The Tamer v2 - In His Name

by leonardo1123581321

In the next adventure of the Digimon Tamer, the lives of Juri, Rika, and Henry change forever when digimon begin crossing over into the human world. But it's all just a story, right? Just a book series by an author no one has seen in a long time. Why are they here and can they save their world before something worse follows the digimon?

44. Out of Time

Disclaimer: Digimon is a franchise owned jointly by Toei Animation and Bandai, and conceptualized by Akiyoshi Hongo. Doctor Who is a property owned by the British Broadcasting Company created by Sydney Newman. The concept of The Tamer v2.0: In His Name is a fanfiction idea. Please support the official properties.

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The Tamer v2.0: In His Name

Chapter 44: Out of Time

Justimon looked from Tamerkato to Guilmon to Rika. Henry, Beelzemon, Rapidmon, and Taomon were all wearing the same stunned expression on their face as the puppet creature just hovered in the air in front of them. All of them were stunned speechless in light of what they just saw. Not only did the Digimon Tamer just hand all the information his people ever had to this thing, but he was still telling the D-Reaper off. Then something more unbelievable happened. The puppet and bird creatures began to retreat away. All across the horizon, they could see the swarms of pendulum feet and bird creatures fleeing off towards the red mass in the distance. Only one stayed, the creature he'd been talking to.

But anyone could tell by the way it kept its distance that it was afraid of this boy standing in front of it.

Tamerkato adjusted the goggles on his head and went on to add, "If I can give you one piece of advice that you really ought to take: Run."

With that, the creature turned in the air and fled away at full speed - hurrying to rejoin the rest of the retreating monsters. It was huge relief and a welcome sight to see them on the run for once. Rapidmon was the first one to fall over backwards and breathe a deep sigh, "Finally, we can take a break. I'm starving!"

"You don't have a mouth," Tamerkato remarked, reaching out his hand to Rika, "Do you mind if I borrow the D-Terminal? I need to message the others."

But the relief didn't last as they looked at Tamerkato. Taomon was the first one to get his attention, "Was it a good idea to give that thing access to the knowledge of the Ancients?"

"Guardians," Tamerkato corrected as he finished typing his message. Then he put the device away and cracked a smile, "And probably not. I mean, I gave it a list of every strength and weakness the Guardians recorded for every digimon, along with strategies to counter them."

"O...kay," Rapidmon sat up, and looked up at him, "There's a 'but' in there right?"

Tamerkato crossed his arms and flashed a great big smile, "Yes, there's a but. I put the camera program that one of those monster makers made inside the thing. Now we'll be able to see whatever it sees."

"Okay...and how can we use that for the plan?" Justimon asked.

Tamerkato shrugged, "No idea. Just thought it'd be good to have. I'm making this up as I go."

"GOGGLE HEAD!" Rika snapped at him, "The only reason I didn't smack you across the head earlier is because I thought you knew what you were doing!"

"I kinda know what I"m doing," he smiled calmly, snapping his fingers.

Rika glared daggers at him, "You just said you were making this up as you go!"

Tamerkato's smile just grew wider, "Exactly. You want to know why I'm the only Guardian still walking around? Because they tried too hard to keep things ordered, too hard to make things the way they were supposed to be, while I never knew what I was going to do next. And if I don't know what I'm going to do next, then what chance does that thing have to stop me!? I might stick to the plan, or I might do something completely unpredictable! Who knows? Not that thing!"

"If you're trying to make me punch you then you're succeeding," Rika seethed through very grit teeth, her hands curled up into fists ready to start delivering tough blows. Justimon was sure his fists would be all over the boy before she could even get close to him.

Tamerkato's eyes widened in panic, perhaps realizing that he'd screwed himself and he quickly added, "Don't worry. I'm on top of things. For now. Probably."

Annoyed and unconvinced of just how much control Tamerkato had over the situation, Rika went ahead and punched him for good measure. Justimon had to admit it was very satisfying to watch but tried to stay focused on the situation at hand. Although now a question was eating at him in the back of his mind. A question that desperately needed answering, "How do we know you even are Tamer? You could be that Trickster guy again trying to pull the wool over our eyes!"

