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"A Time and Place for Everything"
Chapter 3 'A Safe Haven?'
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(Authors Note: it's amazing to have come this far so fast (for me at least). After being on hiatus for almost 3 years, finally the rewrite will be done and new chapter material can come into being. I want to give my thanks to those who have sent me feedback and ideas. A special thanks to Carlos Alexandre who has helped me throughout the years with ideas and whatnots. Fan fiction only warning: I really hate how fanfiction formats this doc so please read it at my homepage at http/www.majere.ca)
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It had been 4 long months since their last minute escape from Earth Beta, here their remaining members stood assembled watching as a familiar looking globe became larger on the screen. They all shared a pang of regret that this earth too would eventually become a battleground, that their coming would more than likely cause an upheaval of their society.
Their wounds had healed over time. Some now sported newly healed wounds from forays made into the digital world for supplies, food and water.
They had entered the Solar System about 5 hours ago and were just now coming past the orbit of Jupiter on the way to Mars.
From one of the chairs Izzy sat typing on his computer as he always seemed to be, making plans and forwarding them to me. A magnification comes up on one part of the screen showing one of Saturn's moons with a glass dome with a spaceport beside it.
Obviously this Society is much more advanced than either of our societies had been. All the better for us.
Izzy finaly looked up taking a breath and marveled at the detailed expanded view of what he saw below. "I don't believe how advanced this dimensions people are, it would have taken humanity decades back in our Dimensions to create a space colony! Let alone this far out from earth …. Prodigious! "
I couldn't help but smile at that, haven't heard him use that word in a while, shows he is coming back to normal after Soras injury a short while ago.
Thinking of the short haired girl, I look around; she is leaning back against the wall, still shielding her wounded arm that would likely never totally heal due to their lack of medical supplies, it having almost been severed during the rescue mission of Biyomon. Her surprising survival and rescue when we thought she had been destroyed had given them all a boost at a time when they had needed it the most.
Altogether they had grown into a more coordinated fighting force. Under my command yet, who would have thought it.
Kari was right behind me, her loyalty and caring had gotten me through the few injuries I had obtained over the last 4 months. Though I am sad to admit that my fellow Digidestined had a lot to do with that, they tended to protect me way more than they should especially Kari. I am not worth of their support let alone their protection. I will protect them to the best of my abilities… with my life if need be!
A voice from all around us spoke. One we hadn't heard from for quite a while. " Man I can't wait to be able to dedigivolve, the last time we did was a couple months ago while going by that moon in our galaxy."
It had taken all of Imperialdramons control as well as the energy of the other digimon to keep in this form for such long periods of time, the digital world being the only place he could rest being very dangerous for them to go into for long.
"Well we have appreciated it you know, without you we would never have made it this far! Just a little farther guys!" Ken said from the corner.
"We know Ken, to bad … never mind"
We all knew where that was going, best not to dwell on it.
Standing up, I instantly get the attention of everyone, it still un-nerves me how much they look up to me when one of the older digidestined or even the eldest of us should be doing the role. Yet I had been made the official leader/representative by unanimous vote while I was injured and unconscious that first week after we escaped. I asked Kari who put the vote forward without me being present but she and everyone else had all been tight lipped about it even in private.
Oh well, c'el la vie.
I breathe in slowly as to not show just how much tension and nervousness I am feeling.
" I know everyone is looking forward to making landfall, I hope it goes a smooth as you all hope. However; I can't rely on that happening. Worst case scenario we are going into a war zone, whether it is against the invading dark digimon or against humans I don't know."
The faces looking at me show just how much they have thought about it. Hope is there but they all realize that we may not have a smooth ride getting down.
I smile, hoping that it will break the tension building up in the air.
