've got!"
Infermon grew a look of worry on his face, and stepped back.
"I have no time to deal with weaklings!" he yelled. "I'll be back stronger than ever, then I shall destroy you!"
With that he used his long legs to jump into the trees, I'm not sure where he went after that, but none of us saw him, the radar on my D3 didn't even show him as being here.
"Okaaaay," I said. "Did he just run away?"
"Maybe he wasn't as powerful as we thought?" Saberleomon said.
"I doubt he's not powerful," Jenn said. "Didn't you guys see how he just tossed aside Parrotmon and Triceramon like they were nothing."
"He just surprised us," Ostrimon said angrily.
"Yeah," Rob's In-Training Digimon said, which looked like a talking rock with ears. "We got hit by cheap shots, we could beat him in a fair fight."
"It's probably both," Rob said. "He's powerful for an Ultimate, he had to be or else he wouldn't have been able to beat Triceramon and Parrotmon like that, but I don't think he was strong enough to take on a Mega like Saberleomon. He was just bluffing, we called his bluff so he ran away."
"If Saberleomon could have beaten him alone why did Baihumon tell us that all of us were needed to beat him, it seems to me that the Japanese Digidestined could have taken him on by their selves."
"This probably isn't his strongest state," Rob said. "Somehow he's able to Digivolve without a partner, maybe if we can figure out how, we can stop it before it happens again."
Before another word could be let out, the ground began to shake, and a giant elephant like Digimon stepped into the grove of trees we were hiding in, I was alarmed at first but I calmed down as I saw Sean Cody and Armadillomon on its back.
I glanced up at the Digimon. "Tapirmon I presume?"
"That's me," the mammoth like Digimon said. "Mammothmon at the moment."
Angemon with T.K on his back landed beside then a few moments later.
"What's wrong?" T.K asked. "We got your distress signal."
"Nothing now," Jenn answered. "We found the threat Baihumon told us about. Its some bug Digimon named Ker- well Infermon now. He was chasing us but ran away just a few minutes ago."
"Well if there's no danger then I better change back," Mammothmon said. "This form isn't exactly inconspicuous."
"Yeah," I agreed. "Definitely a good idea."
Cody Sean, and Armadillomon slid down Mammothmon's trunk and onto the ground just as Mammothmon changed back, and like the others had, he didn't just became a rookie he was now an In-Training Digimon. He immediately jumped into Sean's arms. As he did Saberleomon and Angemon did the same thing, Angemon becoming Patamon again, and Saberleomon was Elecmon.
"I'm getting better at this," Elecmon said happily. "I'm a rookie."
I couldn't help but notice, as Cody looked awestruck at Sean's Digimon, as did Armadillomon.
"Hey, he's got the same In-Training form as me." Armadillomon said. "He's an Upamon too."
"That sure is a coincidence," Rob said. "The two youngest Digidestined having the same In-Training Digimon."
"Yeah," they both said not appreciating the remark. Sean didn't like being reminded that he was the youngest of all of us, and judging by his reaction Cody didn't like it anymore than he did.
T.K ignored the previous conversation, and glanced at Jenn. "Did you say Infermon?"
Jenn nodded. "Yeah. Know him?"
T.K nodded back. "Sure do, the truth is I never really considered him. I mean he only showed up before, because of a fluke."
"A fluke?" I said. "What do you mean?"
"It's probably best we wait for the others to get here, that way we'll only have to explain once."
I nodded in agreement. It only took a few minutes before more members of our group appeared. The wind began to pick up as a giant black beetle flew down into the grove of trees, Kabuterimon, and he had Izzy, Joe and Gomamon on his back.
"Okay does anybody know how to keep a low profile around here!" I yelled. "First Mammothmon comes crashing in here, then you two! I don't know what it's like here in Japan but in Canada people tend to notice when there are giant beetles flying around."
"Calm down," Izzy said trying to restrain from laughing. "Nobody saw us, plus I don't exactly call crashing through police barricades while riding a Monochromon low profile."
I laughed nervously. "How'd you know about that?"
"Made the news."
I sighed shutting up, didn't want to get myself in any deeper. Fifteen minutes passed before the rest of the group showed up, most of them entered the secluded grove of trees a little quieter than the rest of us had. I probably shouldn't have gotten as mad as I did; they were only trying to get here as fast as they could because they thought we were in trouble, only two Digidestined and two Digimon had not returned. To be more specific, Dan, Janine Gizamon and Otamamon hadn't returned.
"What's taking them so long?" Tai said impatiently tapping his foot. "The harbour's not that far away."
I'd sunken away from the group away from earshot, and leaned against a tree while I waited for Janine and Dan to show up, they should have come as soon as they got the distress signals, unless of course they were in trouble themselves, I didn't want to think about that right now, I'd wait another ten minutes and if they hadn't shown up by then I'd go to the harbour myself to make sure they were okay.
I glanced up at the sky, it was a beautiful day, and as much as I liked it here I still yearned for home. Why couldn't Infermon decided to attack a place a little closer to home. I didn't mind being away from home that much, but I'm sure this was killing my parents. I hated the way I'd left it with them, my mother had asked me if my life was in danger and I haven't given her a straight answer, she had no idea what was going on. I wish I could have told her, but I couldn't it was better that she didn't know. I should probably give them a call just to let them know I was okay, it was better than having them worry, for all they knew I could be dead right now.
"Kris?" Elecmon said waving his hand in front of my face. "Hello? You there."
I snapped out of my thought, and looked up at him.
"Yeah, what is it?" I asked.
"Nothing, you just looked kind of out of it," he answered. "I wanted to make sure you were okay."
"I'm fine," I said. "Just deep in thought."
"I bet I can guess who you were thinking about." He teased.
I rolled my eyes knowing instantly what he was talking about.
"Look I already told you, Jenn and I are just friends. You know that too, we have been for the last seven years, and don't even mention that incident in the cave, I told you before she was just cold."
Elecmon laughed. "Yeah I know. I was just teasing you before, you know that."
I couldn't help but smile. "Of course I know that."
"I do need to talk to you about something though."
"Yeah? What?"
"I know I tease you about you and Jenn a lot but this time I'm being serious."
"Yeah, what is it?"
"I think she likes you."
I cocked my eyebrow at him. "You're kidding right?"
"I said before I was being serious," he said angrily. "I really do think she likes you. First of all there's what happened in the cave. Now I know I wasn't there, but Penguinmon did tell me about it. I know she said she was cold, but she was right next to the fire she couldn't have been cold she didn't need your arms around her to keep her warm, she was just using that as an excuse. Second there's the way she acted when you were captured, she was willing to do anything to get you back even completely give up the fight. Until now I wasn't completely sure, then I saw the way she was holding you when I was running from Infermon. I didn't think it was possible to hold anyone that closely. I wasn't running that fast, she didn't need hold onto you that tightly to keep from falling off."