Tamerkato raised an eyebrow, "I keep hearing that name…Trickster…who the hell is Trickster?"

"He says he's an Ancient like you," Justimon said, pointing at the old digivice he had, "He even had one exactly like that. So how do we know you're not him?"

Tamerkato blinked at him, seemingly contemplating how to respond to his accusation. After a moment, he finally responded to Ryo, "If this is a joke, I'm not finding it funny. There are no other Guardians left."

"That doesn't really answer my question," Justimon grumbled.

"I was there. They're all gone," Tamerkato said sternly, his tone shifting to suppress a growing anger, "So if you're done trying to throw me off, we still have a bunch of worlds to save!"

"Yeah, and how are we going to do that? You don't have a plan remember!?" Rika stamped her feet on the ground. Tamerkato gestured back towards the Metropolitan Building, "First, we go back that way and clear the area around Hypnos!"

Justimon heaved a sigh, annoyed that he had to keep explaining this, "We can't. That Trickster guy said the fact that we're in a Digital Field now means we can't go anywhere near electronics without frying them."

Tamerkato paused, putting a hand to his chin, "How do I explain this…if that were true, wouldn't it have broken all of our electronics already?"

"Do you really want to risk breaking everything?" Rika complained.

Tamerkato threw up his hands, "Fine! Whatever! We won't go near the tower. All the same, that's YOUR families trapped in there. So if you don't want to pull away those things, I will! DIGIPORT OPEN!"

He pointed his digivice beneath himself and Guilmon who whined, "Please, not again!"

And then they were gone in a flash of light, leaving the rest of them behind. Justimon groaned, "I really hate when he does that."

Rika dusted herself off, "But he's right. Our parents are back there."

"Yeah! With the digidestined! They'll be fine!" Justimon reminded her. Their parents…her parents…had been doing this a lot longer than they had. If anyone could survive this, it was going to be them. And yet, he could tell from the worried look on her face that she didn't agree. And if he had to be honest? He was a little worried about his parents too.

Aw…look at you getting all mushy about your parents, Monodramon's voice echoed inside his head. Ryo couldn't argue with that either. He was deeply worried about his parents…and it wasn't like he didn't care about them after everything that happened. He needed to know they were safe and he gave in to temptation.

"Shut up Monodramon. Fine, we'll go check to make sure they're safe," Justimon sighed, turning towards the Shinjuku Towers, "Let's go!"

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Yamaki was growing increasingly anxious as he watched the steel of the blast door start to give under repeated attacks and blasts from the villains. They were running out of time and he wasn't sure his security teams would actually be able to contain a breach - let alone the countless ones that were bound to occur. Then Izumi took that moment to announce, "Just got another message from Tamer! He says the cavalry's on the way! What does that mean? Cavalry? Who else is coming?"

Yamaki wasn't sure what kind of cavalry they had right now. Then there was a loud bang from outside that shook the building. On instinct, Yamaki drew his gun and started scanning the blast doors, "All units, report! Do we have a breach?"

"Engineering is clear! No breaches!"

"No breach in the labs!"

"Containment facility clear! No breaches!"

Yamaki didn't like that. What the hell was that blast? He wanted to question it when he heard a phone ring. His phone. He kept his gun drawn and declared, "Stay on your guard! Everyone else, get back to work. Every second counts people!"

Even though he said that, the entire team was frozen in place and hesitated to return to work. They were all scared out of their minds. He couldn't blame them and tried to cool his tone, "I get it. We're all scared. But it's not just ourselves we have to worry about. We all have family and friends out there in the middle of all this. Right now, we're the best chance many of them have. So let's get it together people."

The phone continued to ring against what he was saying but it seemed to motivate at least some of his team to get back to work. That was going to have to be good enough. He sighed and hurried back into his office to see the call was coming straight from the Prime Minster's office. He turned on the recorder and picked up the phone, "Director Yamaki speaking."

