Part 3

"Tentomon Digivolve to Kabuterimon!"

Kabuterimon came between Izzy and Leatherback. The giant dark blue insect Digimon towered above Leatherback as he protected his partner from the creature. Behind him the other partner Digimon all Digivolved into their Champion forms and took protective stances in front of their partners. Not far Edward was getting back to his feet. He used his axe to help him get back to his feet.

"Now that is something you don't see every day!" Leatherback grumbled to himself. He looked at all the other Champion Digimon. The dinosaur and the wolf had both leapt beside Kabuterimon as the three of them all took a protective stance in front of Izzy. In the corner of his eye he spotted Edward getting back to his feet. The Ghoul was using his axe to get back up on his feet. Looking back at Izzy who was standing behind the giant bug and then back to Edward.

He looked back at Izzy where he snarled and bared his fangs. "Count your lucky stars that you are protected Izumi! But when you are alone you are dead!" Leatherback shouted at Izzy before he turned around and began to walk away from all the gathered DigiDestined and there Digimon. He then stopped right beside Edward.

The vertebrae that was shown on Edward's back rose up and his fingers wrapped tighter around the handle of his axe as he prepared to swing it at Leatherback at any given moment. The exchange was silent but a lot of words were sent to Leatherback before he ran off as fast as he could.

Edward looked back towards Izzy as a glowing light came from all the Digimon as the returned back to their Rookie forms. The Ghoul placed his axe back in its strap on his shoulder and allowed the deadly weapon to hang behind him. He eyed Tentomon with concern as he stopped in front of Izzy.

"Don't tell me that you want to kill me to?" Izzy asked. He kept his Digivice in his gloved hand in case he needed Tentomon to Digivolve to MegaKabuterimon. True Tentomon had just needed to Digivolve to Kabuterimon and that had caused the thing that called itself Leatherback to retreat.

Edward shock his head and raised his hands as he showed the DigiDestined that he was not a threat. He might look like a threat, but he sure was not a threat. Not to them. "No I am not here to arm you or your family! I am here to take you to safety as we take out Leatherback and his new boss Seth! But at the moment I can tell that you want answers the questions that have been going about in that head of yours!" Edward stated. He knew that a lot of people were staring at him so he grabbed his clock and flung it over his head to cover his head and exposed back and ribs. "I will tell you everything but not here! I don't know who could be listening and who they will be reporting to!" he said looking back at Izzy.

Izzy nodded his head. He could see where Edward was coming from. Leatherback and the person who hired him to kill his parents could still be about. He was sure that Edward didn't need to give away any sensitive information for him to know where his family came from. He was sure that he could trust Edward. He didn't know why but the felt that he had meet Edward before. He didn't know why that was. Not unless he had been readying something and he had come across an article that was talking about a green skinned zombie before. But if he had read an article like that he would have remembered it. It was on a topic that he would not forget about.

"Give me to seconds I need to request access to the base and also need to call in that Leatherback has threatened you!" Edward said as he reached into his bicker trousers and brought out one of the latest model of phones. He walked away as he unlocked the screen and went to contacts where he clicked on one of the contacts. A second later he was putting his phone up to his ear.

"Nightshade?" he asked as the person he was calling picked up their phone wherever it was that they were in. Izzy knew that it was rude of him of trying to listen in but he wanted more information about his family as quickly as possible so he could ask more questions to get to know what his family done and how they got to be involved in zombies and monsters before the Digimon came around.

"Edward this better be good! I have been on the phone to Julian for a good twenty minutes when I should be keeping an optic on a Dalek of all things!" Nightshade responded. Edward could just hear the sound of music in the background along with shouting as people found a way to celebrate. It was hard to keep a Dalek Invasion a secret when the whole world had seen it. Even worse for them was that they had been named as people who had defended the earth for just over a century. For a century the governments of the world knew that there was other life out in the universe, but they had chosen to keep it secret as Nightshade had wished that to happen.

"A Dalek, 'Shader what is going on? Have you and the Doctor bitten to much than you can chew?" asked Edward over the phone. He looked over his shoulder to see that all the teens where watching him along with their size changing allies. It looked like they needed to catch up on the boys life as much as the boy needed to know where he had come from.

Nightshade was silent for a few seconds from her side. "You remember the Cult of Skaro from the Time War?" she asked in a quite voice. It was not like the humans of earth in the 21st century would know anything about the Time War or the Cult of Skaro who were more feared than even the Emperor and even the Doctor himself for many worlds out there.

"I know them well. They caused us nothing but trouble in all the years of the Time War! What about them? Nightshade what's happened?" Edward asked. He didn't care that he was moving away from the reason as to why he had called Nightshade. If the Time War was in the horizon plus the ever ending threat of Seth and him no doubt trying to restart the Night Wars to make life hard for the Guardians along with the United Nations.

"All I can say at the moment is that Dalek Sec is joining UNIT and will be helping us against Seth! Now are you going to tell me the story of this phone call?"

"Sorry, Nightshade! I just got to Japan as you know I've been trailing Leatherback!" Edward fell silent as he waited for Nightshade to say something, but she was remaining silent as she waited for him to finish quickly so they could carry on with their missions and hope that they can all stop Seth and whatever it was that he planning. "Well after I got shot by Hunters in Asia I figured out what Leatherback was doing and had just got to Japan in time to prevent Leatherback from attacking the Izumi's son! Right now Leatherback has left and I am taken Izzy to the old base to tell him everything before we put him and his family under protection!" Edward explained as he finally looked back at Izzy and his friends.

"Very well Edward! I will have the Moonray open a Ground Bridge to the base! Do not give Leatherback a chance to attack!" Nightshade said before she ended the call.

Edward took a deep breathe in before he returned back to Izzy and his friends. "We better get going! I will explain everything when we get to the base!" as he said that a swirling blue vortex opened up. He stepped to the side and motioned for Izzy and Tentomon to go through. The other DigiDestined where about to follow but Edward stepped in front of them. "I am sorry but Izzy has been given access to the base as has the creature that follows him around! I will see if I can not have you come along but the information is sensitive!" Edward said before he followed Izzy through the Ground Bridge.

The Ground Bridge snapped shut behind Edward not allowing the other DigiDestined to follow them through.