Ah here it is the first Chapter of Part 3, and out much sooner than I expected. Sit back and enjoy it
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Chapter 28: Trouble on the Home Front
Janine
"So this is the place," I said looking up at the towering apartment building which Davis lived in, and Kris where Kris and Elecmon where staying.
The twenty of us, plus our Digimon and us were meeting one final time this morning right before us Canadians left for home. Will was the only one not going home today, he was going home with his family tomorrow when his vacation ended.
"Doesn't anyone around here live in houses," Otamamon – who I held in my arms – said. "They all live in huge apartment buildings."
"That's what it's like in a big city Otamamon," I said. "When I lived in New York I lived in an apartment building almost twice this size."
"Good thing you don't anymore, it would be hard for me to sneak in the window." I laughed. "You know you don't have to do that, you're small enough to look like a stuffed animal."
"Aw, come on where's the fun in that."
"Hey!" I heard a familiar voice yell, Dan to be exact.
Great, just what I needed, and the guy I needed to see right now. The guy who I liked and aggravated me at the same time. I've never had this sort of relationship with a guy before, it was either black or white, either I hated him, or I liked him. This was both, he constantly made jokes that really annoyed me, but at the same time I found it attractive. Why did I find it so attractive that he argued with everything I said? He was such a jerk sometimes, yet I still had this crush on him. Of course he wasn't all bad some of his jokes were actually funny, he did make me laugh sometimes, not to mention he had a great body.
I didn't just think that did I? I was sounding like those dumb blondes who gushed over guys just because they were good looking, but was he ever good looking. I shook my head ignoring the last thought, as Dan approached me holding Gizamon in his arms.
"Hey Janine," He said. "Ready to go back home?"
"Yeah," I said softly. "But I have a feeling maybe we shouldn't, I really don't think this is just over. I mean Diaboromon was just a minion. Evamon hasn't even showed his face. I don't think he's just going to give up, we shouldn't let our guard down like this and separate."
"I hope your right, I mean without any evil to fight life sure is going to get boring."
"What's with you?" I asked. "You talk like you actually enjoy fighting."
"Well of course," Dan said laughing. "Like I told you before I like the feeling of not knowing if I'll if I'll see the next day."
I rolled my eyes. "You're insane! You know that." Yeah that's what I was saying out loud, but inside it was intriguing and I found myself growing even more attracted to him. What was with me?
"Yeah I sure do."
I couldn't help but laugh at that, at least he had a sense of humour no one could deny that.
"Let's just go inside, we've got a reunion to go to."
"Yeah," Gizamon said. "Just sitting out here talking is really boring."
Dan laughed as he started walking into the building as I followed close behind. I could feel serious tension begin to build up as we stepped into the elevator. I don't think I've ever felt this awkward. I kept stealing the occasional look at him, why did he have to wear such a tight T-shirt. It would be so much easier if he wasn't so cute, maybe this was just a physical attraction. No, it couldn't be. I felt so much more for him than that, yeah I guess I did like him, I'd finally admitted to myself that I liked him. Great now it was just a matter of telling him. Why couldn't I? It couldn't be that hard could it? I just told him, there was a really good chance he liked me back to, I mean Dan was a stereotypical guy right? And I knew for a fact that I was good looking, and guys like him would love to go out with a girl that looked like me. But wasn't just another problem? I really liked him I didn't want him to like me just because of the way I looked, but even if he did like me like that originally doesn't mean I couldn't make that turn into something else. That meant so far, I had no reason not to tell him.
The elevator doors opened and we stepped out making our way to Davis's apartment.
"Uh Dan," I said slowly.
"Yeah?" he said.
"Uh – there's something I need to tell you."
We reached Davis's apartment and he knocked on the door, yet still keeping his attention on me.
"Sure, what is it?" he said eagerly.
"I-"
Suddenly the door swung open interrupting me, a girl about our age stood in the doorway.
"Hi," the girl said goofily, her eyes lit up as she took a look at Dan.
"Uh hi," Dan said. "Is Davis here."
The girl nodded, and continued to stare dreamily at Dan. "Yeah he's here, but I don't see why a cute guy like you would want to be seen with my brother."
What did she just say!? She better not mean what I thought she did.
"Uh huh," Dan said. "Could you get him please?"
"Sure," she said moving uncomfortably closer to him. "If you tell me something."
"Yeah sure, what?"
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
What?! How did she ever think she had a chance with Dan, she – was – well I don't know, but she sure wasn't Dan's type. I could feel my blood boiling as I clenched my fists, I normally wasn't one for anger, but right now I for some reason I jealously just boiled within me.
"Hey!" I yelled pushing her away from Dan. "What do you think you're doing!"
"Sorry," she said backing away from me. "I didn't realize you were going out, I thought you were his sister or something."
"His sister!" I yelled. "I'll have you-"
I suddenly froze as I realized the several eyes staring at me. Dan, Davis's sister whose name I still didn't know, and four other's Jenn and Kris, who I didn't even notice was here. The shock caused me arms to drop to my sides, and Otamamon to fall out of my arms onto the ground.
Oh my god what did I just do? I just freaked out at Davis's sister for hitting on Dan, and probably just revealed that I liked him, I didn't want him to find out this way, and I certainly didn't want to reveal it to everyone else. I'd made myself look like a total idiot.
"I – uh," I stuttered taking a step towards the doorway before breaking into a run, until I was in a decent enough distant down the hall as not to be seen.
I fell to my knees, what did I just do? How could I have done that? I'd just killed any chance of us being together, he probably thought I was a total idiot. I felt a warm hand on my shoulder.
"You like him don't you?" It was Jenn.
I tossed her hand off of my shoulder and stood up, wiping away the last tear that had rolled down my cheek. "What makes you think that."
"Well there's the fact that you just blew up at Jun for flirting with Dan."
"I just didn't want her to get hurt. You know what Dan's like. Ha! How could I ever like him, I mean all he ever does is joke around, plus he's totally reckless, and – I have the biggest crush on him that you could imagine."
"Janine it's okay," Jenn said. "I'm sure no one read into what just happened, don't worry about it."
"Yeah right," I said. "You figured it out pretty quickly, who's to say everyone else won't."
"Don't worry about that, the only people who saw that was Kris, Dan, Jun, and I. I'll make sure Kris doesn't say anything about it, I won't, and you'll be rid of Jun in a matter of hours."
"And Dan?"
"Don't worry about him either, I've got Kris in there working damage control trying to get his mind off of it."
"Thanks a lot," I said as a smile, returned to my face. "I appreciate it, you have no idea how weird this is. I mean he's everything that annoys me in a guy, but for some reason I really like him. I feel myself attracted to him whenever he teases or makes jokes around me."
"So why don't you just tell him how you feel? I'm sure he'd like you, I haven't known Dan for very long, but I've learned that he shows the way he likes someone differently than most people, he teases them, I noticed, and he does that to you a lot."
"Yeah I know, I kind of got that feeling when he was teasing me when Kimeramon attacked us at Joe's dorm. Then he was holding me…it just felt so right, that's when I first admitted that I actually liked him."
"So you should tell him how you feel then."
I sighed. "That's what I was trying to do, until she showed up."
"Don't worry about Jun, I don't think Dan's interested in her, besides we're leaving in a couple hours, she'll be out of your hair by then, let's just head back, and enjoy the last couple hours we have when our team is full."
"How can I go back there?" I asked. "I mean after what just happened?"
"Like I said, I've got Kris working damage control, everyone will have forgotten about by then, don't worry. Just go in there and pretend that it didn't happen okay."
