Chapter 2: First Strike
As the 'alliance' was meeting in Wardington, the fiend guard was on the move. Valkyria sat in the back of an SUV as a group of cult assailants was making their way to a target that they could have only fantasized about taking before the Bakugan came into the world. Japan was the nation with the highest amount of Digidestined so it only made sense for their world headquarters to be located in the middle of Tokyo. This would be the first official attack of the war, one that Valkyria was determined to complete.
"Ma'am" the drivaer called out "were nearing the first security checkpoint."
"Excellent" Valkyria replied in a soft voice, "Make sure to present proper credentials to get us inside"
"Understood" the driver acknowledged pulling up a folder to hand to the guard
"Val" Chromia complained "why can't we just destroy everything?"
"Calm down" she ordered the Haos Bakugan with a glare "Keep in mind this is the Digidestined headquarters if we attack right away they'll rally and overwhelm us, our best option is to infiltrate the facility and then attack, that way we catch them off guard, and by the time they figure it out, our hacker will have the information we need from their mainframe, and we'll be long gone." The security guards approved the credentials and allowed the team inside. "Datamon, be ready to start hacking once we enter the parking garage while Chromia and I strike at them from above"
"Yes of course" the small digimon said "The dark lord will have the Infinity Core, and we will control everything"
About ten minutes later, the security chief was inside of the monitor room reading the latest Fairy Tail manga when he heard the facial recognition alarm go off. Startled, the portly man practically fell out of his swivel chair as his reflexes caused him to launch the book away and jump from his seat.
"Man, I am out of shape" the security chief sighed as he sipped his coffee and turned his attention to the monitor only to give a spit take as he saw just who set the alarm off. "Damn it all!" he yelled rushing to send the alert through the intercom.
"Alert! Security Breach! Threat Level-" the recorded message blared as sirens began whirring causing Valkyria to laugh
"Too little, too late" she taunted as she held up a card with the symbol of Myotismon on it "Altar Card, set!" she yelled dropping the card in the same manner that Masquerade would drop a Doom Card, instead of a purple pulse spreading, a massive glowing red circle of intricate rune, like pattern blanketed the ground as the once bright sky became as black as a shadow leaving no natural light on the field. readied her Bakugan "Bakugan brawl!" Valkyria threw Chromia down and grinned as the spherical entity became a massive giant made out of diamond colored yellow with pink trim. "Chromia stand and attack!"
"Gladly!" Chromia replied
"Ability card activate!" Valkyria yelled "Quartz bombardment!"
"I wonder if a Digimon can survive a Bakugan" Chromia chuckled with glee as he extended his arms to the sky forming dozens of massive Quartz stones before sending them flying into the main building. The attack came so quickly that nearly 35 Digimon were instantly deleted, instead of dissolving into data, they faded into shadow and were absorbed into the circle.
"What's going on?!" One of the Digidestined panicked as his partner died and his Digivice became blackened and crumbled to dust in his hand
"The Altar Card" Valkyria laughed at the horror appearing on the young man's face "This weapon was created by the Dark Lord Myotismon himself, every Human, Digimon, and Bakugan we destroy on any battlefield affected by the Altar Card will immediately be tributed to Myotismon, he'll gain power with every death on your side. Now, our Cult has the necessary resources to lay waste to the enemies of the dark lord. Hail Myotismon!" Valkyria yelled as Chromia pressed his attack
By the time the news of the attack reached Wardington, there was nothing anyone could do to help the Digidestined and Digimon at headquarters. The Original teams of Digidestined and the Brawlers could only watch in horror as the standing personnel were destroyed. They fought as hard as they could, but the furthest most their partner Digimon could go to was Champion level which proved to be nothing more than a joke compared to the malicious Bakugan. The Ultimates among them lasted longer, but having been caught off-guard, they couldn't do much, especially since the Bakugan had seemed to absorb their energy based attacks and sent them back at the Digimon.
"Oh Hell" Kai could only gasp as he saw the entire thing unfold
"All those Digidestined" Tai growled
"Their partners too" Hikaru somberly stated a tears began to roll down her cheek.
"We have to get there now!" Davis demanded
"It's too late" Marucho stated with sadness "Even with Imperialdramon, those two will be long gone by the time we arrive"
"Well what are we supposed to do?" Yolei asked softly
"This doesn't make sense" Shun stated with his eyes closed
"There is plenty wrong with what just happened" Kari sighed
"No" Kai gasped "Shun's right, if they were planning something like that, why would they send only one of the Fiend Guard to the Digidestined Headquarters?"
