And once again, I'm back again. I'm trying to knock as many of these out before classes start in mid-January. I think I might be able to reach some of my favorite chapters before then, but I don't know.
Shout out to the reviews left by DigimonAT0318, GreenD109, and MadDogLucario96. Thanks again.
Anyways, let's carry on with the story.
Chapter 6: Destroying the Dark Tower! Raimon!
Digital World. April 14th, 2002. 0936 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
Our first weekend of the war and we started it off with quite the bang. Yesterday, the new children or as I was now referring to them now as the New Breed, had discovered a prison complex not too far away from where Takeru and Hikari had found their Digimentals. Throughout the night, I planned out the liberation of the complex before I ran it by Koushiro a few hours ago. We all got to the school early and headed out with Miyako and Koushiro standing by while Taichi, myself, and the rest of the New Breed launched our attack. So far, the plan is going without a hitch… of course, in my experience, that's when things go wrong.
"Baby Flame!" "Fireball!" Agumon and Guilmon blew out the bars to one of the cells that were holding several Gotsumon. It was actually the only cell that was occupied. The rest were all strangely empty.
"V-mon Head!" V-mon head-butted what was left of the bars and helped up two of the Gotsumon. "Everyone, run!" He shouted.
"Hurry! This way, everyone!" Daisuke motioned as we ran away from the prison. While there was no resistance, we didn't want to run the risk that this was an elaborate trap. After running for what felt like a kilometer, we finally stopped to catch our breath.
"Our plan worked!" Taichi cheered.
"Good job, everyone!" Agumon complimented.
"When that Digimon Kaiser guy finds out what happened, I'd like to see his face." Daisuke panted.
"But it's strange…" Takeru thought.
"What is?" Patamon asked.
"The security here was poor, practically non-existent… and he wasn't here either. Maybe he had other plans and went somewhere else."
"Plus there was barely any captives; it looks like most have already been moved somewhere else." I noticed.
"I'm guessing he doesn't really care about one small prison. He has a vast empire here in the Digital World, so he probably has more prisons; ones much larger than this one." Ken believed. He's probably right. What we're doing is just a drop in the ocean; we need bigger targets to put the hurt on. Still, a small prison was good way to give these kids some experience in fighting.
"What are you all talking about? He just got scared of us and ran." Daisuke dismissed our concerns. "Right, Hikari-chan?"
"I agree with Takeru-kun." She said, much to Daisuke's disappointment. "But what do you think he's trying to do?"
"Hmm… anyway, let's go back to the school. Koushiro and Miyako-chan must be worried." Taichi led us back towards the TV and home.
P.O.V. – Third Person
Ken was right about the Kaiser not caring what had happened. Instead, he was more concerned conquering yet another area of the Digital World. On a screen in front of him, there were many white and black boxes. These represented areas in the Digital World and the black spaces indicated that it was an area he controlled. He sat and watched as another white box turned black; indicating that he now controlled the area.
"Another one has become mine." He said with fiendish glee. An hour later, he was in the area that he just took. A black obelisk structure that looked like a photo negative of the Washington Monument stood out of the top of a rocky mountain. Down the mountain was a road that cut through some ancient ruins before leading to a town that looked Spanish in nature.
"Do you see that black tower?" The Kaiser pointed to the tower. "That's a Dark Tower. Wherever it stands, that's my territory." He declared to a group of Gazimon with some controlled Vegimon as his forward guard. "And you're all my servants. Understood?"
"They're all controlled by those rings…" Gabumon thought to himself as he stood in front of the Gazimon, looking defeated.
Odaiba Elementary School, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. April 14th, 2002. 0954 Hours.
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya
We got back to the school, but we had brought back with us a few extra Digimon than normal much to Koushiro and Miyako's surprise.
"Why did you bring the Gotsumon here?" Koushiro questioned.
"We had no choice." Taichi told them. "We don't know when the Digimon Kaiser would return… Right?"
