This time the Disclaimer comes first. I don't own Digimon some other guy does, I don't know who he is, but I know he's some guy who owns Digimon...but aside from that new Chapter yay! This is the second World Tour chapter featuring readers of the fic, this time it's Tim and John, the Egyptian Digidestined, so sit back and enjoy!
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Chapter 43: Mission Two Egypt
Will
"Why did we have to get stuck with Egypt," Demidevimon whined. "It's so incredibly hot here, I bet none of the others are boiling right now."
I rolled my eyes. "Weren't you just complaining about how cold it was in Canada a few days ago?"
"That's because it was cold, what's your point?"
I sighed and continued to search my surroundings, which was now the city of Cairo, it hadn't taken us long to get out of the desert and into the city.
"He's right though," Andrew said. "We probably could have picked a better location, we haven't exactly seen a lot of action here, and we've been here for hours."
Andrew was right about that, we'd been wondering the streets of Cairo, and watching the radar of our Digivices for hours, we'd had a few encounters but they were only with a few Pagumon and Kapurimon, but they were only In-Training Digimon and they were easily defeated and sent to the Digital World with no trouble whatsoever nothing serious yet."
"Maybe we should get out of town and check out the pyramids and the sphinx," Dokunemon - who was perched on the back of my wheelchair - said.
"We're not here to sight see Dokunemon," I said. "This is a business trip not a vacation."
"There could be Digimon there."
"Let's make sure there we clear out any Digimon in the city first," I said.
"That could take a while," Andrew said. "Cairo isn't exactly a small city."
"And so far it's boring," Demidevimon said. "I wish we would see at least one Digimon above the rookie level."
No sooner then Andrew's Digimon had said that screaming erupted throughout the streets, the reason for which was revealed right away as a giant black Digimon flew above us.
"Ask and you shall receive!" I said. "Demidevimon recognize it? He looks like a relative of yours?"
"Yeah," Demidevimon answered. "It's Devidramon, a few of them used to work for Myotismon."
"It's about time," Andrew said "It's only a Champion, so Demidevimon should be able to take care of them alone."
"Oh no!" I yelled. "It's worse than you think."
I pointed to the Devidramon who had a kid riding on his back.
"What's he doing up there?" Dokunemon asked.
"Devidramon probably snagged him up from the ground," I said. "Now there's more than one reason to send that Digimon back to the Digital world."
"Don't worry," Andrew said. "We're on it, Demidevimon it's time."
"Demidevimon Digivolved to...........................Airdramon!"
"Careful," I said you don't want to hurt the kid."
"Yeah, yeah," Andrew said climbing onto his Digimon's back. "We'll be careful."
Airdramon flared his wings and took off after the Devidramon.
I had to wheel myself pretty fast to keep up with them; Devidramon hadn't stopped in one place, he was flying at a pretty quick speed, it looked like he knew exactly where he wanted to go and was trying to get there as fast as possible, actually he didn't look confused at all like the Digimon that had attacked our town did, or the Pagumon or Kapurimon that we'd sent back to the Digital World here. Fortunately despite the speed Devidramon was flying at Airdramon was built for aerial speed and was easily keeping up. Which is less than I could say about Dokunemon and I.
"Spinning needle!" Airdramon yelled launching several needles at Devidramon.
The attack hit the giant black Digimon completely off guard and he screamed immediately stopping and turned to face Andrew and Airdramon.
"Crimson Claw!" Devidramon yelled launching a black energy beam from his claw. Airdramon used his agile aerial speed to dodge the attack.
"You've got mail," the laptop on the side of my wheelchair said.
"Great not now." I groaned. "Things were just getting good."
"Are you going to check that out?" Dokunemon asked.
"No it's probably nothing." I said.
"But you just got this laptop from Baihumon, aside from the others who else knows the address."
I sighed. "Yeah you're right."
I reached to the side my wheelchair, pulled the laptop out of the bag on attached to it, and popped it open. The e-mail came up instantly it was from Kris and read:
"Hey guys I'm sure you're all having fun around the world, but I just need to let you know something that I probably should have mentioned before, we're not the only Digidestined - well I mean aside the ones in Japan. There are actually Digidestined all over the world. I just thought I'd let you know that you should watch out for them, you might need some backup. Hopefully Jenn and I will be able to wrap things up in Italy pretty soon, expect us to pick you up in a few hours. Kris."
As I read the e-mail the current situation suddenly began to make sense, and everything kind of clicked. That kid riding Devidramon wasn't in trouble and being attacked by Devidramon, he was a Digidestined, and Devidramon was his partner.
"Uh oh," Dokunemon said after the e-mail. "You better stop Andrew and Airdramon before they hurt them."
There was a deafening crash, as I saw Airdramon hit the ground incredibly hard taking out a few cars cracking the pavement and taking a few chunks out of a few nearby buildings, while people ran screaming from the falling air serpent Digimon, luckily I don't think anyone was hurt. Devidramon must have hit him pretty hard while I wasn't looking.
"Ouch," Airdramon groaned and Devidramon landed in front of him.
"That'll teach that snake," the kid on Devidramon laughed. "Devidramon finish him off."
Devidramon pulled back his claw ready to use his next attack.
"Hold it!" I yelled as I skidded into the street between Airdramon and Andrew, and Devidramon and his partner. "Don't! We're one of you see." I held up my Digivice so he could see it.
"What?" he said. "You're Digidestined."
"Yeah," I said nodding.
"Oh, sorry about the whole slamming you into the ground thing, I didn't notice you riding on your Digimon's back. I just thought you were one of the ones attacking, but why did you attack me in the first place?"
"For the same reason," Andrew said. "We thought you were one of those Digimon, but we never intended to kill your Digimon."
Devidramon's partner hung his head. "Well it's not like I want to, but they're attacking my home what else am I supposed to do?"
"You don't understand," I said. "These Digimon aren't attacking to be destructive they're just lost and confused. We're part of the elite Digidestined, we're here to send them back home."
