Just so you know, anything with slash infront of it is a computer command
Why am I tell you this?
I ain't saying! Read and find out for yourself!
You never know, you might just enjoy it...
Chapter 12 – Counter-counter-counter Attack
"This place just keeps getting more and more random" Patrick looked though the green scope at the warship sliding towards the dock. The words USS SHILOH were emblazed on the side.
"Hold on a sec" he pulled out his PDA and started tapping. A few minutes later he put it away and returned to the scope, "Just as I thought, it's a real ship from our time period"
"Is that good or bad?" Sora asked
"Considering that a US Navy destroyer is just about to dock in the digital world, I'd say that's bad for us. They must have ties with the US military"
"I taking that's bad then"
Patrick turned to Sora, "The most powerful Naval force in the world is on their team. Yeah, I think that's bad"
He looked through the scope one last time before putting it away, "Right, this changes things. I don't want to send too many people to the docks because of the Shiloh. Me and TK will go through the docks. If Blackagumon reverted to in training, he should easily fit in your pack. We're gonna have to be stealthy, so I've got some MP5SDs. When we get to a computer terminal I'll try and disable the SAMs. Then I want Birdramon to drop Tai and Wargreymon into the base. We'll go down and find Kari, while youse find their portal. Then we'll link up and go home," he smiled, "How's that?"
"Not to bad. But how are you so sure you could disable the defences from any computer terminal?" Tai asked
"It's complicated, so leave that part to me" he turned to the TK and nodded towards the speedboat, "Come on. Lets initiate Plan C3A!"
"C3A? Dare I ask what that stands for?" Yolei asked
"Simple," he smiled "Counter-counter-counter attack!"
"What!"
"Think about it, they attacked the school, thats an attack. We had a counter attack. They then 'counter-counter attacked' out camp, so that means that we're 'counter-counter-counter' attacking!"
The group just stared at Patrick
"What? That can't be too complicated!"
"It's not, we just think it's the most messed up thing we've ever heard"
"You think thats bad, what if I was to tell you that digiports use a method of transportaion that includes breaking you up into a stream of electrons, then reasembling you effortlessly in a digital state in an environment of data"
"Look, stop going all Izzy on us and make with the plan!" Sora snarled
The great warship slowly started to approach the dock. On the dockside, a man dressed in black robes was standing with three bodyguards, two of which were clearly female. They were also dressed in black and were each wearing a balaclava, as well as huge amounts of body armour.
So much attention was focused on the cruiser that nobody really noticed the speedboat slip into the dock.
Patrick jumped out of the boat onto the jetty and moored the boat. TK soon followed.
The only thing between them and the Shiloh was a large yacht, moored in the dock between them.
Patrick moved to the end, MP5SD in hand. All they needed to do was reach the passage leading into the mountain. It wasn't heavily guarded and everyone seemed to have their backs to it.
"You two ok in there?" TK shook his rucksack
"We're fine" he heard Patamon say
"No we're not, you keep sticking your wing in my eye!" They heard Koromon say
"That's because you're on my side again!"
"Sides? There are no sides! It's all one space!"
"Quiet down you two, we don't want to give our position away!" Patrick hissed, "Ok, here's the plan, I'm going to run over to that wall their beside the corridor. When I give the signal, you follow, right?"
"What if they see you?"
"We're screwed. Well, here goes…"
Patrick aimed his submachine gun at the rock face that had the large opening into the mountain, and ran as fast as he could towards it.
Yolei was watching the whole thing through the scope of her PSG1. Patrick had just sprinted over to that rock and crouched behind it. TK followed, then they both cautiously walked into the large tunnel, and she lost sight of them. She was amazed that nobody had seen them.
The two boys walked carefully down the tunnel. They soon found a side passage that led off to the right. They took that, as they were sitting ducks in the open tunnel.
After a few close encounters with guards, which Patrick disposed of in his own way, they made it to a security checkpoint.
They were standing at the corner of the corridor. Around the bend, about 20 metres away, was a metal blast door. Beside it was a small cubicle, where a guard was sitting, shielded from the intruders.
"Hey TK, watch this" Patrick said
TK was shocked when Patrick casually walked out into the corridor and started whistling. The guard stuck his head out of the cubicle, but before he could shout "HEY!" three 9mm rounds hit him in the head.
"Very nice, but now what?" TK asked as he walked into the corridor
"From what I can see, there's a computer terminal in that cubicle. Time to get hackin!" He ran up to the console and started typing at a furious pace, "You keep an eye out. If anyone comes, nail them"
The captain of the Shiloh walked out onto the deck. A man in dark robes walked up onto the ship and approached him. Three highly armoured riflemen bodyguards followed him.
"Supreme Commander, I come for refuelling and rearming. May I trust it will be done well?"
"Yes, but we require something" The dark figure said
"What?"
"We need a few EM warheads. We are running quite…low on them and are expecting an attack soon."
"Of course," he gave an order to a nearby crew member to unload any spare EM warheads from the magazines, "What was that missile strike for? Is it linked with the expected attack?"
"Indeed. There was a camp of resistance forces southeast of here. Our commandos messed up the capture procedure so they armed the emergency beacon"
"Were they all eliminated?"
"I'm sure the EMP wiped them all out…"
"Sir, our LASMs aren't equipped with EM warheads"
"WHAT?"