"Alright, just don't expect me to talk to Dan right away."
We both laughed as we headed back to Davis's apartment, and she was right it was like it had never happened. Davis's sister had disappeared, I don't know where I didn't really care, and Dan was too distracted playing video games with Davis and Kris to bring up what had happened.
Eventually everyone showed up, and we all kind of did our own thing mingled, it was a party, well not a serious party just kind of a sit around and talk get together kind of thing. The only one who didn't really mingle was Andrew, who was just sitting alone in the corner with Demidevimon, staring out the window, holding the cold stare on his face that he always had, he was fighting on our side, but he sure didn't seem to be acting any different, but I guess it's understandable why he didn't want to talk to anyone, he'd just lost his sister, I know when Kevin died I didn't want to talk to anyone, but I really regretting being so antisocial I really should have talked to someone, I know now that it would have made me feel better.
I approached him and leaned up against the wall beside him.
"Hi," I said.
"Uh hi," he said not turning to look at me. "What do you want?"
"I just wanted to talk," I said. "You look pretty lonely over hear."
"Maybe I like being alone," he muttered.
"No one likes being alone," I said. "Look I understand why you wouldn't want to talk."
"No you don't. You have no idea what I'm going through! You couldn't possibly understand."
"Yes I do," I argued. "I lost my brother a while ago, he was really important to you, and I know how important you're sister was to you even if she was the Digimon Empress, I know the kind of pain you're in."
"Really?" he said raising his voice. "You do? Sure you lost your sibling too, but did you also lose your mother? My mother's dead! And my father might as well be! Sure he's alive but the father I knew and loved is dead, destroyed by alcohol. He hasn't even noticed that Emily is gone yet! Emily was all I had left, yeah I have Demidevimon and I care about him as much as the rest of you care about your Digimon, but Emily was the only family I have left, do you have any idea how painful it is to lose your entire family! You have no idea what kind of pain I'm in."
"Andrew I -"
"Save it!" he snapped. "Just leave me alone, I'm came to help you didn't I, will you just leave me alone."
"Okay, I can see why you're so bitter, but I'm not letting this go, I'll talk to you later."
"I wouldn't recommend that," Demidevimon said then received a dirty look from Andrew.
I sighed and stood up, moving my way to the couch, sitting down in an empty spot, I would never had sat there if I had noticed that Dan was sitting there.
"Hey," he said as I sat down next to him.
"Hi," I said awkwardly. How come he didn't look awkward, didn't anything make him uncomfortable?
"What did you want to tell me before?"
"Huh what?" I said trying to pretend I didn't know what he was talking about.
"Before at the door, you wanted to tell me something. What was it?"
Great now I had to tell him, sure I wanted to, but not now with everyone here. My mind raced trying to figure out something to say; luckily Kari came to my rescue.
"Guys maybe you should take a look at the TV." She yelled her voice full of concern.
Everyone took their attention to whatever they were going towards the TV, a special news bulletin message had just shown up on the screen. Then soon changed to the anchorman, he soon started to speak.
"Well it's been over a week since the monster attack in Japan, which were to have thought to have died down. However it now seems that the attacks aren't over."
"What!" Davis yelled. "Not again, what now?"
"Sh," everyone except Davis and Veemon said.
"While the monsters have stopped attacking in Odaiba, they now seem to have changed their assaults on a small town in Canada."
Us eight Canadian Digidestined all jumped up from wherever we just happened to be sitting, I think we'd all assumed the same thing. The anchorman continued.
"The small town of Keewatin has had several attacks in the past few days and…."
I think we all zoned out after that, I know I did as soon as I heard the mention of Keewatin…our town. My intuition was right it wasn't over; Evamon had just pulled out another one of his minions on us.
"This is going to be what it's like from now on isn't it!" Rob yelled angrily. "We finally think we've won, and suddenly bam! Evamon just throws another curveball at us! He's just going to keep sending minions one after another."
"Let him," Sean yelled. "We'll just keep destroying them."
"How dare he do this!" Kris yelled. "Attack our home town! That's it we're taking him out!"
"And we're going with you," Tai said.
Kris immediately turned around to face with co-leader.
"Tai I couldn't ask you to do that, it's our town that's in trouble this is our fight not yours."
"Hey we're a team," Tai said. "If Evamon messes with one of us he messes with all of us, you guys rushed over here so you could help our home town, and we're gong to do the same for you. There are no individual fights, any fight of yours is our fight too."
Kris smiled. "Thanks a lot, and judging by how tough Diaboromon was, we're going to really need your help. So I'm guessing you'll be with us when we fly back home."
"Yeah, of course. How did you expect us to get there? We'll be leaving in about half an hour just when you planned to, unless of course someone objects to that."
There was a long moment of silence obviously no one objected to it, we were all ready to fight.
I slunk down in my seat. Why did this have to happen? I just about to go home things were finally going to return to normal for once, for once I was actually worried about things a normal teenager should be worrying about, whether some guy liked me or not. Then in a matter of an hour that had all changed, and it didn't look like it was going to change back anytime soon.
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Dan
The wind blew through my hair, as I looked down at the ocean below. I'm not even sure how many hours we'd been over the ocean. I was riding on Parrotmon's back along with eight other of my teammates and their Digimon, eight others rode on Garudamon's back, and Kris and Armyleomon were flying ahead, as were Cody and Submarimon, in case there was a water attack, like last time with Marinedevimon. It seemed a whole lot longer than it had been on the way to Japan, maybe that's because I wasn't sure if my parents or my little sister were okay or not. Sure I loved the feeling of not knowing if I'd live or die, but only when it applied to me. I hated not knowing if my loved ones were okay or not it was killing me, but at least I knew that one person I really cared for was okay…. her.
I looked up from the water to look at her, and was amazed at how incredible she looked, the wind blowing through her long brown hair just made her look even more beautiful. Now how sappy did that sound, I sounded like one of those lovesick sensitive guys, but still just looking at her now she looked incredible. Then there was her incredible body, she could be a super model easily curved in all the right places incredible. But it wasn't just that, I admit at first I had a crush on her it was all physical, I mean who couldn't be attracted to someone with a body like that? Then I got to know her, and for some reason, I don't know why I became incredibly attracted to her. Just something about her.
I'd tried showing her that I like her, in my own way, joking teasing, so far that hadn't work, she just pushed me away and called me a jerk. I'd done everything I could think of to let her know I like her, aside from actually telling her I liked her. I guess I might have to do that, I was pretty sure that she liked me, especially after she blew up at Davis's sister after she had flirted with me. I sighed; I guess I'd actually have to tell her, how was I supposed to do that? I wasn't any good at that kind of thing, I could joke, but this wasn't something you could joke about I had to be serious this time, that wasn't exactly my strong point. Oh well I guess I had to be serious at one point in my life.
"We've got company," Kris said snapping me out of my thoughts.
He had slowed down and was now flying the same speed Parrotmon and Garudamon were.
"How many?" Tai asked.
"I'm not sure of the exact numbers," Kris said. "But there's a lot of them, some Champions some Ultimates, they look like Seadramon."
"Looks like you were right," Tai said. "They are trying to stop us, from getting back. Okay those who can swim or fly Digivolve as far as you can. Except for Matt and I we'll stay back. Agumon Gabumon get ready to warp Digivolve in case we happen to need some Mega Digimon."
Everyone nodded in agreement as we all readied our Digivices, and the Digimon that could Digivolved.
"Tentomon Digivolved to…………………Kabuterimon!"
