The creatures came around after few seconds.
- Damn you……. – said Biyomon. – We were used.
Alba opened her eyes and looked around her. She frowned with anger and she immediately got up growling.
- Cloakmon! –yelled Alba when she got up.
- Oh!!!- replied Yamaki with a smile on his face. – I see you finally recovered you memory…… it was a good thing I took this burden off you.
- You tricked us you little worm!!! Now you're gonna have to deal with me!!! – she threatened showing her gloves from which the sharp claws sprang out as they were pocket knives.
- And with me!! – said Luis standing behind Alba.
- Not so fast my friends. – said Yamaki pressing a button on the remote control.
Alba stared at Yamaki and at the remote control for few seconds. With her piercing eye sight she made the remote control on Yamaki's hand burst with a crackling noise.
- You are not gonna hypnotize me again! – said Alba really upset.
- Ok. You forced me to do this. – he said clicking his fingers.
Behind Yamaki two other monsters showed up. To the right a ugly looking, corpse like creature of 7 ft tall that was covered with old bandages all over its body except on a portion of his face that featured decomposed tissue. To the left a monster of 7 ft tall covered with yellow fur, he was a mountain of muscles and had a thick mane that surrounded his face, his jaw was squared and had very sharp teeth along with menacing and piercing eyes. He was wearing from his waist down a pair of pants that had a belt from which it hanged a large double edged sword.
- Ok. You take Mummymon, and I'll take Leomon. – said Gatomon to Veemon snarling with anger.
- Are you sure? They are both dangerous….
- Then step aside. – said Gatomon charging at the lion like beast with the sword.
The creature waited for Gatomon to be close enough and with precise timing it drew out its sword slicing across the side of the belly of gatomon who fell to the ground instantaneously.
- Gatomon!!! – cried Veemon, but when he tried to run and reach her the other monster tossed his bandages forth wrapping him completely leaving him like a squirming worm on the ground.
- Alba!!! – shouted Clara horrified trying to run to her to help her.
- Stop right there. – said Yamaki pointing his gun at her. – You have already caused many important delays, so we'll be leaving right now.
- Wait! – shouted Carlos. – Why did you help us?! – he asked in angst watching his friend afar trying to get himself loose.
- It was an issue of circumstance…..I had to improvise to lead you here and to make sure that the authority figures of your world couldn't follow you. But, since you have seen enough, I think it's a fair punishment for these slugs to leave them here and see you freeze to death.
Yamaki walked away and instructed the mummy like creature to wrap the other monsters to leave them immobilized next to the humans. However he instructed him to leave Gatomon and Veemon as they were. He wanted him to see her die for her treachery.
- Fridgemon !!! – yelled Yamaki calling another monster.
A monster made of snow showed up. He had a rounded body and he moved over his wide stilt like snow feet. His eyes were two big black dots.
- I want you to build a prison for them.
Fridgemon complied by standing a few feet away from the group of humans and monsters wrapped in bandages. He gave two steps forward and leaning forward he punched the ground with his left fist. When he did this an explosion of snow was produced in front of Carlos and his friends. When everything cleared up they found themselves surrounded by solid ice walls and above there was a group thick ice bars forming the roof of the prison.
- So long……- they heard faintly from Cloakmon at the other side. After that they felt that everybody had left the place leaving them alone.
Few minutes later Carlos stood up with wrath and tried to knock down the wall by kicking it repeatedly.
It was useless. The ice was about 10 inches thick and hard as steel. Meanwhile Clara and Hector tried to rip the bandages off their friends to no avail. Frustration soon got hold of them. TJ and Robert could only look at each other in dismay while Carlos wanted to release his wrath against Henry Wong. He approached him and took him by the shirt despite he was an older person.
- You!!! Explain what happened here!!!
- I don't know! I don't know! – said the man in a fairly spoken English.
- We are gonna die frozen in here. – said Carlos releasing Henry and then he sat close to one of the corners staring at the ceiling attentively.
- Carlos. Could you help us here? – protested Clara from the place they were trying to release the monsters of the bandages along with Hector, Aurora, Robert and TJ.
- Wait…….-said Carlos standing up. – So you hear that?…..
Everybody stood up and listened carefully. Far away an approaching helicopter could be heard.
30 seconds later the noise became very loud and rumbling.
Then, there was a mechanical noise and the sound of grinding pulleys followed by the sound of approaching footsteps.
