Chapter 4: Decisions
Henry walked toward his apartment and entered through the door. He started to head toward his room when Suzie poked her head out from hers.
"Hey Henry. What's up?"
"Nothing really."
"Another digimon bioemerged. I assume you took care of it?" Lopmon asked.
"Of course. We kicked that digimon's…" said Terriermon.
"Oh! Look at the time! I better get to my homework," interrupted Henry as he went into his room.
Terriermon jumped off of his tamer's shoulder as he landed on the bed and watched Henry go to his computer.
"Terriermon, you really need to watch what you say."
"Relax Henry. What's got you so worked up anyway?" asked Terriermon as he lay on the bed.
"Nothing really. It's just that kid that's been around."
"Ya mean Mako?"
Henry nodded and said, "I just don't get why he doesn't want our help."
"Who knows? Maybe he's just out to get us."
Henry chuckled and said, "I don't think so, Terriermon."
They then heard a small knock on the door as Henry went and opened it. Suzie was standing there with Lopmon beside her.
"What's up Suzie?"
"Dinner's ready you guys. I was also wondering. Henry…do you think I could come with you next time another bioemergence comes? Maybe I could talk to Mako."
Terriermon sat up and said, "How do you know him anyway?"
"I don't know him really. He was in some of my classes in elementary school and I just remember him is all," she said.
"Well sure you can come next time. But let's discuss it after dinner, ok?" Henry said as he walked out of the room.
Renamon jumped across the rooftops in the night as the moon reflected off of her blue eyes. She stopped on a high rooftop and started thinking about Mako and his partner. As she was thinking, her senses picked up another presence. She looked down to see Beelzemon walking the streets without Mako.
'I wonder what he's doing,' she thought to herself.
She quietly followed him only for Beelzemon to lead her to the park where he sat under a tree. She watched him from above as he sat there.
'Why doesn't Mako want their help? I know he doesn't want to get close to anyone else but still…' Beelzemon thought to himself.
His thoughts were interrupted as Renamon jumped from her perch in the tree and landed beside him.
"Fancy seeing you here," she said.
"What do you want?" he asked, turning away from her.
"To talk. Why doesn't your partner want our help?"
"How should I know?" he asked facing her.
"I think you do. Your both hiding something I can feel it. What is it that you don't want us to know?"
Beelzemon chuckled a bit and said, "You're getting too nosy for your own good. What goes on in our lives is none of your concern."
"It is if you're one of us."
"Look…just head home, ok? I know you want to help us but there are things that others shouldn't know about. We work alone…"
"Even though you want to work in a team. I know that is your desire but Mako thinks differently than you. Whatever you're hiding is the cause of this…'working solo' bit."
Beelzemon stood up, looked at her, and said, "I'm going to go now. You can do whatever you want but just leave us out of it. We don't want to cause any trouble."
"You're not. I just wanted some answers is all."
"The answers you seek you won't get. See ya, toots," he said as he walked away.
"I would appreciate it if you called me by my name instead of that," she said to him.
He turned to look at her and said, "What is your name anyway? I didn't catch it."
"Renamon."
Beelzemon smiled and said, "Pretty name. Well see ya…Renamon."
She watched as he walked out of sight and wondered what it was they were hiding. Renamon jumped into the trees and headed back to Rika's house to sleep.
The next day, Mako was on a street corner with Beelzemon waiting anxiously for something. He looked at the watch on his arm and it read 1:30.
"He's late," Mako mumbled.
Beelzemon leaned against a building wall and said, "He'll be here. Just wait."
A few minutes later, a black car pulled up and the driver's window was rolled down.
"You finally get here," said Mako as he went up to the car.
The man chuckled and said, "Sorry about that. I brought you a…a little present."
Mako smirked and said, "Oh really?"
"Yes. I think it might help you get the information I need from them."
The man held out a small gadget to Mako and he took it. Mako examined it carefully. It looked like a headband with a small green window on the left side and some buttons on the other side along with an earpiece.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Put it on and you'll see. Press the red button."