"Yamaki! Lock down your building and secure whatever assets you have. I want as much of it to be as salvageable as possible," the Prime Minister's voice said over the phone. He spoke with an uneasy tone and it was immediately clear that he had done something incredibly stupid. Yamaki did his best to remain calm but he knew what that tone meant, listening intently as the Prime Minister went on, "We've authorized the drop. We're pulling as many people out of the city as possible."

Yamaki couldn't believe what he was hearing. That was extreme and would put too many lives in danger. Maybe he could reason with the man, "Sir, with respect, that sounds extreme. My team hasn't even been able to finish fixing the Juggernaut program yet. If we have more time, we can do this without putting our own citizens in danger. I just-"

The Prime Minister wasn't having any of it and interrupted him, "I don't care for your excuses Yamaki. You and your Juggernaut have never been effective in containing this problem and you know it. The bomb drop is already underway and the Americans have planes en route to the city. You've got about twenty minutes to secure everything. I want it to be sellable when all this is over. After that, the Defense Minister and I will be reviewing your role within the Ministry of Defense."

Yamaki didn't like the sound of that and was glad he was recording the conversation. Although it seemed almost too perfect. He was being handed the kind of leverage he needed on a silver platter. On the other hand, desperation made people prone to bad decision making and Hypnos' budget could always use a few more zeroes. He wasn't going to challenge it and simply nodded, "We'll do what we can."

"Good. Get it done," the Prime Minister said before ending the call. He didn't like being kept on a short leash by this incompetent moron. He did like that he was going to hang the man from it once all of this was done. He ran a hand through his hair and gave it some thought...even if they finished Juggernaut right now, there was still the matter of the bomb going off over the city. The death toll was going to be in the thousands at least.

He needed to calm down and think of a plan. What could he do? He needed to get the word out discretely but there was no way he could act without getting intercepted. Unless he used the D-Terminal Izumi kept on him. He rushed out of his office, moving as calmly as he could to avoid alarming the rest of the team and towards Izumi's work desk. The man was busy reviewing the code with Ichijouji and Zhenyu. And naturally his wife was hovering right over his shoulder.

Yamaki began, "Izumi. Can I borrow you for a minute?"

"Anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of the others," Izumi remarked.

Of course. Izumi had been anything but cooperative since the first time Juggernaut blew. Yamaki sighed, "I need to borrow that messaging device of yours."

"Why?" Izumi turned to look at him with a raised eyebrow.

Yamaki leaned in close and spoke quietly, "I need you to keep this quiet. Understood?"

Now he had Misses Izumi, Zhenyu and Misses Ichijouji's attention. He really wanted to keep this just between Izumi and himself but there was no avoiding it now. But that wasn't enough for him, "Can you keep this quiet?"

"Yes," Izumi said. Yamaki checked once over his shoulder before whispering, "The Prime Minister just authorized the bomb drop. We've got twenty minutes to get the word out to your kids."

"Are you kidding?" Izumi whispered back, "We need to tell everyone!"

"And then what? Have them all stop working? Have them quit? Not while I'm on duty and not while we're the only chance the world has of surviving this thing! Right now, the only thing keeping everyone together is the idea that there's a chance. I'm not about to break that news to them. Let them keep working," Yamaki argued back quietly, "The sooner we get Juggernaut working, the better!"

Izumi looked back at him intently, his eyes seeming to weigh the options that were presented to him. He didn't like it either but what other choice did they have? He sighed and slid the D-Terminal towards him. Yamaki opened it and began typing out his message, 'This is Yamaki. The Americans are going to bomb the city. No idea what kind of bomb, but it'll hit in twenty minutes.'

Then he hit send, watching the message zip away into the ether. He sighed, "Now it's all on those kids."

"What exactly is your plan here, Yamaki?" Izumi asked disbelievingly. He grimaced, adjusting his glasses as he confessed, "I don't have one. Right now, I'm putting all of my hopes on you guys and the plan of that crazy one to get us all out of this alive."

He must've sounded crazy. However, it was what he needed to say at that moment. Izumi stifled a laugh, "Never thought I'd see the day where you had run out of ideas."

...

Sora and Ishida were on the roof fighting through as many of the creatures as they could with MetalGarurumon and Hououmon. But for every one of the birds they killed, three more appeared to take their place. And that was before they did anything about the ones with blades for appendages. At least the birds didn't fight back but these bladed ones were damn near untouchable. Even with all the mega level digimon they had on their side.