I was completely shocked by Elecmon's words, mainly because I believed what he was saying, all those signs, why hadn't I seen it before, Jenn liked me, and I really liked that fact. Not just because it was flattering, but because in a way that I was just realizing now I liked her too.
I turned my head to look at her. She was going the same thing as me away from the rest of the group, sitting down and leaning against a tree, with Ostrimon resting in her lap.
For the first time ever I wasn't looking at her as a friend, the person I hung out with and told everything to, I was looking at her as a girl. I'd never looked at her this way before, I'd always seen her as a friend and never once thought about her as a girl. When I was around girls I got nervous my words came out wrong if they even came out at all, but it was never that way with Jenn I couldn't just talk to her, I could tell her things I would never tell anyone else, and now for the first time I saw her as a girl and not just a friend.
I'd never thought about our relationship becoming anything more than it was, but now as all these new feelings for her rushed into her head, I saw that possibility, not only did I see it I liked it. I liked the idea of being more than friends with her. I wouldn't have to pretend to be someone I'm not around her just to impress her like I would with other girls, I could just be myself and be comfortable, not worrying about what I was going to say next.
Another thing I was seeing for the first time was how attractive she was physically. How could I have known her for so long and not notice how absolutely beautiful she was, even in the casual jeans and T-shirt, she was absolutely stunning. How the hell had I not seen this before?
"You feel the same way don't you?" Elecmon asked.
I looked away from Jenn and made eye contact with Elecmon. A goofy grin grew on my face and I nodded my head. "Yeah. Thanks for telling me this Elecmon, if you hadn't I wouldn't have realized these feelings. Actually I think they've been brewing in my subconscious for a while now, I just needed someone to help me see her as more than just a friend to bring them out."
"What about Janine?" Elecmon asked. "I thought you liked her."
My brain snapped, suddenly remembering about Janine. With all these new feelings for Jenn coming up I'd forgotten about the crush I had on Janine, but now that I compared it with these feelings for Jenn, the crush I had on Janine seemed miniscule.
I shook my head. "No, I thought I liked her."
"So?" Elecmon said.
"I guess, I didn't actually like her, I was just attracted to her. Physically I mean, these feelings I have for Jenn are more than that, much more. Something better."
"Good," Elecmon said smiling, then just stared at me for a while.
"Yes?" I said questioningly.
"What are you waiting for? Go tell her."
"Tell her what?" I said knowing perfectly well what the answer was.
"Tell her how you feel about her, I'm sure she'll be thrilled."
"What I you insane!" I yelled, hopefully not loud enough for the others to hear. I looked up, good; no one had even turned to glance at me. "I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"What if you're wrong? What if she doesn't like me, then if I go over there and tell her I like her I'll look like a total idiot not to mention that I'll ruin the great friendship we have now by making it totally awkward."
"Kris, trust me I've seen how she acts around you, she likes you I guarantee it."
"I know there's a lot of evidence that she does, but if you're wrong and I tell her it would make our relationship totally awkward. That would ruin what we have now, and I like what now I - I don't want to ruin it."
"Kris I'm not wrong."
"But what if you are, I just can't take that chance."
"Do you want me to tell her?"
"No, no!"
"I'm not going to let you torture yourself by not telling her, look I'll talk to Ostrimon and find out if she really does like you, if she does you can decide what to do from there."
"Okay. Yeah that'll work."
Elecmon began to walk towards Jenn; I immediately tackled him stopping him from going any further.
"What are you doing?" I almost screamed.
"Going to talk to Ostrimon like you said."
"Not now! Jenn's sitting right next to her."
Elecmon laughed nervously. "Whoops that would have been embarrassing wouldn't it?
"Gee ya' think? Wait until sometime tomorrow, that way I can have some time to think about it, maybe I'll end up deciding to tell her myself."
Elecmon nodded. "Sure."
After that it was pretty quiet, I thought about what I'd tell Jenn, everything I thought of sounded stupid. This silence was driving me crazy, but I wouldn't have to worry about it for long, a second later it was broken by a loud fluttering noise, almost like the sound of giant insect wings. It fact it was, a second later a giant gray stag beetle like Digimon was flying just overhead.
"Okuwamon!" Davis yelled.
I clutched my Digivice in my hand. "It's one of Infermon's minions," I said the seven of the eight of the original Japanese Digidestined turned to face me when they heard Infermon's name.
Everyone tensed up Digidestined clutching his or her Digivices, Digimon ready to Digivolve at a seconds notice.
"Hey calm down guys!" Dan's voice yelled from the giant gray stag beetle as it began to descend into the secluded grove of trees we were in.
As he the giant Digimon got lower, I noticed Dan and Janine holding In-Training Digimon in their arms; there was also another kid probably about a year younger than me on Okuwamon's back.
"It's just us," Dan said. "Plus one more."
It didn't take me long to put two and two together and figure out who this kid was.
"You found him!" I yelled happily. "You found the seventh Canadian Digidestined."
"Okay once again," the kid said. "Would someone please tell me what's going on here?"
"I'm assuming that's what we're here for." Okuwamon said landing.
Holding their In-Training Digimon, Janine and Dan hopped off of Okuwamon's back, while Okuwamon carefully picked up the seventh Canadian Digidestined, William on the ground, then began to glow and shrunk down to his rookie level.
I approached William who was sitting on the ground where Okuwamon had landed.
"Hi William, I'm Kris leader of the Canadian Digidestined, and since you live in Canada, that would make you part of my team."
I held out my hand for him to shake it. He didn't stand, he continued to sit and took my hand and shook it.
"Hi, but you can call me Will." He motioned his hands towards his small worm like Digimon. "This is my partner Dokunemon."
"Sure Will," I paused. "Are you okay? Something wrong? I mean is there a reason you're not standing up."
"Yeah there is," Will said. "I can't stand up, my legs don't work. I'm paralyzed from the waist down."
I could feel my face get hot. Great first impression Kris. I had probably really offended him even though that definitely wasn't my intention he probably hated me now.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean -"
He cut off my words with sharp laughter. "It's fine. There wasn't anyway you could have known, most people assume I'm disabled when they see the wheelchair, but as you can see I don't have it with me. Besides you don't have to go out of your way trying not to offend me, I'd rather you treat me like anyone else, and not be overly nice to me."
"Sorry," I apologized again.
"See you're doing it right now, your being overly nice again."
"Don't mind him," Jenn said approaching us. "Kris is like that, he's not just being overly nice to you because your disabled he's like that to everyone, so he really is treating you like he would everyone else."