"Well that sounds a lot better than killing them," he said as Devidramon placed him next to me and he extended his hand. "By the way my name's John, and this is my partner Devidramon."
I took his hand and shook it. "I'm Will, and this is my partner Dokunemon. And the two that attacked you are Andrew and Airdramon."
"Nice to meet you," John said. "But as much I'd like to stay and chat we've got to go and stop those Digimon. Let's stop wasting time and go!"
"Yeah we would but where?" Andrew asked. "We don't know where the Digimon are, so far all we've seen are In-Training Digimon, aside from yours."
"That's easy," Devidramon said.
John nodded. "We saw it on the news, there where lots of monsters reporting attacking the great pyramids, we recognized them instantly as Digimon, we were on our way to stop them when we ran into you guys."
"See I told you!" Dokunemon said.
"Forget it," I said. "Let's just go, we don't have anytime to waste. Those pyramids are three thousand years old. We're going to make sure that they're up for another thousand years."
There wasn't any disagreement or hesitation, in less than a minute Devidramon and John were in the air, and Dokunemon and I were on Airdramon's back flying towards the pyramids.
We flew for a solid hour before we reached our location, the infamous great pyramids of Egypt.
"There they are," John said.
"Wow," Dokunemon said as we saw the massive pyramids appear in the surroundings.
"My sentiments exactly." I said.
John and Devidramon laughed. "Tourists." Devidramon said.
"I don't see any Digimon." Andrew said.
"Hmm," John said. "That's even worse, it means they're probably inside the pyramid doing who knows what?"
"That means we've got to go inside right?" I whined.
"I don't see how else we're going to get them." Airdramon said.
We used our Digivice's to determine which pyramid the Digimon were in, after it was determined which one it was in we circled the giant structure for about fifteen minutes before we found a small entrance. Airdramon and Devidramon landed beside it.
"Kind of a tight squeeze isn't it?" Airdramon said.
He was definitely right, the entrance was more than big enough for Dokunemon and us Digidestined to enter but Airdramon and Devidramon were way too big.
I sighed. "You four stay out here, I guess it's up to Dokunemon and I to handle the Digimon in there."
"Alone?" Andrew said. "Are you nuts? The D3 says there's at least six Digimon in there. What if they're at the Champion level?"
"I'm not going to engage in a fight," I said. "We'll just flush them out, then Dokunemon can Digivolve out here where there's room and the three of us will take them down and send them home."
"I guess there's not much we can do," John said. "So we better go in, and be careful."
"I will." I said as Airdramon lifted his tail up to the entrance and I rolled down it into the entrance like it was a ramp, and Dokunemon and I entered the pyramid.
My eyes darted wildly as I wheeled through the dark tunnel inside the pyramid, while Dokunemon lit it by wrapping his electric thread across his head creating an eerie glow, it lit the way but it only made this place creepier.
I shuddered. "This place gives me the creeps."
"It's not so bad," Dokunemon said.
"That's easy for you to say you're a worm, you like dark dirty places."
"Of course," my Digimon said. "I have a question, why did your species build these things anyway, they don't seem to have any use besides cramped endless tunnels."
"They were used as tombs," I answered. "Ancient Egyptians were preoccupied with death, they spent half their life preparing for it, and were buried in these pyramids because they believed they'd go to a peaceful rest in the afterlife."
"So there are dead people here!" Dokunemon yelled. "Okay I don't think I want to be here anymore, their spirits could still walk the place!"
I laughed. "There wouldn't be any spirits, they were buried in such a large building to prevent their spirits from wandering the earth, it's the curse you gotta worry about."
"Curse?"
"Forget it, a lot of people just think it's a really old mold that killed those people, not King Tut's curse."
"What?!"
I laughed. "Kidding, just look for anything unusual."
Dokunemon nodded, but started to become about as paranoid as I had been. I continued to follow the tunnel within the pyramid while my eyes darted at every little sound, it continued like that for about fifteen minutes.
"Hey Will?" Dokunemon said suddenly breaking the eerie silence.
"Yeah," I said not turning from the direction I was moving.
"How long ago was this built?"
"About three thousand years ago."
"Okay," he said. "Did they have Lego three thousand years ago?"
"No, they didn't have plastic three thousand years ago."
"Okay then I think I just saw something unusual."
Dokunemon shifted his light towards the side of the tunnel where we saw a small Digimon that looked similar to Tai's Digimon Agumon, except he was made entirely out of Legos, completely clear Legos to be exact.
"Is that a Digimon?" I asked.
"Yes he's a Digimon!" a kid said as he emerged from the shadows behind the Digimon.
"Uh hi," I said.
"Looks like we've just found another Egyptian Digidestined," Dokunemon said jumping off of my wheelchair and approaching the kid who looked white a few years younger than myself.
"You have a Digimon," the boy said. "So you must be Digidestined too."
"Yep that's pretty much the deal." I said wheeling over to my partner and the two new appearances. "Hi I'm will a member of the Canadian Digidestined, and this is my Digimon partner Dokunemon."
"I'm Tim," the boy said. "And this is my partner Toyagumon."
Toyagumon cautiously stepped between Tim and I; it didn't look like he trusted us too much.
"What are you doing here?" Tim's Digimon said.
"I could ask you the same question." I said.
"We saw on the news that there were Digimon around here," Tim answered. "We came to save the pyramids, and saw some of them coming in here. So we came here to stop them and...kinda got lost."
"Don't worry about that," I said. "Dokunemon and I know our way out of here, just follow us."
"But what about the Digimon!" Tim yelled. "They're still loose in the pyramid."
"Good point." I said. "First we flush them out then we leave...any idea where they are?"
"I'd say they're right below us," Dokunemon said who was looking at my Digivice.
"How'd you get that?" I asked.
"Snagged it off your waist while you were talking." He answered.
Dokunemon tossed me back my Digivice, which was in radar mode, he was right there, was about ten Digimon right below us.
"Okay, now it's just a matter of finding away to the lower level," I said.
"Or we could just wait," Toyagumon said. "Considering what kind of Digimon they are, we saw them enter the pyramid."