"Kabuterimon Digivolved to………………Megakabuterimon!"
"Palmon Digivolved to…………………….Togemon!"
"Togemon Digivolved to…………………..Lillymon!"
"Gomamon Digivolved to………………….Ikkakumon!"
"Ikkakumon Digivolved to…………………Zudomon!"
"Patamon Digivolved to……………………Angemon!"
"Angemon Digivolved to…………………..Magnaangemon!"
"Gatomon Digivolved to……………………Angewomon!"
"Hawkmon Digivolved to…………………..Aquillamon!"
"Aquillamon Digivolved to…………………Petoramon!"
"Veemon Digivolved to…………………….Exveemon!"
"Exveemon Digivolved to…………………..Aeroveedramon!"
"Wormmon Digivolved to…………………..Stingmon!"
"Stingmon Digivolved to……………………Dinobeemon!"
"Gizamon Digivolved to…………………….Coelamon!"
"Coelamon Digivolved to……………………Scorpiomon!"
"Otamamon Digivolved to……………………Starmon!"
"Starmon Digivolved to………………………Superstarmon!"
"Demidevimon Digivolved to………………..Airdramon!"
"Airdramon Digivolved to……………………Gigadramon!"
"Dokunemon Digivolved to…………………..Kuwagamon!"
"Kuwagamon Digivolved to………………….Ookuwamon!"
We all rode on our respective Digimon's back as they jumped into the water or flew into the air as we moved forward. I kept an eye my Digivice in radar mode, there were defiantly some of Evamon's minions around here somewhere, aside from our own Digimon there was at least two dozen other Digimon, however it only showed them on the radar I couldn't see any of them. Now all those Digimon were right in the center of the screen. That must mean –
"Uh Dan," Scorpiomon said. "Can you tell me why the water is bubbling?"
"Move!" I yelled to my Digimon.
"Why?"
"Just do it!" I yelled.
Scorpiomon didn't hesitate to listen to me, we his bladed legs began moving as has as they could propelling us forward just as a tremendous energy beam shot from the water only barely missing us. The beam was followed by a giant sea serpent Digimon, as it jumped out of the water soaring over all our heads, and back under the water, it looked a lot like a Megaseadramon, except it was about three times as big and had armor covering it's body.
"What the hell was that?" I yelled upon seeing the Digimon.
"No way!" Agumon said. "It can't be them it can't be."
"Oh this is just great," Tai said. "Are we just going to end up fighting all our old enemies over again?"
"What is it?" Kris asked as Armyleomon hovered next to Garudamon who Tai and Agumon were riding on.
"That was Metalseadramon," Tai answered. "He's one of the Dark Masters, we fought them about three years ago, and they were one of the most powerful forces we ever fought."
Suddenly there was a splash in the water just ahead of us where the giant version of Megaseadramon had just appeared, which Tai had called Metalseadramon.
"Hello again Digidestined!" Metalseadramon said. "I've been waiting a long time to meet up with you again."
"You know you can't beat us Metalseadramon," Matt said. "We beat you before, and this time we've got more members of the team."
"That was a long time ago Digidestined, I've gotten a lot stronger since our last fight in the Digital World, plus I've got some friends of my own. Boys!"
Suddenly about ten new Digimon shot out of the water, Megaseadramon to be exact, who were followed by another twelve Digimon, smaller versions of the Megaseadramon, Seadramon I presumed.
"I've been ordered to make sure you Digidestined never get back to Canada, and I plan on making sure that order is filled."
"I don't so," Tai said. "Agumon you're up."
"Right," Agumon said as Tai readied his Digivice and crest.
"Agumon Warp Digivolved to………………………Wargreymon!"
"You too Gabumon!" Matt said.
"Gabumon Warp Digivolved to……………………..Metalgarurumon!"
The two newly Digivolved Mega Digimon took to the air as usual with their respective partner riding on their back.
"But before we toss you aside Metalseadramon, tell us are the other Dark masters here?"
The giant sea serpent grinned. "Yeah sure are, and as we speak they're making ruble of that precious town of yours."
I felt my anger growing, that's it this guy was so dead!
"We don't have any time to waste!" Kris yelled. "I know you probably don't need to, but you guys should DNA Digivolve, so we can get rid of Metalseadramon and stop the rest of the Dark Masters from doing any more damage."
"Yeah you're right," Matt said nodding.
"Do it guys," Tai said.
Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon nodded, and for a while just stood there staring at the three stages of Seadramon.
"Uh guys anytime now," Matt said. "What are you waiting for? DNA Digivolve!"
"We're trying Matt," Metalgarurumon said.
"We can't seem to do it."
"What's going on?" Tai yelled. "It worked against Diaboromon."
"What's wrong having some trouble," Metalseadramon mocked. "Where's your secret weapon now?"
"I know why," Ken said. "It's because you don't need to DNA Digivolve. So far DNA Digivolution has only happened when we've needed it. If we don't need it to happen it won't happen, you two have enough power so you don't need to DNA Digivolve."
"In that case, let's get this over with," Wargreymon said.
"Yeah," Metalgarurumon said. "We can still beat him…just not as quickly."
Both Mega Digimon flew forward beginning the fight. Metalseadramon as well as all the other Seadramon also jumped into the fight, along with the rest of us. The battle began as Tai and matt's Digimon engaged in battle with Metalseadramon, while the rest of us began to fight with another with either one of the Megaseadramon or Seadramon.
Now Scorpiomon and I were looking into a Megaseadramon charging right at us, for once I wasn't exactly feeling confident, especially considering the incident with that last Megaseadramon.
"Dan…" Scorpiomon said hesitantly.
"I know I know." I said nervously.
What was happening to me? I've never been worried about a fight before. I always loved it that exciting feeling, what was going on?
"Thunder Javelin!" Megaseadramon yelled firing a bolt of electricity from his forehead-mounted horn.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon yelled firing his own attack, the two attacks collided and canceled each other out.
Megaseadramon jumped out of the water and into the air and diving down at Scorpiomon.
"Tail-"
Scorpiomon didn't have time to fire his attack Megaseadramon's horn hit his back, pushing him underwater, at the same time pushing me off his back into the water. My head broke the surface as I breathed in deeply, immediately scanning the surface for Scorpiomon. Nothing, both he and Megaseadramon were gone. No! Not again, this had happened before, back in Japan, and I'd almost lost Scorpiomon then, and now it was happening all over again, and this time Superstarmon was too busy with another Megaseadramon to save him this time. I wasn't going to let this happen, even if I had to wrestle Megaseadramon off of him myself. I had to find them, I didn't care if they were underwater, I took a deep breath and dove underwater. I saw them immediately. Scorpiomon swing his tail at Megaseadramon repeatedly, but Megaseadramon was way too agile in the water, and was able to dodge every attack with ease with enough time to fire a bolt of electricity from his horn, hitting Scorpiomon in the chest.
Megaseadramon took this moment of invulnerability and coiled himself around him, and began crushing him.
No! it was happening again, and there was nothing I could do about it, all I could do was watch, watch as my best friend was crushed. My lungs burned for air, but I didn't care that pain was meaningless to me; all I cared about now was Scorpiomon. There had to be something, anything I could do, the last thing I wanted to do, anything!
