Chapter 7: Gulch away from Gulch
It was a quiet day on File Island, rather strange considering the impending doom of Myotismon's growing dominance spearheaded in the Digital world by the Dark Masters, nevertheless all was calm as Elecmon patrolled the Primary Village doing his best to ensure the safety of the digi-eggs and In Training digimon which resided there. Elecmon was confident that nothing would deserve the serenity of the cloudy morning. Well, let's be honest, there is no possible way that he could have predicted what happened next.
"AHHHHHH!" He heard as a man wearing blue armor fell from the sky with his arms flailing. Luckily he landed in a small stream, unluckily he would continue screaming for another minute before calming down. "Oh, I landed" Elecmon heard the man say before he ran over to him.
"Excuse me" Elecmon said in a concerned albeit annoyed tone seeing as to how the man's screaming had just woken up a couple dozen young digimon from their naps. The man stood up and looked at Elecmon before gasping.
"Wow, you are a Pikachu" Caboose stated in his goofy voice. Elecmon was about to reply when he heard another man.
"Wrong franchise you idiot!" Tucker yelled as he and everyone else made it to the stream.
"Not so loud" Elecmon scolded with a growl as several more In Training digimon were woken up.
"Sorry" Tucker said in a normal voice
"Who are you all anyway?" Elecmon asked with a sigh
"They're friends Elecmon" Oculus said
"Oculus?" Elecmon asked "But if you and Gatomon are back from the trip Gennai sent you on then that means-" Elecmon didn't finish as he looked over all of the armor clad humans. "You cannot be serious"
"Yep" Gatomon said with a chuckle "They take some getting used to, although we weren't supposed to give you a bad impression of them."
"Yeah" Simmons sighed "Sorry about Caboose, on our way here we went through a wall made of binary code and he got spooked by all the numbers and let go of the rest of us and ended up crash landing instead of just landing like we did."
"I see" Elecmon said slowly, suddenly feeling a lot more uneasy about the future and was quietly making plans to use some of his digi-dollars to hire some mercenaries to help defend the Primary Village. "Well, I'll take you over to Gennai and I guess we'll see if you guys are everything we need."
"Prepare to be sorely disappointed" Grif said
Japan 1999
Locus and Terriermon strode through the resistance base on their way to the command center. Terriermon chuckled at the awed glances the people they passed shot to Locus who either didn't notice or didn't care. As they entered the command center, Locus and Terriermon were greeted by all of their fellow leaders who invited them to take a seat.
"Now that we're all here, we can get down to business." Madame Lime began
"Indeed" Locus agreed as Yamaki began the meeting
"Now that we have all become allies we have the manpower to start causing real damage to Myotismon's forces, that being said, we are still outnumbered, outgunned, and to make matters worse, we still have no idea where the other digidestined are being held, the only lead we have was an intelligence report saying that they had been separated and scattered to different areas around Japan, a response to some kind of disturbance at Myotismon's castle in the Digital World." Yamaki said
"We need the archives" Kallen surmised
"Yes" Locus agreed "The problem is that while we have a big enough force to make a move, our lack of equipment would almost certainly lead to us being defeated."
"Let's not forget the fact that their digimon could overpower us easily" Madame Lime pointed out
"There may be a way" another man in the room said he looked a lot like Mr. Bean and was obviously experienced with weapons by the way he showed off his revolver "Sorry, I'm new. The names Carlton Lassiter, I was the Police Chief in Santa Barbara, California before I was promoted to a position in the CIA. I was with a group of people in Shinawara when Myotismon took over and we just joined with this alliance yesterday."
"Lassiter" Yamaki interrupted "Are you going somewhere with this?"
"Yes, sorry" Lassiter replied as he straightened his tie "On my way here, my people recieved a coded message from the Digital World, after unscrambling it we found that it was a set of coordinates and instructions for Locus and Terriermon on how to get into the Digital World, the message came from a man named Gennai he says he has not only reinforcements for us but that he has weapons as well to help us stop Myotismon over here."
