Part 6

Izzy stared at his bedroom. The bedroom that he had since he could remember. The bedroom that he had since he had first learned about the Digimon and Digital World when he was four years old. He had only known this room for a good ten years and now he was being asked to leave it. He knew that when he went to university there would be a high chance that he would be moving out of his families apartment and into the universities student accommodation or sharing an apartment with another student. That was what he had thought in recent months, but he knew that Joe was already looking into something already.

He never thought that he would have to leave his home and his parents because of something that he had never seen coming. A day ago he didn't even know that aliens and supernatural beings were real. He had deep down hoped that they were real, but at the same time he hoped that they were not real. Sometimes dealing with Digimon on a daily basis was enough for him and the others. They didn't want to add the beings that had inspired the Digimon to come into the game.

Seeing how easily Edward had taken out Vademon and then practically dragging the human sized Digimon to the prison where he is no doubt at this moment. He was sure that Vademon would be too terrified to move in case Edward repapered to beat him up once again. Vademon, being a businessman he would no doubt talk his way out of the problem he had found himself in. He just wondered if Edward and UNIT would buy his game and allow him to walk away. He highly doubted that would happen between Vademon and Edward.

Sighing he sat down on his bed. His mum had packed all of his bedding and that was in a separate bag ready for Edward to carry it through the Ground Bridge to a new location. Edward had explained that they were going to the main UNIT base in the Tower of London, the same location that Leatherback was going to be taken to. Edward had told his mum that it was needed that she pack his bedding in that where they were going had plenty of bedding for an army. But his mum only wanted to help Edward and the staff of the base along with giving him a better sense of home. Izzy knew it would also give him a sense of homesickness when he was gone until Leatherback was locked up and this Seth person was locked up or the way Edward was speaking he was going to be killed in a fight while making it look like an accident. It seemed like a second nature for these people. After all they had managed to cover up his entire families history so that no one in Japan and the world knew what was happening.

"Izzy? Is there something wrong?" Tentomon's voice broke Izzy out of his thoughts of leaving his family for some time as he learned how to fight the supernatural along with was placed in witness protection. A programme that no doubt saw him being protected by more supernatural creatures.

Izzy looked up from his hands and towards his Digimon partner. He smiled at Tentomon before looking back at his gloved hands. "Izzy you know that if there is something wrong you can talk to me! We are partners!" Tentomon said sure of himself, but he slumped close to the ground as if he was debating on saying something else. After a second of silence Tentomon looked back at Izzy and spoke with so much uncertainty that it managed to break Izzy's heart, "Aren't we?"

Those two words were enough to spring Izzy to life. He was managing to push Tentomon away from him when he needed his partner the most. Without thinking he lunged towards his partner and embraced him in a huge hug. "I know pal! I know you will always be here for me!" he managed to say in-between the sobs.

Tentomon moved closer to Izzy. The small red insect Digimon knew that at the moment he needed to be there for his friend and his partner. It was bad enough that they found out how his parents had really died and the way that they had died had been covered up by the government. To make it bad they had meet the thing that had killed his partners parents. When he had meet that thing in UNIT Japan he had felt his connection with him and Izzy grow with the anger and fear that the two of them shared that it had allowed him to do a quick Digivolve into HerculesKabuterimon for a brief second. That brief second had allowed him to fight of Leatherback while at the same time keeping Izzy safe from the brute as Edward had somehow started to fight against Vademon.

Now they were being asked to move away from the only home that they have ever known because of something far bigger than anything they had ever faced before. The DigiDestined had fought in their fair share of fights and even a small on war against Myotismon along with the four Dark Masters. This time what they had stumbled upon into was older than man itself and it had produced soldiers rather than heroes. Yoshie was agreeing that it was best that they were taken away to be safe or until Izzy could defend himself without the aid of a Digimon or one of the Elemental Guardians as they called themselves. From the way that things were going it might take them sometime before they returned home to Japan.

Tentomon did not care where he was just as long as he was able to protect Izzy. That was his main purpose of remaining in the Human World. He could always return to the Digital World and lose his ability to Digivolve like he can when he is with Izzy. That was something he didn't want to do. He was Izzy's partners, and if Izzy was to get a new partner he didn't know what he would do if that were to happen.

"Izzy is everything okay?" Mimi asked brining Izzy and Tentomon's attention to her.