It was then that I noticed a light glimmer of light coming from my waist it was my Digivice. I unclipped it from my waist and looked at it, there was a light coming fro the screen, maybe I could use it…it was worth a shot. I held my Digivice out toward the two Digimon; the light only increased shooting from the Digivice, engulfing both the Digimon in the light. Megaseadramon screamed in pain releasing Scorpiomon, while Scorpiomon seemed to only get stronger. In his moment of weakness Megaseadramon was forced to not only loosen his grip, but completely let go of Scorpiomon. My Digimon took total advantage of this hitting Megaseadramon with his tail, then ramming him while swimming at full speed. The force of being ram was much stronger than I expected, Megaseadramon was hit to the surface and vanished as he flew out of the water, Scorpiomon shot up after him. I followed both of the Ultimate Digimon my face breaking the surface of the water and breathing in the sweet beautiful air, it had never felt so good to breath before.
Scorpiomon emerged from the water, as Megaseadramon was still weakly and helplessly flying over it.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon yelled bringing firing his trademark attack. It hit Megaseadramon in the chest, and he was it even higher into the air. Scorpiomon fired another couple of attacks, slowing down Megaseadramon's descent towards the water.
"This fight is over!" Scorpiomon yelled shooting his tail forward, which impaled the sea serpent and his body, shattered immediately, his digital data floating off into the sky.
Scorpiomon turned from the battle and faced me, and lowered his arm for me climb onto his back.
"Nice fight," I said climbing up his arm, and onto his back. "You really kicked his butt."
"Nothing!" he said quickly. "It was nothing, right now we should try and help the others."
I nodded in agreement, and scanned the area for Janine and Superstarmon. I found them just as quickly as I started looking. Well Superstarmon anyway, things really didn't look good for him either. He was being tossed around by two Megaseadramon like a ping-pong ball, but I didn't see Janine anywhere. Panic started flowing through my mind where was she? Then I noticed her, she was down in the water, helplessly watching as her Digimon was hurt and beat up.
"Scorpiomon! Superstarmon, we've got to help him."
"On it." My Digimon said beginning to swim to their location.
But we didn't get there in time the two Megaseadramon soon grew bored with playing with Janine's Digimon, one of them used his horn to slam the star-like Digimon hard into the water.
"Superstarmon!" Janine yelled.
Both Megaseadramon ignored Janine and jumped out of the water diving back into the water, the splash was huge! It created a huge wave in the water, hardly a tidal wave but it was still pretty big. Scorpiomon was able to take it, but Janine wasn't as big, the wave slammed down on her hard!
"NO!" I screamed.
Oh God! Please let her be okay. A lump formed in my throat as the wave cleared and she wasn't there anymore. As if reading my mind Scorpiomon dove under water in search for her.
I saw her immediately, panic raced over me as I saw her lifeless body began to sink. Scorpiomon saw her too; he moved as fast as he could towards her, I grabbed her in my arms and Scorpiomon immediately surfaced.
"Janine!" I yelled shaking her unconscious body. "Janine! Wake up! Please! Just wake up!"
Nothing, she didn't wake up. I put my fingers to her wrists feeling for a pulse, and felt a little relief as I felt she still had one, then why wasn't she waking up? That wake must have really hit her hard. Why didn't I pay attention in gym when we had those CPR lessons? I laid her down on Scorpiomon's back as my mind raced trying to remember how to do what they told me in class. All I could remember was that I was supposed to put my mouth to hers and breath in. It was worth a shot, it was a good thing she was unconscious because she'd kill me if she knew I was doing this. I began to bring my face to hers, and our mouths were inches apart when she suddenly began to spit out water. She was waking up.
When she was done spitting out water she slowly sat up and rubbed her head.
"What happened?" she said. "I feel like I just swallowed half the ocean."
"Thank God you're okay!" I yelled. "You scared the hell out of me!"
She groaned. "Now you know how I feel whenever you do that."
"Aw has Janine gained a little soft spot for me?"
She gave me a dirty look after that last response. "Ah! Just when I think you might be maturing you go and say something like that and be a jerk!"
For once I was speechless. What did I say? That was meant to be some way of telling her I like her, she couldn't see that?
"Where's Superstarmon!" she snapped as her angry face turned concerned. She got her answer immediately as Superstarmon was thrown out of the water helplessly followed by the two Megaseadramon. What was with these Digimon that made them want to toy with Digimon?
"Thunder Javelin!" Megaseadramon yelled firing his attack at Superstarmon.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon yelled firing his own attack, which hit Megaseadramon's out of the way.
However the Megaseadramon were still jumping out of the water straight at the helpless Superstarmon. Scorpiomon stopped that as he himself also jumped out of the water, and onto one of the Megaseadramon his blade like legs dug into the sea serpent Digimon, dragging the two of them down into the water, Scorpiomon pinning him down under the water, digging his blades even deeper into Megaseadramon.
The other Megaseadramon dove down at the now descending Superstarmon, but Superstarmon was beginning to recover, and was able to dodge the attack of the Megaseadramon, and begin flying again, while the Megaseadramon crashed into the water, only to jump out again seconds later.
"Galactic eye!" Superstarmon yelled as soon as the Megaseadramon jumped out of the water.
The attack hit Megaseadramon directly in the head, killing him instantly. Meanwhile Scorpiomon was still holding onto the other Megaseadramon, who was desperately trying to squirm free.
"Thunder-"
"Scorpion Storm!" Scorpiomon interrupted firing sand a deadly assault from his mouth, which at this range killed the second Megaseadramon.
"Thanks," Superstarmon said to my Digimon. "I couldn't have beat them without you."
"It's nothing, I have a score to settle with these guys."
I turned my attention away from their conversation to the rest of the battles, actually Janine and I's Digimon were the only ones who had any trouble dealing with them, the others were all fighting very well, and actually winning, I was even more surprised when I noticed the fight between Metalseadramon and Matt and Tai's Digimon. They weren't only winning they were really kicking butt! Ken had been right; Omnimon really wasn't needed for this fight. Neither Wargreymon, nor Metalgarurumon had a scratch on them, Metalseadramon however was a different story he was full of bruises, and injuries, and was out of breath.
"What's wrong Metalseadramon," Tai mocked. "Getting tired."
"How can you be beating me?" Metalseadramon yelled. "Last time, I had you on the run, you only beat me because you got lucky."
"That was a long time ago," Wargreymon said. "Like you said. And while you've been bits of Digital data we've gained three years of experience, you can't beat us!"
Metalseadramon glared angrily. "You're right I can't…but I won't make the mistake I made three years ago!"
Metalseadramon dove under the water disappearing under it.
"Is he actually running away!" Matt yelled.
"I think so," Metalgarurumon confirmed.
"Should we let him go?" Wargreymon asked.
"Yeah…if we attack him now we'll be no worse than him, and you guys -" Tai turned to face the remaining Seadramon and Megaseadramon. "We suggest that you follow him!"
Metalseadramon's minions didn't hesitate to listen to Tai, they dove into the water and swam in the opposite direction that Metalseadramon had, away from our home, I guess Metalseadramon wouldn't be to happy with them if they returned to him.
"Let's go!" Kris yelled. "Right now our town is being attacked!"
"Kris you can fly faster than any of us," Tai said. "You go ahead and take care of that as best you can we'll be right behind you."
Kris nodded in total agreement, and didn't hesitate for a second, as Armyleomon's jets activated sending him flying home as fast as possible.
"Let's go!" Tai ordered. "He's going to need backup."
No one disagreed, no one De-Digivolved we just began to swim or fly as fast as possible, if what Metalseadramon was true then we were in for one really big battle.
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I know not a whole lot happens in this chapter, but it's only the intro to Part 3, the next one will be much better, I cant make any promises about when it's going to be out though, I've got a couple other projects to work on this week so it might not be up right away....watch for it anyway.
