Yes! Finally I have the ninth chapter up and the tenth one is on its way! Hope you like this one and sorry if it's kinda rushed.
Chapter 9:
The Man Behind The Mask
"What! Are you serious!" Suzie yelled.
Henry held up his hands and said, "Relax Suzie. It seems like he really has changed. Just give him a chance, ok? Takato has…"
"I don't care! Takato can do what he wants. But I won't trust Mako ever again, even if he saves me from a pit of poisonous snakes!"
Henry sighed at his sister as she left Henry's room to her room. He thought it would be a good thing to tell her that Mako had become an ally, but it seemed that she wouldn't agree with it. Terriermon came out from under Henry's bed, where he had retreated to after Suzie started to yell.
"Well that couldn't gone better, don't ya think?" he asked.
"I thought it would be nice to tell Suzie and that she might actually consider to agree with it. But I guess not."
"I didn't think she could yell so loud. Man!"
Suzie was fuming in her room as she lay on her bed, thinking about what her brother had told her. Lopmon went to Henry's room, knowing that Suzie needed some alone time.
'I can't believe they actually agreed to be allies with Mako.'
She thought back to the battle and what had happened. She also remembered the vow she silently made to herself.
"I thought I could trust you Mako. I thought you were just like us. But I guess I was wrong…"
She ripped the card in half and let the two halves fall to the ground.
"I'll never trust you again…"Deciding not to think about Mako anymore, she turned off her light and went to bed.
A pink blob obscured his vision as the ground rumbled beneath him. Blasts from Beelzemon and the enemy were heard as the thing attempted to destroy everything. Shouting was heard and then a blood-curdling scream rose above it all…
Mako jolted awake, breathing hard as his heart beat fast. Trying to control his heavy breathing, he looked at the clock.
1:30 A.M.
He looked beside him to see Impmon still sleeping.
'He can sleep through anything…'
Lying back down, he thought about his dream and almost cried. Wiping away the forming tears, he closed his eyes and went back to sleep. He didn't dream of it again, but the dream remained etched in his memory.
Henry could distantly hear the phone ringing, which meant he was starting to wake up. The ringing stopped after a bit and he heard voices. Suddenly, something poked him in the shoulder, and then on the face, and then on his stomach, which jolted him awake.
"Terriermon…why did you wake me up?" he asked groggily.
Terriermon held the phone up to Henry and said, "Takato's on the phone."
Sighing, he took the phone from his partner's hands and said, "Hello?"
"Hey Henry. Did I wake you?"
"No. Terriermon did. What's up?"
"I was thinking…maybe we should go see Mako. Maybe he can answer why he's been doing the things he's been doing. You know?"
"Yeah. I was thinking the same thing except…"
He looked out the door and saw that Suzie was in the family room watching TV.
"Except what, Henry?" Takato asked.
"Well, Suzie didn't take it so well when I told her."
"I kinda know how she feels. I'm still trying to trust Mako and this might be something that can build up my trust. Bring her along."
"If you say so. Bye."
"Bye, Henry."
After he hung up, Suzie came into the room with Lopmon.
"Who was that?"
"Takato. He wants us to meet up and talk to…Mako."
"Why?"
"Just to get some answers…that's all. You get to come too."
She crossed her arms and growled at the thought. "What if I don't want to?"
"Ah…geez."
He got out of bed and told Suzie, Terriermon, and Lopmon to leave while he got dressed. After he put on his orange shirt and pants, he went out into the family room where Suzie was sitting on the couch with Terriermon and Lopmon.
"Come on Suzie. Just come with us," Henry pleaded.
After a few moments of silence, she responded, "Fine."
They both walked outside into the cool air. Fall was starting to set in so they brought a light jacket. Their partners on their shoulder, they walked to the hangout in the park where everyone would meet and then they would head to Mako's house. When they got there, everyone was already there. Calumon was there as well because he thought that making a new friend was fun and wanted to see him. Takato had gotten Mako's address out of the school directory and he led them to an apartment complex. They went to the third floor and rang the doorbell.
When no one answered, he said, "I guess he isn't home."
"Should we try again later?" Kazu asked.
"Yeah. Let's go."
As they walked back, Rika spotted him at a street corner talking to someone in a black car with Impmon standing not too far off.
"Hey guys. There's our missing guy."
"I knew that he didn't really want to be friends with us. He's talking to that…guy," Suzie said.
"Why don't we ask Mako what's going on?" Henry suggested.
Everyone agreed as they headed towards them. Impmon was the first to see them as he watched them come over.