Mimi stood at the doorway of Izzy's room with Palmon standing beside her. Like always she was wearing her pink dress and her large pink hat. "You mum said you were still in your room and she was getting worried as someone called Nightshade is waiting in the kitchen with Edward!" Mimi said as she walked into Izzy's bedroom. She walked silently to Izzy's bed and sat down as Izzy sat beside her. Palmon took Tentomon in a hug and the two Digimon kept to floor close to their partners.

"This is just big, Mimi! We have to leave for our own protection until all of this blows over!" Izzy replied looking over his room one last time. "It isn't like when you moved to America we could always stay in contact! This time I'm not sure if I will be allowed to keep in touch with you! After all my parents records when they joined UNIT they simple disappeared!" Izzy continued to speak as he leaned in close to Mimi.

Mimi pulled away and looked at Izzy. "Izzy your mum and dad are speaking to this Nightshade and Edward about what should be done with you and Tentomon being moved towards Scotland!" she said as she held onto Izzy's shoulders.

"Scotland? Edward said that we are going to London!" Izzy said. He pulled away from Mimi and looked at her with confusion. "How did you hear about this?" Izzy asked Mimi.

Mimi had a smug smile on her face as she leaned in closer to Izzy. "You learn a few things with being around me Izzy. Number one is learning how to eavesdrop on conversations as you go past rooms. Also Edward is loud when he is arguing with Nightshade!" Mimi said still keeping a smile on her face. "Another thing is I heard a mansion! Izzy you are going to be staying at a mansion!" Mimi squealed leaving Izzy to just stare at her for a good moment.

A shadow fell onto the floor of Izzy's room as someone walked into the DigiDestineds room. The silence of how the person came into the room. They knocked on the wall with a fist and the sound of metal knocking against wood attracted their attention.

The two DigiDestined and the two Digimon looked up to see a women in her early twenties standing by the door. She wore a triangular hat that had a red feather sticking out from the fabric. Wearing mostly black with a white shirt underneath the black jacket that she wore. Hanging at her hip was a huge sword that was made out of the same material as Edward's axe. The buckle that was keeping the sword attached and the belt that was wrapped around her waist and her shoulder was in the shape of a phoenix screeching up into the air. She wore armour on her shoulders and her down her limbs. Her eyes were just as strange as they seemed to be a mixture of green and red with a slightly strange shaped pupil.

"Kushiro Izumi or do you have a name that you would rather be called by?" she asked walking fully into the room. Walking behind her was Edward who kept by the door along with his parents.

"You can call me Izzy" he replied not to sure what was happening. He wanted to know what was happening and who this person was. Then it clicked. Mimi had said that someone called Nightshade was speaking to his parents about him and Tentomon. He had also heard Edward and Leatherback speaking about someone called Nightshade on a few occasions. Was this Nightshade?

Nightshade walked towards Izzy and Mimi. She then sat down on the bed and looked at Izzy. "I am here to speak to you before you finish your packing and before I go back on another mission!" she started to say but Edward from where he was still standing at the door spoke up.

"You just got back from dealing with the Daleks Nightshade! What has you wrapped up in another mission so soon? What about Seth?" he asked taken a step into the room. He stepped back out of the room from the glare that he was receiving from Nightshade. "This is one of your I'll explain later isn't it?" he asked as he folded his arms across his chest.

"You know me so well Edward!" Nightshade responded before her attention returned to Izzy and Mimi. "You might have guess who I am! If not my name is Nightshade, I am the leader of the Elemental Guardians! You have meet my weapon specialist and Second in Command Edward!" Nightshade said looking towards Edward for a brief moment. Edward nodded his head in response before Nightshade returned her attention back to Izzy. "I am here is because of what has happened to you in the past few hours! I know it has been quick and I know that at the moment all you want to do is find somewhere quietly and sleep for a good couple of days! But I can tell you that this is just the beginning of something that your grandparents had started all those years ago!" Nightshade continued to explain to Izzy. "Edward has already gone through what has happened with Japan and UNIT and so there is no point of me to tell you again or we will be all night as there is so much but you just need the basics!"

Nightshade remained silent as she waited for Izzy to digest who she was and the main reason as to why she was here. She was here to put Izzy's mind to ease about moving away from home. It was for his own good along with his family. His friends would be able to remain at their homes but there was to be a UNIT agent or a Shadow Man to watch over them. They were not in danger so that much that they and their families needed to be moved away. That was not the case for the Izumi's. Izzy and the Digimon that was with him would be moving to their main base which was in Scotland, well away from Leatherback in London. Mr and Mrs Izumi was to go back to London where they will be going through their training again to be agents once again.