"Yeah." Both Ross and Hikari nodded.
"What if Fujiyama-sensei finds them?" Miyako reminded.
"It's okay, we practiced something just in case." Iori assured them. "Now, pose!" All the Gotsumon moved into different positions to make themselves look like sculptures. "So? Don't they look like statures?"
"Eh…" Miyako was surprised once more.
"Maybe we should find a better place for them to stay for the time being." suggested Ken. "Though that was a really smart idea, Iori-kun."
"Miyako-kun, can I borrow your Digivice for a while?" Koushiro asked her.
"Uh, sure… but why?"
"I want to see if there might be any sort of differences between your Digivices and ours. I mean, they obviously have the power to open the gate to the Digital World, right?"
"You think there's a difference between them?" Taichi wondered.
"I just want to see what's going on, if there are any differences between the ones that were already the new shape like yours, Iori-kun and Daisuke-kun's and the ones that morphed like the rest of ours. Is that alright?" Miyako nodded and handed her Digivice to Koushiro.
P.O.V. – Third Person
After Gabumon and the Gazimon were taken to a newly constructed prison at the base of the Dark Tower, the Kaiser cracked his whip at Vegimon.
"Come on, to the next area! Hurry!" Gabumon watched as the Vegimon lifted and carried the Kaiser away on a throne.
"Alright, he's leaving. Time to escape!" Gabumon informed the Gazimon in the cell with him. "Petit Fire!" He blew down one of the doors that actually collapsed right on top of the two Vegimon guarding them. All of them took their chance and made a break for it. However, a thorny vine came out of nowhere and smacked Gabumon right in the face.
"Did you think you could escape? That's impossible."
"You are…" Gabumon muttered.
"The fearsome ripe vegetable, RedVegimon!"
"What are you going to do?"
"Trying to escape is a serious offense! The punishment is one hundred hits!" For the next hour, Gabumon would take hit after hit and the controlled RedVegimon attacked with impunity. "Sixty-six! Sixty-seven! Sixty-eight! Sixty-nine! Seventy! Seventy-one! Seventy-two! Seventy-three!" The last hit pushed Gabumon right off of a cliff edge on the other side of the mountain and into the river down below. "Finished at seventy-three! Still, I doubt he's alive!" However, as it turned out, Gabumon had survived but only barely. Gabumon was washed ashore and was struggling to hang on. He noticed the TV in front of him and crawled forward to it.
"I can't die… I-I have to warn them somehow… Everyone… Yamato…"
Odaiba Music Hall, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. April 14th, 2002. 1226 Hours.
P.O.V. – Yamato Ishida
"…I can't use it as a shield! I'm alright on my own! I'll even walk the edge of a knife; I'll even walk the edge of a knife…" The whole crowd went nuts after that last song. The Teenage Wolves and I got our first big gig playing at the local music hall today. It wasn't that big, but it was better than nothing. After the show, Takeru was waiting for me backstage and explained to me what had happened earlier today.
"So, we have to find a place for the Gotsumon…"
"Do you know of any good place?" He asked me.
"Not really…"
A deep red spikey haired girl who looked about a year older than me ran up to us.
"Hey, can I have your autograph?" She asked.
"Sure." She turned around after handing me a marker; I guess she wants me to autograph the back of her shirt. "Your name?"
"Motomiya. Motomiya Jun." Wait, where have I heard that name before? Looks like Takeru was thinking the same thing because he beat me to the punch on that one.
"Eh? Motomiya Jun? Are you Daisuke-kun's sister, by any chance?"
"Yeah, but…" Oh, now I see the resemblance. "Who are you?"
"He's my younger brother, Takeru." I introduced.
"Nice to meet you. Daisuke-kun is my classmate."
"Oh? Well, you're cute! Sign too!" She placed the marker in Takeru's hands, much to his surprise. "Daisuke isn't cute at all… I wish I had a brother like you two…"
The moment was interrupted when my Digivice suddenly began to beep.