- Henry!! – cried a voice behind the iced wall. Then it spoke a language than nobody recognized except for Henry Wong.
- Daisy!! – he replied standing from the snow running to the front wall. Henry spoke a few words in Japanese and stood by for an answer.
- Hold on! We're gonna get you out. – said the voice of a woman in fluently spoken English.
As the minutes went by it could be sensed that the woman was talking on the other side with someone else in yet another language. Then, the ground began shaking, as it something enormous was pacing to the wall.
- Get back! – yelled the woman from the other side.
Everybody walked to the back of the icy cell and waited.
Suddenly the front wall exploded before their eyes. A demolition ball covered all around with spikes had burst though the wall, and it was attached to the body of an enormous animal.
When it cleared out, everyone could look through the huge hole that had formed to the exterior.
There was an European looking blonde woman, next to a young boy of about ten years old with curly hair and light dark skin. The boy was holding in his hand a stopwatch looking gadget and closer to the wall they saw a 20 ft tall monster completely covered with golden metallic panels. His head was rounded and wore a helmet with spikes on top of it. Hir tail was long and on the tip he waved the spiked demolition ball that had smashed through the wall.
Behind these three, on the snow, there was a huge two reel helicopter with the cargo bay wide open. From there, more people and creatures showed up.
Behind the woman a man wearing sport clothes and sunglasses showed up. He was tall and blonde and was wearing a bandage around his head.
- You double crosser! – yelled Henry trying to charge him to punch him.
- Hey! What's with you!? – said Daisy containing Henry. – If it weren't for Mr Yamaki's help I wouldn't had been able to find you.
Meanwhile, another monster walked to the place were Veemon was tied up. It was a completely green critter, with an oval shaped head wearing a lily pad on top of her head. Her eyes were elliptical and alien like. Her limbs made it resemble to a plant and her arms ended in multiple vine projections.
It tossed these vines making them go beneath the bandages that were holding veemon captive. With a small pull , the vines ripped the bandages like they were made of paper.
Veemon struggled to free himself from the bandages and then he ran to gatomon who was lying head down. She kneeled next to her and turned her around gently. She was still alive and awake but on the side of her belly she had a lineal cut wound that glittered faintly.
- I'm sorry…..- she said with a faint little voice.
- Don't worry. Replied Veemon taking some snow away from her face.
- I'm coming! – yelled Daisy running toward them carrying her laptop computer.
She stopped few inches away from them to open her laptop and started to type some commands.
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DATABASE TRACKING PROGRAM
Searching.........................
Database Found:
GATO.mon [-- ]
WARNING: Database content critical!!!
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- What's going on? – asked Henry as he got closer to Daisy. The other people and monsters had gathered around her already after Renamon freed the rest.
- She looks bad……she'll fragment away for sure……- said Daisy tilting her head down.
Veemon felt shocked when he heard this and decided to take her by the nape of her neck to comfort her.
- Don't go…..please…..- he said in a begging voice.
- Protect Clara for me…..- she said closing her eyes.
- Wait…..I didn't show you what I had learnt. – said Veemon caressing her head. – I want you to know…… - he said putting his mouth closer to hers.
So, he kissed her tenderly to bid her farewell from this world, when suddenly Daisy raised her head and looked at the computer screen.
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DATA TRANSFER COMMENCING
VEE.mon [------------ ] -------------------- GATO.mon [--- ]
Copying packs of data……………
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- Keep kissing her! – said Daisy to Veemon. – You're saving her!…
- This is amazing!… - said Henry without being able to hide his excitement.
Seconds later, Gatomon opened her eyes once again. She still looked weak.
- I am not gonna let you disappear, got it? – said Veemon with tears on his eyes.
- If it's by kissing me, it's fine with me…..- she replied with a smile on her face.
Clara made their way through the crowd. She embraced Gatomon in her arms and wrapped her in her overcoat.
- This is temporal though. – said Daisy frowning. – It'll get to the point that both will loose their database and eventually disappear.
- Wait!! – said Henry remembering that ring like machine. – They have a contraption that can seal the wound.
- It's true! – said Carlos. – We have to catch up with them quick.
- That's not the only reason why we have to catch up. – said Daisy in a gloomy tone of voice.
- What are you talking about? – asked Henry.
- Let's walk to the chopper and I'll explain.