"STRIKE OF THE SEVEN STARS!"

Seven bright burning orbs burst through the mass of enemy bird creatures, clearing a path for them to be joined by MagnaAngemon and Magnadramon. The two digimon set down on the roof so that their partners TK and Kari could rejoin them, but that didn't mean anything against the swarm of these things that quickly regained their numbers. Kari and TK rejoined the married couple, TK asking, "Are you guys alright?"

"Just trying to hold these things back! There's no end to them!" Ishida explained, "The more time we buy, the better. But we can't keep playing defense like this forever! Our partners just can't take it."

Rosemon, HerculesKabuterimon, MetalGarurumon, Hououmon, Magnadramon, and MagnaAngemon. Six mega level digimon together in the same place and they may as well not have been there for all the good they were doing. As all six of them tried to think of how they were going to handle the situation next, their D-terminals beeped together. Sora opened hers first, reading the message aloud, "It's from Mimi's D-Terminal…wait…no, it says it's from Yamaki…he says they're going to bomb the city!"

"It'll kill us! They can't!" Kari gasped.

"Not just us. The entire city. There's no way they've evacuated the place in time," TK pointed out to them. Ishida began scanning the horizon for anything out of place, "We might be able to stop it if we find the plane that's going on the attack. Shoot it down before it gets close."

"Yeah, and give the government another reason to be pissed off at us!?" Sora remarked.

"You say that like they're not already mad at us," Takeru mused.

"They won't like us either way so who cares? MetalGarurumon!" Matt grumbled.

"I'm a little busy!" the wolf said as he bit into one of the bird creatures and tried ripping it apart with his teeth. However, that didn't stop him from getting swarmed by other bird creatures flying straight at him. The wolf roared in defiance as he was pulled from the sky, still trying to peel away as many of the bird creatures as he could.

He was saved by Hououmon and Rosemon prying away as many of the birds as possible. Magnadramon, Rosemon, and HerculesKabuterimon destroyed as many of the bird creatures as they could. Once he was free, the mega adjusted himself and flew straight back up to rip apart as many of them as he could. Ishida tried calling for his attention again, "MetalGarurumon!"

"WHAT!?"

"They're going to-"

BANG!

"YEAH! TAKE THAT! AND THAT! YA LIKE THAT!? HA!"

Beelzemon made his return running up the side of the building and firing his guns at the creatures, laughing manically as he went. All four digidestined were stumped by what they saw, especially since he'd left just a minute ago with Izzy and Mimi's daughter. And now he was back, helping to clear out the bird creatures, "Okay! What is happening right now?"

"Not this guy again!" Ishida grumbled as Beelzemon landed beside him, "Where's Ruki!?"

"The girl? Somewhere down there with the fox tuts!" Beelzemon gestured down below, "Something 'bout how they can't come near the building or something stupid. I dunno. I'm just here to wipe these things out! TAKE THIS! HAHA!"

Beelzemon charged off firing his cannons at the attacking creatures while cackling manically. Ishida sighed, "Okay. That happened. We need to get down there and tell them about the bomb!"

Kari pushed herself ahead, "I'll go. You'll probably punch Tamer if you see him and the last thing we need is for him to run off again! Magnadramon!"

Matt was very close to blowing a fuse and was certain that another meeting with Tamer was the last thing he needed at the moment. He looked to his wife who gave him a certain look and nodded, "Okay. Fine. Do whatever you have to do."

…

The pink serpentine dragon soared by and scooped Kari up before diving for the ground, "I heard what's going on, Kari. Are you sure you don't want to help stop the plane!?"

"We can't if we wanted to. Imperialdramon's the only one who could go fast enough and he's in the Digital World with Ken and Davis!" Kari explained to her partner, "Besides. I bet Tamer will want to know before-"

"Been meaning to ask. When did you stop calling him Tai?" Magnadramon interrupted, "Or your brother?"

Kari gave that question some thought, trying to think of how to explain that to her partner, "I think…after everything's that happened…I don't know when it happened but…Tai's gone. I've made my peace with that."

