Part 4

Izzy and Tentomon stepped out of the swirling blue vortex to find themselves no longer in the park but in a huge military base. Men and women walked all around the base. Many of them carrying weapons or other objects thay would have been better left in a lab. Many of them took a quick glance at Izzy and Tentomon as they walked out of the swirling blue vortex before they got back to their work. A second later Edward walked out of the Ground Bride and came to stand beside the red head.

"Welcome to UNIT Japan!" he said looking over at everything as the Ground Bridge snapped shut behind them not allowing the other DigiDestined to come through and follow them to the base.

Izzy looked back at Edward as the green skinned zombie walked past him and was heading towards a huge corridor where the walls where made out of steel and glass. Izzy glanced over at Tentomon. With a silent conversation they followed Edward to the corridor where he walking to. The people in the military base all moved to the side and allowed Edwards to walk past them. Many of them looked at Edward with fear or like when someone looked at a General who they had seen on the battlefield many times. This only caused more questions to flow through Izzy's mind. There was so much that he wanted to know. He wanted to know who Edward was. He wanted to know who Nightshade was and what was happening. He wanted to know why Leatherback had been sent to kill his birth parents when he was nothing more than a baby. What had his parents done when they were alive, and was he finding his way back into that world with Edward and even Tentomon who hovered beside him.

Edward lead them to a small office room. One of the walls was nothing but a window that looked out into the garden that was surrounded by mountains. The office itself was plain with a table sat in the middle of the room with a computer sat nicely in the corner of the table. On one of the walls was a huge plasma screen that was attached on the wall. Showing on the plasma screen was the symbol of a phoenix that was screaming at the sky. In its claws it held a sheild with strange symbols on it that Izzy couldn't make out.

Edward took a seat on the large office chair and looked at Izzy and Tentomon. "How do you want this to be done? Do you want to ask questions or you do you want me to tell you everything and then you ask any questions you have at the end?" the Ghoul asked as he placed his axe on the ground. It was needed when he was in a base that was protected with the latest technology from both earth along with alien technology that had been given the go ahead to protect the military base in the Japanese mountains.

Izzy sat down on the chair across from Edward. Tentomon took the seat beside Izzy. DigiDestined and Digimon both looked at Edward as he watched them with those strange coloured eyes. The green skinned Ghoul waited for them to respond with how Izzy wanted this to be done.

"Can you explain everything for me and then I will ask you any questions that I want answered that you have not covered in your explanation of how you now me and my birth parents!" Izzy requested as he moved his seat closer to the office desk that was keeping him away from Edward. He reached for his laptop and placed it on the desk. He flipped the top up so he could see the his wallpaper which was the photo of all the DigiDestined after they had defeated Apocalypsemon. He was ready to search things in case there was an investigation that he needed to carry out about his family.

Izzy looked back up at Edward to see that the Ghoul had managed to arch a bony eyebrow in silent questioning as to why he had brought out his Pineapple laptop when there was a computer right beside them. "You wont find anything about your parents online even if you are a good hacker! All of their records have been erased when they joined UNIT in their teens much like their parents before them!" Edward said with a smirk as he watched Izzy closing his laptop and sitting back in his chair as he waitied for him to tell them what had happened all those years ago.

"I'll start with what we do at UNIT and go on to how your parents got involved with it and how that lead to their untimely deaths!" Edward began. He sat back in his chair as he watched Izzy and Tentomon. Glad that they were not going to shout over him as he explained he began to explain everything.

"UNIT stands for the United Nations Intelligence Task fource, and you can guess it is a part of the United Nations! At UNIT we have agents from all around the world who have all been handpicked for many different skills. We deal with the supernatural along with extraterrestrial beings that have no right to be on the planet. We have bases all around the world and our main base is in London but we have important bases all around the world. This base our main base in the east!" Edward began to explain to the boy. He knew that he was not explaining everything that UNIT done but it was a start for Izzy to understand what his parents had done before they had been murdered in cold blood by Leatherback and why Nightshade had ordered for the cover story that they had died in a car crash.

"Here in Japan we take agents from families who now about the UNIT along with the many things that UNIT deals with! Your birth parents and the family who raised you were all from families who have always been in UNIT since it was formed at the end of the First World War! I was the one who introduced your mum and dad when I had first came to Japan! Your parents then got married nd had you. And like I said everything about them was erased so that there was no records of them in the public only in UNITs database! They were the best agents that had come from Japan and because of that they had been targeted by the many enemies that they had made over the years. Leatherback was one of those enemies! Leatherback struck so fast that we didn't have the right time to react to save them but we were able to save you!" he continued to explain. The events that had happened fifteen years ago was something that none of the Elemental Guardians and UNIT wanted to go back over again. Many of their agents had been murdered by Leatherback in cold blood.

"You had only been a few days old when your parents had died and so it made it easy for us to hide you! It was also easy for you in that you were too young to remember that night and your birth parents. Nightshade hated the idea of you being given to a family who didn't know what was really happening in the world and so she gave you to the only remaining family there was! I had thought that you would be safe with them and Leatherback would forget all about the Izumi's and focus on us again! But I was wrong!" Edward finished explaining as he sat back in his chair and looed across the table at Izzy and Tentomon.

"But how come Leatherback found me again?" Izzy asked Edward. He had not done anything that would attract his parents killer to come back to him. He didn't work with UNIT. Sure he had done his fair share of hero work since he became a DigiDestined and was partnered with Tentomon. Eyes widening he looked at his partner. His reaction didn't go unnoticed by Edward as the Ghoul also stood up and studied Izzy with those strange eyes.

"Izzy, Mr and Mr Izumi have both returned to active duty and I think it's best that you stay close to either me or Tentomon!" Edward said as he sat back down on his chair.

Izzy was going to reply to Edward when the entire floor underneath their feet trembled followed by loud booms that vibrated through the walls. Not a moment later the door to Edward's office was ripped off of its hinges allowing Leatherback to walk right in.