"Why what kind of Digimon are they?" Dokunemon asked.
Neither Tim or Toyagumon had enough time to answer as ten ghost like Digimon shot right through the floor.
"Just like we thought Toyagumon!" Tim said. "Bakemon."
The Bakemon attacked immediately one of which withdrew his claws and swung it at me.
"Electric thread!" Dokunemon yelled firing a blue glowing thread from his mouth, which wrapped around the Bakemon's wrist, then slammed it into the wall.
However the attack didn't even faze him and he attacked again.
"This is nuts!" I yelled. "We can't fight off ten Champions with two rookies."
As if that wasn't enough my D3 began to beep, after taking a quick look at it I saw a black distress signal coming from outside. "Great now on top of this we've got trouble going on outside."
"Can Dokunemon Digivolve?" Tim asked.
"Yeah," I answered. "But his Champion form is a little too big for this cramped tunnel."
"Then it looks like it's up to me," Toyagumon said.
"Yeah, this is too perfect." Tim said readying his Digivice, which was the older model that Tai and the others had.
"Toyagumon Digivolved to................Soulmon!"
Soulmon looked almost exactly like Bakemon, except he was about twice as big, and wore a huge witches hat covering his eyes he probably couldn't see if it weren't for two eye holes in the hat.
"I don't see how this is going to help!" Dokunemon said. "He's just one Champion he can't beat them."
"He doesn't have to," Tim said.
It looked like Tim knew what he was talking about; the Bakemon had suddenly stopped attacking they had lined up evenly in front of us.
"What's happening?" I asked.
Tim smiled. "You don't have a Soulmon for a partner without learning something about them and their Bakemon relatives. Bakemon have this natural instinct to follow a Soulmon leader...but one question now that we've gotten them in line what do we do with them. I mean Digimon have never been mean like this before, I don't want to hurt them."
"We don't have to," I said. "These Digimon aren't evil, and like I've explained many times before they're just lost and confused, but now that we've got them in line again it should be easy to send them back to the Digital World."
"Do you have a way to do that?" Soulmon asked. "Because it's only a matter of time before they realize that I have a Digidestined partner and decide not to follow me."
"Yeah, hurry up with that laptop will ya Will?" Dokunemon said.
I only nodded as I removed my laptop from its side pouch. "Digiport open!" I said opening the Digiport.
"Send them on in," I said. "This will send them back home to the Digital World."
"Okay boys, line up time to go home in ya go." Soulmon said motioning towards the Digiport.
The Bakemon did what their `leader' told them, and simply walked into the Digiport without any fuss.
"That was easy enough," I said keeping the Digiport open. "But now we've got to take on whatever danger my friends our dealing with outside."
"Are there more of you Canadian Digidestined here?" Tim asked.
"One," I answered. "The other one out there is a fellow Egyptian Digidestined."
"So are we going to help them or stand here all day?" Dokunemon asked.
"Right," I said. "Let's go."
We didn't hesitate, in a few seconds we were rushing through the tunnels and after about ten minutes reached the exit, where we saw Devidramon, John, Andrew and Airdramon several feet in the air looking in the opposite direction.
"That your friends?" Tim asked.
I nodded, and Tim didn't wait for me Soulmon scooped him up in his arms and flew towards my four friends.
"Dokunemon," I said.
"Yeah, yeah I know."
"Dokunemon Digivolved to....................Kuwagamon!"
Kuwagamon lifted me onto his back and we rode up and hovered alongside our three friends.
"Ah!" John yelled as he saw Kuwagamon.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Oh...it's you, is that Dokunemon?"
"That's me," Kuwagamon said.
"I'm guessing you found another Egyptian Digidestined in the pyramid?" Andrew said after seeing Tim.
"You'd assume right."
"Sorry, I was afraid." John said. "But if you looked ahead you'd see why I was."
I saw the reason for our new friends paranoia in about two seconds as I looked ahead. Coming right at us were dozens of insect Digimon Kuwagamon to be exact.
"Oh no," I said.
"That's a whole lot of Kuwagamon," Tim said.
"Okay do any of you have any ideas of how we're going to beat over a dozen Champion level Digimon?"
I smiled as an idea came into my head. "I have a perfect idea, we'll do the same thing we did in the cave."
"And that would be?" John asked.
"We use Kuwagamon the same way Tim used Soulmon." I explained. "We give them a leader to follow right into the Digiport."
"I doubt that'll work this time," Tim said. "No offense, but I don't think your Kuwagamon is much different than all those other ones what makes you think that they're going to follow him?"
"He we will be in a second, Kuwagamon you know what to do." I readied my crest as it began to glow.
"Kuwagamon Digivolved to........................Ookuwamon!"
John and Tim's mouth dropped right open as they saw Ookuwamon appear.
"Your Digimon can Digivolve to its Ultimate stage?" John said.
Andrew smiled. "We're a part of the Elite Digidestined, we have crests that allow our Digimon to Digivolve a step further. We're no dime a dozen Digidestined."
"And like you Tim I've been around Ookuwamon and Kuwagamon enough to know that like Bakemon, Kuwagamon will either follow one of the largest Kuwagamon, or an Ookuwamon. So we don't even have to put up much of a fight."
"What are you wasting time telling us about it?" Devidramon yelled. "Just do it."
"Uh yeah, right." I said. "You guys stay back here
Ookuwamon flew forward straight at the giant swarm of Kuwagamon stopping somewhere between our friends and the swarm, while I held up the still open Digiport.
"Okay boys, time to wrap up this invasion of Earth and go home," he said copying Soulmon. "In you go into the Digiport."
For some reason the Kuwagamon swarm didn't react in the least, they didn't line up and listen like the Bakemon had they just continued to fly forward in attack formation.
"Uh Will they're not listening." Ookuwamon said.
"I noticed! Try it again."
"Okay boys jokes over, now all of you line up single file and into the Digiport."
The swarm still didn't listen; they only continued to fly straight at us keeping their attack formation.
