An Unlikely Alliance
J.C. and Cybermon then explained everything from the e-mail to the mysterious voice that simply gave them the orders to destroy them. Rena and Foxmon stood in total shock and stood motionless in front of J.C.
"Why would someone want us dead", said Rena
'We don't know, he was very mysterious about his motives"
Rena then got her color back, stood up straight and said, "Well I've got a proposal to make. Why don't you and Cybermon join us and together we can find out who emailed you!"
"Yeah!", yelled Demicybermon excitedly.
"Then its settled. We will start tomorrow morning!", said J.C.
The digital world couldn't have been more peaceful that night and morning as the two kids and digimon woke up to a sunny and becoming start.
Rena, who was apparently cheerful in the mornings, was chatting and walking merrily with Darkrenamon, who obviously had digivolved with the rising sun, while J.C. on the other hand was groggily sitting under a tree, furiously fidgeting with his crimson digivice.
"Erg! Stupid thing!", yelled J.C. as Rena observed him curiously from behind.
"Trouble?", asked Rena.
"This stupid digithinggy has the world time wrong!" said J.C. as his temples furiously throbbed.
Rena giggled, "Digithinggy? You mean your DTV, (by the way it stands for Digi-trans [de]vice) and as for the world time, give it to me." she finished as she grabbed J.C.'s DTV in amusement. "Okay. Now which city's time are you trying to set."
"Well, London I suppose, That is where my parents live."
"Really, you're from London? I didn't realize since you didn't have an-
J.C. interrupted, finishing her sentence "Accent? I know, I get that a lot, its because my mother is British and my father is American, and I guess I took after him a little more. I haven't been there in a year though because I go to an academy in Tokyo and I'm usually very busy."
"Wow, that's interesting... Well anyway, this is how you set it." She put it close to her mouth, as if it were a walkie-talkie and loudly said "London, England TME 37 set!"
Suddenly the DTV read loading and then said 'set' as it glowed the month, year, day, hour minute, second, and nanosecond.
"Wow, thanks!" said J.C. amazed with Rena
"Oh." said Rena blushing "Dark Renamon knows a lot about these things." as she handed him his DTV back, noticing a little sign on the surface" Hey, what is that symbol on your DTV? Mine doesn't have one."
Suddenly J.C. spotted a small symbol below the screen of his DTV which looked like two small D's over lapping each other in letters pointed as if they were carved by hand.
"I dunno." He shrugged "I never noticed it before. Its just so small that I never paid-
But before he could finish his sentence he was interrupted by the cold and deep voice of Cybermon who had digivolved as well. "It is the sign of our master. The one who spoke to you in that shadow realm where he gave it to you."
"Hey Cybermon! You scared me, but when did you start calling that creep master?"
Then as if his cape was bugged, he lowered down to J.C. and whispered "Ever since I found out that they are following us."
"What!!?", yelled Rena, panicking
"Be quiet!" said Darkrenamon firmly from behind. "Cybermon is right, someone is spying on us all. We as digimon can sense foreign presences."
"But why would they want to spy on us?" asked Rena in a whispered tone that failed to hide her panic.
"I don't know, but we better get away from this area fast."
"But Darkrenamon-" Rena said pointing madly to the back of her
"No buts, we cannot wait."
"But Darkrenamon you have to look-
"Rena! We have to go. I cannot let anything happen to you!"
Cybermon chuckled momentarily, looked up at what Rena was pointing at and then yelled quickly "Darkrenamon!! Behind you!!!" he yelled fiercely.
"Wha-", said Renamon as she was hit in the back, sliding roughly against the ground beneath her.
"What do you think you are doing you beast! You're gonna pay for that. Cybermon, are you ready!?" bawled J.C.
"Ready, if you are", he glared fiercely.
J.C. lifted his DTV into the air ,"Digivoulution Activate!"
"Cybermon digivolve to!!!!!!!!!!!! METALCYBERMON!", yelled Metalcybermon as his new form emerged from the light. "Giga-claw"
A huge claw then took form on Cybermon's arm as it extended towards the large creature at great speed. [Gorgomon-ultimate level-virus type- little is known about this digimon, but it is rumored that a Gargomon lies within its flesh]
Suddenly Metalcybermon's claw was intercepted as Gorgomon grabbed and broke it before it even made contact and suddenly yelled "Zunobomb" as his fist changed into two balls engraved with little frowning faces and launched them directly into Cybermon's chest in a great explosion.