"That's good, but if you don't mind, I'd really like to know exactly what's going on here."
"I'll take this again Kris," Jenn said. "You've explained it enough times."
"See I told you." Elecmon whispered.
I ignored it, as I sat down on the grass with everyone else and listened as Jenn told our story to Will. From our fights with Andrew and Emily up to our battles yesterday.
Will sighed and slunk his head as Jenn finished her story. He clutched his bright green Digivice and green crest.
"I thought there was something wrong," Will said. "I've been able to go into the Digital World with Dokunemon for a long time, but recently ever since I got this crest, things haven't been the same. Digimon have attacked us for no reason. That's how Dokunemon eventually reached his Ultimate stage."
"How long have you been able to go into the Digital World?" I asked.
"About a year," he answered. "I'm not sure how it happened at first I remember being sucked into the computer, then meeting Dokunemon who was Minomon at the time. After that I've been able to travel back and forth from the Digital World. In time Dokunemon Digivolved into a Champion after a Digimon attack."
"A year!" Izzy yelled. "But the Digiports didn't open up again until a few months ago."
"I don't know about that," Will said. "But I've been able to go there for a year. But it was about a few months ago when all the weird stuff started happening. First my Digivice changed into this thing - you called it a D3 right, then I found my crest. Not long after I found my crest Kuwagamon Digivolved to Okuwamon, I knew something was wrong, all those monsters attacking confirmed it. I didn't know that I was one of the only ones who could stop two worlds from utter destruction."
"So?" I said. "Are you going to join us?"
"You mean I have a choice?"
"Of course," I said. "We wouldn't force you to fight if you didn't want to."
"Yeah," he said nodding. "Of course I'll help I can't just abandon two worlds when they're counting on me to help, I've faced tough challenges and kept going, there's no reason for me to back down now. What kind of Digimon are we fighting anyway?"
"That's what Kris was going to tell us after everyone's here," Tai said.
"Well now everyone is," Agumon said. "So, is what you said before are we really fighting Infermon?"
I nodded. "Yeah, that's what he said his name was. He was a huge giant bug Digimon, really powerful too, he clobbered Triceramon and Parrotmon with one hit each. He started out as a rookie then after we defeated his human and Digimon copies he Digivolved into an Ultimate."
"Just like last time," Izzy said.
"When did you guys run into him anyway," I said. "It could be important in the future battles with him."
"Tell them Izzy," Tai said. "I almost lost Agumon that day, I don't want to talk about it. Besides you'd probably remember it better than I could."
Izzy nodded in agreement. "Personally of all the enemies we've faced, Infermon was the last one I expected to fight, and the last one that I would have wanted to fight again."
"Cut out the dramatics," Dan said. "Just get to the story."
Izzy looked annoyed but continued going on. "He attacked about a year after we defeated the Dark Masters and returned to the real world. An American Digidestined named Willice created a Digiegg himself; it was the first attempt of a human to create a Digimon from scratch, it didn't work, the Digiegg became corrupted by a strange computer virus, which turned it into Keramon. Keramon got loose on the Internet and started eating as much data as he could. It shut down power in parts all over the world. We took action immediately, sending Tentomon and Agumon into the Digital World to take him out, we didn't think he would be hard to take care of because he was only a rookie at the time. Then he ate some of the data on the Internet giving him enough energy to Digivolve into his Ultimate state, after that he tossed aside both our Digimon in Megakabuterimon, and Metalgreymon in their Ultimate state like they were nothing, then moved onto another section of the net to begin eating more data."
"Just like he did to our Digimon," Rob said.
"Anyway," Izzy continued. "After that Tai and I attempted to get in contact with the rest of the team, unfortunately the only ones available were Matt and T.K. So again Agumon, Tentomon, Gabumon, and Patamon were sent back into the battlefield to stop him from eating anymore data, but by the time they got there Infermon had eaten enough data to go to his most powerful Mega stage Diaboromon, after that Patamon and Tentomon just weren't any match for him, and they were forced to retreat. So Agumon and Gabumon warp Digivolved into their Mega stages but even that wasn't enough. Plus there were kids slowing us down sending us so many e-mails."
"You must have beaten them though," I said. "That's what's been bugging me, if you beat him before, you should be able to beat him again. Why would you need our help?"
"I was getting to that." Izzy said. "You see Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon weren't enough, Diaboromon was too strong. We beat him before because of a fluke. The first DNA Digivolution happened, Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon DNA Digivolved into Omnimon a stage beyond even Mega, a completely knew stage. I guess you could call it Omega."
"We're not really sure how it happened," Agumon said.
"I'm not sure we could do it again." Gabumon said.
"That's not all," Izzy said. "We also managed to slow Diaboromon down by sending him numerous e-mails, this time we wouldn't be on the Internet and we wouldn't be able to slow him down that way."
"So the reason you need us is so you can make up for the fact that DNA Digivolve into Omnimon, or slow him down," Rob said. "Having us here provides enough power that Omnimon or slowing the enemy down would."
"That's my theory anyway, and this time we have the other members of our team too, so there's a good chance we should win."
"I'm not sure about that," Janine said. "I mean sure things do look up, but you said that he just tossed your Digimon aside like they were nothing, then did the same to Rob and Jenn's, and that was only in his Ultimate stage, he could just do that before they had a chance to fight back, like he did to Rob and Jenn's Digimon. We wouldn't have a chance to work as a team."
"She has a point," Joe said.
"Aw come on guys," Davis said. "Don't be so pessimistic. I mean he hasn't even reached his Mega stage yet, plus we have three Megas here, all we have to do is make sure he doesn't reach his Ultimate stage."
"Davis you weren't there!" Tai yelled. "You didn't see what this guy could do. He almost killed Agumon. You can't underestimate him, but you are right, we have to keep him from reaching his Ultimate state at all costs. Kris, what happened to make him reach his Ultimate stage?"
"I'm not really sure?" I said. "I think it might have had something to do with us defeating his minions, he said before that after eating our data he could Digivolve, then we defeated the copies."
"It's human data!" Izzy and Rob both yelled at the same time, it was almost scary.
Izzy was the one who went on explaining. "On the Internet Infermon got his energy from data on the Internet. That data originated from humans -"
"And he wanted to eat Kris Jenn and I's data after he killed us," Rob said cutting into Izzy's explanation. "But we killed the human copies, so he ended up eating their data instead of ours, the copies data allowed them to Digivolving."
"So he needs human from dead people to Digivolve," Ken said.
Both Izzy and Rob nodded; they both came to the same conclusion.
"So basically what your saying is all we have to do when fighting this guy is: Not die." Will said.
Izzy smiled. "Basically."