"Why isn't this working?!" I yelled. "They're supposed to listen to an Ookuwamon. Which you are, could they be revolting?"
"Hey watch it those are my relatives there," Ookuwamon yelled.
"I didn't mean that kind of revolting!" I yelled. "I mean rebelling!"
"I know that, just thought I'd try a lame joke to loosen the tense mood."
"This is not the time for jokes! Do you see any reason for them not to listen to you?"
We weren't given another second to figure it out, without warning the Kuwagamon swarm split into two groups revealing that there was a Digimon behind them, an Ookuwamon! As the look alike of my Digimon flew ahead of the Kuwagamon the two groups merged into one again. Making everything clear.
Ookuwamon immediately backed off and we now flew beside our six friends again.
"Oh great plan Will!" Andrew yelled. "It would have worked perfectly too...if they didn't already have a leader!"
"Okay now that idea's down the toilet," Tim said. "Anyone got any other ideas."
"I say we take them down the old fashion way!" Airdramon yelled.
"You read my mind buddy," Andrew said as he readied his crest. "You read my mind."
"Airdramon Digivolved to......................Gigadramon!"
"Do you really think it we're going to be enough to stop all of them?" Soulmon asked.
"Got any better ideas?" Andrew said.
"I guess not."
"Okay here's the plan," I said. "Ookuwamon and I will deal with the leader. The rest of you handle the swarm, and Andrew take this." I tossed Andrew the laptop/Digiport. "If you weaken one of the Kuwagamon even the slightest use it to send them back."
"You're starting to scare me," Andrew said. "You sound like Kris."
Not knowing whether to take that past remark a san insult or a compliment Ookuwamon and I charged forward straight at the leader of the swarm, Ookuwamon.
"Double scissor claw!" My Digimon yelled launching his attack at the lead insect Digimon.
He didn't expect any attack thus didn't have any time to dodge, and took the attack in his midsection sending the Digimon crashing into the sandy ground.
The Kuwagamon swarm grew angry at us for attacking their leader and flew towards at us even faster than they were before.
"Giga missile!" Gigadramon yelled as his missile crashed into the center of the swarm.
Most of them had managed to doge it but five or six had been hit and weakened. Andrew and Gigadramon took total advantage of their weakened state, and following my instructions swooped in and sucked the five weakened Kuwagamon into the Digiport.
"What are you waiting for?" Andrew said. "We're doing our share now deal with the Ookuwamon."
I nodded and Ookuwamon dove towards the ground where the other Ookuwamon was just now pulling his face out of the sand.
He shot up from the ground his incisors snapping at us, Ookuwamon quickly swooped up just avoiding the second Ookuwamon's deadly incisors.
"Double Scissor claw!"
"Double Scissor claw!"
Both attacks were launched from the stag beetle Digimon, and both collided canceling each other out. The other Ookuwamon then launched a physical attack on my Okuwamon throwing his upper arms at my Ookuwamon's head, my Ookuwamon countered by catching his upper arms in his own. They both planted their feet firmly on the ground attempting to overpower each other. My Ookuwamon attempted an attack with his incisors, but the other Ookuwamon only countered with his own encounters, now they were trying to overpower each other in two ways, neither of them seemed to be gaining any ground.
A pair of wings began to flutter, at this point I couldn't even tell who's wings they were, the enemy's, or my Ookuwamon's, but soon a second pair began to flutter and we were now trying to overpower each other in the air, but still neither of them were managing to win.
"Come on Ookuwamon you've got to break this stalemate!"
"I can't," Ookuwamon said. "He's just as powerful as I am."
"Not quite," I said. "You're a Digidestined's Digimon which makes you much stronger."
"Then care to give me a hand?"
"My pleasure," I said removing my D3 from my waist.
I held it in front of me it reacted immediately, shooting out a beam of light. It wasn't strong enough to hurt the other Ookuwamon but it was enough to blind him.
"Raaah!" the enemy Ookuwamon yelled throwing his head back trying to avoid the blinding light.
With his incisors no longer blocking him Ookuwamon struck clamping his own incisors around the enemy's neck. Taking advantage of his newly acquired dominance Ookuwamon swung the enemy over his head and slammed him into the ground - hard! He wouldn't be getting up for a while.
"Andrew!" I yelled looking up to Andrew and the Egyptian Digidestined who had just sucked the final Kuwagamon into the Digiport.
"Yeah," he said.
"We've got one final passenger to transport to the Digiworld!" I yelled pointing at the weakened Ookuwamon.
"On it," my teammate said.
Gigadramon dove towards the ground swooping upwards just as he came level to the ground and sucked up the Ultimate level stag beetle into the Digiport as they flew by.
We cheered as we all landed on the ground.
"I believe that's all of them," John said looking at his Digivice.
I did the same, he was right, it now indicated only four Digimon in the area, and those were ours.
"Looks like our job in Egypt is done," I said. "All we've got to do now is wait for Kris and Armyleomon to swing by and bring us home, but that shouldn't be for another couple of hours."
"Any ideas of what we can do until then?" Andrew asked.
Tim and John both smiled.
"How about we show you the sights of Cairo," Tim said. "You'll find it's a lot more interesting when you're not fighting off giant ghosts and insects."
"Great!" I said. "It would be nice to relax for once."
"We just got a boring month to relax," Andrew said. "I actually missed the fights."
"Hurry up!" John yelled. He, Devidramon, Soulmon, and Tim were already on their way back to Cairo.
I sighed. "You're starting to sound like Dan, come on we a better catch up."
Ookuwamon took to the air beginning to follow our two new Egyptian friends. Gigadramon followed, this was going to be great, enjoying Egyptian sites, and we were finally earning a well-deserved rest.
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Gasp two down... so if I'm on Chapter 43 now that means there's seven Chapters left and an Epilogue...getting closer and closer to the end. Oh and to answer the question to all of you who are asking if there's going to be a question.... maybe. I can't ruin the surprise just yet, you'll find out in my final author's notes. Sorry but I can't tell you just yet, I haven't decided yet. Next Chapter should be out...hmm-early next week. Maybe even over the weekend, I'm not going to make any promises though. Kenny, and Shawn, your up next!