" However, we have not yet been attacked nor have we been asked to stop, so far I am taking that as a positive thing. Izzy has been scanning all frequencies in the hope of picking up something we can transmit on but so far has had no luck. As you all have seen, they are way more advanced than us, that is good in the long run but very bad if they choose to attack us. "
I tap a button on my chair (think startrek) and the display halves and shows a target landing zone in what was known as Western Canada on Earth Alpha and Beta. Head turn to see it as I have shown nobody, not even Kari it so far. In his chair I see Izzy nod, nice to know he agrees at least somewhat.
" If the worst case happens, this is where we will attempt to land, a large ore deposit on our original worlds were located here and would allow us to hide. The fact the area was also a tourist location will help us to blend in somewhat. Any Questions? "
Looking around I hope someone will do so, speak up and tell me any issues. Dammit, they trust me way to much. Fine I will have to ask outright.
" Does anybody see any flaws I haven't thought of?"
A hand lands on my shoulder, of course it's Kari.
" It seems like you thought of everything TK, but what if that area is not a tourist spot but a military area, or some hot spot?"
Ah how I love you Kari! " I thought that out but we show no overt military tech in the area from the scans Izzy has done for me. Granted this means nothing with the unknown but the tourist town of Jasper is there and appears that same so I am going on that."
Nods from all involved around me including a squeeze from her hand on my shoulder, I fight down the blush I know is coming.
A few hours pass as Mars finally comes into view, our hope of hiding in it's shadow disappearing in the blink of an eye, previously blocked from our view by our own choice, we find mars to be a sprawling metropolis.
Izzy goes ballistic on the keyboard, sweat glistening on his forehead. He looked back directly at me " We've been detected, there is no way to hide now TK, They have a detection net like nothing I have ever seen"
My Hands Clench, SHIT! and we were so close!
"Trouble TK! I have a large number of Aircraft incoming, from what I can tell they do not have their weapons active or tracking us, what should I do?
The screen showed a number of star fighters much like something out of a sci-fi movie come towards us from the Mars Metropolis Landscape
I chop my hand to the side. "We will not shoot first, I want no hostile reactions at this juncture, NONE! We will have to see their intentions before doing anything but be ready for anything. Izzy, shoot off our request for their intentions on all frequencies we can hit, even the ones that are encrypted!"
People are moving now, backpacks are loaded and stacked ready to move if needed.
My blood boils and I notice some have pale faces while others were taking it all in stride, playing it cool until they were needed, Rika especially.
I watch as the ships come along all sides in an arrow formation leaving one place open down one wing. I see recognition show on the faces of some of the older digidestined.
Izzy shouted out "That's the same formation of respect that escorts gave major dignitaries coming to Japan! The missing fighter is an American sign of a man down/missing. That moon base by Saturn must of sent word ahead of us, but how would they know where we were heading?"
Ken looked over his shoulder at Izzy "Well it's not like there are many inhabitable worlds around here Izzy, I mean where would you think a space ship was going if an alien ship had come into our universes!"
I see sign waves and communication channels open and close almost in the flick of an eye trying to find some channel of communication to the ships around us.
The next hour was a tense one as we all waited for some sort of response; even for those not visably letting on, I could tell just from their eyes and small movements they made.
Suddenly a channel opened, static blared out of the air. The signal originated not from the fighters around them but from Earth itself.
"static…… ome more static and ……. safe ……. attack …… digimon."
An almost universal gasp went out from everyone, even me. The dark digimon had arrived already, the fact they had not been attacked disappeared from my mind. "prepare for battle, these guys may not be attacking us now but we will not be separated when we land, we are not going to be made prisoners at this late stage of the game!"
Izzy smacked his labtop making me jump. I turned about to reprimand him no matter who was in the room.
A warm voice came online "Welcome Digidestined, please do not worry about the escort, you are safe here, we are not going to attack you, we already know about the eventual digimon attack! Please land at these coordinates…. Please respond on this channel!"
The level of tension had just gone from through the roof to a level of zero, Izzy looked right at me and gave a thumbs up.
