The two bullets hit Kari right in the left shoulder. She lurched back, screaming in pain. Tai turned around. "KARI!" He fired his final round downrange then sprinted across the battlefield to his fallen sister.
Patrick looked down as Tai fell Kari's side, and felt her pulse. "Barely anything…" he muttered. He looked at his unconscious sister's wound and started whispering to her. "Come on, don't die on me…"
By this time, Yolei and TK had come over to help Tai. Seeing their fallen comrade, the digimon fought even harder, but to no avail.
Rage filled Patrick's eyes. Those bastards! They were going to pay! He removed his Desert Eagle and dumped it beside Sora, along with a few magazines for it and the other's M9s and a roll of bandages. She looked up at Patrick. "Defend yourself, and patch Kari up. Try to stop the bleeding. I'll remove the bullets later" He said. Sora noticed that his tone had changed completely! He was no longer light hearted, but stern and angry. A point on his chest started glowing brightly.
Patrick ran out into the battlefield, dropping his weapon and took out his digivice. "Balckwargreymon!" He yelled. His partner finished mauling a poor rifleman to pieces and turned to Patrick. When he saw the look in the boy's eyes he knew what to do. Charged towards him, and was just about to impact when the light on Patrick chest exploded, engulfing him and his digimon.
Everyone in the gym stopped and turned around to see the blinding spectacle that was there.
"Biomerge to Warmarinedramon!"
Suddenly the light stopped and in Patrick's place was now a large figure. He looked a lot like Blackwargreymon, except he had human features instead of dinosaur ones. The huge gauntlets were removed and now he just had camo gloves. In fact, all his armour was coloured in a camouflage pattern.
The new digimon stood infront of the now diminished army of riflemen. There were only a few now. Warmarinedramon stood on the M16 Patrick had dropped and kicked it in a way that flicked it up into his waiting arms. He brought it up to his shoulder and aimed it at the remaining riflemen. "DIE!" He yelled in a mixture of Blackwargreymon and Patrick's voice as he flicked the fire-selection into full-auto and opened up on the unlucky riflemen. The figures were completely blown away…quite literally…by the onslaught.
Warmarinedramon only stopped to reload, which only took about two seconds. It seem that he was far faster and had better reflexes than even Blackwargreymon.
Suddenly, the large platform in the middle of the gym started wining. Everyone looked at it as a bolt of electricity shot between the two dishes and froze in a long bar. This bar slowly flattened out into large white disk…a portal.
The digimon could only watch in horror as about twenty of the ninja things emerged from the portal and landed in the gym. They wasted no time unsheathing their swords and charging for the digimon.
"Terra Force!"
The orb smashed into the new group of enemies, but had no effect. "What!" Wargreymon shouted in confusion.
Warmarinedramon raised his rifle and fire a short burst at an oncoming ninja. It's head exploded and it fell to the ground, dead. The digimon turned to their newest ally. "Aim for the head. No armour there!" Yelled Warmarinedramon. The digimon nodded as they went into melee mode, aiming for the head.
Meanwhile, as the digimon fought the newest attack, the digidestined sat at the front of the room, behind the large chunk of rubble from the wall behind them.
"Come on! We gotta help our digimon!" Yolei told the others
"What can we do?" Sora asked
"We've got weapons, haven't we? Use them. Bullets seem to be much more effective against those ninja things than our digimon's attacks!"
"Yolei…are you…ok? You seem very eager to kill people"
"Patrick is very good at pep talks," TK said
"I hate to agree, but Yolei's right." Tai stood up, and tried to unload the magazine out of his handgun. Seeing he was struggling, TK reached over and hit the magazine release switch. The cartridge fell to the floor, allowing Tai to put in a new one. The others did the same.
"Are you sure? In all our 'adventures' we've destroyed a lot of digimon. We've never had to actually kill someone before…you know…in the real world." Sora seemed reluctant to fight.
"Those things are hardly human. We're probably be doing them a favour." Yolei told the others. They all nodded in reply.
Sora reached over and shakily picked up the Desert Eagle. TK grabbed her hand. "No. Patrick told those things have some nasty recoil. I better take it" Sora just stared and then finally nodded, accepting TK's M9.
"Then lets go!" Sora said as the digidestined ran into the battlefield. Before he left, Tai knelt down beside Kari. She was still out cold. "Don't worry," he whispered, "I'm going to get them for you, then we're going home and forgetting this whole thing" Then he stood up and charged after the others.
A few seconds later a shadow descended over Kari's body. "Come with me," it said, "I'll patch you up."