"Huh?" I questioned as I held it up. It was flashing a red symbol that read emergency. "Trouble." I muttered.
"My D-Terminal too." Takeru told me. "'SOS signal received, come here… Miyako.' Onii-chan!" He looked at me.
"Could it be Gabumon!?" I worried. We both ran off and left Jun behind as we ran towards the school. We got to the school and after a few quick introductions, Miyako was setting things up.
"Chosen Children… Let's roll!" Miyako cried and we were on our way to the Digital World. As soon as we got there I noticed two things. One, my clothes had changed. I was now wearing a black leather jacket with what I think is some sort of cartoonish looking Gabumon on the back, a white shirt and some blue jeans. The second thing I noticed was Gabumon laying right in front of me, looking worse for wear.
"Gabumon!" I shouted.
"Yamato…?" He groaned.
"Hang in there, Gabumon…" I ran up to him. Apparently my appearance was all that was needed to help him recover because he got back up and looked much better.
"I missed you!" He hugged me. I responded in kind.
"I missed you too, Gabumon." I then broke off the hug to get some answers. "What's wrong? What happened?"
"Hmm… well…" We heard the TV behind us turn on and saw Miyako on the screen.
"Guys! I'm going to Izumi-senpai's place to get my Digivice." She informed us.
"Meanwhile, I will act as communicator here." Poromon said as Gabumon explained the situation.
"Got it!" Daisuke gave a thumbs up.
"This TV can be used to send an SOS signal to the other world…" Tailmon explained. "Both Agumon and Guilmon used it to communicate with us."
"Really?" Hikari questioned.
"It's how I was able to find Ken-chan. I found the TV, saw him on the monitor and jumped in and that's how I ended up in the Real World." Wormmon informed.
"Is that what happened? Hmm…" Ken nodded in understanding as Gabumon finished telling us what had happened.
"Guys, we know the location!" Patamon alerted the group.
About an hour later, we had arrived to the outskirts of a small town that stood at the base of a mountain.
"That's the town of Santa Geria." Gabumon pointed ahead. "It was a peaceful town, but… when the Digimon Kaiser appeared, all the town's Digimon were imprisoned."
"That tower…" Tailmon gasped as she saw the black tower at the peak of the mountain. "There was another one at the place with the Gotsumon."
"It's called a Dark Tower. The Digimon Kaiser built it."
"Alright, let's go!" Daisuke began to run off with V-mon right behind him. He's certainly a lot like Taichi, that's for sure.
"Wait!" I stopped him. "Before we do anything, remember our goal is to free the Digimon."
"I know. It'll be easy with Armor Evolution!"
"We can't do that!" Takeru now spoke up. "If we do that, they could use the captured Digimon as shields."
"That's true. We came here to rescue them, so it would be pointless." Hikari agreed much to Daisuke's chagrin.
"The guards are Vegimon, right?" Patamon asked for a reminder. "Those throw poop at you…"
"What about RedVegimon?" I wondered. I didn't remember much about them. I do know Pinochimon decapitated one that served him when he tried to make his escape, only to run into MetalGarurumon and I who finished him off.
"Well…"
"Bah, they're leaving us out." Daisuke angrily grumbled. "Iori, Ken, why don't we try?"
"No, I'll hear their plan." Iori ran over to us.
"They are right, Daisuke-kun. We need to think of something that doesn't involve the direct approach." Ken joined us as well leaving Daisuke all alone.
We eventually came up with the idea of sneaking into the town in order to reach the prison.
"Alright then, we'll infiltrate the prison." I led the group forward.
"H-hold on!" Daisuke cried. "Hikari-chan is coming with us? I'm against that. With the poop enemies and all…"
"It's okay…" Hikari assured him.
"You already saw poop attacks in the last adventure, right?" Takeru reminded.
"Yeah."
"Hey, Takeru! Don't you have any telepathy?" Daisuke shouted at him.