A shout erupted echoed around the compartment.
Kari came over and I hugged her to me twirling her through the air, finally something was going right. Finally getting dizzy I stopped and she leaned in and kissed me. Seeing past her I could see Ken and Yolie, Reika and Ryo all mimicking us. Izzy watched as Sora and Jerry hugged each other with a raised eyebrow.
(dam hentai's, get the hell out of here! Cocks rifle and aims, I know how to use this!)
The digimon were just relaxing, especially after believing they were about to get into an all out fight, the trip had been the hardest on them having to share their energy with Imperialdramon.
Arm still around Kari I look at my friends and smile, the tension was gone, the journey had been worth it. My voice came out low and yet everyone was able to hear me.
"Well Imperialdramon, lets land and see what we have waiting for us! Be on guard at first, we don't want to get separated or split up, we stay in a group and get through this! Me and Kari will try and meet with whoever is in charge after landing and see what they know and if they will help us, not that they have much of a choice, they will either come through the portal window or same way we got in within about 4 1/2 years and we have to be ready for them! "
Everyone cheered that thought.
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"CRIMSON LIGHTNING"
A human form smashed against the wall and crumbled to the ground, a girl's cry could be coming heard from an adjacent wall.
" YOU WILL TELL US EVERYTHING I WANT TO KNOW "
A young woman stood inside the door to the cell, her Digimon partner not even in the room at the time, she smiled with a evil leer at the pathetic individual before her, thinking how she could of ever had feelings for him, how she had ever stood beside him and thought of him as a powerful presence among the Digidestined, how he ever seemed more powerful than herself!
The human form spoke in a raspy voice toward the girl " how could … you have betrayed us,… we trusted you, you were one of us! "
" HA HA HA HA HA, you have no idea what you have gotten into do you, the end is near and I plan to be a big part of it, think about it, are we much different than Digimon, why do we get to be the masters, what do we have that they don't, well I wont tell you! You don't need to know, but I will tell you this, I am going to drain you all of all the information I need to find and crush the others who escaped. AND! I have a long time to do it, get used to pain cause that is all you are going to feel for a long time! " Maniacal laughter came from her as she closed the door sealing away the light… and their last hope.
The Leader looked towards those that were left and felt what little hope he had left diminish having looked upon one of their own turned traitor.
Outside the stranger and his two wards stood, appearing here after their disappearance from their last encounter with the evil woman in front of them though in another area of the dungeons.
They stood off to the side, just barely shielded from her view, her digimon parter luckily could not see them.
The Stranger lifted his hands in a sign of silence. The pair was huddled, happy after seeing the first glimpses of happy times that the other group of digidestined had gone through.
Calico spoke to her partner, "They are pathetic, how could we have ever worked with them, a little torture and they fall right to pieces, sobbing and whinning. Oh have the Bakemon check muse there, I think I might have broken a bone when I hit him against that wall!" The partner just nodded.
"Also, have they tracked down the ones that got away months ago?"
The partners ears flapped as it shook it's head " no Lady, they have disappeared into the void areas where even some of our hardened troops will not go. Into the dark zones. We believe they will disappear without any more hardship facing our troops"
Within a blink of an eye Calico struck her hand out and smacked her partner across the face, dark energies emanated from her whole form. The pair shrunk back until the stranger erected a barrier between the energy and them.
"I do not care if YOU believe they will not be an issue, there has been a group of organized rogue human and digimon attacking our bridge project, the amount of humans we have lost to them is negligible but it hurt my reputation every time they do so and are not destroyed, you and Arukenymon and Mummymon will all work together to capture them alive, some fatalities will be acceptable."
The partner smiled at this, blood for her partners hit flowing freely from a split lip. Calico turned her back as if to leave. She stopped suddenly and raised her hand
" Oh and tell Arukenymon that I want all dark spires either transformed into dark digimon or destroyed, the rebels have been harvesting them for reasons unknown but it cant be good, even if they are using them to block us from finding them."