"Excellent" Madame Lime beamed
"Locus, I believe you and you're partner have your next mission." Yamaki said with a barely concealed grin
"Right" Locus replied standing up "We'll leave immediately"
Digital World, 1999
Infinity Mountain, former domain of Devimon before the digidestined defeated him earlier that summer, now Gennai was using it for a secret base to combat Myotismon's army. Gennai stood at the mountains peak admiring the view as well as thinking over whether or not bringing Locus and the Reds and Blues here together was a mistake or not. Sure every person standing against Myotismon counts, but they had been enemies on Chorus for nearly a year and the only positive thing they remembered about Locus was that he had saved them from Felix at the last minute. Locus was a better person, an observation proven by the fact that the Digital World had chosen him. Gennai briefly reminisced on Locus' sudden arrival in 1999 when he heard a group approaching him. He turned around to find himself face to face with the Reds and Blues as well as Gatomon and Oculus and two reporters that he didn't recognize.
"Welcome" Gennai greeted "I'm glad that you all are here, although I must apologize immediately for two things."
"What do you need to apologize for and why?" Carolina asked
"Number two, should arrive later today, he just texted me his RSVP. Number one, well, it's more directed to the Reds and Blues specifically than anyone else, although the insanity that will probably happen there could be seen as an inconvenience to you as well."
"What do you mean?" Wash asked
"Follow me and you'll find out" Gennai said before leading them to a lower part of the mountain where they found a door just standing there.
"This is it?" Locus asked in Spanish
"You needed to apologize to us over a door?" Simmons asked in disbelief
"Not the door" Gennai said "What it leads to" with that Gennai opened the door and led them through, they found themselves in a cave and as they continued to follow Gennai, he continued talking to them. "Before we lost contact with the Sovereign, they were able to help me set up door like the one we just walked through. These doors are like portals, walk through one, and you end up in a different part of the Digital World."
"Wow" Simmons said
"The best part is that since the Digital World is the very definition of unorthodox, Myotismon and his soldiers won't even know what the doors really are."
"Efficient" Carolina approved
"Hey, I think we're coming up on the exit to this c- oh **** me." Tucker said as he and the others looked outside of the cave. Grif dropped to his knees dramatically.
"NO!" Grif screamed to the heavens as he and the others found themselves in a perfect replica of Blood Gulch.
"Welcome to Digi-Gulch, your canyon away from the canyon." Gennai announced "Here we have everything that has made Blood Gulch so iconic: Red Base, Blue Base, we even built a third base over there for Gatomon's partner and the other digidestined to stay once we've rescued them."
"Why not have them stay with us?" Caboose asked as Grif continued to wail
"Right" Gennai began to laugh "I should just have a bunch of impressionable children live with you guys after they've just gotten out of certain death, I don't know what I was thinking" Gennai remarked sarcastically
"Thanks for that by the way" Gatomon said
"No problem"
"Gennai" Grif said as he finally stopped embarrassing himself
"Yes Grif"
"Of all the places we've been, why did you have to choose Blood Gulch for our base?"
"What can I say?" Gennai chuckled "I'm a sucker for the classics"
"You are the bane of my existence"
"You're welcome, Grif" Gennai replied as he began to lead them down into the canyon. Upon reaching the canyon floor, the Reds and Blues all stop in shock as they find Locus and another digimon (Terriermon) waiting for them.
"What the **** are you doing here?!" Tucker demanded as he ignited his energy sword
"Well, it's a long story" Locus said
I might be going insane, seeing as to how I just involved Lassie from Psych in this fan-fiction. Anyway, the next chapter will be entirely focused on Locus and how he got to be a digidestined after the War on Chorus came to a close? Just how did he get to 1999 anyway? Find out in Chapter 8: The tale of Sir Locus.