I'm not entirely sure if the old digidestined have D-Terminals, but for the story's sake, they do.
Well, what can I say Haichi, apart from thank you for your support.
Chapter 15 – Regroup
The Sargent stared at the empty cells in disbelief.
"How could this have happened?" he said to himself. There were supposed to be constant patrols and checkups. How could resistance troops just walk in and take two prisoners from under their noses?
His thoughts were broken when he heard gunfire in the background. A rifleman ran up to him.
"Sir, targets sighted and engaged. One Wargreymon and one Biyomon, mega and rookie level respectively"
"Very good," he turned to the troops scouring the remains of the cells, "All of you, engage the threat"
The riflemen stood to attention, "Sir, yes, sir!" then they charged out of the room.
"Mega Tornado!"
"Spiral Twister!"
More of the riflemen fell, leaving more in their wake. There was an army of them!
"You going ok?" Wargreymon asked
"I'm fine, but you must be getting tired"
"I'm not done yet" the mega swiped at a lone rifleman. Another volley of bullets hit him.
"Why don't you use that Terra Force?"
"Because it might damage the walls and cause a cave-in. I think Kari is still in there"
"Oh, right"
The two digimon fought into the flood of riflemen covering the corridor leading to the cells. What they didn't realise, was that the Sargent's suicidal tactics were paying off.
"Right, TK, gimme your D-Terminal" Patrick put his hand out
"Why?" TK asked
"Because you have all the addresses of the others. I'm gonna use it to track their position. That way we can help them find us"
"…ok" TK handed Patrick his D-Terminal, "Just don't be looking anything else up"
"What, trying to hid something?" Patrick smiled at TK
"No!" he snapped
"Cool it. Lets see now…Yolei…Tai…Sora" he input each address into the computer. When he was finished, the console thought for a second, and then displayed a large overview map of the building with three flashing dots. Two were right beside each other and moving quite slowly, whereas the third was moving rapidly thought the building.
"Ok, I'm gonna guess those two are Tai and Sora, and that one is Yolei, but why is she moving so fast?" Patrick thought aloud.
Just then, Patrick heard shots from outside. Grabbing his G36K, he ran out the door. Declan was desperately trying to fend off a load of riflemen coming down the north corridor with his USP.
"Glad you could make it!" Declan shouted over the roar of the firefight.
"Go back and give the others directions! Take TK's headset" Patrick dived beside his M249 and opened up on the riflemen.
"Rodger that!" Declan ran back through the glazed doors into the portal room.
"Hey, can youse hear me?" Yolei stopped Halsemon when she heard the voice over her radio.
"Who's that?" she asked.
"I'm Declan, and I'll be your navigator today. Now are you the one who's on their own?"
"What on earth are you talking about? Where's Patrick?"
"Present" Patrick's voice came clear over the headset.
"Patrick! Oh good, the radios are working again! Now who's this Declan guy?" Yolei said quickly.
"My brother, so listen to him, he's gonna give you directions to us" Gunfire could be heard over Patrick's radio.
"That's great! We're both sorta lost. So which way?"
"Continue forward until you reach a junction…" the boy told her.
"We're lost aren't we?" Sora stopped completely
"Hey, going back to the courtyard was your idea," said Tai
"Actually, it was Patrick's…"
"Yo! Guys, can youse hear me?" Patrick's voice was muffled slightly by gunfire
"Oh thank God, the radios are working again. Now where the hell are you?"
"At the portal room waiting for youse. My brother's going to give you directions once he's done with Yolei. Kay?"
"…oh…alright," Tai turned to Sora, "Looks like it's our lucky day"
"More, west entrance!" TK shouted
"You take 'em. I got this end covered!" Patrick yelled back over the immense noise of the M249.
TK swung round to the other corridor and started picking off the riflemen trying to sneak up on them.
"Reloading! Cover me!" Patrick yanked off the empty magazine and fit on a new 200-round one. TK took care of the riflemen while he reloaded.
"Take the next left and watch out for Patrick's fire. There's loads of riflemen there I think"
"Thanks, we'll look out" Tai said a he peaked around the corner. He could see a makeshift baricade out of crates and barrels. TK was standing in the middle with his M4/M203 blasting some riflemen in the adjacent corridor.
"Coast's clear, lets go" he motioned to Sora
"Friendlies! Hold your fire!" Patrick yelled as he saw Tai and Sora race down the East corridor.