Without warning the dark force emanating increased away from her, the shield protecting the three not giving an inch.
"So that's where you are, didn't get enough last time General? Let me show you my generosity for escaping last time. " A ball of energy came toward them at a high speed, the stranger once again got ready to bat it away when the blast split into three separate blasts. Each coming towards one of the group.
Looking back for a second the stranger put images and memories of how to attack and defend themselves, as well how to teleport and where to meet if they become separated.
The three stood and simultaneously smacked the shots away directly back at Calico, she dodged out of the way and it smashed into her partner.
The partner went down hard, blood sprayed against the wall and in all directions, Calico took one look looked directly into the strangers eyes.
The pair stood back, not wanting to meet the dark glare, they looked towards the stranger who had shown and done so much for them for direction.
He pulled his hood back and laughed. "Not this time bitch! Last time that little trick worked, but you were right about one thing at our last encounter. It ends with this time! The timelines are converging, there is no longer a next time for any of us. However I am going to make sure that it is we who wins, not you. You played it smart when Mummymon killed Calumon, he was the catalyst to all this happening. Though it also affects us just as much, your group not so much. The balance is tipping back and forth, don't be surprised if nothing you remember happens this time, it is all on the line, I have made our goal to change what has come before. Be ready! As we will be watching! He grabs the pairs arms and all 3 of them fade out, the stranger still laughing in Calicos face.
Calico stood there, the force lowering to almost nothing, troops surged down the stairs and over to her, "Milord what has occurred here, your partner is wounded!"
A look of disgust slides across her face "Get her medical help, fix the wall and make my forces ready for a trip, I have an assault to plan"
She walked out leaving the assembled digimon wondering what the hell had just happened and why they were going to be made to suffer for it.
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Kari and I were the first ones off the boat as it were followed by our partners in their ultimate and champion forms respectively. Imperialdramon turned back into Wormon and Veemon who were then picked up by Ken and Yolei.
The fanfare as they started towards the crown was like those that we had only seen in movies. Men; obviously soldiers due to their weapons stood and saluted as we came forward and down the path leading to a raised platform that was obviously our destination. The crowd kept back by security details. A woman came down and asked us to follow her.
As we walked I scanned the crowd taking in the attitudes and looks that were given toward both us and our digimon. It was positive, yet we had been told that Digimon had never been here by Genai. How did they know us or our digimon. Signs held up showed that they had knowledge that they should not have had.
Worried I led the group down the giant red carpet trying to keep us to the middle just in case. The woman stopped and we paused waiting for the next part of the show to happen.
The woman asked us to proceed to the stage, Leading the rest we took the stage and lined up randomly, I passed on the message to the others to keep silent on who is who just in case.
A man who obviously was of some importance came forward, greeting everyone until he came in front of Kari and I, he saluted, reached down and shook my and Kari's hand. Welcome to Earth Delta TK, Kari.
He then walked down to the other end where the raised podium stood, so far nothing gave way that I was the leader, so far so good.
Izzy used his hidden mic and talked to me through the hidden earplug. The security people have some sort of weird cell phone shaped weapon, maybe a energy weapon or some sort of stun gun, watch out for those. I sub vocalize a generalized message to everyone, "watch yourselves for anything, remember our plans if the worst happens."
A tap on the mic brought their attention back to the man at the podium. The crowd silenced very quickly after this. The woman stepped up and began.
" Ladies and gentleman please help me welcome the President of the people of Earth as well as the Digidestined"
At this Cheers erupted from the assembled crowd, individuals in the crowd had signs that read thing like ' Welcome', ' Safe' and 'Home'. Further in the back though I could see a few signs that read things like ' no war', ' peace for all' and 'go away'. Thankfully these were in the minority, but it still worried me about what I had brought the others into, whether they Were really welcome or not would have to be seen.