"Tailblade!" said a voice from behind
Gorgomon was sent forward into a pile of rocks as Vultailmon stood triumphantly on his chest with her huge claws threatening his throat.
"Who sent you here?" said Vultailmon fiercely
"I-I don't know" Gorgomon said fearfully.
"That's not good enough!" yelled Metalcybermon as his fist sunk into Gorgomon's chained chest.
Gorgomon yelled in pain as his black eyes turned a sickening red. "Now tell me." continued Metalcybermon "WHO Sent you here and why, because we know you are not a wild digimon"
"I DON'T--AHHH!" He yelled as Vultailmon sent one of her claws through his throat, obviously knowing what he was going to say next.
"I've got 19 more claws waiting for you, 9 of which are aiming for your throat-!
"So give us what we want and we'll set you free, got it!" said Metalcybermon furiously.
"Okay the truth. I got it! The truth! I don't know exactly-." he stopped as Vultailmon stared with fury at his response, but he quickly continued. " I don't know exactly who wanted me to follow you because who ever it was sent down someone to represent 'im. It was a lady digimon and she told me that her boss needed to dispose of a human girl named Rena. I told her that humans were uncommon and hard to find in the digital world, so she told me that I would know by her digimon, Darkrenamon, so I searched and finally I found you, so of coarse I attacked."
"But what was in it for you?", said J.C. coldly.
"I don't know what you mean!!" Gorgomon glared as he took his eyes off of J.C.
"How stupid do you think I am!? Are you trying to say that you would kill a human and a digimon out of the goodness of your heart! HA! Good one! HAHAHAHAHA!"
"Okay! She said I would be promised a moment with the Phoenix Eye, or at least a taste of its power!" yelled Gorgomon with a crazed look in his eyes.
"Ew!" yelled Rena "You wanted to kill us for a disgusting eyeball!" she then covered her mouth as if about to gag.
"Not an eye you idiot!" yelled Gorgomon as if he were insulted "The eye of a phoenix or the Phoenix eye, there's a difference. The Phoenix eye is a legendary stone that when used correctly, digivolves one to his highest form in power along with the great and mighty powers of the Phoenix . It is very rare, but she seemed sincere about it, not to mention a good looker, so I believed her. If I had the marvelous diamond I could take over the digital world, or at least part of it."
"So the Phoenix eye is a diamond that makes you virtually invincible?" asked Rena looking slightly better "But the Phoenix has been around for millions of years, so how come no one else has gotten a hold of the stone and taken over the digital world?"
"For several Reasons. For one, Phoenix are rare and you are lucky just to see it's beauty, let alone take its eye and Second even if one did get close enough, the phoenix would either destroy them or it wouldn't even be privileged to have a diamond eye since very few do. That is why a phoenix eye has been thought to be a myth."
"But where do you think they were going to find the eye even if you had killed us anyway?"
"Well, that only they know to tell the truth, but I assumed they were just going to try to get one at Galaxor Island."
"Where is that at?" said Vultailmon
"It's not far from here is all I know"
"But they didn't ask you to kill me too?" asked J.C.
"Nope, I got specific orders for the girl and the fox, and that is all."
"Just one more question and you can go" said Vultailmon, "What is the name of the digimon who gave you these orders?"
"Well." said Gorgomon thinking "It wasn't a common type of digimon and her request did not fit her name at all. Oh yeah I remember it now. It was---
Before Gorgomon could finish he was struck in the chest as an arrow went through his flesh from out of nowhere, just barely scathing Vultailmon's shoulders and obliterating him into tiny pieces.
Vultailmon and the others looked up to see where the arrow had come from only to see a blinding flash in front of them. The digimon were attacked, but when the could see again, whoever attacked them, was gone.
"Where the heck is that creep who blinded us!?" Yelled Metalcybermon, with his hand still over his left eye.
"Whatever it was is gone, and apparently it took Gorgomon with it." said Vultailmon, putting pressure on her back paw.
"Great!" said Rena sarcastically, "Now we will never know who one of the people who wanted to kill us was."
"I will get that F-FREAK!" said Metalcybermon attempting to go airborne as J.C. held his leg back.
"It is all my fault. If I would have asked who it was sooner, we would have known who it was" said Vultailmon with a self-pitying attitude.
"No" said J.C. letting go of Cybermon " If you would have asked sooner, Gorgomon would have probably been destroyed sooner."