"Uh huh...and the reason you're doing it now?" Magnadramon asked.

Kari patted her partner, "Can we talk about this after we're done fighting the not-digimon?"

The timing couldn't have been more perfect as more of the evil creatures swarmed around them. Magnadramon agreed, "Yes, You're right! I can see the others! There's...wait, what is that?"

She gestured at the humanoid digimon who looked like a superhero wearing battle armor and a long red scarf. Rika, Henry, Rapidmon, and Taomon were down there as well - fighting their way through the swarm of bird monsters. Magnadramon prepared to clear them out with her attack and roared, "DRAGON FIRE!"

Bolts of lightning broke from the heavens and struck several of the birds, blowing them apart. However, this did nothing to slow their advance as more of the bird creatures and bladed creatures appeared to rip them apart. Magnadramon roared as she landed beside the others, "There's no end to these guys!"

"We'll have to keep trying!" Kari said as she leapt off her partner to race towards the others, "What are you doing?"

"Trying to clear these guys away from the tower and our families!" Henry said back. Kari blinked, wondering if they even knew, "Didn't you get the message? The Americans are going to bomb the city!"

"What? When!?" Rika gasped.

"About nineteen-ish minutes. We just got the message ourselves," Kari said, watching the expressions on these two kids twist in shock. It was Diaboromon all over again, only stopping an evil digimon wouldn't be enough this time. They'd have to stop both the D-Reaper and the bomb coming towards them. She took another glance around and realized, "Wait! Where's Tak...Tamer and Guilmon?"

"Guy just vanished on us. We thought he was here!" Rapidmon answered.

"Did you see him?" Taomon asked.

"Last we saw, he ran off to help you guys," Kari answered. Each of the kids and their partner digimon collectively groaned at that statement. It probably wouldn't have been as frustrating if their lives weren't in any immediate danger. As she was about to take charge, a bright flash of light appeared in front of them followed by a yelp.

Tamer and Guilmon were flat on the ground in front of them. Guilmon rolled onto his side and whined, "Can we stop doing that, please?"

"Sorry buddy. Still working on the landing. I swear I was a lot better at this," Tamer grumbled as he picked himself up. Upon standing, every single one of the creatures stopped in their tracks. It was probably the first real chance any of them had to look at these creatures up close and it would've been beautiful if they also didn't speak with the most jarring of mechanical drones, "PRIMARY THREAT HAS ARRIVED. DISENGAGE AND REEVALUATE."

And as quickly as the creatures came to attack, they all turned to leave towards the growing red mass in the distance. Kari blinked at the sight, unsure what to make of it and looked towards Tamer for an explanation, "Do you mind telling me what that was all about?"

"Nothing...probably," Tamer answered as he dusted himself off.

However, that didn't stop Rika from correctly pointing out, "That's not what happened and you know it goggle head! This guy just gave a whole bunch of info to that thing! Including, how to defeat and counter every single one of our digimon!"

Kari didn't believe what she'd just been told and looked at Tamer for his retort. Only to be met with his usual cheeky grin as he said, "It worked, though, didn't it? Now it's too afraid to attack because it has no idea what I'm going to do!"

"What?" Kari blinked back at him, trying her best to process what she'd just heard, "You just...gave that info to it? WHY!?"

"Honestly, I'm making up parts of the plan as I go. I have no idea what's going to work and what won't right now," Tamer admitted sheepishly as he took a look around, "So what's the situation over here?"

"Well, we were trying to save the tower and beat those things back. Now we've got a different problem," Rika explained, "Your teacher…sister…whoever she is to you just said they're going to bomb the city!"

Now it was his turn to be stumped stupid, "They are? With what? When?"

"About eighteen minutes now," Kari said after a quick glance at her watch.

Tamer grunted and ran a hand through his hair, "Okay, let me think. Oh, that's not good. Wait...actually, that might be very good!"

"How is the city getting blown up any good?" Rika asked with a raised eyebrow. Tamer turned on her and said, "Easy! We let them drop the bomb!"