"EM warheads are to big for the lightweight missiles"
The dark figure growled angrily, "In that case, some might of survived"
The captain lowered his head, "I am sorry"
"You are to stay here and help fend off the assault when it arrives. After, and only after, may you depart. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes sir" the captain nodded
The robed man and his bodyguards marched back off the deck and back into the mountain.
"Hows it going?" TK asked
"Not too bad, I'm still trying to get into the main defence server. Gimme a minute"
59 seconds later
"Huzzah! I'm in!" Patrick called TK over, "Shouldn't take too…long…now" Patrick's jaw dropped
"What's wrong?"
"That bastard Cody tricked us…"
"Do you think we'll ever get home?" Sora asked
Her and Tai were by the pebbled beach, waiting for Patrick's signal.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean…Patrick. Why do we follow him? How can we trust him?
"Do we have any other choice?"
"Yes. We could have waited back at that school for Davis and the others. We could have got Imperialdramon and Metalgarurumon. We could have done it our way instead of his way"
"We probably could of, but it's strange" he started scratching his head, "Every time he asks us to do something I have the sudden urge to obey"
"Yeah, I sorta get that too"
"What do you think it is?"
"No idea, but the truth is, I think he needs us more than we need him"
"What did he do?"
"Take a look at this" Patrick tilted the monitor towards TK. It read:
PCX-14 MAIN DEFENCE SERVER
RESTRICTED ACCESS
ANTI ARMOUR DEFENCES – ACTIVE
ANTI INFANTRY DEFENCES – SEMI ACTIVE
EARLY WARNING RADAR – ACTIVE
ANTI SHIP DEFENCES – ACTIVE
ANTI AIR DEFENCES – INACTIVE
/dir antiairdefences
Processing command
ANTI AIR DEFENCES:
PAC-3 PATRIOT INTERCEPTORS – Overhaul
STINGER SAM BATTERIES – Overhaul
/info
Processing commandPAC-3 – Arming new EM warheads
STINGER – Arming new EM warheads
Typical time taken – 24 hoursTime until completion – 6 hours
Patrick looked at the TK sternly, "He lied to us"
"No…" TK was shocked
"The AA defences were offline this entire time"
"Biyomon digivolve to Birdramon"
"Agumon warp digivolve to Wargreymon"
The two digimon stood in front of their partners, ready to fight.
"Ok guys, as soon as Patrick gives the signal, we're going into the castle, ok"
"Sure thing" the mega said
Just then a crackle came over the radio, "Ok guys, commence air attack. Yolei, take out that captain"
There were alarms in the background, "How did they find you two?" Sora asked
"Higher than expected security on the map server. Never saw it coming. By the way, Cody was a spy. The defences have been off for the last 18 or so hours. They didn't even have EM warheads!"
Sora and Tai looked at each other in shock, "How could he…"
"Told ya he was evil but noooooo, you wouldn't listen. Anyway, I found the main prison complex. And guess who's there?"
"Kari!" Tai asked
"Yeah, as well as Declan! In fact, they're in the same cell!"
"Well that's strangely convenient. We'll meet you in the central courtyard"
Yolei's voice suddenly came over the radio, "Wait a sec, take him out?"
"Yeah you got a problem wi…SHIT, TK WATCH OUT!"
Suddenly a whole host of noises could be heard over Patrick's radio, mostly muffled by the sound of gunfire.
Patrick: TK! Get the digimon out! I'll cover you!
TK: With an MP5?
Patrick: I've had enough with that silenced piece of crap! I'm goin' SAW on their asses!
There was a huge blast as Patrick's M249 started dishing out automatic death
Koromon: Koromon digivolve to Blackagumon!
"YOLEI! TAKE THAT CAPTAIN OUT! NOW!"
TK opened up with his M4. There were a huge number of riflemen running towards them. Patrick was doing a good job holding them with his SAW, but needed to reload badly. Most of the troops were holding around the corner, while TK was sitting in the cubicle, poking his rifle out the side. Patrick was lying prone on the other side of the corridor, blasting survivors. The two digimon were standing in front of the cubicle, attacking from long range.
"TK! GET THIS DOOR OPEN!" He nodded towards the huge blast door behind them
"HOW?" he yelled back over the noise of the automatic weapon
"THAT GUARD MUST HAVE AN ID CARD OR SOMETHING. USE IT ON THAT CARD SCANNER!"
Patrick gasped as his weapon's box magazine ran dry.
"But first, fire an M203 at that corner!"
"Sure thing," TK brought up his rifle and loaded a grenade into the launcher. He carefully aimed at the floor in front of the corner, about twenty metres away.
VOOOOM
The 40mm grenade hurtled down the corridor towards its target…
…and missed
The grenade exploded about two metres shy of the target
"You never told me these things shot on an arc!"
"Thought you knew…DAMNIT!" He was fumbling with the new box magazine, trying to get it on, "These things are a bitch to get on!"
TK could almost sense the flood of riflemen coming round the corner, so he quickly got to work looking for the id card.
Yolei lined the crosshairs up with the captain's head.
"Well, here goes nothing" she clicked off the safety and prepared to fire.
Just then, the captain turned around, and faced directly at Yolei.
The girl gasped, but it was too late.
She pulled the trigger, sending the 7.62mm round into the captain's skull. He dropped like a stone, causing the crew to start running around yelling, "SNIPER! SNIPER!"
"Whats wrong Yolei?" Hawkmon asked
"That…captain…it is…it was…Michael…the American digidestined!"
Dum dum duuuum
My classic chapter ending
Just to make myself clear, the USS Shiloh is a real ship