My attention went back to the man they had announces as the president no less. Finally maybe we would get some answers to our situation.
He was not a small man, being a bit overweight but tall, having to extend the mic up to his level I could see him put on a big smile for the benefit of the crowd and from the way he looked at us, ours as well.
He raised his hands and the crowd went silent once more. "And finally they have arrived my fellow Citizens, thanks to a fellow citizen we have watched their progress for the last year even before being forced to flee from Earth Beta. We have all been afraid for their safety after the many attacks by the enemy until they managed to get into our galaxy's dimensional space. As you all know, we have a digital plain side by side with our own and were contacted about 4 months ago by our own Digimon counterparts who have stayed in seclusion all these years. You all know this group's story by now, a young man leading his group against overwhelming odds with their digimon partners. "
He paused and gripped the stand as if steadying himself for a major blow.
"I hereby officially welcome the Digidestined to our world as a stand alone body separate from our military and government and hope that working together we can overcome any problems that come our way! "
I must be tired or delusional, our little group was not just invited to be a part of their world without an argument but also made a separate entity of this Earth, someone was thinking when they thought that up.
My attention is diverted to a young woman and a digimon I could not recognize. As she came up the stairs she seemed to give me a soul searching look, allowing her eyes to pause on … certain areas, my unease must have been seen by Kari as she leaned forward a little threatening. The woman smiled as the president saluted her and she saluted back.
The president waved the mystery woman and Digimon to some seats set aside from the rest of them as he walked back behind the podium his body slanted to face both the crowd and the digidestined
" And here is our worlds leading scientist on Digimon Dr.Hikari and her partner Kunimon. They will serve as our liaison between us and the Digidestined, at least at first while they are still not used to us or our world. I thank you both for coming to this auspicious event."
" I ask all my fellow citizens to let them get adjusted and used to our ways, to let them heal both their bodies and their minds, we will have years to get to know them better! I now ask their leader Takuru Takashi and his assembled Digidestined to follow Dr.Hikari and her partner to their quarters he have set aside for them."
With this The President then saluted the Digidestined again, nodded to me and went down the path through the crowd toward what looked like a blue Pontiac Sunfire waiting for him. The crown began to disperse slowly at first but quicker as the police ushered them off. The protestors I had seen earlier were gone.
" I have got to remember to tell the others about that, we might be in for more trouble than we thought "
Standing up I then followed after Dr.Hikari towards what could only be described as a floating Double Decker Bus, more like a hover bus on second thought. Then Kari was right beside me, hand on elbow slowing me down to let the rest go past, a couple showed worried faces as they went by, most just nodded.
She leaned into me whispering for my ears only "" glad they aren't trying to split us up, makes me trust them just a little more, did you see the signs in the back? "
I just nod and continue on a little faster, we came up to Dr.Hikari who waved us to the side. Ignoring Kari, she speaks directly to me.
"It must have taken a lot of courage to pickup and retreat from that last battle near 5 months ago. We had an agent among your peers on Earth Beta who reported directly to me and the President. Sadly we stopped receiving information recently. Unfortunately most of the news we have is bad. Around 3 quarters of Earth Betas human population is dead with Earth Alphas fatality rate closer to ninety percent. The digimon fatality rate is around ninety five percent however. "
She pauses to let us digest this information, shock rides easily on Kari's face for a moment before she carefully guards her face, I don't allow my face to shift even though I known this means the chance of our families having survived is negligible. I shift Kari and my stance so the others now on the bus can't see our expressions; I'll have to choose a good time to tell the others.
Dr.Hikari comes forward and puts her hands on each of our shoulders and squeezed, acknowledging Kari for the first time.
" Look it isn't that bad, we don't have all the information you want but I can tell you is that there is a couple of organized resistance movements that are operating out of Earth C. What we don't know is who their leaders are or what goals they ultimately have."