"Patrick, I never thought I'd be this glad to see you" Sora said
"Same here," Patrick fired a burst from his SAW downrange before turning to Tai, "You still got the medical supplies?"
"Errr…yeah" Tai took off his rucksack.
"Good, I need…hey, where are you M4s?" Patrick asked suspiciously.
"They jammed, so we dumped them" Tai said, sounding quite proud.
"Yeah, but did it ever cross your mind that you could un-jam them?"
"Well…"
"I'll take that as a no. If you didn't want to use them you should have just asked!"
"Right…sure, now what did you need the medical stuff for?" Sora asked
"There's…someone in the back there. Her name's Emma, and she needs some medical help"
"But I'm not a doctor!"
"Well do what you can. Tai - grab a handgun and help TK"
"You're getting close now. You should be able to hear Patrick soon"
"I can only guess why" Yolei said.
"Take the next right, then left, and you should end up on the same corridor as us"
"Great. Well at least I can see a friendly face again"
"I'm running low on ammo! TK, take over" Patrick turned and ran into the portal room.
"How's Emma doing?" he said as he rummaged in his rucksack sitting by Declan's console.
"I lost count of the number of cuts and wounds after thirty…I'm trying to bandage them up" Sora said, kneeling beside Emma
"Thanks. Declan, any sign of Yolei?"
"She's on the way. Give her…say…two minutes. West corridor"
"Great work. This plan seems to be working, no?" he said in the worst Russian accent ever.
"Well...sort of, there are some people you've missed though," Tai said, "Number one, Kari. Where the hell is she? Number two, Agumon and Biyomon. They're still fighting in the courtyard"
"You sure about that last one"
"…well…yeah, that's where we left them" Sora stuttered
"So you assume they're still there"
"Of course"
Patrick sighed, "Tai, the courtyard is a few metres on the other side of that wall," he pointed to the back of the room, past the portal platform, "If they were still there we should be able to hear them. But we don't, do we?"
Sora stood up, "So where do you think they are?"
"I'll work on that later. First, lets defend this place and get Yolei and Hawkmon in. Then I can finish my plan"
"What plan?" Tai asked
"Trust me on this, ok?"
Patrick turned to the door with his G36K, 'Come on Yolei, we're almost home free' he thought
"How many more are there?" Wargreymon said while slicing a rifleman to pieces.
"I don't know, but I hope it ends soon. I'm getting tired…"
'You're not the only one' the mega thought.
Patrick fired his G36K at some riflemen down the west corridor when he saw Halsemon charge them from behind.
"Purple hair downrange! Hold your fire!" Patrick chuckled, "You have no idea how long I've been wanting to say that"
"What?" Yolei asked when Halsemon reached the crate defences.
"Nothing, nothing, now get inside, we've been waiting for you"
The Dark robed man walked into the hanger control room, fixed to the ceiling of the huge space. There were only two people in the smallish room, mostly taken up with computers and radar images. His bodyguards were close behind him.
"Where's my jet?" he demanded.
"Sir, your jet will be ready for flight in forty-five minutes" one of the operators replied, standing up.
"Do it in thirty, I'm in a hurry"
"…but…sir, we need at least three quarters of an hour to do pre-flight checks and to arm up the Hornets…"
"Silence! Half an hour or not at all!" the man stormed out of the room, his bodyguards close behind.
The blond-haired flight marshal collapsed back into his seat, "Man, does he ever stop complaining?"
The other flight marshal turned around. He seemed older, but was also blond, "Cool it, we'll get our turn someday…"
"You still haven't found Kari!" Yolei said angrily.
"I know where the interrogation room is from reading the schematics," Declan added.
"What about Agumon and Biyomon. Where could they be?" Tai asked.
Patrick thought for a second, "I have an idea" he sat back down at the console, "I noticed that each rifleman has a small transmitter implant. It's probably used to keep them loyal to the Dark Master. Crude, but very, very effective"
"We're listening" Yolei said
"If I use the same program I used to find you three, except put in the frequency of the implants, I could locate every live rifleman in this building"
"What did you mean by 'live'?"
"That's my plan," he had already started typing into the console, "I just thought to myself 'what would I do in Wargreymon's situation?'"
"Let me guess: Look for the nearest army of riflemen and take them out!" Tai said.