"So our goal is to not die," Dan said laughing. "I kind of had that intention in the first place."
All nineteen Digidestined, and nineteen Digimon laughed at that. It was nice to laugh despite the seriousness of the situation. However Kari suddenly broke the laughter.
"But guys," she said with a voice filled with concern. "What's stopping him from just killing innocent people and eating their data."
It hit me harder than I'd thought. I never even considered that.
"I don't think he can absorb other people's data," Tai said. "We're Digidestined and have traveled to and from the Digital World, therefore we have traces of Digital data within us, other humans don't, only Digidestined have Digital data in their bodies. So ordinary innocent people wouldn't be enough, he needs to kill us."
"That's good," Kari said softly.
"So what's the next step?" Will asked. "Where is this guy where do you go to find him?"
No one said a word; I guess we were all too afraid to admit we didn't know as much about this as he thought we did. I was the one who ended up speaking up.
"We don't know," I said. "We've only encountered him once, and then we found us."
"So what do we do now?" Will asked. "Just wait?"
"I guess," I said.
"And you're the leader?"
"Both Tai and I are both the leaders."
Will glanced towards Tai. "So what do we do now?"
"Just what Kris said." Tai answered. "We wait."
"But he'll just attack again."
Tai sighed. "I know that, but it's not like we know where he is, even if we did we couldn't just go in there in a heated battle. We'd get slaughtered, Kris is right all we can do now is wait?"
Will sighed. "You're right, I'm just so mad, one of his goons attacked the boat I was on he could have killed my parents. Not to mention he ruined my vacation."
"Okay then," Tai said. "For now we go back to our respective homes, hotels, or places that we're currently staying in. If you see anything that looks suspicious call me or Kris then we'll work out a game plan." Tai looked towards me. "That okay with you Kris?"
I nodded. "Sounds good to me."
"Good," Tai said smiling. "For now. Let's go home."
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Infermon
I emerged from the water back into my base; it was in an unknown location that will not be mentioned here. The base was one room, a simple square room filled with nothing but darkness, just the way I liked it. Perfect for an evil Digimon. Kris, he'd be the first I'd destroy once I became Diaboromon again, then I'd destroy Matt and Tai, the ones who had destroyed me on the Internet. They'd all humiliated me, Matt and Tai by destroying me, and Kris by forcing me to run. He'd called my bluff I couldn't fight Saberleomon, not the way I was now. I needed to become Diaboromon first, but they were making it very hard for me to do so. Once I became Diaboromon, even Saberleomon couldn't beat me, and then I'd kill Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon before they could become Omnimon and destroy me again.
For now I had to check up on my minions, hopefully some of them had been successful in destroying some of the Digidestined, the ones who were supposed to destroy me.
"Computer!" I ordered one of the walls, a monitor immediately appeared on one. "Contacted the Drimogemon team. I want to know how they did in the subway."
"Unable to contact." The computer said.
"What!" I boomed. "Why not?"
"Drimogemon team has been terminated."
"What?!" I screamed into the monitor. "By who."
"The Digidestined, the holder of the crest of Persistence."
My claws clutched the floor angrily.
"Damn!" I yelled. "Oh well they were only Champion minions. Not a big loss. Computer, contact Megaseadramon."
"Unable to contact. Megaseadramon has been terminated!"
"Megaseadramon too?" I said astonished. "They defeated one of my Ultimate minions! No matter Megaseadramon wasn't one of my most powerful, contact Cyberdramon then."
"Cyberdramon has also been terminated."
I stared in shock, how could they have. How could they be so powerful? Cyberdramon was one of my most powerful Ultimate minions, and the Digidestined had defeated him.
"Having trouble Keramon." A very haunting and familiar voice said as two yellow glowing yes appeared on the monitor.
"E-Evamon!" I said shaking in fear.
"Ah, I see you're Infermon now." My master said. "You're minions were defeated because all the Canadian Digidestined's Digimon have reached their Ultimate state."
"I'm sorry master," I said shaking knowing perfectly well what would happen to me if I failed.
"Don't worry, for once your not to blame, it was that foolish Digimon Empress that allowed the holder of the crest of Compassion to Digivolve, because of that it was only a matter of time before the others did too."
"They're stronger than I thought Evamon," I said shaking in fear. "I may have to use -"
"No!" Evamon demanded. "You will not use them yet! I will tell you when you can use them."
"Then how can I defeat them?" I asked. "They are all Ultimates only four of them are not."
"You cut off their power at the source, do not allow their Digimon to Digivolve."
"How master?"
"Infermon you truly are a fool, maybe I should have resurrected and given intelligence to a Digimon that would have used it!"
"Forgive me master I - I - "
"Just shut up and let me explain."
"Yes master."
A new picture appeared on the screen, I recognized it instantly. A control spire.
"These block Digivolution." Evamon said. "Myotismon's Digimon Emperor used them to stop the Digivolution."
"But I thought those were Myotismon's tools, how did you get one."
"THEY ARE NOT MYOTISMON'S!" Evamon boomed. I shuddered at it, every time he spoke I feared for my life. "Myotismon stole them from the Dark ocean, I control the Dark towers not Myotismon, and I am giving you one, put it up in Odeiba, it will block Digivolution."
"And they will be helpless rookies." I laughed. "I can beat them with some of my Champion minions."
My master laughed a chilling laugh. "Yes - heh you will."
The yellow eyes disappeared, as did Evamon.
I smiled at my new tool, now the Digidestined would not be able to Digivolve, and they would be completely helpless, and their data would be mine. The data from those copies was delicious, I hadn't realized how good human data tasted, much better than data from a Digimon. I couldn't wait to feast on their data, it was guaranteed to be a delicacy.
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Like I said just a development chapter, plus the introduction of the seventh Canadian Digidestined. Not much is known about him now, but you'll find out more about him later, like the name of his crest. He probably won't play much of a role until about Chapter 30 though. Any way stay tuned for the next chapter this time I promise it'll contain Canadian Armor Digivolution.
Yeah disclaimer. You probably already know this but I don't own Digimon
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Chapter 22: Learning About the Enemy
Kris
Infermon continued to make chase, he wasn't tiring, the problem was, and Saberleomon was. I could barely breath, both because I was scared, and Jenn had her arms wrapped around my waist so tightly I could barely breath, I guess she was afraid of falling off, I didn't think Saberleomon was running that fast. She must have been tired too because she was resting her head on my shoulder. Maybe if I hadn't been in mortal danger at the moment I would have thought more of it, but I had more on my mind right now.
"How are you holding up?" I asked my Digimon.
"I'm starting to get tired," Saberleomon answered. "I'm a cat I'm meant for sprinting, not long distance runs."