"What's that supposed to mean" asked Darkrenamon
"I mean that whoever wants you dead, meant for you to hear all of that about Galaxor Island. They wanted us to know. It is like they are taunting us, but asking who they were was just too much information, so they destroyed him."
"Then I suggest we spoil there plan and find the Phoenix eye ourselves before they can get a hold of it.", said Vultailmon
"Perfect idea!" said Rena "but now that you bring it up J.C., why would they want me dead to get something like the phoenix eye?"
"Isn't it obvious Rena?" said Vultailmon surprised " J.C. was destined to be a tamer but whoever wanted the phoenix eye got to him before the force of good could. They were too late to get to you however, so they need you dead so you can't get in their way."
"But am I just that much of a threat?" asked Rena
"It is not necessarily that" said Metalcybermon "its just that whoever wants you dead can't make you useful to him anyway since the way you became a tamer, somehow altered your aura, so he can't lure you like he did us. J.C. and I however are still raw and very much susceptible to their manipulative techniques, so he doesn't need to kill us because in a sense, we are still under his control." Metalcybermon said out of breath as fell to his knees and de-digivolved to Cybermon.
Vultailmon then also de-digivolved and remained on the ground.
"You guys better rest." J.C. said coldly and continued "Afterwards, we need to head for Galaxor Island and try to find the phoenix allegedly living there."
"J.C., do you think they're up to it?" whispered Rena from behind.
"I don't know. I hope so, hopefully they just need rest, but if that's not the case, we just have to go anyway."
"But why so drastic?"
"Because we don't have time to waste. Whoever wants that eye is already one step ahead of us, a deadly step. We need to catch up fast or the whole digital world will have to pay for it."
"Your right" Rena sighed reluctantly "Its just that, we don't even know where to start so how-
J.C. interrupted "We just have to rely on Galaxor island and hope everything falls together from there."
"Rena" said a firm voice that belonged to Darkrenamon
"Darkrenamon! Are you okay?' asked Rena
"Cybermon and I are ready to go, I have been chanting a charm that has been healing us while you have been talking." said Darkrenamon
"But how do we get there?" asked Rena
"I will take care of that" said Cybermon
J.C. and Cybermon then explained everything from the e-mail to the mysterious voice that simply gave them the orders to destroy them. Rena and Foxmon stood in total shock and stood motionless in front of J.C.
"Why would someone want us dead", said Rena
'We don't know, he was very mysterious about his motives"
Rena then got her color back, stood up straight and said, "Well I've got a proposal to make. Why don't you and Cybermon join us and together we can find out who emailed you!"
"Yeah!", yelled Demicybermon excitedly.
"Then its settled. We will start tomorrow morning!", said J.C.
The digital world couldn't have been more peaceful that night and morning as the two kids and digimon woke up to a sunny and becoming start.
Rena, who was apparently cheerful in the mornings, was chatting and walking merrily with Darkrenamon, who obviously had digivolved with the rising sun, while J.C. on the other hand was groggily sitting under a tree, furiously fidgeting with his crimson digivice.
"Erg! Stupid thing!", yelled J.C. as Rena observed him curiously from behind.
"Trouble?", asked Rena.
"This stupid digithinggy has the world time wrong!" said J.C. as his temples furiously throbbed.
Rena giggled, "Digithinggy? You mean your DTV, (by the way it stands for Digi-trans [de]vice) and as for the world time, give it to me." she finished as she grabbed J.C.'s DTV in amusement. "Okay. Now which city's time are you trying to set."
"Well, London I suppose, That is where my parents live."
"Really, you're from London? I didn't realize since you didn't have an-
J.C. interrupted, finishing her sentence "Accent? I know, I get that a lot, its because my mother is British and my father is American, and I guess I took after him a little more. I haven't been there in a year though because I go to an academy in Tokyo and I'm usually very busy."
"Wow, that's interesting... Well anyway, this is how you set it." She put it close to her mouth, as if it were a walkie-talkie and loudly said "London, England TME 37 set!"
Suddenly the DTV read loading and then said 'set' as it glowed the month, year, day, hour minute, second, and nanosecond.
"Wow, thanks!" said J.C. amazed with Rena
"Oh." said Rena blushing "Dark Renamon knows a lot about these things." as she handed him his DTV back, noticing a little sign on the surface" Hey, what is that symbol on your DTV? Mine doesn't have one."