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Chapter 28: Trouble on the Home Front
Janine
"So this is the place," I said looking up at the towering apartment building which Davis lived in, and Kris where Kris and Elecmon where staying.
The twenty of us, plus our Digimon and us were meeting one final time this morning right before us Canadians left for home. Will was the only one not going home today, he was going home with his family tomorrow when his vacation ended.
"Doesn't anyone around here live in houses," Otamamon – who I held in my arms – said. "They all live in huge apartment buildings."
"That's what it's like in a big city Otamamon," I said. "When I lived in New York I lived in an apartment building almost twice this size."
"Good thing you don't anymore, it would be hard for me to sneak in the window." I laughed. "You know you don't have to do that, you're small enough to look like a stuffed animal."
"Aw, come on where's the fun in that."
"Hey!" I heard a familiar voice yell, Dan to be exact.
Great, just what I needed, and the guy I needed to see right now. The guy who I liked and aggravated me at the same time. I've never had this sort of relationship with a guy before, it was either black or white, either I hated him, or I liked him. This was both, he constantly made jokes that really annoyed me, but at the same time I found it attractive. Why did I find it so attractive that he argued with everything I said? He was such a jerk sometimes, yet I still had this crush on him. Of course he wasn't all bad some of his jokes were actually funny, he did make me laugh sometimes, not to mention he had a great body.
I didn't just think that did I? I was sounding like those dumb blondes who gushed over guys just because they were good looking, but was he ever good looking. I shook my head ignoring the last thought, as Dan approached me holding Gizamon in his arms.
"Hey Janine," He said. "Ready to go back home?"
"Yeah," I said softly. "But I have a feeling maybe we shouldn't, I really don't think this is just over. I mean Diaboromon was just a minion. Evamon hasn't even showed his face. I don't think he's just going to give up, we shouldn't let our guard down like this and separate."
"I hope your right, I mean without any evil to fight life sure is going to get boring."
"What's with you?" I asked. "You talk like you actually enjoy fighting."
"Well of course," Dan said laughing. "Like I told you before I like the feeling of not knowing if I'll if I'll see the next day."
I rolled my eyes. "You're insane! You know that." Yeah that's what I was saying out loud, but inside it was intriguing and I found myself growing even more attracted to him. What was with me?
"Yeah I sure do."
I couldn't help but laugh at that, at least he had a sense of humour no one could deny that.
"Let's just go inside, we've got a reunion to go to."
"Yeah," Gizamon said. "Just sitting out here talking is really boring."
Dan laughed as he started walking into the building as I followed close behind. I could feel serious tension begin to build up as we stepped into the elevator. I don't think I've ever felt this awkward. I kept stealing the occasional look at him, why did he have to wear such a tight T-shirt. It would be so much easier if he wasn't so cute, maybe this was just a physical attraction. No, it couldn't be. I felt so much more for him than that, yeah I guess I did like him, I'd finally admitted to myself that I liked him. Great now it was just a matter of telling him. Why couldn't I? It couldn't be that hard could it? I just told him, there was a really good chance he liked me back to, I mean Dan was a stereotypical guy right? And I knew for a fact that I was good looking, and guys like him would love to go out with a girl that looked like me. But wasn't just another problem? I really liked him I didn't want him to like me just because of the way I looked, but even if he did like me like that originally doesn't mean I couldn't make that turn into something else. That meant so far, I had no reason not to tell him.
The elevator doors opened and we stepped out making our way to Davis's apartment.
"Uh Dan," I said slowly.
"Yeah?" he said.
"Uh – there's something I need to tell you."
We reached Davis's apartment and he knocked on the door, yet still keeping his attention on me.
"Sure, what is it?" he said eagerly.
"I-"
Suddenly the door swung open interrupting me, a girl about our age stood in the doorway.
"Hi," the girl said goofily, her eyes lit up as she took a look at Dan.
"Uh hi," Dan said. "Is Davis here."
The girl nodded, and continued to stare dreamily at Dan. "Yeah he's here, but I don't see why a cute guy like you would want to be seen with my brother."
What did she just say!? She better not mean what I thought she did.
"Uh huh," Dan said. "Could you get him please?"
"Sure," she said moving uncomfortably closer to him. "If you tell me something."
"Yeah sure, what?"
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
What?! How did she ever think she had a chance with Dan, she – was – well I don't know, but she sure wasn't Dan's type. I could feel my blood boiling as I clenched my fists, I normally wasn't one for anger, but right now I for some reason I jealously just boiled within me.
"Hey!" I yelled pushing her away from Dan. "What do you think you're doing!"
"Sorry," she said backing away from me. "I didn't realize you were going out, I thought you were his sister or something."
"His sister!" I yelled. "I'll have you-"
I suddenly froze as I realized the several eyes staring at me. Dan, Davis's sister whose name I still didn't know, and four other's Jenn and Kris, who I didn't even notice was here. The shock caused me arms to drop to my sides, and Otamamon to fall out of my arms onto the ground.
Oh my god what did I just do? I just freaked out at Davis's sister for hitting on Dan, and probably just revealed that I liked him, I didn't want him to find out this way, and I certainly didn't want to reveal it to everyone else. I'd made myself look like a total idiot.
"I – uh," I stuttered taking a step towards the doorway before breaking into a run, until I was in a decent enough distant down the hall as not to be seen.
I fell to my knees, what did I just do? How could I have done that? I'd just killed any chance of us being together, he probably thought I was a total idiot. I felt a warm hand on my shoulder.
"You like him don't you?" It was Jenn.
I tossed her hand off of my shoulder and stood up, wiping away the last tear that had rolled down my cheek. "What makes you think that."
"Well there's the fact that you just blew up at Jun for flirting with Dan."
"I just didn't want her to get hurt. You know what Dan's like. Ha! How could I ever like him, I mean all he ever does is joke around, plus he's totally reckless, and – I have the biggest crush on him that you could imagine."
"Janine it's okay," Jenn said. "I'm sure no one read into what just happened, don't worry about it."
"Yeah right," I said. "You figured it out pretty quickly, who's to say everyone else won't."
"Don't worry about that, the only people who saw that was Kris, Dan, Jun, and I. I'll make sure Kris doesn't say anything about it, I won't, and you'll be rid of Jun in a matter of hours."
"And Dan?"
"Don't worry about him either, I've got Kris in there working damage control trying to get his mind off of it."
"Thanks a lot," I said as a smile, returned to my face. "I appreciate it, you have no idea how weird this is. I mean he's everything that annoys me in a guy, but for some reason I really like him. I feel myself attracted to him whenever he teases or makes jokes around me."
"So why don't you just tell him how you feel? I'm sure he'd like you, I haven't known Dan for very long, but I've learned that he shows the way he likes someone differently than most people, he teases them, I noticed, and he does that to you a lot."
"Yeah I know, I kind of got that feeling when he was teasing me when Kimeramon attacked us at Joe's dorm. Then he was holding me…it just felt so right, that's when I first admitted that I actually liked him."
"So you should tell him how you feel then."
I sighed. "That's what I was trying to do, until she showed up."
"Don't worry about Jun, I don't think Dan's interested in her, besides we're leaving in a couple hours, she'll be out of your hair by then, let's just head back, and enjoy the last couple hours we have when our team is full."
"How can I go back there?" I asked. "I mean after what just happened?"
"Like I said, I've got Kris working damage control, everyone will have forgotten about by then, don't worry. Just go in there and pretend that it didn't happen okay."