"That mean's you'll go back to your rookie, or In-Training stage if you keep running." I said. "Then we'll really be in trouble."
"Time to fight?" Saberleomon asked.
"Yeah," I said hesitantly. "He is only an Ultimate, a strong Ultimate, but you're a Mega, you could still beat him."
Saberleomon nodded in agreement, and turned off the street, into a park and into a grove of trees, fortunately for us it was deserted. Saberleomon stopped turned and turned around to face Infermon, who also stopped a few feet in front of us.
"Maybe you guys should get off my back," Saberleomon suggested. "I can fight better that way."
"Yeah right," I said immediately jumping off my Digimon's back, Jenn and Rob cradling the In-Training Digimon in their arms.
Saberleomon took a step towards the giant bug Digimon. "So you want a fight huh? Then let's see what you've got!"
Infermon grew a look of worry on his face, and stepped back.
"I have no time to deal with weaklings!" he yelled. "I'll be back stronger than ever, then I shall destroy you!"
With that he used his long legs to jump into the trees, I'm not sure where he went after that, but none of us saw him, the radar on my D3 didn't even show him as being here.
"Okaaaay," I said. "Did he just run away?"
"Maybe he wasn't as powerful as we thought?" Saberleomon said.
"I doubt he's not powerful," Jenn said. "Didn't you guys see how he just tossed aside Parrotmon and Triceramon like they were nothing."
"He just surprised us," Ostrimon said angrily.
"Yeah," Rob's In-Training Digimon said, which looked like a talking rock with ears. "We got hit by cheap shots, we could beat him in a fair fight."
"It's probably both," Rob said. "He's powerful for an Ultimate, he had to be or else he wouldn't have been able to beat Triceramon and Parrotmon like that, but I don't think he was strong enough to take on a Mega like Saberleomon. He was just bluffing, we called his bluff so he ran away."
"If Saberleomon could have beaten him alone why did Baihumon tell us that all of us were needed to beat him, it seems to me that the Japanese Digidestined could have taken him on by their selves."
"This probably isn't his strongest state," Rob said. "Somehow he's able to Digivolve without a partner, maybe if we can figure out how, we can stop it before it happens again."
Before another word could be let out, the ground began to shake, and a giant elephant like Digimon stepped into the grove of trees we were hiding in, I was alarmed at first but I calmed down as I saw Sean Cody and Armadillomon on its back.
I glanced up at the Digimon. "Tapirmon I presume?"
"That's me," the mammoth like Digimon said. "Mammothmon at the moment."
Angemon with T.K on his back landed beside then a few moments later.
"What's wrong?" T.K asked. "We got your distress signal."
"Nothing now," Jenn answered. "We found the threat Baihumon told us about. Its some bug Digimon named Ker- well Infermon now. He was chasing us but ran away just a few minutes ago."
"Well if there's no danger then I better change back," Mammothmon said. "This form isn't exactly inconspicuous."
"Yeah," I agreed. "Definitely a good idea."
Cody Sean, and Armadillomon slid down Mammothmon's trunk and onto the ground just as Mammothmon changed back, and like the others had, he didn't just became a rookie he was now an In-Training Digimon. He immediately jumped into Sean's arms. As he did Saberleomon and Angemon did the same thing, Angemon becoming Patamon again, and Saberleomon was Elecmon.
"I'm getting better at this," Elecmon said happily. "I'm a rookie."
I couldn't help but notice, as Cody looked awestruck at Sean's Digimon, as did Armadillomon.
"Hey, he's got the same In-Training form as me." Armadillomon said. "He's an Upamon too."
"That sure is a coincidence," Rob said. "The two youngest Digidestined having the same In-Training Digimon."
"Yeah," they both said not appreciating the remark. Sean didn't like being reminded that he was the youngest of all of us, and judging by his reaction Cody didn't like it anymore than he did.
T.K ignored the previous conversation, and glanced at Jenn. "Did you say Infermon?"
Jenn nodded. "Yeah. Know him?"
T.K nodded back. "Sure do, the truth is I never really considered him. I mean he only showed up before, because of a fluke."
"A fluke?" I said. "What do you mean?"
"It's probably best we wait for the others to get here, that way we'll only have to explain once."
I nodded in agreement. It only took a few minutes before more members of our group appeared. The wind began to pick up as a giant black beetle flew down into the grove of trees, Kabuterimon, and he had Izzy, Joe and Gomamon on his back.
"Okay does anybody know how to keep a low profile around here!" I yelled. "First Mammothmon comes crashing in here, then you two! I don't know what it's like here in Japan but in Canada people tend to notice when there are giant beetles flying around."
"Calm down," Izzy said trying to restrain from laughing. "Nobody saw us, plus I don't exactly call crashing through police barricades while riding a Monochromon low profile."
I laughed nervously. "How'd you know about that?"
"Made the news."
I sighed shutting up, didn't want to get myself in any deeper. Fifteen minutes passed before the rest of the group showed up, most of them entered the secluded grove of trees a little quieter than the rest of us had. I probably shouldn't have gotten as mad as I did; they were only trying to get here as fast as they could because they thought we were in trouble, only two Digidestined and two Digimon had not returned. To be more specific, Dan, Janine Gizamon and Otamamon hadn't returned.
"What's taking them so long?" Tai said impatiently tapping his foot. "The harbour's not that far away."
I'd sunken away from the group away from earshot, and leaned against a tree while I waited for Janine and Dan to show up, they should have come as soon as they got the distress signals, unless of course they were in trouble themselves, I didn't want to think about that right now, I'd wait another ten minutes and if they hadn't shown up by then I'd go to the harbour myself to make sure they were okay.
I glanced up at the sky, it was a beautiful day, and as much as I liked it here I still yearned for home. Why couldn't Infermon decided to attack a place a little closer to home. I didn't mind being away from home that much, but I'm sure this was killing my parents. I hated the way I'd left it with them, my mother had asked me if my life was in danger and I haven't given her a straight answer, she had no idea what was going on. I wish I could have told her, but I couldn't it was better that she didn't know. I should probably give them a call just to let them know I was okay, it was better than having them worry, for all they knew I could be dead right now.
"Kris?" Elecmon said waving his hand in front of my face. "Hello? You there."
I snapped out of my thought, and looked up at him.
"Yeah, what is it?" I asked.
"Nothing, you just looked kind of out of it," he answered. "I wanted to make sure you were okay."
"I'm fine," I said. "Just deep in thought."
"I bet I can guess who you were thinking about." He teased.
I rolled my eyes knowing instantly what he was talking about.
"Look I already told you, Jenn and I are just friends. You know that too, we have been for the last seven years, and don't even mention that incident in the cave, I told you before she was just cold."