"Telepathy?" We were all confused by that sentence.
"You mean 'delicacy'…" Iori seemed to figure out what he said. We all then laughed while Daisuke just looked even madder.
We reached the edge of the town where we had begun to implement our plan. It was to have some of our Digimon fake being the Kaiser's servants then be allowed into town where we could easily avoid almost all of the guards. Suffice to say, not everyone agreed with this plan.
"This is a bad idea…" Ken quietly worried. "I don't think they're as dumb as you say."
"Quiet." I whispered.
"Stop! Who are you?" One of the Vegimon guards at the gate questioned as we walked up all tied together with Gabumon.
"We captured the Digimon that escaped and their friends." Tailmon lied, but she made sure to flash her fake ring. The guards seemed to buy it and moved out of the way.
"We'll throw you into prison now!" "C'mon, walk faster!" "Keep moving, keep moving!" Our Digimon kept up the charade while the Vegimon all laughed.
"They didn't notice they're fake rings." Patamon said as we were deep in the town away from the Vegimon.
"We can't let our guard down, though." Tailmon reminded. "We're right in the middle of enemy territory."
"C'mon, stop messing around!" The Vegimon threw us in a temporary prison with the rest of the Gazimon in the town. "You'll all be punished with one hundred hits tomorrow! Good job, everyone!" The Vegimon turned to the realization that they had been fooled once our Digimon took off their rings.
"You did well, too. Neko Punch!" Tailmon slammed one Vegimon right into the gate bars while the others were quickly subdued by the rest of our Digimon. We got out and headed back down for the gate now that our goal of freeing the captive Digimon was accomplished. Patamon flew ahead before he suddenly went wide eyed.
"Stop!" He shouted. Daisuke and V-mon popped their heads around the corner and must have seen some guards in our path out of the town.
"There are guards everywhere all of a sudden!" V-mon quietly exclaimed.
"It's our turn now." Daisuke pulled out his Digivice and it was clear he wanted to fight. I grabbed his shoulder to stop him once more.
"Wait. Do you want to lose the Digimon we just rescued?"
"Let's go up, where that black tower is." suggested Gabumon.
"I agree." Patamon flew ahead once more and we all followed, though Daisuke was kind of lagging behind.
"Why, why?!" He angrily cursed.
After a while of walking, we finally got almost halfway up the path to the tower, having just navigated those rocky ruins.
"By the way, Daisuke-kun... I met your sister today." Takeru recalled our earlier encounter with Jun.
"Ah… so?"
"So?"
"She bad-mouthed me, right?"
"Not really."
"Yeah, she did. She always has to talk bad about me to everyone. She doesn't like me… well, I don't like her either, so we're even." Oh, that set me off.
"Hey! What are you talking about?" I ran back down to him.
"What?"
"If you were my younger brother, I wouldn't forgive you for that. I'd beat you up."
"Interesting. Bring it, then!"
"Stop!" Takeru grabbed me before I did something drastic. "You won't hit him. You wouldn't do that, right?" I sighed. He's right. I'm letting my emotions get the better of me. Maybe it's because he kinda reminds me of the old hotheaded Taichi that I used to fight, but that got us nowhere in the past.
"I wouldn't… but watch what you say." Both Takeru and I walked away once more.
"Why can't he just shut up?" Daisuke grumbled. "I can say whatever I want about that stupid girl." Now that seemed to set of Hikari who ran back down the path.
"Stop it, Daisuke-kun! I hate people who talk bad about their siblings."
"Hate?" Sounds like Daisuke didn't like that as he practically slumped as we all moved ahead.
"Daisuke…" V-mon tried to get his partner's attention.
"She hates me… Hikari-chan hates me…" Does Daisuke have a crush on Hikari? And is he aware of how obvious he's showing it right now?
"It's the first time I see Daisuke like this… I have to cheer him up." V-mon thought.
"Hey, I just remembered, you have an older sibling as well, Ken-san." Iori mentioned.