I was not surprised to learn that the fatality rate was so high or that they had a spy among those we dealt with on Earth Beta, probably had one on Earth Alpha as well. But what was Earth C? Have to find that out soon, now is not the time, don't want the others to get worried if we spend to much time out here. I know that they will be happy to know there are some survivors out there though when I tell them.
I look into Kari's eyes, seeing the sadness hidden there solidifies my resolve to make a hard decision, an unfair decision.
I look directly at the Doctor carefully guarding my emotions with a neutral expression. "I would like you to make sure that information be withheld from the others for the time being, lets give them some time to adjust and heal before we tell them this news. If pushed tell them but I would prefer that I be the one to tell them!" Kari grabs my arm and squeezes it painfully; keeping my face neutral I look back at her.
" You know I'm right Kari, that's just the sort of thing that could do much more harm right now than we can afford, we need everyone to be in a fit mental state before blindsiding them with this sort of bad news, even if it is laced with a small silver lining "
My Heart breaks as I watch her fighting herself, different emotions fighting to come to the surface, her head lowered and her sign was audible giving me more hope that this path was correct, she would not back down if she thought I was completely wrong in my approach.
" Fine TK, I know you know what you are doing so I will go along with this, but only for a little while. " She released her hold on my arm and headed to the already loaded bus.
I watched her go, knowing I was in for a lecture later from her to let up and stop taking so much on myself, well tough, this is what I do. I focus back on Dr.Hikari.
"Well Doctor, any other bad news that you want to give to just me while you have the chance? Any news about our missing friends and family?"
The Doctor just shook her head and motioned for me to precede her to the bus.
I take a seat near the front of the bus near Cody, keeping a distance from Kari for the time being, I know everybody notices this but right now it is for the best.
Looking around I see questioning looks on the faces of the others, I know they saw what had occurred outside but I don't want to offer that information at this time.
Sora however is staring at Dr.Hikari with a look of confusion, maybe the doctor looks like someone Sora knew.
The bus begins to move just as the Doctor takes a seat across from me, she turns around to look at the rest of the assembled group just as Jerry and Kai both speaks up at the same time.
" You mentioned you had a spy back on our world, anyone we know? " from Jerry
" What is going to happen to us now?" from Kai
I see from the faces I can see that they must have discussed this while we were outside, good job you guys don't just leave it to me to get information.
Not surprised in the least, Dr.Hikari glances down at her partner and speaks up so everyone can hear.
" Well our spy was a human from our world by the name of Asaji." At this news Jerry Freaked out, " you mean she was from here all along, that's, that's amazing! Have you heard anything from her recently?"
" Well she did report in 3 weeks ago that something was happening there that made Apoklomons attack look friendly. No details however. So we have no idea what has been happening in the last 3 weeks, we do know however that both of the digital worlds have been merged permanently, this is good from a tactical point of view because now we access either world from within that one digital world, gives us a place to escape to if anyone got trapped on the other side. The suprising news for all of you is that the digital world and the real worlds have melded onto each other as if a map of the 4 worlds were overlaid and then areas shifted, much like the original groups fight against the dark masters but on a massive scale."
Veemon spoke from the back, "When can we eat, I'm famished after that long journey!"
At this everyone including Dr. Hikari laughed "We'll be there soon Veemon, you'll have food given to you as well as facilities. Don't worry! You are safe at this point, we have time before the next battle. By our calculations about 4 ½ years isn't it Izzy? "
This was the first time she had addressed a comment anyone specific, Izzy poked his head up " well yes, we know there is a gate somewhere in the digital world which will open and allow passage between the two worlds, however Genai was not specific where it was so I think we are going to be spending a long time finding it! "
" nope "
I smile as everyone turned and for the first time realized that Kunimon was right beside Dr.Hikari.