"WHAT!?" everyone said together in wide eyed disbelief of what they'd just heard. He couldn't have been serious. Then again, maybe that's what was supposed to happen. And if it was, they couldn't count on Tamer to stop it. He'd probably personally make sure the bomb got to the D-Reaper in one piece.

Of course his relaxed attitude wasn't helping them any, "Guys relax. The Guardians has technology that could blow whole worlds out of existence and nothing they had could stop this thing. You think a bomb is going to work? Even the most powerful weapon in this world's arsenal are just styrofoam darts to it."

"For the love of-That's not what we're worried about!" The red scarfed digimon said. Kari and Magnadramon both looked at the Digimon and finally said what was on their mind, "Okay, is someone going to tell us who that is?"

"Hi there. Justimon. Nice to meet you," he introduced himself before turning back on Tamer, "Back to my point, we're worried because a lot of people are going to die from that bomb!"

Tamer blinked again, "I wouldn't worry about it. But that does give me an idea on how to save Juri."

"Are you even listening to use or are you just licking and choosing whatever works for you?" Taomon asked angrily. Tamer shrugged and gestured ahead, "Honestly, I was thinking of how to rescue Juri but bombing it works just as well ."

"How?" Kari demanded. Tamer gestured at the red mass, "The blast should give us an opening to go and get Juri. The problem will be getting close enough to take advantage of that opening without getting eaten alive or blown apart by the blast."

"Goggle head! Focus!" Rika said with exasperation, "No more making this up as you go! No more we don't know what you're going to do next! What!? Is!? The!? Plan!?"

Tamer put a hand to his chin, still obviously lost in thought.

Now Henry was losing patience and asked, "No offense, but can you please start talking? Because the fact that the rest of us are just kind of going with the flow isn't making anyone feel better."

Tamer finally broke his silence, "I'm thinking. Have a lot of thoughts but I'm not going to spout everyone that comes to mind. We need to rescue Juri. That's the part of the plan I'm still working on. We know where she is and we know where the bomb will drop so we...nothing."

"Can we eat the bomb?" Guilmon asked.

Tamerkato's face lit up with excitement and he turned to his partner to hug, "Guilmon! That is brilliant! Just like Orochimon! Feed it the bomb and explosion might clear an opening big enough for us to...yes...almost getting there...then we fight our way...maybe? Got it! Okay! Step one! We need to get our hands on that bomb!"

"WHAT!? I thought we were trying to STOP that!" Justimon asked.

Tamerkato turned on him, "No! See, that's the good part. If the bomb goes off inside the D-Reaper, it should absorb enough of the damage to prevent destroying the city! Besides, I don't blow up stuff…all the time."

"Rambling," Rapidmon said.

Tamer facepalmed and apologized, "Right, right, sorry. Lost my train of thought. The point I'm trying to make is that we need to get that bomb so that we can use it on the D-Reaper. Then we can use it for step two: blow a hole in the D-Reaper."

"We tried that in the Digital World, remember? It doesn't work! Any damage we do goes away as fast as we can deal it out."

"We're not trying to hurt it. We're trying to get inside it. More specifically, we're trying to get inside the D-Reaper to rescue Juri...well, Juri's body. Getting the D-Reaper out of her head is going to be another challenge entirely and I'm still trying to think of a way to do it," Tamerkato admitted quietly.

He put a hand to his chin again to think, trying to think of a workable solution just as another voice called out to them, "HEY!"

Kari turned her head skyward to see the Ishidas, Takeru, and their digimon partners coming to join them - Rosemon, HerculesKabuterimon, MetalGarurumon, Hououmon, and MagnaAngemon. Rosemon landed first, "Okay, what just happened? First they're all over the building and then they just start running away? Did we miss something!?"

"Tamer over here did something and now those things are too freaked out to be around wherever he shows up," Kari explained to them. The looks on all their faces said enough.

Sora shook her head as she said, "Somehow that alone makes way too much sense. So what's the plan?"

Tamerkato groaned, "Boy, I hate repeating myself. Okay, we go back to the original plan. We go on the offense. The biggest issue will be finding where the plane is coming from so we can get to the bomb."