Elecmon laughed. "Yeah I know. I was just teasing you before, you know that."
I couldn't help but smile. "Of course I know that."
"I do need to talk to you about something though."
"Yeah? What?"
"I know I tease you about you and Jenn a lot but this time I'm being serious."
"Yeah, what is it?"
"I think she likes you."
I cocked my eyebrow at him. "You're kidding right?"
"I said before I was being serious," he said angrily. "I really do think she likes you. First of all there's what happened in the cave. Now I know I wasn't there, but Penguinmon did tell me about it. I know she said she was cold, but she was right next to the fire she couldn't have been cold she didn't need your arms around her to keep her warm, she was just using that as an excuse. Second there's the way she acted when you were captured, she was willing to do anything to get you back even completely give up the fight. Until now I wasn't completely sure, then I saw the way she was holding you when I was running from Infermon. I didn't think it was possible to hold anyone that closely. I wasn't running that fast, she didn't need hold onto you that tightly to keep from falling off."
I was completely shocked by Elecmon's words, mainly because I believed what he was saying, all those signs, why hadn't I seen it before, Jenn liked me, and I really liked that fact. Not just because it was flattering, but because in a way that I was just realizing now I liked her too.
I turned my head to look at her. She was going the same thing as me away from the rest of the group, sitting down and leaning against a tree, with Ostrimon resting in her lap.
For the first time ever I wasn't looking at her as a friend, the person I hung out with and told everything to, I was looking at her as a girl. I'd never looked at her this way before, I'd always seen her as a friend and never once thought about her as a girl. When I was around girls I got nervous my words came out wrong if they even came out at all, but it was never that way with Jenn I couldn't just talk to her, I could tell her things I would never tell anyone else, and now for the first time I saw her as a girl and not just a friend.
I'd never thought about our relationship becoming anything more than it was, but now as all these new feelings for her rushed into her head, I saw that possibility, not only did I see it I liked it. I liked the idea of being more than friends with her. I wouldn't have to pretend to be someone I'm not around her just to impress her like I would with other girls, I could just be myself and be comfortable, not worrying about what I was going to say next.
Another thing I was seeing for the first time was how attractive she was physically. How could I have known her for so long and not notice how absolutely beautiful she was, even in the casual jeans and T-shirt, she was absolutely stunning. How the hell had I not seen this before?
"You feel the same way don't you?" Elecmon asked.
I looked away from Jenn and made eye contact with Elecmon. A goofy grin grew on my face and I nodded my head. "Yeah. Thanks for telling me this Elecmon, if you hadn't I wouldn't have realized these feelings. Actually I think they've been brewing in my subconscious for a while now, I just needed someone to help me see her as more than just a friend to bring them out."
"What about Janine?" Elecmon asked. "I thought you liked her."
My brain snapped, suddenly remembering about Janine. With all these new feelings for Jenn coming up I'd forgotten about the crush I had on Janine, but now that I compared it with these feelings for Jenn, the crush I had on Janine seemed miniscule.
I shook my head. "No, I thought I liked her."
"So?" Elecmon said.
"I guess, I didn't actually like her, I was just attracted to her. Physically I mean, these feelings I have for Jenn are more than that, much more. Something better."
"Good," Elecmon said smiling, then just stared at me for a while.
"Yes?" I said questioningly.
"What are you waiting for? Go tell her."
"Tell her what?" I said knowing perfectly well what the answer was.
"Tell her how you feel about her, I'm sure she'll be thrilled."
"What I you insane!" I yelled, hopefully not loud enough for the others to hear. I looked up, good; no one had even turned to glance at me. "I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"What if you're wrong? What if she doesn't like me, then if I go over there and tell her I like her I'll look like a total idiot not to mention that I'll ruin the great friendship we have now by making it totally awkward."
"Kris, trust me I've seen how she acts around you, she likes you I guarantee it."
"I know there's a lot of evidence that she does, but if you're wrong and I tell her it would make our relationship totally awkward. That would ruin what we have now, and I like what now I - I don't want to ruin it."
"Kris I'm not wrong."
"But what if you are, I just can't take that chance."
"Do you want me to tell her?"
"No, no!"
"I'm not going to let you torture yourself by not telling her, look I'll talk to Ostrimon and find out if she really does like you, if she does you can decide what to do from there."
"Okay. Yeah that'll work."
Elecmon began to walk towards Jenn; I immediately tackled him stopping him from going any further.
"What are you doing?" I almost screamed.
"Going to talk to Ostrimon like you said."
"Not now! Jenn's sitting right next to her."
Elecmon laughed nervously. "Whoops that would have been embarrassing wouldn't it?
"Gee ya' think? Wait until sometime tomorrow, that way I can have some time to think about it, maybe I'll end up deciding to tell her myself."
Elecmon nodded. "Sure."
After that it was pretty quiet, I thought about what I'd tell Jenn, everything I thought of sounded stupid. This silence was driving me crazy, but I wouldn't have to worry about it for long, a second later it was broken by a loud fluttering noise, almost like the sound of giant insect wings. It fact it was, a second later a giant gray stag beetle like Digimon was flying just overhead.
"Okuwamon!" Davis yelled.
I clutched my Digivice in my hand. "It's one of Infermon's minions," I said the seven of the eight of the original Japanese Digidestined turned to face me when they heard Infermon's name.
Everyone tensed up Digidestined clutching his or her Digivices, Digimon ready to Digivolve at a seconds notice.
"Hey calm down guys!" Dan's voice yelled from the giant gray stag beetle as it began to descend into the secluded grove of trees we were in.
As he the giant Digimon got lower, I noticed Dan and Janine holding In-Training Digimon in their arms; there was also another kid probably about a year younger than me on Okuwamon's back.
"It's just us," Dan said. "Plus one more."
It didn't take me long to put two and two together and figure out who this kid was.
"You found him!" I yelled happily. "You found the seventh Canadian Digidestined."
"Okay once again," the kid said. "Would someone please tell me what's going on here?"
"I'm assuming that's what we're here for." Okuwamon said landing.
Holding their In-Training Digimon, Janine and Dan hopped off of Okuwamon's back, while Okuwamon carefully picked up the seventh Canadian Digidestined, William on the ground, then began to glow and shrunk down to his rookie level.
I approached William who was sitting on the ground where Okuwamon had landed.
"Hi William, I'm Kris leader of the Canadian Digidestined, and since you live in Canada, that would make you part of my team."
I held out my hand for him to shake it. He didn't stand, he continued to sit and took my hand and shook it.
"Hi, but you can call me Will." He motioned his hands towards his small worm like Digimon. "This is my partner Dokunemon."
"Sure Will," I paused. "Are you okay? Something wrong? I mean is there a reason you're not standing up."