Stay tuned for Chapter 44: Mission Three England
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Chapter 43: Mission Two Egypt
Will
"Why did we have to get stuck with Egypt," Demidevimon whined. "It's so incredibly hot here, I bet none of the others are boiling right now."
I rolled my eyes. "Weren't you just complaining about how cold it was in Canada a few days ago?"
"That's because it was cold, what's your point?"
I sighed and continued to search my surroundings, which was now the city of Cairo, it hadn't taken us long to get out of the desert and into the city.
"He's right though," Andrew said. "We probably could have picked a better location, we haven't exactly seen a lot of action here, and we've been here for hours."
Andrew was right about that, we'd been wondering the streets of Cairo, and watching the radar of our Digivices for hours, we'd had a few encounters but they were only with a few Pagumon and Kapurimon, but they were only In-Training Digimon and they were easily defeated and sent to the Digital World with no trouble whatsoever nothing serious yet."
"Maybe we should get out of town and check out the pyramids and the sphinx," Dokunemon - who was perched on the back of my wheelchair - said.
"We're not here to sight see Dokunemon," I said. "This is a business trip not a vacation."
"There could be Digimon there."
"Let's make sure there we clear out any Digimon in the city first," I said.
"That could take a while," Andrew said. "Cairo isn't exactly a small city."
"And so far it's boring," Demidevimon said. "I wish we would see at least one Digimon above the rookie level."
No sooner then Andrew's Digimon had said that screaming erupted throughout the streets, the reason for which was revealed right away as a giant black Digimon flew above us.
"Ask and you shall receive!" I said. "Demidevimon recognize it? He looks like a relative of yours?"
"Yeah," Demidevimon answered. "It's Devidramon, a few of them used to work for Myotismon."
"It's about time," Andrew said "It's only a Champion, so Demidevimon should be able to take care of them alone."
"Oh no!" I yelled. "It's worse than you think."
I pointed to the Devidramon who had a kid riding on his back.
"What's he doing up there?" Dokunemon asked.
"Devidramon probably snagged him up from the ground," I said. "Now there's more than one reason to send that Digimon back to the Digital world."
"Don't worry," Andrew said. "We're on it, Demidevimon it's time."
"Demidevimon Digivolved to...........................Airdramon!"
"Careful," I said you don't want to hurt the kid."
"Yeah, yeah," Andrew said climbing onto his Digimon's back. "We'll be careful."
Airdramon flared his wings and took off after the Devidramon.
I had to wheel myself pretty fast to keep up with them; Devidramon hadn't stopped in one place, he was flying at a pretty quick speed, it looked like he knew exactly where he wanted to go and was trying to get there as fast as possible, actually he didn't look confused at all like the Digimon that had attacked our town did, or the Pagumon or Kapurimon that we'd sent back to the Digital World here. Fortunately despite the speed Devidramon was flying at Airdramon was built for aerial speed and was easily keeping up. Which is less than I could say about Dokunemon and I.
"Spinning needle!" Airdramon yelled launching several needles at Devidramon.
The attack hit the giant black Digimon completely off guard and he screamed immediately stopping and turned to face Andrew and Airdramon.
"Crimson Claw!" Devidramon yelled launching a black energy beam from his claw. Airdramon used his agile aerial speed to dodge the attack.
"You've got mail," the laptop on the side of my wheelchair said.
"Great not now." I groaned. "Things were just getting good."
"Are you going to check that out?" Dokunemon asked.
"No it's probably nothing." I said.
"But you just got this laptop from Baihumon, aside from the others who else knows the address."
I sighed. "Yeah you're right."
I reached to the side my wheelchair, pulled the laptop out of the bag on attached to it, and popped it open. The e-mail came up instantly it was from Kris and read:
"Hey guys I'm sure you're all having fun around the world, but I just need to let you know something that I probably should have mentioned before, we're not the only Digidestined - well I mean aside the ones in Japan. There are actually Digidestined all over the world. I just thought I'd let you know that you should watch out for them, you might need some backup. Hopefully Jenn and I will be able to wrap things up in Italy pretty soon, expect us to pick you up in a few hours. Kris."
As I read the e-mail the current situation suddenly began to make sense, and everything kind of clicked. That kid riding Devidramon wasn't in trouble and being attacked by Devidramon, he was a Digidestined, and Devidramon was his partner.
"Uh oh," Dokunemon said after the e-mail. "You better stop Andrew and Airdramon before they hurt them."
There was a deafening crash, as I saw Airdramon hit the ground incredibly hard taking out a few cars cracking the pavement and taking a few chunks out of a few nearby buildings, while people ran screaming from the falling air serpent Digimon, luckily I don't think anyone was hurt. Devidramon must have hit him pretty hard while I wasn't looking.
"Ouch," Airdramon groaned and Devidramon landed in front of him.
"That'll teach that snake," the kid on Devidramon laughed. "Devidramon finish him off."
Devidramon pulled back his claw ready to use his next attack.
"Hold it!" I yelled as I skidded into the street between Airdramon and Andrew, and Devidramon and his partner. "Don't! We're one of you see." I held up my Digivice so he could see it.
"What?" he said. "You're Digidestined."
"Yeah," I said nodding.
"Oh, sorry about the whole slamming you into the ground thing, I didn't notice you riding on your Digimon's back. I just thought you were one of the ones attacking, but why did you attack me in the first place?"
"For the same reason," Andrew said. "We thought you were one of those Digimon, but we never intended to kill your Digimon."
Devidramon's partner hung his head. "Well it's not like I want to, but they're attacking my home what else am I supposed to do?"
"You don't understand," I said. "These Digimon aren't attacking to be destructive they're just lost and confused. We're part of the elite Digidestined, we're here to send them back home."
"Well that sounds a lot better than killing them," he said as Devidramon placed him next to me and he extended his hand. "By the way my name's John, and this is my partner Devidramon."