"Alright, just don't expect me to talk to Dan right away."
We both laughed as we headed back to Davis's apartment, and she was right it was like it had never happened. Davis's sister had disappeared, I don't know where I didn't really care, and Dan was too distracted playing video games with Davis and Kris to bring up what had happened.
Eventually everyone showed up, and we all kind of did our own thing mingled, it was a party, well not a serious party just kind of a sit around and talk get together kind of thing. The only one who didn't really mingle was Andrew, who was just sitting alone in the corner with Demidevimon, staring out the window, holding the cold stare on his face that he always had, he was fighting on our side, but he sure didn't seem to be acting any different, but I guess it's understandable why he didn't want to talk to anyone, he'd just lost his sister, I know when Kevin died I didn't want to talk to anyone, but I really regretting being so antisocial I really should have talked to someone, I know now that it would have made me feel better.
I approached him and leaned up against the wall beside him.
"Hi," I said.
"Uh hi," he said not turning to look at me. "What do you want?"
"I just wanted to talk," I said. "You look pretty lonely over hear."
"Maybe I like being alone," he muttered.
"No one likes being alone," I said. "Look I understand why you wouldn't want to talk."
"No you don't. You have no idea what I'm going through! You couldn't possibly understand."
"Yes I do," I argued. "I lost my brother a while ago, he was really important to you, and I know how important you're sister was to you even if she was the Digimon Empress, I know the kind of pain you're in."
"Really?" he said raising his voice. "You do? Sure you lost your sibling too, but did you also lose your mother? My mother's dead! And my father might as well be! Sure he's alive but the father I knew and loved is dead, destroyed by alcohol. He hasn't even noticed that Emily is gone yet! Emily was all I had left, yeah I have Demidevimon and I care about him as much as the rest of you care about your Digimon, but Emily was the only family I have left, do you have any idea how painful it is to lose your entire family! You have no idea what kind of pain I'm in."
"Andrew I -"
"Save it!" he snapped. "Just leave me alone, I'm came to help you didn't I, will you just leave me alone."
"Okay, I can see why you're so bitter, but I'm not letting this go, I'll talk to you later."
"I wouldn't recommend that," Demidevimon said then received a dirty look from Andrew.
I sighed and stood up, moving my way to the couch, sitting down in an empty spot, I would never had sat there if I had noticed that Dan was sitting there.
"Hey," he said as I sat down next to him.
"Hi," I said awkwardly. How come he didn't look awkward, didn't anything make him uncomfortable?
"What did you want to tell me before?"
"Huh what?" I said trying to pretend I didn't know what he was talking about.
"Before at the door, you wanted to tell me something. What was it?"
Great now I had to tell him, sure I wanted to, but not now with everyone here. My mind raced trying to figure out something to say; luckily Kari came to my rescue.
"Guys maybe you should take a look at the TV." She yelled her voice full of concern.
Everyone took their attention to whatever they were going towards the TV, a special news bulletin message had just shown up on the screen. Then soon changed to the anchorman, he soon started to speak.
"Well it's been over a week since the monster attack in Japan, which were to have thought to have died down. However it now seems that the attacks aren't over."
"What!" Davis yelled. "Not again, what now?"
"Sh," everyone except Davis and Veemon said.
"While the monsters have stopped attacking in Odaiba, they now seem to have changed their assaults on a small town in Canada."
Us eight Canadian Digidestined all jumped up from wherever we just happened to be sitting, I think we'd all assumed the same thing. The anchorman continued.
"The small town of Keewatin has had several attacks in the past few days and…."
I think we all zoned out after that, I know I did as soon as I heard the mention of Keewatin…our town. My intuition was right it wasn't over; Evamon had just pulled out another one of his minions on us.
"This is going to be what it's like from now on isn't it!" Rob yelled angrily. "We finally think we've won, and suddenly bam! Evamon just throws another curveball at us! He's just going to keep sending minions one after another."
"Let him," Sean yelled. "We'll just keep destroying them."
"How dare he do this!" Kris yelled. "Attack our home town! That's it we're taking him out!"
"And we're going with you," Tai said.
Kris immediately turned around to face with co-leader.
"Tai I couldn't ask you to do that, it's our town that's in trouble this is our fight not yours."
"Hey we're a team," Tai said. "If Evamon messes with one of us he messes with all of us, you guys rushed over here so you could help our home town, and we're gong to do the same for you. There are no individual fights, any fight of yours is our fight too."
Kris smiled. "Thanks a lot, and judging by how tough Diaboromon was, we're going to really need your help. So I'm guessing you'll be with us when we fly back home."
"Yeah, of course. How did you expect us to get there? We'll be leaving in about half an hour just when you planned to, unless of course someone objects to that."
There was a long moment of silence obviously no one objected to it, we were all ready to fight.
I slunk down in my seat. Why did this have to happen? I just about to go home things were finally going to return to normal for once, for once I was actually worried about things a normal teenager should be worrying about, whether some guy liked me or not. Then in a matter of an hour that had all changed, and it didn't look like it was going to change back anytime soon.
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Dan
The wind blew through my hair, as I looked down at the ocean below. I'm not even sure how many hours we'd been over the ocean. I was riding on Parrotmon's back along with eight other of my teammates and their Digimon, eight others rode on Garudamon's back, and Kris and Armyleomon were flying ahead, as were Cody and Submarimon, in case there was a water attack, like last time with Marinedevimon. It seemed a whole lot longer than it had been on the way to Japan, maybe that's because I wasn't sure if my parents or my little sister were okay or not. Sure I loved the feeling of not knowing if I'd live or die, but only when it applied to me. I hated not knowing if my loved ones were okay or not it was killing me, but at least I knew that one person I really cared for was okay…. her.
I looked up from the water to look at her, and was amazed at how incredible she looked, the wind blowing through her long brown hair just made her look even more beautiful. Now how sappy did that sound, I sounded like one of those lovesick sensitive guys, but still just looking at her now she looked incredible. Then there was her incredible body, she could be a super model easily curved in all the right places incredible. But it wasn't just that, I admit at first I had a crush on her it was all physical, I mean who couldn't be attracted to someone with a body like that? Then I got to know her, and for some reason, I don't know why I became incredibly attracted to her. Just something about her.
I'd tried showing her that I like her, in my own way, joking teasing, so far that hadn't work, she just pushed me away and called me a jerk. I'd done everything I could think of to let her know I like her, aside from actually telling her I liked her. I guess I might have to do that, I was pretty sure that she liked me, especially after she blew up at Davis's sister after she had flirted with me. I sighed; I guess I'd actually have to tell her, how was I supposed to do that? I wasn't any good at that kind of thing, I could joke, but this wasn't something you could joke about I had to be serious this time, that wasn't exactly my strong point. Oh well I guess I had to be serious at one point in my life.
"We've got company," Kris said snapping me out of my thoughts.
He had slowed down and was now flying the same speed Parrotmon and Garudamon were.
"How many?" Tai asked.
"I'm not sure of the exact numbers," Kris said. "But there's a lot of them, some Champions some Ultimates, they look like Seadramon."
"Looks like you were right," Tai said. "They are trying to stop us, from getting back. Okay those who can swim or fly Digivolve as far as you can. Except for Matt and I we'll stay back. Agumon Gabumon get ready to warp Digivolve in case we happen to need some Mega Digimon."
Everyone nodded in agreement as we all readied our Digivices, and the Digimon that could Digivolved.
"Tentomon Digivolved to…………………Kabuterimon!"
"Kabuterimon Digivolved to………………Megakabuterimon!"