Mako put on the weird gadget as the green window covered his left eye and he put the earpieces in both of his ears. He pressed the button and immediately the window came alive with readings. He looked towards Beelzemon and then an electronic voice appeared in his ears.
"Life Form: Digimon. Mega Level. Power Reading: 5000."
"Impressive," Mako said as he took off the headpiece.
"Thought you might like it. It also records what it scans until it is full and you can easily delete that information by pressing the black button."
"Guess a user's manual is out of the question. Now we can see how strong those weaklings are."
"Yes. And here. This will help you determine what's normal and what's…above that," said the man as he handed Mako a slip of paper. "It tells you power readings for each level of digimon or human."
"So it scans humans too, huh?" he said taking the paper.
"Yes. Any life form can be scanned."
"How useful. Well then I'll see you around and I'll call you after the next battle."
The man nodded as he rolled up his window and drove away. Mako went up to Beelzemon and they started walking.
"So that's going to help us?" Beelzemon asked.
Mako nodded and said, "Yeah. We'll get the information we need soon enough. We just need to get every tamer that's here their information."
Ryo stepped out of a store looking at the new Digimon cards he just bought. Cyberdramon was waiting for him outside because Ryo didn't want him to accidentally wreck anything.
"Digivolution card…another Goliath…That Was A Good Time…" Ryo mumbled to himself as he flipped through the cards.
He pocketed them after looking at them and started walking down the street with Cyberdramon. They passed by many shops and Ryo stopped at some of them to see their merchandise. Along the way, Cyberdramon suddenly started growling, unnerving some of the people standing by.
"What is it Cyberdramon?" Ryo asked.
"Something's coming," he growled.
Ryo took out his D-Arc to see if there was any activity but it didn't pick up anything. He was about to question his partner when there was suddenly a booming sound as another digital field emerged. The D-Arc went off in Ryo's hand and started indicating where the bioemergence was.
"Now it tells us. Let's go Cyberdramon!"
Cyberdramon picked up Ryo and flew off towards the digital field with impressive speed.
"Where am I? What is this place?"
The digimon train looked at his surroundings to see that he was no longer in the Digital World, but the Real World.
"Yes! I am free of that world! This world and all its contents shall be mine!" he roared as he suddenly took off.
Ryo looked down and his eyes widened at what he saw. A black digimon train with two red eyes on each side and one on its front was rampaging through the streets. He took out his D-Arc and scanned it.
"Dark Trailmon. Ultimate Level. Data Type. Attacks are unknown," Ryo said. "Oh man. Looks like we need help on this one."
"We have to stop it. We can't just wait for the others to show up."
"You're right, let's go. Bioemerge Activate!"
Henry was sitting on the couch with his brothers and sisters when a news report of a runaway train came on and his D-Arc went off. Terriermon and him quickly got up and started to head out the door.
"Henry wait. I want to come too," said Suzie.
"No, stay here. The others and I will take care of this."
"But Henry Mako might be there," she argued.
"It doesn't matter. You stay here and besides you guys can't go to mega level. From the information I received it would be too strong for you two to handle."
"But Henry…"
"End of discussion," he said as he went out the door.
As he ran down the street, Terriermon talked to him.
"Don't you think that was harsh Henry? She's a tamer too you know."
"I know Terriermon but I don't want her to get hurt. Besides she can come next time."
"Ok. I'll remind you that you said that."
Henry took out his D-Arc to see where the digimon was. The compass pointed west by the bridge that led into another part of a city over the river. He headed there and soon came upon a struggling Justimon. Justimon saw them as he strained to keep Dark Trailmon from going any further.
"Guys. A little help?"
"Hang on. Bioemerge Activate!"
"Terriermon bioemerge to…MegaGargomon!"
MegaGargomon came up beside Justimon and started to push against Dark Trailmon.
