"You don't believe me do you?" Sora said her ruby blood eyes staring straight at him.

"I'm sorry but I can't." Matt said as he quickly looked away avoiding Sora's eyes

Suddenly the portal burst open revealing General Xiou with a group of M.I.F agents.

"Sir!" Matt said at the sudden arrival.

"Yamato! Sora! Get ready, we've just received a call from the kidnappers," General Xiou said, "And they don't sound like they going to co-operate with us any longer. We're going to have to do the exchange now."

The crew move out of the infirmary.

"Where is the exchange going to take place?" Yamato asked as they moved towards the airdrome.

"Unknown. But you two are going to Area 40000 at the Semenanjung of Malaysia." General Xiou exclaimed, "After that you will receive new orders from the kidnapper to the location of the exchange."

"Here," Lieutenant Affleck said handing to Yamato and Sora an emblem. "Stick it to your body, it's a homing device."

Yamato glance over at Sora who was sticking the emblem to the side of her navel. Sora's word kept ringing in his ear.

You don't believe me do you?

 

It was too much for him. Toru sensei was like a mentor to him and what Sora just told him was something he himself wouldn't accept.

He placed his hand on the sphere and the pod opened. Matt went in. He offered his hand to Sora to help her in, but what he got was a defiant look of anger from her as she entered the pod without his help.

"Sora, Yamato good luck. You're our only hope right now." General Xiou said as the pod closed and started to hover to the air.

Sora was quiet throughout the journey. 'Why wouldn't he believe?'

She looked up to see that Yamato was staring at her through the reflection from the glass.

"Sora, can we forget about it for a while," Matt said still looking at her. "I-We need to concentrate, Tai needs us."

Sora stared back. She showed no respond, and then she leaned back to her seat looked away from Yamato and stared at the view outside.

"Ok," She said flatly.

Beep

Beep

Beep

You have and incoming call from Commander Hikaru Utada

"Receive Call," Yamato said as he placed a head piece on his head, "Commander Utada what is it?"

"I've ran a check up on Toru-sensei, Kaoru-sensei and Hideaki-sensei," Commander Utada exclaimed thrilled, "These guys has a record of being one of the most wanted terrorist by the OIC, they've been up to bad things like conspiracy of creating biologically engineered Digimon's and that doppelganger are one of their masterpiece work."

"Are you sure Utada?" Matt asks to confirm.

"I'm sure alright, that's why I'm in penitentiary right now." Commander Utada exclaimed agitated.

"What?! But who asks you to…" Yamato said before he could he finish.

Sora head peered from behind his seat.

"I did." Sora said, "Sorry Utada, to get into so much trouble." She apologized.

"It's ok," Commander Utada said, "They used me as well and I'm not gonna just let them get away with it!"

"Here's the proof, I placed a bug inside the Infirmary before I left and I… Kami-sama shit!" Commander Utada screamed.

"Utada! What's going on!?" Yamato yelled as she was yanked from the screen by someone.

"Captain whatever you do! Don't go to Semenanjung of Mala-"

Transmission Disabled

"What happened?!" Sora asks him

"Something not good…" Yamato said as he pulled the headpiece off.

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"Tsk… Tsk… you're being a bad soldier lately Commander Hikaru," Toru-sensei said as he took out an instrument from a case. "Now I might just have to make you behave." He said evilly before inserting the instrument into Hikaru's neck.

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  Inside the aircraft

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We are reaching the Semenanjung of Malaysia in 2 minutes

"Computer land at area code 40000," Matt commanded.

Location founded

Preparing to land

Aircraft have landed.

"Aren't you going to take Hikaru's warning?!" Sora questioned him

"I know… but we still need to save Tai." Yamato answered.

"But what if it's a trap? What if Taichi's not even with them!" Sora tried to persuade.

"You may have proof something but I still wouldn't believe that Toru-sensei would have anything to do with it." Yamato said stating his point before exiting the pod.

Sora followed his lead.

"Yamato wait!" Sora called stopping him by the shoulder. And what she felt was something inhuman. His shoulder was cold and hard, just like…

"Metal," Yamato continued as if reading her mind. "I lost it during a fight with a doppelganger when Tai was kidnapped."

"Toru-sensei helped me by creating this bio-android arm." Matt mouthed slowly each word was painful to him. "He gave me a chance to reimburse myself for letting Taichi get captured."

Sora slowly let go of Yamato's shoulder. "I understand," Sora said. And for the first time, she turned around and smiled.

Matt stood their dumbfounded by the brightness that radiates from her smile.

"Now let's go and save Tai."

Both of them ran into the forest the place was a jungle. But it was quiet, too quiet. They continued exploring searching for the hint the kidnappers left.

Matt held out his PGA. "Computer. Scan this area for any trace of abnormal activities."

"Found anything yet?" Sora inquired.

"Nothing," Matt said sounding a little frustrated. "I think we've been trick." Matt said.

"I think not," Sora said as she looked at her crest giving out an radiant glow, hovering slightly higher than her face as if pulling her towards someplace. She moved slowly than moving a little bit faster to catch up with the crest. Matt ran behind her.

"Sora wait! We are going towards a lava flow!" Matt warned.

But somehow Sora wouldn't stop. She felt like she could trust this feeling.

Sora was one a step away from the blistering liquid. Matt leaps forward and holds her protectively covering her. He was bracing to feel the liquid eating his body when to his surprise didn't come. A sphere-like shield was casing them preventing the liquid from burning them.

They sunk deeper and deeper into the lava. The magnificent color of the lava enhancing Sora's ruby blood eyes and fiery red hair, she looked like the fire goddess he often heard in fairytales.

The current of the flowing lava seemingly pushed them toward oblivion.

"Where are we heading?" Sora asked, she looked scared but she was determined.

"I don't know." Matt answered, hoping that they would find something soon.

 M.I.F Headquarters

"General Xiou we lost their signal." Lieutenant Affleck said.

General Xiou looked up at the screen, "It's up to you, son." General Xiou whispered.

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"I can't contact headquarters," Matt said as he literally drops the PGA to the bottom of the sphere.

Matt slides down to the floor, when his hand felt something hot. The sphere was leaking, He looked up to Sora to find her flickering like a candle that's about to blown out.

"Sora!" Matt called out, "Sora! Can you hear me?"

Her body ached all over. The pain was unbearable, it was like having all of her energy being suck out from inch of her flesh. Tears started to fall down from her face.

'I can't give up… Not when we've already gotten this far.'

In a distance she could hear voices, calling out her name.

"Who?" Sora managed to murmur softly before she plummeted to the floor.

The lava burst through the sphere. Yamato quickly hugged Sora weak body to cover her. Matt's eyes winced as he felt his hand being eaten away by the lava. Then everything went black.