The digimon were having a tough time. Birdramon had regressed along with Halsemon to rookie form and were now resting along the side. Patamon soon followed as Angemon was sliced from both sides. Now it was only Wargreymon, Gatomon and Warmarinedramon. Wargreymon had sustained a few hits to his arms and legs, but kept on fighting, for Kari. Gatomon was using her agility to dodge all the attacks, and even had scored a few kills.
Warmarinedramon had changed the function of his M16/M203 from a gun into a baseball bat. He was smashing away when he heard about a large bang go off. He turned behind him to see a ninja thing collapse behind him. When he looked up, he saw Tai in the background with his handgun up. He was smiling. "Good." Thought Warmarinedramon, "He's tougher than I thought"
Tai looked at the kill he had scored when it finally hit home. He had never really noticed it when he nailed someone before hand. Those riflemen seemed to have no personality…no life. These dark ninja things are far livelier. Killing one seemed to hurt himself much more than it hurt it.
Warmarinedramon noticed Tai looking down at his gun. He went over and nudged him slightly. Tai looked up. "Look," Warmarinedramon started, "Your conscience is bound to get in the way a little now and then. Just remember that if you were in his position, wound he give you and mercy? Would he even hesitate to pull the trigger?" Tai sighed. "No" he said. "Good. Now go and give'em hell"
Warmarinedramon looked around him to see that all the digidestined were in the battlefield, even Sora, firing away at ninjas. Emphasis on firing at - her accuracy was terrible! Sora seemed more afraid of her gun than the targets she was shooting. The biomerged digimon sighed and rejoined the fight, making a mental note to give the other digidestined a crash course in firearm handling when this was all over.
It didn't take long before none of the dark figures still stood.
The digimon surveyed the gym. It was filled with bodies, as well as a coating of dust from the large hole in the wall Blackwargreymon had caused.
"Hell yeah!" shouted Warmarinedramon.
Just then there was a shout for the back of the room. Warmarinedramon flipped his rifle up in the air, caught it against his shoulder and swung around. Then his eyes went wide. "No" he said
The others looked and were also shocked. The Portal the ninjas had come through was still on, but it wasn't that which bothered the digidestined. Standing in front of the white disk was the leader of the riflemen. Over his shoulder he was holding Kari's limp body, and in the other was what looked like a CD-ROM.
He held up the disk, "This is the co-ordinates targeting program for the portal. Without it, you can't restart the machine. Don't worry; I'll take good care of Kari here…" with that he started to reverse into the disk.
"OH NO YA DON'T!" Warmarinedramon raised his rifle, only to be stopped by Tai
"Stop! You might hit Kari!"
"Are you questioning my accuracy?" Warmarinedramon sounded offended
"Don't try!"
"Watch me!"
Warmarinedramon flipped the rifle into single shot and took aim.
"Bingo!" He jammed down the trigger
CLICK! Warmarinedramon looked down his rifle, "WHAT!"
CLICK!
CLICK!
CLICK!
Just then the leader jumped through the portal. There were jolts of lightning across its surface as it quickly disappeared.
Then silence.
"AAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHH!" Warmarinedramon burst out, "OF ALL THE TIMES AND PLACES FOR A JAM!"
He dropped his rifle with a clatter. "You overcomplicated piece of shit!" He kicked it so hard across the room that it snapped in two when it hit the wall.
Usually, Tai would try to calm someone like this down, but he didn't this time. Warmarinedramon had good reason to be angry. Also, he was afraid of ending up like that M16…
Tai was angry with himself as well. He shouldn't have left Kari alone! It was all Yolei's fault. If she hadn't suggested we leave her to fight the ninjas, we would be safe. Mind you, he doubted whether or not the digimon would of survived if they hadn't of helped. Seemed it was inevitable one of them would be captured.
It took a few seconds, but he finally calmed down. He looked down and closed his eyes. In a sudden flash of light Warmarinedramon split back into Patrick and Blackagumon.
Patrick turned to the others. "Sorry about that. My crest gets the better of me sometimes…"
"What is you crest?" Yolei asked
Patrick reached into his shirt and took out a familiar tag, like the ones Tai, Sora and TK had about four years ago…
He held it up to the others. The crest looked like a zig-zag line between two parallel lines. "Mine is the Crest of Rage. Every time I get angry I can biomerge with Blackwargreymon"
"You've done that before?" TK asked
"Yeah, once."
"When?"
"Tell youse later, it's a long story. Now come on we've got to get your girl…"
"Errrr…Patrick. Aren't you forgetting something?"
Patrick stopped, "Oh yeah, that CD thi…"
Patrick was stopped in his tracks, as there was a short burst of light near the platform.
He turned to see a sight he did not expect. The others stood in amazement as well.
There, standing by one of the consoles was a Warmarinedramon.