"They must've had a primary objective" Riku mused
"And what does that have to do with what we do now?" TK asked while rolling his eyes
"Everything" Hikaru said "I think I know what they were afte-"
"Hikaru!" TK hissed "not in front of the disgrace"
"What can't you discuss in front of my nephew?" Tai demanded while glaring at TK
"No-"
"It is my concern!" Tai roared causing TK to flinch as he was interrupted "If you're withholding valuable intelligence we all need to know it, Digidestined and Brawler alike, were supposed to be allies for crying out loud!"
"Tai-" Kari tried only to gasp as Tai turned his glare to her
"Don't even start sister, I don't give a damn how either of you feel about Kai and his team, at the end of the day, they are valuable allies and we need to keep them informed so we all have a chance. In case you didn't notice, Ultimates weren't anything more than a minor irritant for Chromia, we have exactly three mega-levels on our side, and assuming that the other find Guard Bakugan are this powerful we are outnumbered and possibly outmatched 2-1 and we won't be able to retreat with that damn Altar Card of theirs. If you care about our world, if you're in this to win it, than leave your dislike for my nephew at the door and help us win this war, before another tragedy like this happens!" Neither Kari nor TK could reply to that at all, Tai took a deep breath and gave Hikaru a nod of encouragement.
"As I was saying" she began "Around the same time as the Bakugan first appeared, mother and I both felt something harmonize with our crests for a moment, we both saw a radiant orb of pure light containing a myriad of colors flying towards Earth, inside the sphere was some kind of white dragon that appeared to be feminine."
"Wayvern" Tigrerra gasped in awe
"We overheard the dragon, it kept saying, 'this power must be protected' as it spiralled away. We felt a pulse somewhere around this region of the United States, Mom and Dad have been working in secret to pinpoint the location of this energy so they can turn it over to the Sovereign."
"Absolutely not" Kai said "The Infinity Core belongs to Vestroia, not the Sovereign"
"Yeah, like you would actually return it disgrace" TK shot back
"Before we bicker and argue about where the Infinity Core is going we need to find it first." Tai snapped
"We pinpointed it to-" Hikaru was cut off
"If you finish that sentence, I'll disown you"TK snapped at the girl
"If you disown her, or continue withholding information, I'll have your status as an official digidestined removed as well as see you charged with Treason." Tai shot back at his brother in law quickly shutting the man up.
"You wouldn't da-" Matt began
"Yes, he would" Riku stated ignoring the glare his father sent at him as he spoke up "This intelligence is vital to our success, Uncle TK and Aunt Kari are only causing more harm than good with their threats and secrets"
"Go on sister" Kai said "I'll stand by you no matter what" Hikaru smiled at that before speaking up once more
"We pinpointed it's location to a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, mom and dad were actually planning on moving to retrieve the Core just as this war began last week."
"Simple enough" Shun said "We grab the core, bring it here until we figure out how to return it to Vestroia, we ensure the Fiend Guard don't get their hands on it." TK looked ready to say something but a glare from Tai and Agumon ensured he kept his opinions to himself.
"Marucho" Kai began "how long until you can get a jet ready to get us to Salt Lake?"
"A little less than an hour" Marucho replied
"How about this, we ensure that the Infinity Core is brought here to our most defensible area to be kept until further notice and we plan to move against the Fiend Guard from that point." Tai suggested
"I can live with that" Kai said while TK grumpily nodded
"Alright then, our retrieval team should have an equal number of Brawlers and Digidestined to ensure neither one of our groups can strongarm the other into altering the delivery point of the Core."
"We'll send Marucho, Shun, and Julie" Kai agreed
"Okay, and the Digidestined will send Hikaru, Riku and Yolie" Tai announced
"I want to go" TK said
"That ship sailed when you chose to sabotage our operations over a damned wall carving" Tai spat as Marucho went to find Kato so they could prepare for the mission.
And this story is back! Sorry about the long absence I had to finish up my college courses. It's over and done with and now I can focus more time on writing. As an apology to you, I am going to give you a chance to contribute both to this side story, and to Darkus Eclipse itself. I normally read fanfics on my phone so I didn't notice until recently that there could actually be a cover image posted for stories, and I think that would be cool to add. That being said, I can't draw to save my life so if any of you have any cover art you'd like to submit for this fanfic series PM me so we can figure that out. Thank you for your patience and I hope you continue reading this story.
Next time; Chapter 3: Wayvern and the Webmaster