"Oh, yeah… well…" Ken sounded a little guilty about that.
"Well what?"
"Well, our relationship is basically kind of like Daisuke-kun's. We don't hate each other, not at all! But… he's more distant these days. He'd rather focus more on his studies rather than be with me. He never comes to any of my games and the times that Mom makes us hang out with each other, I feel he'd rather be back home in his books." He explained.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that."
"I think it's because he's grown up a bit too fast. His whole strive for perfection prevented him from enjoying being a kid, I think."
"Hmm… well, he certainly doesn't show it."
"No, he's always been humble." The conversation was soon interrupted when our Digivices began to beep. "Wait… is that…?"
"A Digimental!" Takeru exclaimed. "It's right up ahead!"
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya
As we got to the top, we couldn't find any sign of the Digimental even though we were right on top of it. The thought then occurred that maybe we had to dig for it so Armadimon got to work while the rest of us tried to find a way out of the area. Of course, the only way was down the cliff to the river below.
"Wait, we have to go down from here?" Takeru realized.
"It's too high… it's impossible!" Hikari shouted.
"We need rope or something… at least give us a better chance of falling into that river." Yamato observed.
"Hey, over here!" Iori called out. We all turned and saw the Digimental in the ground. It kinda looked like a blue flip flop with a lightning bolt sticking out of it. None of us picked it up yet because it was still somewhat buried, heck, we couldn't even see the symbol on it.
"Give me a few more moments, I'll get it out." Armadimon got back to digging.
"In the meantime, I'll go back and find some rope." Gabumon was about to go back the way we came before two of those Gazimon got in front of him.
"Wait! In appreciation for rescuing us, we'll go." They offered.
"Thanks! Then, let's go together!"
The three of them started to move before they were all quickly pelted by pink… um… ice cream swirls…
"I won't let you do that!" We turned to see the RedVegimon and multiple Vegimon now blocking our path. Damn it, those guards we took out must have come to faster than expected! Should've just fought our way out!
"Alright, watch this, Daisuke!" I turned to look at V-mon. "He's red, but he's just another Vegimon. He can't be that strong. I'll show you some cool moves and cheer you up, Daisuke!" He ran forward.
"Cheer me up? Hey, V-mon! Wait!" V-mon just got slammed in the face by that RedVegimon's spikey vine.
"You shouldn't underestimate me. Red Hot Machine Gun!" He opened his mouth and multiple flaming peppers shot out and exploded in V-mon's face.
"Guys, Armor Evolution!" I cried.
"Yes!" "Right!" Iori and Ken ran up next to me but we were all quickly jumped by the Vegimon!
"We won't let you!" The Vegimon cried. Patamon tried to help but another Red Hot Machine Gun knocked him back to the ground and he was seized as well.
"Hazard Breath!" A sickish green fog came out RedVegimon's mouth and engulfed the others.
"It stinks!" "It's killing my nose…" "I can't breathe!" The Vegimon used the chance to grab everyone else. I think we're in trouble now!
"S-sorry, guys…" V-mon was being crushed in the vines.
"Apologizing won't help you now!" RedVegimon then slammed him into the ground.
"V-mon!" I called out, while the Vegimon tightened their grip on me.
"He's getting the one-hundred-hit punishment, watch closely!" He then threw three quick hits but V-mon got back up. "You've got some guts… But… how long will you last?" Three more hits followed.
"I can't look!" Gabumon shouted.
"And we can't do anything!" growled Yamato.
"L-let him go… V-mon!" I yelled.
"Daisuke!" V-mon was hit once more.
We watched as poor V-mon was struck repeatedly, he was now at almost eighty hits.
"I can't lose…" V-mon grumbled as he tried to get up once more. "…if I do, Daisuke will feel even worse!" What!? Oh, no! It's my fault… because I looked downtrodden after Hikari yelled at me. V-mon only wants to help me… and instead, he's going to get killed because of it!