Suddenly J.C. spotted a small symbol below the screen of his DTV which looked like two small D's over lapping each other in letters pointed as if they were carved by hand.
"I dunno." He shrugged "I never noticed it before. Its just so small that I never paid-
But before he could finish his sentence he was interrupted by the cold and deep voice of Cybermon who had digivolved as well. "It is the sign of our master. The one who spoke to you in that shadow realm where he gave it to you."
"Hey Cybermon! You scared me, but when did you start calling that creep master?"
Then as if his cape was bugged, he lowered down to J.C. and whispered "Ever since I found out that they are following us."
"What!!?", yelled Rena, panicking
"Be quiet!" said Darkrenamon firmly from behind. "Cybermon is right, someone is spying on us all. We as digimon can sense foreign presences."
"But why would they want to spy on us?" asked Rena in a whispered tone that failed to hide her panic.
"I don't know, but we better get away from this area fast."
"But Darkrenamon-" Rena said pointing madly to the back of her
"No buts, we cannot wait."
"But Darkrenamon you have to look-
"Rena! We have to go. I cannot let anything happen to you!"
Cybermon chuckled momentarily, looked up at what Rena was pointing at and then yelled quickly "Darkrenamon!! Behind you!!!" he yelled fiercely.
"Wha-", said Renamon as she was hit in the back, sliding roughly against the ground beneath her.
"What do you think you are doing you beast! You're gonna pay for that. Cybermon, are you ready!?" bawled J.C.
"Ready, if you are", he glared fiercely.
J.C. lifted his DTV into the air ,"Digivoulution Activate!"
"Cybermon digivolve to!!!!!!!!!!!! METALCYBERMON!", yelled Metalcybermon as his new form emerged from the light. "Giga-claw"
A huge claw then took form on Cybermon's arm as it extended towards the large creature at great speed. [Gorgomon-ultimate level-virus type- little is known about this digimon, but it is rumored that a Gargomon lies within its flesh]
Suddenly Metalcybermon's claw was intercepted as Gorgomon grabbed and broke it before it even made contact and suddenly yelled "Zunobomb" as his fist changed into two balls engraved with little frowning faces and launched them directly into Cybermon's chest in a great explosion.
"Tailblade!" said a voice from behind
Gorgomon was sent forward into a pile of rocks as Vultailmon stood triumphantly on his chest with her huge claws threatening his throat.
"Who sent you here?" said Vultailmon fiercely
"I-I don't know" Gorgomon said fearfully.
"That's not good enough!" yelled Metalcybermon as his fist sunk into Gorgomon's chained chest.
Gorgomon yelled in pain as his black eyes turned a sickening red. "Now tell me." continued Metalcybermon "WHO Sent you here and why, because we know you are not a wild digimon"
"I DON'T--AHHH!" He yelled as Vultailmon sent one of her claws through his throat, obviously knowing what he was going to say next.
"I've got 19 more claws waiting for you, 9 of which are aiming for your throat-!
"So give us what we want and we'll set you free, got it!" said Metalcybermon furiously.
"Okay the truth. I got it! The truth! I don't know exactly-." he stopped as Vultailmon stared with fury at his response, but he quickly continued. " I don't know exactly who wanted me to follow you because who ever it was sent down someone to represent 'im. It was a lady digimon and she told me that her boss needed to dispose of a human girl named Rena. I told her that humans were uncommon and hard to find in the digital world, so she told me that I would know by her digimon, Darkrenamon, so I searched and finally I found you, so of coarse I attacked."
"But what was in it for you?", said J.C. coldly.
"I don't know what you mean!!" Gorgomon glared as he took his eyes off of J.C.
"How stupid do you think I am!? Are you trying to say that you would kill a human and a digimon out of the goodness of your heart! HA! Good one! HAHAHAHAHA!"
"Okay! She said I would be promised a moment with the Phoenix Eye, or at least a taste of its power!" yelled Gorgomon with a crazed look in his eyes.
"Ew!" yelled Rena "You wanted to kill us for a disgusting eyeball!" she then covered her mouth as if about to gag.
"Not an eye you idiot!" yelled Gorgomon as if he were insulted "The eye of a phoenix or the Phoenix eye, there's a difference. The Phoenix eye is a legendary stone that when used correctly, digivolves one to his highest form in power along with the great and mighty powers of the Phoenix . It is very rare, but she seemed sincere about it, not to mention a good looker, so I believed her. If I had the marvelous diamond I could take over the digital world, or at least part of it."