Patrick smiled, "Bingo! You're learning"
"I thought so"
Patrick hit the enter key, "Boyah! It worked" the map of the building that was up before refreshed, this time with thousands of dots instead of just three. Patrick tapped a spot near where it said 'Cell Block A'. There were so many dots that it just merged into one large one. However the dots seemed to be switching off one by one.
"What I meant by 'live' was that the transmitters stop functioning when you're dead. So according to this, there must be a huge battle going on there. My best guess is it's your digimon"
"And they're winning" said Yolei.
"Why are they retreating?" Biyomon asked
Wargreymon just stood and watched as the riflemen ran back down the corridor, "I got a bad feeling about this…"
"Come on, let's get them!" the little pink bird ran down after them, but the mega quickly jumped in front.
"No! Lets wait for them. We need a rest"
"Ok, just try not to de-digivolve" the little bird sat down.
"I'll…try"
"But what about Kari? Come on man, we need to find her, that's the entire point we're here!" Tai said impatiently.
"I tried the thing with the D-Terminals, but hers must be switched off" he shrugged, "Sorry guys, but I'm out of ideas"
Tai grabbed Patrick by the shoulders and started shaking him violently, "That's not good enough! We need to find her NOW!"
"Hey, break it up!" TK pulled Tai back, "We all want to find Kari, but fighting each other isn't gonna help!"
"Hold on guys, I might just have an idea" Yolei said.
The Flight Marshal looked down on the Learjet-45 being towed into place on the runway. He watched as two riflemen dragged someone into the hanger and towards the plane.
'Hey she looks familiar' he thought.
He picked up his binoculars and focused on the girl…and he froze in horror.
"Kari?"
Kari felt herself being thrown into something. When she opened her eyes she saw she was in a very fancy looking aeroplane. 'This must be his private jet' she thought, 'and a very nice one too'
The riflemen soon climbed into the plane, grabbed her again and threw her into a seat, where they strapped her down. They immediately departed, leaving her alone.
Once they were definatly gone, a wall monitor burst to life. On it was the picture of a man in some sort of uniform in a darkened control room. He looked strangely familiar.
"Kari?" the man said, "Is that really you?"
"I thought Patrick's plan was confusing Yolei, but this ones worse!" Sora said
"It's simple really," Patrick told her, "The digivices have a the ability to detect other digivices, so if we amplify it's detection radius and overlay it on the schematics, we can track anyone with a digivice in the building!"
"Yeah…you lost me after 'detection radius'. Anyway, I don't care how it works, just that it can find Kari!" Tai said.
Patrick's PDA started beeping. He took it out, "Riflemen inbound. Tai and TK, you take 'em. Me an Yolei will try and get this thing working"
"Sure thing," said TK as he and Tai ran out the doors.
Biyomon flapped her wings in frustration, "Come on, we need to get to Kari!"
"Just gimme a minute, will you?" Wargreymon growled.
"Fine" the bird sat back down again.
TK unloaded his M4 into some riflemen then fired his M203 at a group coming round the corner.
"Reloading" he announced.
Tai brought up his USP and fired a few rounds, "I'm getting sick of this. I wish Wargreymon was here"
"Don't worry," TK said as he slammed a new magazine in, "It'll all be over soon. Once we get Kari and the digimon, we'll be outta here, and you'll never have to fire a weapon again"
"Well, at least I'm fighting towards something then"
"Change the constant to five, then run the D3 program" Patrick said as he tapped the screen.
Yolei responded by quickly making the changes and running the program, then cheering when it worked.
"Yay! There we go. Lets see…yeah, she's still in the interrogation room" Yolei said.
"Then it's settled, me, TK and Tai will move to the objective. We'll claymore the corridors so no one can sneak up on youse" Patrick declared.
"Ok then, we'll keep in contact with the radios. By the way, why did they stop working a while back?"
"Yeah, and what was with that giant chunk of the base missing?" Sora asked.
"Wait, Yolei, did any of the missiles you were evading hit the castle" Patrick asked.
Yolei thought for a second, "Yeah, one did. That explains the hole in the wall, but how is it linked to the radios?"
"If it had an EM warhead it would have caused a shit-load of interference for a while, then it would dissipate" Patrick explained.
"Yeah…ok, just go and get Kari, I'll look after Emma for you"
"By the way, there is another cell block not far from here," Declan said, "I think Penguinmon's there"
"All right, I'll go nab him first" he cocked his G3, "Ok, lock an' load!"