"Hey, you! Why don't you beat me up instead!?" I roared at RedVegimon.
"Daisuke!" V-mon was clipped in the head, but RedVegimon swung a bit too hard and crashed his thorny fist into the Dark Tower that caused some structural damage.
"Please! Let V-mon go! Come on!" I begged.
"What a beautiful friendship…" RedVegimon taunted. "But don't worry, when I'm done with this guy, it'll be your turn!"
"Stop!"
"If I could evolve…" Gabumon grumbled.
"It's not reacting, so you can't…" Yamato informed. "If only we could've gotten that Digimental…"
"Armadimon, what symbol was on the Digimental?" Iori asked.
"Uh, a blue circle, dagyaa."
"With two curved wings?" Yamato wondered.
"Yeah!"
"That's the Crest of Friendship!"
"Then that must be yours, Yamato-san!" Hikari cried.
"But how do we get to it? We're all tied up!" I questioned.
"I've got it!" Ken seemed to have come up with a plan. "Wormmon, what's your best defense?" Wormmon's eyes widened as he figured out the plan. "On my signal…"
"Ninety-nine!" I looked back and saw V-mon was looking tired as he was backed up against the tower after another hit from RedVegimon.
"V-mon!" I cried.
"You've lasted pretty long… But this is the last one. I'll send you to hell! One- hun-!"
"NOW!" Ken interrupted.
"Silk Thread!" Wormmon shot silk out of his mouth that hit the Vegimon right in the eyes.
"Ahh!" They all shouted as they lessened their grip to clear the webbing from their eyes. Yamato took his chance and broke free before he jumped right for the exposed Digimental in the ground. He was then able to rip it from its place.
"Onii-chan… was able to pull it out by himself…" Takeru was surprised. Meanwhile, Yamato quickly looked to his Digivice and saw it morphing into the new kind with a navy blue side and then he smiled.
"Digimental Up!"
"Gabumon, Armor-Evolve! Thunderous Friendship! RAIMON!"
Raimon was a truly a beast. A large bipedal wolf-reptile with the armor coving his face and body and he looked mad.
"Wha…" RedVegimon was suddenly looking very nervous at the creature growling at him.
"Electric Javelin!" Raimon opened his mouth and a large wave of lightning shot out that made all the Vegimon around us panic and run away.
"Come on, V-mon! Let's get some payback! Digimental Up!" I shouted.
"V-mon, Armor-Evolve! Burning Courage, FLADRAMON!" RedVegimon tried to regain the upper hand and fire his Red Hot Machine Gun but they all simply bounced off Fladramon's hand. He then got punched in the face.
"V-mon, you went through all that whipping and managed to evolve… Now it's your turn! Fight hard and win this battle!" I cried, impressed with everything he went through and he looked like he hadn't suffered anything.
"Raimon! Don't let him have all the fun! Go get 'em!" Yamato declared. Both Digimon surrounded RedVegimon.
"So you evolved; big deal! I'll still take you down!" RedVegimon threw out his arms but Fladramon caught them and proceeded to throw him up before slamming him onto the ground repeatedly.
"Is that all?" RedVegimon claimed as he swung his hands towards Raimon now.
"Thunder Shield!" The lightning bolts on Raimon's back light up and he was covered in a shield of electricity that electrocuted RedVegimon when his vines touched it.
"Awwwwww!" RedVegimon twitched as his nerves were jolted.
"Now, finish it!" I yelled.
"Knuckle Fire!" "Electric Javelin!" Both attacks hit the vegetable and sent him flying into the tower before it snapped in half and fell over.
"Alright!" "You did it!" Yamato and I cheered for our Digimon.
"Guys!" We heard Miyako shout out. We turned to see her, Koushiro, Taichi, Ross, their Digimon and the Gotsumon we rescued running towards us.
"Hey, you're not going to believe what just happened on the way here!" Ross panted as they all stopped in front of us.
"What?" I asked.