"You…will not…get in my way. I…will…see to that," said Dark Trailmon.
"We won't…let you…go into the city," said Justimon.
"We'll see about that!" he said as he suddenly put more power into his push.
The two mega digimon were pushed aside as the train digimon sped across the roads towards the bridge. Gallantmon and Sakuyamon came upon the scene.
"Guys what's going on?" asked Sakuyamon.
"That digimon is headed toward that part of the city over the bridge. We have to stop him," said Justimon.
"Wait. Isn't that the bridge they put in so big boats can go through?" Takato asked.
"Yeah. Why?" Henry said.
"If one of us goes over to the control room and lift up the bridge while the rest of us distract it, we can put Dark Trailmon in the river and destroy him."
"Sounds like a good plan to me. Let's go," said Ryo.
"I'll go to the control room and you guys stop him," said Henry.
MegaGargomon flew off ahead of Dark Trailmon and to the control room while the other mega digimon went to stop the train. Gallantmon and Justimon went to the front of it and braced themselves for the impact. Dark Trailmon headed right for them and then they used all of their strength to stop it. They made skid marks as the train kept going, even though it was slower.
MegaGargomon landed by the control room and then went back to their original forms. Henry then went into the room and looked at all the gadgets there. He finally found the lever to the bridge as he pulled on it. He looked outside to hear the groaning of the bridge going up and Dark Trailmon still heading for it.
Dark Trailmon put on more speed, making the two megas start to lose their grip. Sakuyamon tried stopping it with some of her attacks but it seemed like it wasn't affecting him. She finally went behind the train and started to pull on it to try to stop it.
"The bridge isn't up all the way yet," said Gallantmon as Dark Trailmon forced his way up the bridge.
Mako and Beelzemon watched from the top of the bridge at the tamers' struggle. He had on the gadget as it read off their mega form's power.
"Guess they're not so weak if they can bioemerge. But it's still not stopping Dark Trailmon," Mako said.
The bridge kept going up but Dark Trailmon was almost there. The digimon still struggled with the digital train as the bridge still had to reach its peak.
Beelzemon looked at Mako and said, "They need help. We have to…"
"We don't have to do anything."
"They saved us in that battle yesterday, whether you like it or not. Besides, if they can't stop Dark Trailmon now then those innocent lives will be in danger."
Mako thought about this as he watched the digimon still struggling. He didn't want anyone to get hurt, or killed for that matter.
"You can't stop me now!" said Dark Trailmon as he leaped off of the one part of the bridge.
"He's going to jump it!" said Gallantmon.
Mako gasped as he saw Dark Trailmon attempting to jump to the other side of the bridge.
"Go now, Beelzemon!" he said frantically.
Beelzemon put Mako down on the ground and then ran as fast as he could towards the train. Dark Trailmon was in mid-air and it looked like he was going to make it until…
"Jump off of it!" yelled Beelzemon.
The others jumped to the side as he jumped high in the air and then used all of his power to slam the train into the water below. They all watched as Dark Trailmon splashed into the river.
"Shield of the Just!" said Gallantmon.
The attack hit Dark Trailmon and deleted him as the bridge stayed up. Henry and Terriermon came onto the scene where everyone was. The mega digimon went to their original forms as they looked at Mako and Beelzemon.
"Hey thanks for the help," said Takato.
"I didn't do it for you. I did it because I didn't want Dark Trailmon to hurt any people," Mako said.
"Also you helped us yesterday so it's sort of a payback," added Beelzemon.
"Well we appreciated it," said Henry.
"Whatever. Don't get any wrong ideas about us. We protect the innocent and we don't care about you," said Mako as he walked off.
Beelzemon followed him as the others stood there by the bridge.
"What is it with that guy?" said Takato.
"Who knows? Anyway let's get this bridge down again and go home," Ryo said.
"Can we get something to eat? My stomach grumbled," said Guilmon.
"Guilmon do you ever think about anything else than food?" groaned Takato as they walked off.