" You see we already have the portal secured and ready for them to try and force it before the gate is supposed to open, that is why I came here to talk to Dr. Hikari. You see we Digimon here in what we call the Delta Server are born and bred to be fighters, we had a guest from one of your digital servers. He came among us powerful and was a honored guest because of that power we saw in him, but then we found he was relaying information back through the gate to a Child on the other side for use in an invasion not our server and so we terminated our guest. We then sealed the small hole that he had used one way and have it covered so that even when the gate opens, it will take a massive force to get it, hopefully by then you will have this protection system up on both our Servers and be able to prepare a counter offensive. "
I was surprised just how much information we had just got out of him without even asking, even Dr.Hikari showed signs of shock. Kunimon continued without more than a breath between.
" Up until I became Dr. Hikari's partner, No Digimon had ever come to this server and thus we had no idea how much extra power and help we would be able to get with partnering, some even see it as cowardly to do this but they came around after our guest turned out to be a spy of our cousins. If I may say so, you all have very high power levels, I will enjoy working and training together with all of you! "
" ahem, lets not jump the gun my friend, after all we don't even know if they want to fight anymore, they may want to rest and be able to relax for a while and leave everything to us! " Dr.Hikari admonished him.
" Bah, they look like fighters to me, after all they have fought and died for their worlds, not that I would think any less of them if they did not want to fight anymore! "
The need to defend all of us drove me onto my feet " look, I may not speak for all of us " someone laughed behind me " however we came here to get your help in fighting back and maybe taking back our worlds, we didn't expect that there would be anyone here that would help us and thought that we would only at best have a place to defend from, now if what I understand you are saying, we are going to have a large group of digimon "
" Try all of them " Kunimon put in " and the help of a technologically superior culture to help fight back. Is this at all correct? "
"Basically "/ " Yes " came from both human and partner.
" Okay then, I know I am going to fight back, I wont just sit on the side and wait for things to happen, however I must admit, the group of us do need some time to fully heal and get back into our prime. It hasn't been a restful ride to get here, and having to think of receiving opposition here was not exactly a soothing thought. " I looked right at Dr. Hikari during the whole speech and was getting nods and smiles up until I mentioned opposition, and I doubt I was the only one to notice the reaction.
Cody spoke up for the first time since landing, " I take it from your reaction to TK's mention of opposition, that not everybody is glad to see us get here, even I noticed the signs way in the back of the crowd that were not exactly what I would call welcome signs! "
Dr. Hikari's reaction made her look like a deer looking into headlights, " I really don't know if this is the best time to talk about this, I would rather be in a secure place before we talk about any plans, strategies, problems or powers anyone here may posses. All I want to say is that the majority of the planet supports you and will fight beside you with everything we have, we have not had a war in over 300 years but since Agent Asaji sent back all the information she had on everything on Earth Beta we have trained large groups to fight. Please understand that this was not seen as a positive thing by some people and one group in particular. Because of the changes they have vowed to wipe out those who would fight in order to keep the peace. They believe that if we do not oppose any incoming digimon army's, that they will allow us to continue on in peace and not destroy us. "
At the mention of peace Sora lifted her head and laughed out loud, it was as sarcastic as anyone had ever heard her talk before " and they actually think they will be left alone, I was in charge of protecting just that sort of place back on Earth Prime, they were a group of assorted Monks, Christians and Catholics who wanted nothing more than to be left alone in peace. A Machinedromon came over the hill into the valley and completely destroyed the monastery and then took inherent pleasure in stepping on those who survived the explosion, the only reason I survived is one of the other Digidestined that were there managed to throw me into a partially active laptop that he had with him and got me into the digital world. "she seemed to pause there "I will not allow a group here to take that stance and then die without realizing what is going to happen to them! "
I could see this surprised everyone but Kari and me both of us having been briefed on that particular travesty, Izzy got up, went over to her and put his arm around her, Sora broke down at this point and began to cry into his shoulder. Frankly I was surprised by the fact that Sora would break down like that; Sora had been the strongest of them on multiple occasions.
