Kari slowly opened her eyes. God, her neck was throbbing with pain. The last thing she remembers was going into the glazed corridor. Then what? Oh yeah! They were attacked, and then everything went black.
Kari started to look around. Her arms seemed to be tied behind her back pretty tightly. They weren't going to budge. She sat up to see that her brother and Sora were lying on the floor beside her, unconscious. Then she heard a noise behind her. She looked around and her eyes went wide.
There, sitting proud in front of them was a huge machine. In the center, and what seemed to be the main component, was a large circular platform, about 5 meters in diameter. At opposite ends stood two pillars about 2 meters high and were both supporting large dishes, like satellite ones you get at home, but a bit bigger and without a receiver.
Alongside this structure were many computer consoles. Riflemen a lot like the ones that attacked them were using them. They looked like they were activating it. One of the men was wearing huge amounts of armour plating and a mask like the others, was walking up and down the row of computers, inspecting disused ones. He must be the boss, Kari thought.
Just then, she heard a moan. Tai opened his eyes and sat up. When he realised that his arms were tied behind his back, he looked around and turned to Kari. "What the hell happened? Where's Agumon?"
Kari eyed two sacks beside Tai that had large lumps in them "I think that's them"
"Quiet over there!" A rifleman walked over to the two siblings. "The portal's almost ready. Prepare yourselves" he looked down at Sora, "And wake sleeping beauty there"
Tai elbowed Sora in the side. "Wake up!" Sora shifted slightly and sat up "Whaaaa….." She was cut off when the doors to the gym opened up and about 20 riflemen and 5 ninja things entered and stood in front of the 'portal'.
"Youse in position?" Patrick's voice came over the radio. TK pressed the microphone button on the headset Patrick had given him.
"Yep. Yolei and I are in position," he whispered
"Good. Plant the charge. Yolei, you try to get the message to Tai"
TK turned and nodded to Yolei. She nodded back and looked through the window in the door. About 3 minutes ago, and army of those dark figures had entered the gym and were now standing in front of a strange machine. They were waiting for something...
Yolei looked at their three friends lying on the floor. They were also looking at the machine, as if they were waiting for something as well. Yolei took out her D-Terminal and typed a message to Tai…
Tai felt a buzz in his pocket. It must be my D-Terminal, he thought; so he tried to reach down to see who it was, when he was reminded that he was tied up. "Hey. Kari!" Tai whispered over to his sister.
Kari turned around, "What is it?"
"My terminal, can you get it out?"
She looked puzzled, "Ok…I'll try"
The two siblings sat back to back as Kari reached into her brother's pocket and took out his D-Terminal. "Got it," she said
Tai turned around, "Great, now try and open it"
Kari fumbled with it behind her back, but managed to get it open, and with Tai's directions, opened the new message.
"Good work. Now lets see…Yolei! She's ok!"
"What about TK?"
"Errrr…yeah he's ok too"
Kari sighed with relief. Tai continued to read the message, then told the others about it.
Yolei turned to TK beside her. He had finished planting the small C4 charge on the locked door, just as Patrick had shown him. "Got it," she whispered into her mic. "Good," Patrick's voice came over the radio, "Get ready, I'm opening up" The two digidestined took an M9 handgun from their pockets, flicked off the safety and turned to their digimon. "Ready" they whispered. Patamon and Hawkmon nodded. Yolei looked down at the gun in her hand. When she got up this morning, she had absolutely no idea that by the evening she would be about to shoot someone…
Patrick turned to Blackagumon behind him. He was looking up and down the corridor, "Ready?" Blackagumon nodded in reply. Patrick turned back round to the window and the small hole he had broken out. He and Blackagumon were inside a classroom on the History corridor.
Patrick brought the PSG-1 sniper rifle up to his shoulder and looked thought the scope. From this room he had an almost perfect view of the gym. They would have chosen a room further down, but the floor was sort of…well…missing.