"Yeah there is," Will said. "I can't stand up, my legs don't work. I'm paralyzed from the waist down."
I could feel my face get hot. Great first impression Kris. I had probably really offended him even though that definitely wasn't my intention he probably hated me now.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean -"
He cut off my words with sharp laughter. "It's fine. There wasn't anyway you could have known, most people assume I'm disabled when they see the wheelchair, but as you can see I don't have it with me. Besides you don't have to go out of your way trying not to offend me, I'd rather you treat me like anyone else, and not be overly nice to me."
"Sorry," I apologized again.
"See you're doing it right now, your being overly nice again."
"Don't mind him," Jenn said approaching us. "Kris is like that, he's not just being overly nice to you because your disabled he's like that to everyone, so he really is treating you like he would everyone else."
"That's good, but if you don't mind, I'd really like to know exactly what's going on here."
"I'll take this again Kris," Jenn said. "You've explained it enough times."
"See I told you." Elecmon whispered.
I ignored it, as I sat down on the grass with everyone else and listened as Jenn told our story to Will. From our fights with Andrew and Emily up to our battles yesterday.
Will sighed and slunk his head as Jenn finished her story. He clutched his bright green Digivice and green crest.
"I thought there was something wrong," Will said. "I've been able to go into the Digital World with Dokunemon for a long time, but recently ever since I got this crest, things haven't been the same. Digimon have attacked us for no reason. That's how Dokunemon eventually reached his Ultimate stage."
"How long have you been able to go into the Digital World?" I asked.
"About a year," he answered. "I'm not sure how it happened at first I remember being sucked into the computer, then meeting Dokunemon who was Minomon at the time. After that I've been able to travel back and forth from the Digital World. In time Dokunemon Digivolved into a Champion after a Digimon attack."
"A year!" Izzy yelled. "But the Digiports didn't open up again until a few months ago."
"I don't know about that," Will said. "But I've been able to go there for a year. But it was about a few months ago when all the weird stuff started happening. First my Digivice changed into this thing - you called it a D3 right, then I found my crest. Not long after I found my crest Kuwagamon Digivolved to Okuwamon, I knew something was wrong, all those monsters attacking confirmed it. I didn't know that I was one of the only ones who could stop two worlds from utter destruction."
"So?" I said. "Are you going to join us?"
"You mean I have a choice?"
"Of course," I said. "We wouldn't force you to fight if you didn't want to."
"Yeah," he said nodding. "Of course I'll help I can't just abandon two worlds when they're counting on me to help, I've faced tough challenges and kept going, there's no reason for me to back down now. What kind of Digimon are we fighting anyway?"
"That's what Kris was going to tell us after everyone's here," Tai said.
"Well now everyone is," Agumon said. "So, is what you said before are we really fighting Infermon?"
I nodded. "Yeah, that's what he said his name was. He was a huge giant bug Digimon, really powerful too, he clobbered Triceramon and Parrotmon with one hit each. He started out as a rookie then after we defeated his human and Digimon copies he Digivolved into an Ultimate."
"Just like last time," Izzy said.
"When did you guys run into him anyway," I said. "It could be important in the future battles with him."
"Tell them Izzy," Tai said. "I almost lost Agumon that day, I don't want to talk about it. Besides you'd probably remember it better than I could."
Izzy nodded in agreement. "Personally of all the enemies we've faced, Infermon was the last one I expected to fight, and the last one that I would have wanted to fight again."
"Cut out the dramatics," Dan said. "Just get to the story."
Izzy looked annoyed but continued going on. "He attacked about a year after we defeated the Dark Masters and returned to the real world. An American Digidestined named Willice created a Digiegg himself; it was the first attempt of a human to create a Digimon from scratch, it didn't work, the Digiegg became corrupted by a strange computer virus, which turned it into Keramon. Keramon got loose on the Internet and started eating as much data as he could. It shut down power in parts all over the world. We took action immediately, sending Tentomon and Agumon into the Digital World to take him out, we didn't think he would be hard to take care of because he was only a rookie at the time. Then he ate some of the data on the Internet giving him enough energy to Digivolve into his Ultimate state, after that he tossed aside both our Digimon in Megakabuterimon, and Metalgreymon in their Ultimate state like they were nothing, then moved onto another section of the net to begin eating more data."
"Just like he did to our Digimon," Rob said.
"Anyway," Izzy continued. "After that Tai and I attempted to get in contact with the rest of the team, unfortunately the only ones available were Matt and T.K. So again Agumon, Tentomon, Gabumon, and Patamon were sent back into the battlefield to stop him from eating anymore data, but by the time they got there Infermon had eaten enough data to go to his most powerful Mega stage Diaboromon, after that Patamon and Tentomon just weren't any match for him, and they were forced to retreat. So Agumon and Gabumon warp Digivolved into their Mega stages but even that wasn't enough. Plus there were kids slowing us down sending us so many e-mails."
"You must have beaten them though," I said. "That's what's been bugging me, if you beat him before, you should be able to beat him again. Why would you need our help?"
"I was getting to that." Izzy said. "You see Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon weren't enough, Diaboromon was too strong. We beat him before because of a fluke. The first DNA Digivolution happened, Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon DNA Digivolved into Omnimon a stage beyond even Mega, a completely knew stage. I guess you could call it Omega."
"We're not really sure how it happened," Agumon said.
"I'm not sure we could do it again." Gabumon said.
"That's not all," Izzy said. "We also managed to slow Diaboromon down by sending him numerous e-mails, this time we wouldn't be on the Internet and we wouldn't be able to slow him down that way."
"So the reason you need us is so you can make up for the fact that DNA Digivolve into Omnimon, or slow him down," Rob said. "Having us here provides enough power that Omnimon or slowing the enemy down would."
"That's my theory anyway, and this time we have the other members of our team too, so there's a good chance we should win."
"I'm not sure about that," Janine said. "I mean sure things do look up, but you said that he just tossed your Digimon aside like they were nothing, then did the same to Rob and Jenn's, and that was only in his Ultimate stage, he could just do that before they had a chance to fight back, like he did to Rob and Jenn's Digimon. We wouldn't have a chance to work as a team."
"She has a point," Joe said.
"Aw come on guys," Davis said. "Don't be so pessimistic. I mean he hasn't even reached his Mega stage yet, plus we have three Megas here, all we have to do is make sure he doesn't reach his Ultimate stage."
"Davis you weren't there!" Tai yelled. "You didn't see what this guy could do. He almost killed Agumon. You can't underestimate him, but you are right, we have to keep him from reaching his Ultimate state at all costs. Kris, what happened to make him reach his Ultimate stage?"