"But why are you here? I thought that I was going to London where the main base is like Edward said? And what about Leatherback? Is he going to be charged for my parents death? Will I be able to still keep in touch with my friends? Would I still be able to carry on with my school work?" Izzy ranted towards Nightshade who had to raise her hand to calm Izzy down with questions that she will answer before Izzy followed them back to the Moonray.

"Relax Izzy! I will explain everything! I feel that it is best that I speak to you here because knowing how quickly I move about I wont speak to you in a few months! That is why I am here! London is the largest and is the one of few bases that is close to a major city. It is also where there is a huge prison and it is at that prison that Leatherback is to be held at! Very recently I had thought that that was a bad idea on keeping you in the same place that we were keeping Leatherback as a POW! So I decided that you will be staying at our second main base which is outside of Stirling! It's more of a mansion than a military base like the Tower of London!" she started to explain. She had decided to take a break in explaining what she was going to be doing.

Nightshade looked at Edward. The Ghoul nodded his head without having to be told anything. He picked up the remaining of Izzy's bags to be taken to the Moonray. Edward didn't say anything else as he walked towards the front door of the apartment with bags in hand.

She looked back at Izzy and continued to explain what was happening. "At UNIT Stirling you will still be able keep in contact with your friends. But you can never tell them of any missions, addresses or names in a very unlikely chance of everything being hacked which is highly unlikely! If you wont a friend to come over you must notify me or Edward and only the Moonray opening a Ground Bridge can they come. You will continue with your school work! Don't think that I am going to let that fall away if we are training you how to do basic defence!" she said sternly. She and Edward had briefly talked about teaching Izzy how to defend himself with his own body and weapons. Something that both of them can see wont hurt the boy in any way.

"What about that thing that attacked us in the park?" Mimi asked the leader of the Elemental Guardians. She had taken one of Izzy's hands to help keep him calm along with herself. Yoshie before Nightshade and Edward had explained that the monster that they had seen in the park was the reason for so many deaths and injuries many years ago. She had explained that the monster was the reason why their family was just them and Izzy.

"Yes Leatherback! Leatherback has to much information that we can not allow to be lost! He will be taken to the Tower of London! Once he has served his purpose well we will take him out as quickly as he took out Izzy's parents!" Nightshade as she rose from the bed and stood above the teenagers. "Izzy when you are ready come outside! You'll know what you are looking for when you see!" Nightshade said before walking out. Walking out the bedroom Nightshade patted Yoshi's shoulder and gave her a reassuring smile.

Izzy and Mimi both watched Nightshade walk out of the room. A moment of silence fell between and Izzy looked down at his feet. He was always awkward when he was alone with Mimi. Sure he and she got along well but there was a few times that they butted heads due to their personalities being so different. Even with their personalities being so different they had managed to save both their world and the Digital World. "I guess this is goodbye!" he said still not looking at Mimi.

Mimi kept her hand on Izzy's hand and tightened it. "It's not goodbye its see you later! I mean you will still be able to keep in touch and you know me that I will always make an excuse to come and see you in Scotland! When I am there you can take me on a tour of Edinburgh and then London!" she said making Izzy look back up at her. "You heard Nightshade! You are being put under their protection! Your not being made into one of them! After all you are not a zombie and whatever Nightshade is!" Mimi continued.

"He's not a zombie, Mimi!" Yoshie said walking into the room along with her husband. They both sat on the bed without saying another world and Izzy's small family was together in one room. "He's an alien Ghoul with the strength of a fifteen men! Nightshade is also an alien, but she is a shapeshifter! I'll let you see what I mean Izzy!" Yoshie explained with a smile but there were tears in her eyes.

"We had thought that we would not be going back into this life but once you step a single toe into it you can not escape it!" Masami finally spoke up from where he was sitting on the bed beside Yoshie. "As long as you do what Edward and Nightshade tell you everything will be okay!" he finished saying to Izzy.

Izzy smiled at his mum and dad. He looked at Mimi and placed a kiss on her check before rising up from his bed. Tentomon followed Izzy to the door when Yoshie spoke up again.

"Tentomon promise me you will protect our son?"

"I promise!"

Izzy and Tentomon will return in the Avengers and the Book of the Dead