The group set down in the school's library, beside the very computer that had sent an E-Mail to them just two days beforehand. The digimon all digivolved to rookie before Sora noticed something:
"Look. Blood" They all looked down at the small pool of dried blood Sora was pointing out. Behind it was a small trail of blood. "It might lead us to someone, let's follow it." They moved two steps around a bookcase, before they were confronted with even more evidence.
Tai knelt down beside three spent cartridges and picked up the M9 handgun. Tai was surprised, "A gun? What's this doing here?" The others were confused too. He fiddled with it until he found the safety, clicked it on, then put the gun into his pocket. "There are shells all over the place," Kari pointed at the 2 other shells just outside the broken down door.
The group walked out the door before noticing two dead bodies lying on the floor. One of which, had no head. They tried to ignore them but the smell of death was overwhelming.
Tai looked down both corridors leading in opposite directions. "Ok, here's the plan. We're going to split up. Me, Kari and Sora will go this way" he thumbed in the direction the blood trail was going, towards west wing, "Yolei and TK, you go that way," he pointed towards the door leading to east wing. They all nodded and went their separate ways.
TK and Yolei headed through the door to the east wing. "Here we go again" TK walked toward the beheaded body of a certain Dominic 'Cap' Spencer. "You, might want to look away," said TK as he walked between Yolei and the body "Gladly" she turned around and walked towards the computer room a few metres away. The window was blacked out with cardboard for some reason.
TK looked at the body. It was a gruesome sight. There was a large lake of dried blood at the neck where the head had been. Strangely, there was no sign of the head itself. TK was sure it was the body of a Commando or something according to the combats he was wearing. He never noticed that the body did not have its flak jacket, rifle, any grenades or a handgun. TK just moved on. "OK Yolei, lets move on" Yolei walked past the body making sure her head was turned in the opposite direction.
Meanwhile, Tai, Sora and Kari had reached the west wing, and the two girls nearly threw up when they reached the science department. "Ok, time to follow the trail of blood down this corridor" The walked out onto the glazed corridor, where they found the blood trail suddenly stopped. They took two steps past the end of the trail before they noticed movement on the other side. Through the double doors that led to the music and languages department, about a dozen masked men, completely clothed in black and holding M4 carbines entered.
They immediately moved into 2 rows of six, the first row knelt down. "Errr, we come in peace" Tai waved at the crowd. They replied by removing the safeties on their rifles. "Ok, they don't like us" He turned to the two petrified girls behind him. "Digivolve" The three digimon nodded.
"Agumon warp digivolve to Wargreymon"
"Biyomon digivolve to Birdramon"
"Gatomon armour digivolve to Nefertimon"
The three digimon stood in front of their partners, causing the dark riflemen to open fire, all at the same time. The hailstorm of bullets ripped into Birdramon, who was too big to dodge them. She immediately reverted to Biyomon.
"Terra Force!" The massive orb slammed into the line of troops, scattering them everywhere.
Nefertimon was about to attack when Kari fell to the ground. Behind here was a dark figure with a sword in its sheath. "Wargreymon!" Tai called his digimon to attack, but it was too late. Two other dark ninjas appeared behind Sora and Tai, hitting their necks in a way that knocked them cold. Without their partners, Wargreymon and Nefertimon soon regressed to Agumon and Salamon. The remaining riflemen reloaded simultaneously. Their job was done, so they immediately turned and heaed back into the music department.
The Dark figures rounded up the weakened digimon, and stuffed them into black sacks. One of them carried the two sacks, while the others picked up the three digidestined on the ground and onto their shoulder. Then they silently disappeared.
TK and Yolei had reached the end of the English corridor, and were confronted with a large section of the history corridor above. "Some sort of cave-in?" TK suggested. Patamon and Hawkmon had flown up into the exposed corridor above. When they returned, they simply reported that there were more classrooms of death, just like the ones down this corridor.
Suddenly, in the background, they heard gunshots. They spun around, to hear where it was coming from. "That's coming form the direction Tai and the others went!" Yolei sounded frightened. Their digimon went infront of them.
"Have no fear Yolei, I shall protect you" Hawkmon stood ready to fight
Just then, about six masked men walked up to the end of the corridor. They each held an M4 Carbine, and wasted no time arranging into two rows of three, the front row kneeling down. They all pointed their rifles at TK and Yolei.
The two digidestined just stared at their doom, until suddenly, the six men exploded and were flung all over the place.
"GET DOWN!"
The two kids couldn't hear where this was coming from, but they just hit the floor anyway. Just in time too, as two bursts of bullets flew over them and hit their target…behind them.
TK looked around to see another two dark ninja like figures collapse on top of the rubble. They both looked to where the riflemen had been. The smoke had cleared and they could see a teenager, no older than 17 standing with an M16/M203 held up against his shoulder. He yanked out the magazine; put it into the flak jacket he was wearing, pulled off another and slammed it backed into the rifle. This took about three seconds.
The boy walked over to the two digimon, who stood up ready to attack. "Don't come any closer mister!" Patamon said bravely, even thought he was paralysed with fear.
The boy simply put the rifle strap over his shoulder, and stepped over the two digimon standing in his way. He put his hands out to help TK and Yolei up, but they just sat there on the floor. "Don't worry, I ain't here to hurt ya. In fact, I just saved your asses" he said. The two digidestined grabbed his hand and got up. "Errrr…thanks" TK was quite shaken after that attack. He turned to the two who had tried to sneak up on them.
"Who are they? What the hell is going on?"
"All shall be revealed later"
The boy turned to Yolei, who was just staring at him dreamily. "You're not from around here are you?"
Yolei snapped out of it and replied, "No, how'd you know"
"Purple hair."
"What's wrong with that?"
"Nothing, it's just uncommon around here"
"Who are you?" TK asked
"Name's Patrick O'Reilly, and I think you're going to have to come with me"