I took his hand and shook it. "I'm Will, and this is my partner Dokunemon. And the two that attacked you are Andrew and Airdramon."
"Nice to meet you," John said. "But as much I'd like to stay and chat we've got to go and stop those Digimon. Let's stop wasting time and go!"
"Yeah we would but where?" Andrew asked. "We don't know where the Digimon are, so far all we've seen are In-Training Digimon, aside from yours."
"That's easy," Devidramon said.
John nodded. "We saw it on the news, there where lots of monsters reporting attacking the great pyramids, we recognized them instantly as Digimon, we were on our way to stop them when we ran into you guys."
"See I told you!" Dokunemon said.
"Forget it," I said. "Let's just go, we don't have anytime to waste. Those pyramids are three thousand years old. We're going to make sure that they're up for another thousand years."
There wasn't any disagreement or hesitation, in less than a minute Devidramon and John were in the air, and Dokunemon and I were on Airdramon's back flying towards the pyramids.
We flew for a solid hour before we reached our location, the infamous great pyramids of Egypt.
"There they are," John said.
"Wow," Dokunemon said as we saw the massive pyramids appear in the surroundings.
"My sentiments exactly." I said.
John and Devidramon laughed. "Tourists." Devidramon said.
"I don't see any Digimon." Andrew said.
"Hmm," John said. "That's even worse, it means they're probably inside the pyramid doing who knows what?"
"That means we've got to go inside right?" I whined.
"I don't see how else we're going to get them." Airdramon said.
We used our Digivice's to determine which pyramid the Digimon were in, after it was determined which one it was in we circled the giant structure for about fifteen minutes before we found a small entrance. Airdramon and Devidramon landed beside it.
"Kind of a tight squeeze isn't it?" Airdramon said.
He was definitely right, the entrance was more than big enough for Dokunemon and us Digidestined to enter but Airdramon and Devidramon were way too big.
I sighed. "You four stay out here, I guess it's up to Dokunemon and I to handle the Digimon in there."
"Alone?" Andrew said. "Are you nuts? The D3 says there's at least six Digimon in there. What if they're at the Champion level?"
"I'm not going to engage in a fight," I said. "We'll just flush them out, then Dokunemon can Digivolve out here where there's room and the three of us will take them down and send them home."
"I guess there's not much we can do," John said. "So we better go in, and be careful."
"I will." I said as Airdramon lifted his tail up to the entrance and I rolled down it into the entrance like it was a ramp, and Dokunemon and I entered the pyramid.
My eyes darted wildly as I wheeled through the dark tunnel inside the pyramid, while Dokunemon lit it by wrapping his electric thread across his head creating an eerie glow, it lit the way but it only made this place creepier.
I shuddered. "This place gives me the creeps."
"It's not so bad," Dokunemon said.
"That's easy for you to say you're a worm, you like dark dirty places."
"Of course," my Digimon said. "I have a question, why did your species build these things anyway, they don't seem to have any use besides cramped endless tunnels."
"They were used as tombs," I answered. "Ancient Egyptians were preoccupied with death, they spent half their life preparing for it, and were buried in these pyramids because they believed they'd go to a peaceful rest in the afterlife."
"So there are dead people here!" Dokunemon yelled. "Okay I don't think I want to be here anymore, their spirits could still walk the place!"
I laughed. "There wouldn't be any spirits, they were buried in such a large building to prevent their spirits from wandering the earth, it's the curse you gotta worry about."
"Curse?"
"Forget it, a lot of people just think it's a really old mold that killed those people, not King Tut's curse."
"What?!"
I laughed. "Kidding, just look for anything unusual."
Dokunemon nodded, but started to become about as paranoid as I had been. I continued to follow the tunnel within the pyramid while my eyes darted at every little sound, it continued like that for about fifteen minutes.
"Hey Will?" Dokunemon said suddenly breaking the eerie silence.
"Yeah," I said not turning from the direction I was moving.
"How long ago was this built?"
"About three thousand years ago."
"Okay," he said. "Did they have Lego three thousand years ago?"
"No, they didn't have plastic three thousand years ago."
"Okay then I think I just saw something unusual."
Dokunemon shifted his light towards the side of the tunnel where we saw a small Digimon that looked similar to Tai's Digimon Agumon, except he was made entirely out of Legos, completely clear Legos to be exact.
"Is that a Digimon?" I asked.
"Yes he's a Digimon!" a kid said as he emerged from the shadows behind the Digimon.
"Uh hi," I said.
"Looks like we've just found another Egyptian Digidestined," Dokunemon said jumping off of my wheelchair and approaching the kid who looked white a few years younger than myself.
"You have a Digimon," the boy said. "So you must be Digidestined too."
"Yep that's pretty much the deal." I said wheeling over to my partner and the two new appearances. "Hi I'm will a member of the Canadian Digidestined, and this is my Digimon partner Dokunemon."
"I'm Tim," the boy said. "And this is my partner Toyagumon."
Toyagumon cautiously stepped between Tim and I; it didn't look like he trusted us too much.
"What are you doing here?" Tim's Digimon said.
"I could ask you the same question." I said.
"We saw on the news that there were Digimon around here," Tim answered. "We came to save the pyramids, and saw some of them coming in here. So we came here to stop them and...kinda got lost."
"Don't worry about that," I said. "Dokunemon and I know our way out of here, just follow us."
"But what about the Digimon!" Tim yelled. "They're still loose in the pyramid."
"Good point." I said. "First we flush them out then we leave...any idea where they are?"
"I'd say they're right below us," Dokunemon said who was looking at my Digivice.
"How'd you get that?" I asked.
"Snagged it off your waist while you were talking." He answered.
Dokunemon tossed me back my Digivice, which was in radar mode, he was right there, was about ten Digimon right below us.
"Okay, now it's just a matter of finding away to the lower level," I said.
"Or we could just wait," Toyagumon said. "Considering what kind of Digimon they are, we saw them enter the pyramid."
"Why what kind of Digimon are they?" Dokunemon asked.
Neither Tim or Toyagumon had enough time to answer as ten ghost like Digimon shot right through the floor.