"Palmon Digivolved to…………………….Togemon!"
"Togemon Digivolved to…………………..Lillymon!"
"Gomamon Digivolved to………………….Ikkakumon!"
"Ikkakumon Digivolved to…………………Zudomon!"
"Patamon Digivolved to……………………Angemon!"
"Angemon Digivolved to…………………..Magnaangemon!"
"Gatomon Digivolved to……………………Angewomon!"
"Hawkmon Digivolved to…………………..Aquillamon!"
"Aquillamon Digivolved to…………………Petoramon!"
"Veemon Digivolved to…………………….Exveemon!"
"Exveemon Digivolved to…………………..Aeroveedramon!"
"Wormmon Digivolved to…………………..Stingmon!"
"Stingmon Digivolved to……………………Dinobeemon!"
"Gizamon Digivolved to…………………….Coelamon!"
"Coelamon Digivolved to……………………Scorpiomon!"
"Otamamon Digivolved to……………………Starmon!"
"Starmon Digivolved to………………………Superstarmon!"
"Demidevimon Digivolved to………………..Airdramon!"
"Airdramon Digivolved to……………………Gigadramon!"
"Dokunemon Digivolved to…………………..Kuwagamon!"
"Kuwagamon Digivolved to………………….Ookuwamon!"
We all rode on our respective Digimon's back as they jumped into the water or flew into the air as we moved forward. I kept an eye my Digivice in radar mode, there were defiantly some of Evamon's minions around here somewhere, aside from our own Digimon there was at least two dozen other Digimon, however it only showed them on the radar I couldn't see any of them. Now all those Digimon were right in the center of the screen. That must mean –
"Uh Dan," Scorpiomon said. "Can you tell me why the water is bubbling?"
"Move!" I yelled to my Digimon.
"Why?"
"Just do it!" I yelled.
Scorpiomon didn't hesitate to listen to me, we his bladed legs began moving as has as they could propelling us forward just as a tremendous energy beam shot from the water only barely missing us. The beam was followed by a giant sea serpent Digimon, as it jumped out of the water soaring over all our heads, and back under the water, it looked a lot like a Megaseadramon, except it was about three times as big and had armor covering it's body.
"What the hell was that?" I yelled upon seeing the Digimon.
"No way!" Agumon said. "It can't be them it can't be."
"Oh this is just great," Tai said. "Are we just going to end up fighting all our old enemies over again?"
"What is it?" Kris asked as Armyleomon hovered next to Garudamon who Tai and Agumon were riding on.
"That was Metalseadramon," Tai answered. "He's one of the Dark Masters, we fought them about three years ago, and they were one of the most powerful forces we ever fought."
Suddenly there was a splash in the water just ahead of us where the giant version of Megaseadramon had just appeared, which Tai had called Metalseadramon.
"Hello again Digidestined!" Metalseadramon said. "I've been waiting a long time to meet up with you again."
"You know you can't beat us Metalseadramon," Matt said. "We beat you before, and this time we've got more members of the team."
"That was a long time ago Digidestined, I've gotten a lot stronger since our last fight in the Digital World, plus I've got some friends of my own. Boys!"
Suddenly about ten new Digimon shot out of the water, Megaseadramon to be exact, who were followed by another twelve Digimon, smaller versions of the Megaseadramon, Seadramon I presumed.
"I've been ordered to make sure you Digidestined never get back to Canada, and I plan on making sure that order is filled."
"I don't so," Tai said. "Agumon you're up."
"Right," Agumon said as Tai readied his Digivice and crest.
"Agumon Warp Digivolved to………………………Wargreymon!"
"You too Gabumon!" Matt said.
"Gabumon Warp Digivolved to……………………..Metalgarurumon!"
The two newly Digivolved Mega Digimon took to the air as usual with their respective partner riding on their back.
"But before we toss you aside Metalseadramon, tell us are the other Dark masters here?"
The giant sea serpent grinned. "Yeah sure are, and as we speak they're making ruble of that precious town of yours."
I felt my anger growing, that's it this guy was so dead!
"We don't have any time to waste!" Kris yelled. "I know you probably don't need to, but you guys should DNA Digivolve, so we can get rid of Metalseadramon and stop the rest of the Dark Masters from doing any more damage."
"Yeah you're right," Matt said nodding.
"Do it guys," Tai said.
Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon nodded, and for a while just stood there staring at the three stages of Seadramon.
"Uh guys anytime now," Matt said. "What are you waiting for? DNA Digivolve!"
"We're trying Matt," Metalgarurumon said.
"We can't seem to do it."
"What's going on?" Tai yelled. "It worked against Diaboromon."
"What's wrong having some trouble," Metalseadramon mocked. "Where's your secret weapon now?"
"I know why," Ken said. "It's because you don't need to DNA Digivolve. So far DNA Digivolution has only happened when we've needed it. If we don't need it to happen it won't happen, you two have enough power so you don't need to DNA Digivolve."
"In that case, let's get this over with," Wargreymon said.
"Yeah," Metalgarurumon said. "We can still beat him…just not as quickly."
Both Mega Digimon flew forward beginning the fight. Metalseadramon as well as all the other Seadramon also jumped into the fight, along with the rest of us. The battle began as Tai and matt's Digimon engaged in battle with Metalseadramon, while the rest of us began to fight with another with either one of the Megaseadramon or Seadramon.
Now Scorpiomon and I were looking into a Megaseadramon charging right at us, for once I wasn't exactly feeling confident, especially considering the incident with that last Megaseadramon.
"Dan…" Scorpiomon said hesitantly.
"I know I know." I said nervously.
What was happening to me? I've never been worried about a fight before. I always loved it that exciting feeling, what was going on?
"Thunder Javelin!" Megaseadramon yelled firing a bolt of electricity from his forehead-mounted horn.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon yelled firing his own attack, the two attacks collided and canceled each other out.
Megaseadramon jumped out of the water and into the air and diving down at Scorpiomon.
"Tail-"
Scorpiomon didn't have time to fire his attack Megaseadramon's horn hit his back, pushing him underwater, at the same time pushing me off his back into the water. My head broke the surface as I breathed in deeply, immediately scanning the surface for Scorpiomon. Nothing, both he and Megaseadramon were gone. No! Not again, this had happened before, back in Japan, and I'd almost lost Scorpiomon then, and now it was happening all over again, and this time Superstarmon was too busy with another Megaseadramon to save him this time. I wasn't going to let this happen, even if I had to wrestle Megaseadramon off of him myself. I had to find them, I didn't care if they were underwater, I took a deep breath and dove underwater. I saw them immediately. Scorpiomon swing his tail at Megaseadramon repeatedly, but Megaseadramon was way too agile in the water, and was able to dodge every attack with ease with enough time to fire a bolt of electricity from his horn, hitting Scorpiomon in the chest.
Megaseadramon took this moment of invulnerability and coiled himself around him, and began crushing him.
No! it was happening again, and there was nothing I could do about it, all I could do was watch, watch as my best friend was crushed. My lungs burned for air, but I didn't care that pain was meaningless to me; all I cared about now was Scorpiomon. There had to be something, anything I could do, the last thing I wanted to do, anything!