"Our Digivices just made some sort of activation sound the moment that tower came down. I think that meant that our Digimon could normally evolve again!" Taichi explained.
"What!?" We all shouted. We then saw the Vegimon all taking off their rings.
"Huh? What have I been doing all this time?" RedVegimon scratched his head as he hopped out of the dust cloud while holding his ring.
"The Evil Rings' effect is gone!" Tailmon exclaimed.
"Of course… so that's how it works." Miyako came to some sort of realization.
"What do you mean?" Hawkmon questioned.
"Let me explain." Koushiro spoke up. "The tower isn't just a monument to the Digimon Kaiser; it's a critical device that allows him to dominate the Digital World. You see, the tower is like a power station and a radio tower. The power station part is required for controlling Digimon with the Evil Rings. If the tower is destroyed, then the rings no longer get power and are no longer able to control Digimon. As for the radio part of the tower, it broadcasts a signal from the Kaiser's Digivice that prevents our Digimon from evolve, no matter where he is."
"Ah, like an Erusian E-767…" Ross said. "That's an Ace Combat 4 reference, for those of you unaware."
"Well, then, if that's what those towers do, then our mission is clear." Taichi determined.
"Yeah… we must destroy all the towers in the areas controlled by the Digimon Kaiser." Yamato explained.
"We'll do our best, Onii-chan!" Takeru replied.
"Me too!" I added.
"Yeah, if we destroy the towers and are able to properly evolve…" Agumon started to speak.
"It'll be easy!" Tailmon finished his sentence.
"Agumon, let's go to the Gotsumon's area!" Taichi ran ahead with the Gotsumon.
"Wait up!" "We're going too!" Ross and Hikari ran after him.
"We'll take the responsibility of guarding this place!" Yamato assured the Gazimon.
"Thanks!" They all said.
We all got back to the computer lab, and I had a bit of apologizing to do to V-mon.
"I know it was my fault… I made you worry."
"Daisuke, you've matured a bit!" Chibimon told me.
"Eh?"
"Everyone, take a look at this." Koushiro got our attention.
"What's this?" Miyako asked.
"I found this while looking into Miyako-kun's Digivice." The screen showed squares that were white, grey, and black. "It looks like a digital map." He picked up a pencil and pointed it to the screen at a white square in between a bunch of black ones. "This used to be black, now it's white. In other words, this is the area where we destroyed that tower."
"So that means the black is the Kaiser's territory and the white indicates areas we've liberated." Ken noticed.
"But the Digital World's black area is really wide." Iori observed.
"I guess we still have a long way to go." I concluded.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
Greymon and Growmon evolved shortly before we got to the Gotsumon's area and soon took down the tower. This was a much needed victory and now we could properly fight this war. Fears of being pushed against the wall were now nonexistent as we could reclaim territory the Kaiser took.
"All right! Way to go you two!" Hikari cheered.
"Hey, Taichi? How angry do you think the Kaiser is going to be tonight?" I asked.
"I'm gonna go with 'mighty pissed'." That sounds about right. Watch out, Herr Kaiser, we're coming for ya!
P.O.V. – Third Person
The Kaiser was truly livid the moment he found out that not one but two of his Dark Towers had been destroyed. Now the Chosen Children knew his key in conquering the Digital World and were going to go after more of them.
"Damn it… It must be them…" He angrily growled. He took a deep breath and soon regained his composure. "It's fine. Strategically, it's not an important area. At this pace, I'll take over this world in less than a year. Digimon, every single one of you, come to me… Serve me… And worship me!" He laughed while Monodramon just looked on in sorrow.
The war had truly begun now and it was going to take a lot of sacrifice before one side could claim victory…
And that was Chapter 6.
Fun little note, the cartoonish Gabumon on the back of Yamato's back is actually Gabou from V-Tamer 01. Just that would've been kinda cool to put in the story, even if I've never read the manga.
See you all next time folks.
"Push the button, Frank."