"Just like we thought Toyagumon!" Tim said. "Bakemon."
The Bakemon attacked immediately one of which withdrew his claws and swung it at me.
"Electric thread!" Dokunemon yelled firing a blue glowing thread from his mouth, which wrapped around the Bakemon's wrist, then slammed it into the wall.
However the attack didn't even faze him and he attacked again.
"This is nuts!" I yelled. "We can't fight off ten Champions with two rookies."
As if that wasn't enough my D3 began to beep, after taking a quick look at it I saw a black distress signal coming from outside. "Great now on top of this we've got trouble going on outside."
"Can Dokunemon Digivolve?" Tim asked.
"Yeah," I answered. "But his Champion form is a little too big for this cramped tunnel."
"Then it looks like it's up to me," Toyagumon said.
"Yeah, this is too perfect." Tim said readying his Digivice, which was the older model that Tai and the others had.
"Toyagumon Digivolved to................Soulmon!"
Soulmon looked almost exactly like Bakemon, except he was about twice as big, and wore a huge witches hat covering his eyes he probably couldn't see if it weren't for two eye holes in the hat.
"I don't see how this is going to help!" Dokunemon said. "He's just one Champion he can't beat them."
"He doesn't have to," Tim said.
It looked like Tim knew what he was talking about; the Bakemon had suddenly stopped attacking they had lined up evenly in front of us.
"What's happening?" I asked.
Tim smiled. "You don't have a Soulmon for a partner without learning something about them and their Bakemon relatives. Bakemon have this natural instinct to follow a Soulmon leader...but one question now that we've gotten them in line what do we do with them. I mean Digimon have never been mean like this before, I don't want to hurt them."
"We don't have to," I said. "These Digimon aren't evil, and like I've explained many times before they're just lost and confused, but now that we've got them in line again it should be easy to send them back to the Digital World."
"Do you have a way to do that?" Soulmon asked. "Because it's only a matter of time before they realize that I have a Digidestined partner and decide not to follow me."
"Yeah, hurry up with that laptop will ya Will?" Dokunemon said.
I only nodded as I removed my laptop from its side pouch. "Digiport open!" I said opening the Digiport.
"Send them on in," I said. "This will send them back home to the Digital World."
"Okay boys, line up time to go home in ya go." Soulmon said motioning towards the Digiport.
The Bakemon did what their `leader' told them, and simply walked into the Digiport without any fuss.
"That was easy enough," I said keeping the Digiport open. "But now we've got to take on whatever danger my friends our dealing with outside."
"Are there more of you Canadian Digidestined here?" Tim asked.
"One," I answered. "The other one out there is a fellow Egyptian Digidestined."
"So are we going to help them or stand here all day?" Dokunemon asked.
"Right," I said. "Let's go."
We didn't hesitate, in a few seconds we were rushing through the tunnels and after about ten minutes reached the exit, where we saw Devidramon, John, Andrew and Airdramon several feet in the air looking in the opposite direction.
"That your friends?" Tim asked.
I nodded, and Tim didn't wait for me Soulmon scooped him up in his arms and flew towards my four friends.
"Dokunemon," I said.
"Yeah, yeah I know."
"Dokunemon Digivolved to....................Kuwagamon!"
Kuwagamon lifted me onto his back and we rode up and hovered alongside our three friends.
"Ah!" John yelled as he saw Kuwagamon.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Oh...it's you, is that Dokunemon?"
"That's me," Kuwagamon said.
"I'm guessing you found another Egyptian Digidestined in the pyramid?" Andrew said after seeing Tim.
"You'd assume right."
"Sorry, I was afraid." John said. "But if you looked ahead you'd see why I was."
I saw the reason for our new friends paranoia in about two seconds as I looked ahead. Coming right at us were dozens of insect Digimon Kuwagamon to be exact.
"Oh no," I said.
"That's a whole lot of Kuwagamon," Tim said.
"Okay do any of you have any ideas of how we're going to beat over a dozen Champion level Digimon?"
I smiled as an idea came into my head. "I have a perfect idea, we'll do the same thing we did in the cave."
"And that would be?" John asked.
"We use Kuwagamon the same way Tim used Soulmon." I explained. "We give them a leader to follow right into the Digiport."
"I doubt that'll work this time," Tim said. "No offense, but I don't think your Kuwagamon is much different than all those other ones what makes you think that they're going to follow him?"
"He we will be in a second, Kuwagamon you know what to do." I readied my crest as it began to glow.
"Kuwagamon Digivolved to........................Ookuwamon!"
John and Tim's mouth dropped right open as they saw Ookuwamon appear.
"Your Digimon can Digivolve to its Ultimate stage?" John said.
Andrew smiled. "We're a part of the Elite Digidestined, we have crests that allow our Digimon to Digivolve a step further. We're no dime a dozen Digidestined."
"And like you Tim I've been around Ookuwamon and Kuwagamon enough to know that like Bakemon, Kuwagamon will either follow one of the largest Kuwagamon, or an Ookuwamon. So we don't even have to put up much of a fight."
"What are you wasting time telling us about it?" Devidramon yelled. "Just do it."
"Uh yeah, right." I said. "You guys stay back here
Ookuwamon flew forward straight at the giant swarm of Kuwagamon stopping somewhere between our friends and the swarm, while I held up the still open Digiport.
"Okay boys, time to wrap up this invasion of Earth and go home," he said copying Soulmon. "In you go into the Digiport."
For some reason the Kuwagamon swarm didn't react in the least, they didn't line up and listen like the Bakemon had they just continued to fly forward in attack formation.
"Uh Will they're not listening." Ookuwamon said.
"I noticed! Try it again."
"Okay boys jokes over, now all of you line up single file and into the Digiport."
The swarm still didn't listen; they only continued to fly straight at us keeping their attack formation.
"Why isn't this working?!" I yelled. "They're supposed to listen to an Ookuwamon. Which you are, could they be revolting?"
"Hey watch it those are my relatives there," Ookuwamon yelled.