An explosion hit the road in front of them and the bus driver swerved around the crater, additional explosions began to rock the bus until one impacted right next to where I sat.
Lights flashed in front of me and I heard a scream from someone to "Get down".
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I came to what must have been mere moments later, I levered my arm to get up on my knees but the arm buckled as white hot pain flowed through me. The are was bent the wrong way and I could tell it was broken badly. One arm useless I used the other and my shoulder to brace myself against a wall. Must have been thrown from the bus in the explosion, thick smoke covered everything in a choking haze. The bus was nothing but rubble. Looks like it had taken a couple shells after the initial crash. Hope everyone got out.
The smoke cleared somewhat and I was able to see Cody not far away struggling to get further away from the buss, he was making no progress and was in a pool of what looked to be his own blood.
A group walked out of the alley close to Cody, I started to shout out to them to get Cody help when I saw the guns they were packing and the symbol on their arm, it was a dark digimon symbol.
My blood froze as the person kicked Cody in side flipping him onto his back, Cody screamed out in pain.
The smoke hid my presence from their vision but did nothing to mask their voices.
" Well here is our first kill lady and gents, the first scum that dares to bring war back to our world. We were told that we would be left alone, only those who do not fight will be spared. As thus, we must wipe out these digidestined as we promised our lord!"
Cody coughed up blood, trying to respond. "Your just pawns, they will kill you first when they come" all energy expended, Cody's head lowered to the ground and he was still.
The figure that talked pointed at Cody and laughed. "put a bullet in his head and lets get out of here, the MP's will be here soon and I don't think any of the others are nearby so he will be our only personal kill of the day.
Anger like I had felt only a couple times before flowed through my body. The smoke flowed away as if I was emanating a mighty gust of wind through my whole body. Then I was next to Cody, his assailants running away, looking down I see him with his eyes and mouth open as far as they could go, a cream emanted from him toward me.
All my energy seemed drained away in an instance. I'm falling then nothing.
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Kari's consiousness returned to find herself blindly staggering around, incoming sirens seemed muffled as if heard through earplugs. Must have been hit by the concusion in the attack, gotta find Takuru and the others, cant rest. Arm dangling with no strength to it at all, legs cut and bleeding I make my way towards what remains of the bus, now not much more than pieces of frame and a hole in the ground.
A laugh off to the left alerts me to others, maybe some help has already arrived, I stager as fast as I can toward the sound until I hear Cody scream out in pain accompanied by another laugh.
In pain I drop to my knees to drop below the level of the still present smoke and dust cloud. There I see the a person with a gun pointed at Cody's head, time seems to stop as I see him pulling the trigger, then Takuru was there.
He savagely rips the attackers arms off with his claws, CLAWS! WTF! TK smiles as the blood pours over him and Cody and he backhands the now armless screaming body to the side. The others are now running down the ally towards a truck parked there.
TK looks down and they stare at each other for a moment before Cody begins to scream.
I can see the shock on TK's face as his knees begin to give, his hands now back to normal human hands. He falls… hard. I struggle to my feet as fast as I can to get to him, reaching him I slide no doubt hurting my legs more check for his pulse.
There is none. I raise my head.
"TK! "
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Dr.Hikari watched on in astonishment as TK changed and then seemed to go so fast he teleported to help Cody, the shear ferocity that he showed when he literally disarmed his opponent disturbed her a little. When he fell and saw Kari go up to him she got up and walked over to her partner to help him up
They both started to look around for other survivors, as the sounds of sirens approaching grew louder.
" TK! "
She turned her head around and started at a run toward them.
She was no longer close enough to her partner to hear him speak 4 words that would come to dominate their future.
" The Evolution Has Begun "
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There, the published portions of my fic are now rewritten, everything from now on has not been seen before, granted the rewrite has drastically changed how some characters are and their paths in this story.
3 Chapters and I have only begun. I am looking for an artist to maybe make a comic of this, any takers?
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