"So the Phoenix eye is a diamond that makes you virtually invincible?" asked Rena looking slightly better "But the Phoenix has been around for millions of years, so how come no one else has gotten a hold of the stone and taken over the digital world?"
"For several Reasons. For one, Phoenix are rare and you are lucky just to see it's beauty, let alone take its eye and Second even if one did get close enough, the phoenix would either destroy them or it wouldn't even be privileged to have a diamond eye since very few do. That is why a phoenix eye has been thought to be a myth."
"But where do you think they were going to find the eye even if you had killed us anyway?"
"Well, that only they know to tell the truth, but I assumed they were just going to try to get one at Galaxor Island."
"Where is that at?" said Vultailmon
"It's not far from here is all I know"
"But they didn't ask you to kill me too?" asked J.C.
"Nope, I got specific orders for the girl and the fox, and that is all."
"Just one more question and you can go" said Vultailmon, "What is the name of the digimon who gave you these orders?"
"Well." said Gorgomon thinking "It wasn't a common type of digimon and her request did not fit her name at all. Oh yeah I remember it now. It was---
Before Gorgomon could finish he was struck in the chest as an arrow went through his flesh from out of nowhere, just barely scathing Vultailmon's shoulders and obliterating him into tiny pieces.
Vultailmon and the others looked up to see where the arrow had come from only to see a blinding flash in front of them. The digimon were attacked, but when the could see again, whoever attacked them, was gone.
"Where the heck is that creep who blinded us!?" Yelled Metalcybermon, with his hand still over his left eye.
"Whatever it was is gone, and apparently it took Gorgomon with it." said Vultailmon, putting pressure on her back paw.
"Great!" said Rena sarcastically, "Now we will never know who one of the people who wanted to kill us was."
"I will get that F-FREAK!" said Metalcybermon attempting to go airborne as J.C. held his leg back.
"It is all my fault. If I would have asked who it was sooner, we would have known who it was" said Vultailmon with a self-pitying attitude.
"No" said J.C. letting go of Cybermon " If you would have asked sooner, Gorgomon would have probably been destroyed sooner."
"What's that supposed to mean" asked Darkrenamon
"I mean that whoever wants you dead, meant for you to hear all of that about Galaxor Island. They wanted us to know. It is like they are taunting us, but asking who they were was just too much information, so they destroyed him."
"Then I suggest we spoil there plan and find the Phoenix eye ourselves before they can get a hold of it.", said Vultailmon
"Perfect idea!" said Rena "but now that you bring it up J.C., why would they want me dead to get something like the phoenix eye?"
"Isn't it obvious Rena?" said Vultailmon surprised " J.C. was destined to be a tamer but whoever wanted the phoenix eye got to him before the force of good could. They were too late to get to you however, so they need you dead so you can't get in their way."
"But am I just that much of a threat?" asked Rena
"It is not necessarily that" said Metalcybermon "its just that whoever wants you dead can't make you useful to him anyway since the way you became a tamer, somehow altered your aura, so he can't lure you like he did us. J.C. and I however are still raw and very much susceptible to their manipulative techniques, so he doesn't need to kill us because in a sense, we are still under his control." Metalcybermon said out of breath as fell to his knees and de-digivolved to Cybermon.
Vultailmon then also de-digivolved and remained on the ground.
"You guys better rest." J.C. said coldly and continued "Afterwards, we need to head for Galaxor Island and try to find the phoenix allegedly living there."
"J.C., do you think they're up to it?" whispered Rena from behind.
"I don't know. I hope so, hopefully they just need rest, but if that's not the case, we just have to go anyway."
"But why so drastic?"
"Because we don't have time to waste. Whoever wants that eye is already one step ahead of us, a deadly step. We need to catch up fast or the whole digital world will have to pay for it."
"Your right" Rena sighed reluctantly "Its just that, we don't even know where to start so how-
J.C. interrupted "We just have to rely on Galaxor island and hope everything falls together from there."
"Rena" said a firm voice that belonged to Darkrenamon
"Darkrenamon! Are you okay?' asked Rena
"Cybermon and I are ready to go, I have been chanting a charm that has been healing us while you have been talking." said Darkrenamon
"But how do we get there?" asked Rena
"I will take care of that" said Cybermon