"Hey Mako! The others are here."
He stopped talking to the man in the car and turned to see the Tamers. They looked at him with confusion and wondered if Suzie was right about him. Mako approached them and said, "What's up?"
"That's kinda what we were wondering. What are you doing?" Takato said.
"Just talking to, what you call, my boss," he said pointing out the car.
"What? I thought you were done with that!" Terriermon said.
"I never said that. Besides, I'm not against you and neither is he."
As soon as he said that, the man in the car opened the door and stepped out. He was a man in his mid-thirties, had short brown hair, and dark gray eyes. He was dressed in a black business suit as he approached the group.
"Who're you?" Kazu asked.
The man smiled and said, "Hello. My name is Mr. Koto. I assume you are the other tamers Mako was telling me about."
"Mako told you about us?" Kenta said.
"Yes. Of course, I had to know who you were in order to figure out the information on yourselves and your digimon. I must say, I'm quite impressed with your battling."
"So that's what that device was for," Suzie said.
"Yes," Mako said. "But it was to help Mr. Koto here to determine whether or not you can help us and how strong you've become over the past four years."
"I see. Now it all makes sense…but I still don't understand the loading of data in that other device of yours," said Henry.
"I'll explain," said Mr. Koto. "You see, we had to get an efficient sample of a regular digimon's data in order to create what we are trying to make to help in defeating the enemy that is coming to our world."
"What kind of enemy?" Jeri asked.
"That can all be explained, if you'll come with me."
They finally all agreed as they were taken to the headquarters that Mr. Koto worked in. A couple of the digimon followed the car in order to save room for the others. Once they got there, the place they arrived in was a tall, twin tower building.
"This place…looks familiar," Takato said.
Before they could figure it out, they entered inside where they went past some heavy security and went into the elevator to the tenth floor.
"So…what exactly is coming to our world?" Henry asked.
"All will be told in due time," said Mr. Koto.
"Well that's annoying," Terriermon said.
Lopmon smirked and said, "Like you?"
"Oh…can it!"
As the doors to the elevator opened, Mr. Koto lead them through a hallway of doors until they came to the one at the very end. As he typed in the password and had his finger scanned for identification, they entered through a set of doors until they at last came to a dark lighted room with monitors and screens all over the place, not to mention wires and people in white suits walking around as they analyzed what were on the screens.
"Well, I see you finally arrived," someone said beside them.
Takato turned and said, "Who's…"
"Hey it's just me. You do remember me…" Yamaki approached them with a smirk on his face. "…don't you?"
"Yamaki!" everyone exclaimed except for Mako, Impmon, and Mr. Koto.
Over the past four years, Yamaki hadn't changed much. He still had his sunglasses, but he took them off more often, and the lighter that he repeatedly clicked when nervous. His hair, however, had gotten a bit shorter but it was in the same style.
"It's been a while."
"Yeah, it has," Takato said.
"It's nice to see you again, Mr. Yamaki," Jeri greeted.
"As well as you."
Rika turned towards Mako and said, "You've been working with Yamaki this whole time?"
"Well…Mr. Koto here is an employee of Mr. Yamaki. Yamaki did suggest all of the things that he wanted me to do."
"Really?" Suzie asked.
"Yes. Follow me, I have something to show you…" Yamaki said.
They all followed Yamaki to one of the larger monitors and typed in some passwords and clicked on files to get to where he wanted.
"Ok. Everyone watch the monitor…"
All eyes were on the big screen as a picture of the Digital World came on. It looked normal enough, with the sand blowing across the ground and data packets tumbling around. Over the past four years, the Monster Makers had help rebuild the world from what destruction the D-Reaper caused.
"Now this is a picture of the Digital World we captured a few weeks ago. It looks normal enough but then we received this picture a couple of days ago…"
It suddenly switched to another picture, making everyone gasp. The entire ground was now black and the wind tumbled it around like ashes as the rock formations that were once there were completely gone.
"Something attacked the Digital World not too long ago…and we were able to put a lock on what was doing this. We watched it…but unfortunately it's been moving rapidly to our world. There's nothing we can do to stop it…except let it come into our world."
"Don't worry!" Kazu exclaimed. "We'll take care of that digimon and make it wish it never came to our world in the first place!"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple…" Mako said.
"What do you mean, Mako?" Kenta asked.
"What we're going against…is not a digimon."
"Not a digimon? Your crazy! What else could it be?" Terriermon said.
"You won't believe this but…" he looked at them with nervousness in his eyes. "It's come back…the D-Reaper's come back to get us."