Chapter 45: Spy vs. Spy
"You didn't anticipate the woman's water attack."
"We've never had any contact with that digimon before."
"Perhaps…and, on the other hand, you got us the exact specimen we wanted." The sub-major looked over at Tina, unconscious and sitting on a folding chair in the command center. "All-in-all, I'd say this mission had a substantially greater degree of success than failure. You must---" There was a loud whistle from Tina's direction that cut the sub-major off in mid sentence. "Wha---?" A barrage of white beams flew out at him and the others in the room.
Seeing his victims were unconscious, Joey let out a loud snort. "Joey no let Linonian agazriitato have Tina!"
Joey looked back up at Tina. He jumped up to Tina's face and began hopping on it. "Tina wake up! Tina wake up!" Joey demanded.
Tina grunted a few times, then opened her eyes and looked. "…Joey?"
"Joey think Linonian agazriitato got Tina."
"…Agazriitato? What're you talking about?"
"Sleeping guys." Joey looked at the unconscious Linonian guards and scientists to point them out.
Tina knelt down next to one. "These…are agazriitato?"
"Yep-yep!"
"Then…wait a sec, how do you know?"
"Joey's family and guys fight with Linonian agazriitato long time."
"Your...family?"
"Other guys that look like Joey. Have two legs, hop, an' is cold here. Is warm, where we come from."
"Where you come from? But...the Digiworld wasn't much warmer than Earth...so that means that you're not a digimon?"
"But Tina say Joey is digimon."
"Joey…where are you from?"
Joey gave the question some thought, then let out an excited whistle and hopped off the floor. "Joey know how to show Tina! Joey fix-it! Joey fix-it!" He hopped up to a computer terminal and began working the tiny controls with such finesse that Tina couldn't believe her eyes. All the while, he left a slick, telltale trail of petrolatum on the controls, making for an interesting prank for any agazriitato who would use the controls later.
At Joey's command, a star chart opened up on screen, and Joey let out a whistle of victory. "Joey come from here," he said, pointing to one of the stars.
"Is that…outer space?"
"Yep-yep."
Tina's mouth dropped open as she began to see what was going on with Earth being brought to its knees. "What're the agazriitato doing here?"
Joey let out a snort of frustration.
"You don't know?"
"Joey not know."
"Then…the datacube! When I found you, you had a datacube with you. What was it?"
"Data-cube? Thing Tina puts in computer to play video games? Joey's…what is the word…friend give it to him."
"Your friend gave it to you?"
"Yep-yep."
"Then…what was in it?"
"What video game it make computer do? …Joey not know. Friend no tell. But friend know that agazriitato no hafta get it."
"…You mean the agazriitato mustn't get it?"
"Nope-nope. Hafta not get it."
Tina rubbed her head. "Where are we?"
"Agazriitato's house."
"Then…I wonder if Guilmon is here, too…?" Tina began walking towards the door.
"Tina wait a sec," Joey said.
"Huh?"
"Tina no should be in agazriitato's house without Non otawawo." Joey flipped one of the guard's weapon's up at her. She caught it.
"Cool," she thought aloud.
"Tina take 'em all." Joey flipped up a whole bunch of little cannons, and Tina couldn't catch all of them. "Joey no want agazriitato get 'em back."
"…Okay."
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Since Yolei and Ken were both out like lights, Takato knew he'd safely be able to get Hawkmon and Wormmon's DNA. He crept into the room and found a few of Hawkmon's feathers. Wormmon wasn't so easy to get a sample from; Takato couldn't find anything that would give him help with getting a DNA sample. It would have to be a blood sample. So he killed some time looking for him and found him in the lounge, sitting next to Davis and Veemon. "Hey, Wormmon? I need to talk with you a sec."
"Okay." Wormmon hopped off the couch and crawled after him, into the office. He was surprised to see Ken and Yolei asleep, and even more surprised when he saw a needle coming out of Takato's hand, and it looked like Takato was about to use it---on Wormmon! "Sticky net!" he shouted, spitting webbing at Takato. It did him no good; Takato tore the strings off and came closer to Wormmon. He stretched out his hand, and Wormmon fell asleep, too. Takato picked up Wormmon and drew out enough blood for a DNA sample. Once the sample was full, he dropped Wormmon back down to the floor.
Takato sneered. He had already obtained samples of Patamon's fur, one of Hawkmon's feathers, and one of Armadillomon's scales, so he'd gotten samples from all six of the D-3 Digidestined's digimon. All that was left was to transmit the last four back to base.
He triumphantly marched out of the office towards the door to transmit more cleanly. POW! He didn't see it coming, but Veemon had smacked him in the back with his Vee boomerang attack, right in the motor processing node. He couldn't move.
Davis, still sitting on the couch and still not taking his eyes off the television set, yelled, "If you think you can go attacking people like that, you're dead wrong! I don't think you're even really Takato! Who are you, and who are you with?!"
The gremlin inside Takato's robot body snarled. "Well, at least I can still transmit…" He began sending out the DNA sequences through his broadcast antenna. "Once the transmission is finished, I'll have to escape this body somehow…"
"What do we do with him, Davis?" Veemon asked.
"Is he alive?"
"Doesn't look like it."
"Then take him to Cleaver's lab."
"I could use some help."
"Cover my eyes."
Veemon, as usual, covered Davis's eyes and Davis got up, switched off the television set, and began dragging Takato to Cleaver's lab, hoping that Cleaver would be able to explain something about Takato's behavior.