"I'm not really sure?" I said. "I think it might have had something to do with us defeating his minions, he said before that after eating our data he could Digivolve, then we defeated the copies."
"It's human data!" Izzy and Rob both yelled at the same time, it was almost scary.
Izzy was the one who went on explaining. "On the Internet Infermon got his energy from data on the Internet. That data originated from humans -"
"And he wanted to eat Kris Jenn and I's data after he killed us," Rob said cutting into Izzy's explanation. "But we killed the human copies, so he ended up eating their data instead of ours, the copies data allowed them to Digivolving."
"So he needs human from dead people to Digivolve," Ken said.
Both Izzy and Rob nodded; they both came to the same conclusion.
"So basically what your saying is all we have to do when fighting this guy is: Not die." Will said.
Izzy smiled. "Basically."
"So our goal is to not die," Dan said laughing. "I kind of had that intention in the first place."
All nineteen Digidestined, and nineteen Digimon laughed at that. It was nice to laugh despite the seriousness of the situation. However Kari suddenly broke the laughter.
"But guys," she said with a voice filled with concern. "What's stopping him from just killing innocent people and eating their data."
It hit me harder than I'd thought. I never even considered that.
"I don't think he can absorb other people's data," Tai said. "We're Digidestined and have traveled to and from the Digital World, therefore we have traces of Digital data within us, other humans don't, only Digidestined have Digital data in their bodies. So ordinary innocent people wouldn't be enough, he needs to kill us."
"That's good," Kari said softly.
"So what's the next step?" Will asked. "Where is this guy where do you go to find him?"
No one said a word; I guess we were all too afraid to admit we didn't know as much about this as he thought we did. I was the one who ended up speaking up.
"We don't know," I said. "We've only encountered him once, and then we found us."
"So what do we do now?" Will asked. "Just wait?"
"I guess," I said.
"And you're the leader?"
"Both Tai and I are both the leaders."
Will glanced towards Tai. "So what do we do now?"
"Just what Kris said." Tai answered. "We wait."
"But he'll just attack again."
Tai sighed. "I know that, but it's not like we know where he is, even if we did we couldn't just go in there in a heated battle. We'd get slaughtered, Kris is right all we can do now is wait?"
Will sighed. "You're right, I'm just so mad, one of his goons attacked the boat I was on he could have killed my parents. Not to mention he ruined my vacation."
"Okay then," Tai said. "For now we go back to our respective homes, hotels, or places that we're currently staying in. If you see anything that looks suspicious call me or Kris then we'll work out a game plan." Tai looked towards me. "That okay with you Kris?"
I nodded. "Sounds good to me."
"Good," Tai said smiling. "For now. Let's go home."
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Infermon
I emerged from the water back into my base; it was in an unknown location that will not be mentioned here. The base was one room, a simple square room filled with nothing but darkness, just the way I liked it. Perfect for an evil Digimon. Kris, he'd be the first I'd destroy once I became Diaboromon again, then I'd destroy Matt and Tai, the ones who had destroyed me on the Internet. They'd all humiliated me, Matt and Tai by destroying me, and Kris by forcing me to run. He'd called my bluff I couldn't fight Saberleomon, not the way I was now. I needed to become Diaboromon first, but they were making it very hard for me to do so. Once I became Diaboromon, even Saberleomon couldn't beat me, and then I'd kill Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon before they could become Omnimon and destroy me again.
For now I had to check up on my minions, hopefully some of them had been successful in destroying some of the Digidestined, the ones who were supposed to destroy me.
"Computer!" I ordered one of the walls, a monitor immediately appeared on one. "Contacted the Drimogemon team. I want to know how they did in the subway."
"Unable to contact." The computer said.
"What!" I boomed. "Why not?"
"Drimogemon team has been terminated."
"What?!" I screamed into the monitor. "By who."
"The Digidestined, the holder of the crest of Persistence."
My claws clutched the floor angrily.
"Damn!" I yelled. "Oh well they were only Champion minions. Not a big loss. Computer, contact Megaseadramon."
"Unable to contact. Megaseadramon has been terminated!"
"Megaseadramon too?" I said astonished. "They defeated one of my Ultimate minions! No matter Megaseadramon wasn't one of my most powerful, contact Cyberdramon then."
"Cyberdramon has also been terminated."
I stared in shock, how could they have. How could they be so powerful? Cyberdramon was one of my most powerful Ultimate minions, and the Digidestined had defeated him.
"Having trouble Keramon." A very haunting and familiar voice said as two yellow glowing yes appeared on the monitor.
"E-Evamon!" I said shaking in fear.
"Ah, I see you're Infermon now." My master said. "You're minions were defeated because all the Canadian Digidestined's Digimon have reached their Ultimate state."
"I'm sorry master," I said shaking knowing perfectly well what would happen to me if I failed.
"Don't worry, for once your not to blame, it was that foolish Digimon Empress that allowed the holder of the crest of Compassion to Digivolve, because of that it was only a matter of time before the others did too."
"They're stronger than I thought Evamon," I said shaking in fear. "I may have to use -"
"No!" Evamon demanded. "You will not use them yet! I will tell you when you can use them."
"Then how can I defeat them?" I asked. "They are all Ultimates only four of them are not."
"You cut off their power at the source, do not allow their Digimon to Digivolve."
"How master?"
"Infermon you truly are a fool, maybe I should have resurrected and given intelligence to a Digimon that would have used it!"
"Forgive me master I - I - "
"Just shut up and let me explain."
"Yes master."
A new picture appeared on the screen, I recognized it instantly. A control spire.
"These block Digivolution." Evamon said. "Myotismon's Digimon Emperor used them to stop the Digivolution."
"But I thought those were Myotismon's tools, how did you get one."
"THEY ARE NOT MYOTISMON'S!" Evamon boomed. I shuddered at it, every time he spoke I feared for my life. "Myotismon stole them from the Dark ocean, I control the Dark towers not Myotismon, and I am giving you one, put it up in Odeiba, it will block Digivolution."
"And they will be helpless rookies." I laughed. "I can beat them with some of my Champion minions."
My master laughed a chilling laugh. "Yes - heh you will."
The yellow eyes disappeared, as did Evamon.
I smiled at my new tool, now the Digidestined would not be able to Digivolve, and they would be completely helpless, and their data would be mine. The data from those copies was delicious, I hadn't realized how good human data tasted, much better than data from a Digimon. I couldn't wait to feast on their data, it was guaranteed to be a delicacy.
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Like I said just a development chapter, plus the introduction of the seventh Canadian Digidestined. Not much is known about him now, but you'll find out more about him later, like the name of his crest. He probably won't play much of a role until about Chapter 30 though. Any way stay tuned for the next chapter this time I promise it'll contain Canadian Armor Digivolution.