"I didn't mean that kind of revolting!" I yelled. "I mean rebelling!"
"I know that, just thought I'd try a lame joke to loosen the tense mood."
"This is not the time for jokes! Do you see any reason for them not to listen to you?"
We weren't given another second to figure it out, without warning the Kuwagamon swarm split into two groups revealing that there was a Digimon behind them, an Ookuwamon! As the look alike of my Digimon flew ahead of the Kuwagamon the two groups merged into one again. Making everything clear.
Ookuwamon immediately backed off and we now flew beside our six friends again.
"Oh great plan Will!" Andrew yelled. "It would have worked perfectly too...if they didn't already have a leader!"
"Okay now that idea's down the toilet," Tim said. "Anyone got any other ideas."
"I say we take them down the old fashion way!" Airdramon yelled.
"You read my mind buddy," Andrew said as he readied his crest. "You read my mind."
"Airdramon Digivolved to......................Gigadramon!"
"Do you really think it we're going to be enough to stop all of them?" Soulmon asked.
"Got any better ideas?" Andrew said.
"I guess not."
"Okay here's the plan," I said. "Ookuwamon and I will deal with the leader. The rest of you handle the swarm, and Andrew take this." I tossed Andrew the laptop/Digiport. "If you weaken one of the Kuwagamon even the slightest use it to send them back."
"You're starting to scare me," Andrew said. "You sound like Kris."
Not knowing whether to take that past remark a san insult or a compliment Ookuwamon and I charged forward straight at the leader of the swarm, Ookuwamon.
"Double scissor claw!" My Digimon yelled launching his attack at the lead insect Digimon.
He didn't expect any attack thus didn't have any time to dodge, and took the attack in his midsection sending the Digimon crashing into the sandy ground.
The Kuwagamon swarm grew angry at us for attacking their leader and flew towards at us even faster than they were before.
"Giga missile!" Gigadramon yelled as his missile crashed into the center of the swarm.
Most of them had managed to doge it but five or six had been hit and weakened. Andrew and Gigadramon took total advantage of their weakened state, and following my instructions swooped in and sucked the five weakened Kuwagamon into the Digiport.
"What are you waiting for?" Andrew said. "We're doing our share now deal with the Ookuwamon."
I nodded and Ookuwamon dove towards the ground where the other Ookuwamon was just now pulling his face out of the sand.
He shot up from the ground his incisors snapping at us, Ookuwamon quickly swooped up just avoiding the second Ookuwamon's deadly incisors.
"Double Scissor claw!"
"Double Scissor claw!"
Both attacks were launched from the stag beetle Digimon, and both collided canceling each other out. The other Ookuwamon then launched a physical attack on my Okuwamon throwing his upper arms at my Ookuwamon's head, my Ookuwamon countered by catching his upper arms in his own. They both planted their feet firmly on the ground attempting to overpower each other. My Ookuwamon attempted an attack with his incisors, but the other Ookuwamon only countered with his own encounters, now they were trying to overpower each other in two ways, neither of them seemed to be gaining any ground.
A pair of wings began to flutter, at this point I couldn't even tell who's wings they were, the enemy's, or my Ookuwamon's, but soon a second pair began to flutter and we were now trying to overpower each other in the air, but still neither of them were managing to win.
"Come on Ookuwamon you've got to break this stalemate!"
"I can't," Ookuwamon said. "He's just as powerful as I am."
"Not quite," I said. "You're a Digidestined's Digimon which makes you much stronger."
"Then care to give me a hand?"
"My pleasure," I said removing my D3 from my waist.
I held it in front of me it reacted immediately, shooting out a beam of light. It wasn't strong enough to hurt the other Ookuwamon but it was enough to blind him.
"Raaah!" the enemy Ookuwamon yelled throwing his head back trying to avoid the blinding light.
With his incisors no longer blocking him Ookuwamon struck clamping his own incisors around the enemy's neck. Taking advantage of his newly acquired dominance Ookuwamon swung the enemy over his head and slammed him into the ground - hard! He wouldn't be getting up for a while.
"Andrew!" I yelled looking up to Andrew and the Egyptian Digidestined who had just sucked the final Kuwagamon into the Digiport.
"Yeah," he said.
"We've got one final passenger to transport to the Digiworld!" I yelled pointing at the weakened Ookuwamon.
"On it," my teammate said.
Gigadramon dove towards the ground swooping upwards just as he came level to the ground and sucked up the Ultimate level stag beetle into the Digiport as they flew by.
We cheered as we all landed on the ground.
"I believe that's all of them," John said looking at his Digivice.
I did the same, he was right, it now indicated only four Digimon in the area, and those were ours.
"Looks like our job in Egypt is done," I said. "All we've got to do now is wait for Kris and Armyleomon to swing by and bring us home, but that shouldn't be for another couple of hours."
"Any ideas of what we can do until then?" Andrew asked.
Tim and John both smiled.
"How about we show you the sights of Cairo," Tim said. "You'll find it's a lot more interesting when you're not fighting off giant ghosts and insects."
"Great!" I said. "It would be nice to relax for once."
"We just got a boring month to relax," Andrew said. "I actually missed the fights."
"Hurry up!" John yelled. He, Devidramon, Soulmon, and Tim were already on their way back to Cairo.
I sighed. "You're starting to sound like Dan, come on we a better catch up."
Ookuwamon took to the air beginning to follow our two new Egyptian friends. Gigadramon followed, this was going to be great, enjoying Egyptian sites, and we were finally earning a well-deserved rest.
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Gasp two down... so if I'm on Chapter 43 now that means there's seven Chapters left and an Epilogue...getting closer and closer to the end. Oh and to answer the question to all of you who are asking if there's going to be a question.... maybe. I can't ruin the surprise just yet, you'll find out in my final author's notes. Sorry but I can't tell you just yet, I haven't decided yet. Next Chapter should be out...hmm-early next week. Maybe even over the weekend, I'm not going to make any promises though. Kenny, and Shawn, your up next!
Stay tuned for Chapter 44: Mission Three England