He looked through the windows of the gym and could see that there was an entire army down there, just like TK had said. He slowly scanned the crosshairs over the scene, before settling on an attack plan. "Here goes…"
Sora looked around in confusion. Tai had just woken her up about 5 minutes ago to find herself, Tai and Kari on the floor of some sort of gym. She had seen the message Yolei had sent and now they knew what to do.
Suddenly there were six bangs; the first smashed a glass window, but each one was followed by one of the ninja things collapsing. Now they were all gone and the remaining riflemen looked around in confusion. Tai, Kari and Sora jumped up and bowed forward just as Yolei had instucted. A second later, a bullet ripped through the ropes, freeing him. The now free Tai wasted no time at all taking out his handgun. Once they were free, the two girls went over to free their digimon, as Tai turned round and started firing at the riflemen, who were still utterly confused.
BOOOOOOM! The C4 charge blew the door to pieces.
"Patamon digivolve to Angemon"
"Hawkmon armour digivolve to Halsemon"
The two digimon charged into the room and started attacking the riflemen, and were soon followed by their partners, who stayed at the opening they had created and opened up with their handguns.
Patrick looked down at the battle going on down in the gym about 50 meters in front of him. He turned to Blackagumon, who was waiting at the door. "Lets go" They both ran out the door.
Sora and Kari fiddled with the knots in the top of the sacks. The digimon inside had woken up and were squirming around trying to free them, to no avail. Finally Kari got her bag open. Agumon popped out and looked around.
"What's going on?"
"No time to explain. Help Tai!"
"Will do! He ran over to Tai, who was hiding behind a nearby console, frantically trying to work out how to un-jam his sidearm.
"Tai! I'm ready!" Tai looked up at Agumon and promptly dropped his gun in favour of his digivice.
"Go!" He said, holding it up
"Agumon warp-digivolve to Wargreymon" Wargreymon wasted no time attacking the riflemen.
With this enormous battle going on, nobody actually noticed the riflemen that were at the consoles at the back of the room, along with their leader.
"Lieutenant, shall we fight?" one asked
"No, continue with the activation procedure. I have a plan," The lieutenant ordered.
Sora got her's open, and out jumped Salamon and Biyomon. The two digimon hurried to their partner's sides. They looked ready. The two girls took out their digivices as the two fearless digimon ran into combat.
"Biyomon digivolve to Birdramon!"
"Salamon digivolve to Gatomon!"
Suddenly the front wall of the gym exploded. Everyone in the room stopped to check out this new threat. There was so much smoke and dust in the air that no one could see the culprit.
"Terra Destroyer!"
The orb hurled through the dust and smashed into a collection of riflemen about to get in formation. It was closely followed by a Blackwargreymon, who landed in the middle of the room and wasted no time hacking away at some nearby riflemen.
Patrick jumped through the hole Blackwargreymon had made, raised his M16/M203 rifle and nailed a rifleman.
"Go Blackwargreymon! Kick their asses!"
Patrick crouched behind a large piece of rubble and fired his rifle over it a few times. He ducked down to reload when he realised he had visitors. Kari and Sora were sitting beside him, both looking a mixture of scared and confused.
"You…you must be Declan…" Sora said shakily.
Patrick jumped up and nailed a few incoming riflemen before crouching back behind the rubble.
"No, Declan is an AHEM associate of mine. Patrick O'Reilly's me name, pleased to meet ya" He looked at the two petrified girls, "And youse are…"
"Oh sorry…I'm Sora and this is Kari…Tai's sister"
"Pleased to…HEADS UP!" A rifleman suddenly appeared behind Sora and aimed at her head. Patrick jumped up and almost reflexively slammed the butt of his gun into the firgure's face. There was a sickening 'crack' as the nose was broken up into its brain. Death was instantaneous, however, that didn't stop him getting a few rounds of. Thankfully, the force of the sudden melee attack flung the thing off balance, so the two rounds it did get off missed Sora completely…
...and hit Kari.