It was then that I noticed a light glimmer of light coming from my waist it was my Digivice. I unclipped it from my waist and looked at it, there was a light coming fro the screen, maybe I could use it…it was worth a shot. I held my Digivice out toward the two Digimon; the light only increased shooting from the Digivice, engulfing both the Digimon in the light. Megaseadramon screamed in pain releasing Scorpiomon, while Scorpiomon seemed to only get stronger. In his moment of weakness Megaseadramon was forced to not only loosen his grip, but completely let go of Scorpiomon. My Digimon took total advantage of this hitting Megaseadramon with his tail, then ramming him while swimming at full speed. The force of being ram was much stronger than I expected, Megaseadramon was hit to the surface and vanished as he flew out of the water, Scorpiomon shot up after him. I followed both of the Ultimate Digimon my face breaking the surface of the water and breathing in the sweet beautiful air, it had never felt so good to breath before.
Scorpiomon emerged from the water, as Megaseadramon was still weakly and helplessly flying over it.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon yelled bringing firing his trademark attack. It hit Megaseadramon in the chest, and he was it even higher into the air. Scorpiomon fired another couple of attacks, slowing down Megaseadramon's descent towards the water.
"This fight is over!" Scorpiomon yelled shooting his tail forward, which impaled the sea serpent and his body, shattered immediately, his digital data floating off into the sky.
Scorpiomon turned from the battle and faced me, and lowered his arm for me climb onto his back.
"Nice fight," I said climbing up his arm, and onto his back. "You really kicked his butt."
"Nothing!" he said quickly. "It was nothing, right now we should try and help the others."
I nodded in agreement, and scanned the area for Janine and Superstarmon. I found them just as quickly as I started looking. Well Superstarmon anyway, things really didn't look good for him either. He was being tossed around by two Megaseadramon like a ping-pong ball, but I didn't see Janine anywhere. Panic started flowing through my mind where was she? Then I noticed her, she was down in the water, helplessly watching as her Digimon was hurt and beat up.
"Scorpiomon! Superstarmon, we've got to help him."
"On it." My Digimon said beginning to swim to their location.
But we didn't get there in time the two Megaseadramon soon grew bored with playing with Janine's Digimon, one of them used his horn to slam the star-like Digimon hard into the water.
"Superstarmon!" Janine yelled.
Both Megaseadramon ignored Janine and jumped out of the water diving back into the water, the splash was huge! It created a huge wave in the water, hardly a tidal wave but it was still pretty big. Scorpiomon was able to take it, but Janine wasn't as big, the wave slammed down on her hard!
"NO!" I screamed.
Oh God! Please let her be okay. A lump formed in my throat as the wave cleared and she wasn't there anymore. As if reading my mind Scorpiomon dove under water in search for her.
I saw her immediately, panic raced over me as I saw her lifeless body began to sink. Scorpiomon saw her too; he moved as fast as he could towards her, I grabbed her in my arms and Scorpiomon immediately surfaced.
"Janine!" I yelled shaking her unconscious body. "Janine! Wake up! Please! Just wake up!"
Nothing, she didn't wake up. I put my fingers to her wrists feeling for a pulse, and felt a little relief as I felt she still had one, then why wasn't she waking up? That wake must have really hit her hard. Why didn't I pay attention in gym when we had those CPR lessons? I laid her down on Scorpiomon's back as my mind raced trying to remember how to do what they told me in class. All I could remember was that I was supposed to put my mouth to hers and breath in. It was worth a shot, it was a good thing she was unconscious because she'd kill me if she knew I was doing this. I began to bring my face to hers, and our mouths were inches apart when she suddenly began to spit out water. She was waking up.
When she was done spitting out water she slowly sat up and rubbed her head.
"What happened?" she said. "I feel like I just swallowed half the ocean."
"Thank God you're okay!" I yelled. "You scared the hell out of me!"
She groaned. "Now you know how I feel whenever you do that."
"Aw has Janine gained a little soft spot for me?"
She gave me a dirty look after that last response. "Ah! Just when I think you might be maturing you go and say something like that and be a jerk!"
For once I was speechless. What did I say? That was meant to be some way of telling her I like her, she couldn't see that?
"Where's Superstarmon!" she snapped as her angry face turned concerned. She got her answer immediately as Superstarmon was thrown out of the water helplessly followed by the two Megaseadramon. What was with these Digimon that made them want to toy with Digimon?
"Thunder Javelin!" Megaseadramon yelled firing his attack at Superstarmon.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon yelled firing his own attack, which hit Megaseadramon's out of the way.
However the Megaseadramon were still jumping out of the water straight at the helpless Superstarmon. Scorpiomon stopped that as he himself also jumped out of the water, and onto one of the Megaseadramon his blade like legs dug into the sea serpent Digimon, dragging the two of them down into the water, Scorpiomon pinning him down under the water, digging his blades even deeper into Megaseadramon.
The other Megaseadramon dove down at the now descending Superstarmon, but Superstarmon was beginning to recover, and was able to dodge the attack of the Megaseadramon, and begin flying again, while the Megaseadramon crashed into the water, only to jump out again seconds later.
"Galactic eye!" Superstarmon yelled as soon as the Megaseadramon jumped out of the water.
The attack hit Megaseadramon directly in the head, killing him instantly. Meanwhile Scorpiomon was still holding onto the other Megaseadramon, who was desperately trying to squirm free.
"Thunder-"
"Scorpion Storm!" Scorpiomon interrupted firing sand a deadly assault from his mouth, which at this range killed the second Megaseadramon.
"Thanks," Superstarmon said to my Digimon. "I couldn't have beat them without you."
"It's nothing, I have a score to settle with these guys."
I turned my attention away from their conversation to the rest of the battles, actually Janine and I's Digimon were the only ones who had any trouble dealing with them, the others were all fighting very well, and actually winning, I was even more surprised when I noticed the fight between Metalseadramon and Matt and Tai's Digimon. They weren't only winning they were really kicking butt! Ken had been right; Omnimon really wasn't needed for this fight. Neither Wargreymon, nor Metalgarurumon had a scratch on them, Metalseadramon however was a different story he was full of bruises, and injuries, and was out of breath.
"What's wrong Metalseadramon," Tai mocked. "Getting tired."
"How can you be beating me?" Metalseadramon yelled. "Last time, I had you on the run, you only beat me because you got lucky."
"That was a long time ago," Wargreymon said. "Like you said. And while you've been bits of Digital data we've gained three years of experience, you can't beat us!"
Metalseadramon glared angrily. "You're right I can't…but I won't make the mistake I made three years ago!"
Metalseadramon dove under the water disappearing under it.
"Is he actually running away!" Matt yelled.
"I think so," Metalgarurumon confirmed.
"Should we let him go?" Wargreymon asked.
"Yeah…if we attack him now we'll be no worse than him, and you guys -" Tai turned to face the remaining Seadramon and Megaseadramon. "We suggest that you follow him!"
Metalseadramon's minions didn't hesitate to listen to Tai, they dove into the water and swam in the opposite direction that Metalseadramon had, away from our home, I guess Metalseadramon wouldn't be to happy with them if they returned to him.
"Let's go!" Kris yelled. "Right now our town is being attacked!"
"Kris you can fly faster than any of us," Tai said. "You go ahead and take care of that as best you can we'll be right behind you."
Kris nodded in total agreement, and didn't hesitate for a second, as Armyleomon's jets activated sending him flying home as fast as possible.
"Let's go!" Tai ordered. "He's going to need backup."
No one disagreed, no one De-Digivolved we just began to swim or fly as fast as possible, if what Metalseadramon was true then we were in for one really big battle.
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I know not a whole lot happens in this chapter, but it's only the intro to Part 3, the next one will be much better, I cant make any promises about when it's going to be out though, I've got a couple other projects to work on this week so it might not be up right away....watch for it anyway.