"If it's the Americans, the closest one is Yokota Air Base. That's a joint USAF-JADF base to the west of the city, but it's mostly used for airlift operations. They don't have any fighters or bombers," Matt explained to them while scratching his head, "So if they're coming from there, it'll be on the back of a cargo plane."

"Okay…cargo planes from the west. Got it. Any other places they could be coming from?"

"There's also Misawa Air Base up north but that's on the other side of the country. If they're coming from there, it could be a while before they hit us," Matt explained again, "The bigger problem is that Misawa actually has fighters and bombers. And those go much faster than cargo planes. So who knows what they're sending and what they'll be using to escort it."

"What I wouldn't give to have Imperialdramon here right now," Takeru added sheepishly, "Well, I guess that means we'll have to split up our teams. Half of us go west, the other half go north. We find the plane that's going to blow up Tokyo and…what…hijack the plane?"

"What? No, not the plane! We just want the bomb," Tamerkato said again, "Find the bomb, I can use the digivice to detach it and we fly off with the bomb. Then it's just a matter of getting the bomb back to the city so that we can blow up the D-Reaper."

"Okay...Magnadramon and I can head west to Yokota," Kari volunteered.

"We'll come with," MagnaAngemon added, "Americans are pretty gun crazy already anyway."

"Then Sora and I will go north towards Misawa. If the Americans are coming from that way, MetalGarurumon's speed and Hououmon's maneuverability will be more than enough to counter whatever they've got bringing their bomb," Matt added.

Rapidmon raised up his gun arm, "Okay…and what about the rest of us? Because if I have to do any more running around, I'm going to collapse from exhaustion."

"Sit tight and relax for now. Play defense if those things show up. Otherwise, just be ready to jump into action once we have the bomb," Tamerkato explained matter of factly.

"Okay, I can see no one else is going to ask so I might as well. Why aren't we just letting them drop the bomb? I mean…we're going to use it on the D-Reaper anyway so what difference does it make if we drop it or if they drop it?" Rika asked with a raised hand, her mood souring as she went on, "And more importantly, are we really planning on fighting the American military?"

"It's not the craziest thing we've ever done," Henry smirked, nodding towards the adult digidestined and their partners, "And if you guys are anything like the show, it's not the craziest thing you've done either."

"Show? What?" Rosemon turned her head in confusion.

Takeru just beamed proudly while Matt buried his head in his hands, "Let's not talk about it. Can we get moving already? That bomb isn't going to stop itself!"

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Author's Notes: They're off to challenge one of the most powerful militaries in the world. What will happen next to the Tamers and the Digidestined? Will the Juggernaut be ready to fire in time? And what will the D-Reaper do to counter their plans? Find out all this and more in the next chapter of The Tamer v2.0 - In His Name due out in three weeks on Friday June, 19th at 8 PM CDT. I'm sorry again for the delay in updates but as the COVID-19 situation winds down, more people are returning to get medical care that they previously couldn't. So now we're still in the middle of a pandemic and it's getting busier because people are acting like it's not a thing. To be honest, most days I get home dead tired from work and I'm barely able to write or do much else. Anyway, I'm sorry for the delay but I hope I make up for it by letting you know that the updates will probably return to a normal schedule by July. Let me know what you guys think in the comments. And don't forget to favorite the story to show support and follow the story to keep up with all the latest updates. That's all for now, let's jump into previews for the next chapter:

About ten minutes north of Tokyo, a flight of F-15s escorting a B-2 made its way towards Tokyo from Misawa Air Base. As the plane made its way, the pilot shook anxiously at the controls. He never thought he'd been given the order to bomb Tokyo, especially without electronic guidance. The risk of civilians casualties and collateral damage was terrifying. He didn't even understand why! It's not like they were at war with the Japanese.

At least, he didn't think they were. But political situations changed all the time. Yesterday's friend became tomorrow's enemy - ideals change, the mission shifts, objectives...

It didn't help that they didn't know what exactly they were flying into. Command didn't tell them although they insisted it was because the Japanese government had left them just as much in the dark as it had left the rest of them. Much more likely, it was classified or some other bureaucracy crap. All they had been given was coordinates.