New chapter, who dis?

Dang, we sure got a lot of fun reviews for the last one. I should do more Taiora scenes! Thanks to GreenD109, MadDogLucario96, DracoFogg, DigimonAT0138, Whiteling, and Super Saiyan 3 Odd for all the reviews. Oh, and to AT and Green, we've know about Phil's promotion since June of 2002. I mentioned it when Ross explained that he was going to assist Hiroaki at the camp.
"Besides, you haven't taken a vacation day since you were reassigned to the base. I mean, for crying out loud, you run it now since you were promoted to Rear Admiral two months ago."

Anyways, that all said... we've got some big trouble!

Chapter 44: Maximum Firepower! Imperialdramon!

Motomiya Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. December 25th, 2002. 0736 Hours.
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

This was really bad. The Dark Towers showing up were terrible enough but if, and I know it's coming, Digimon start showing up… it's going to be massed chaos. Jun and I kept our eyes glued to the screen as a news reporter continued to speak.
"I repeat… Mysterious black towers similar to that which suddenly appeared in Odaiba last night have been reported to be seen all over the world. As of now, the locations where black towers in Japan have been sighted are Sapporo in Hokkaido… Ah! We have breaking news! It's a monster! A monster has appeared where the black tower stands!" Knew that was coming. The camera that was filming the Sapporo Clock Tower in Sapporo got blurry as I could just make out Knightmon walking towards it.
"This is bad…" I muttered to myself to which Jun gave me a look.
"Daisuke… do you know about this…?" Aw, crap. I think she knows.

Thankfully, the phone rang before she could interrogate me. I answered to hear Takeru's voice on the other end.
"Daisuke-kun? You there?"
"Yeah, I am… I see it too."
"Alright, that's good to know. Listen, head over to Koushiro-san's house. We're all meeting up there to try to figure out how we stop this nightmare."
"I hear ya, I'll be there quick." I hung up and looked back to the screen.
"Right now, the confirmed areas where monsters have appeared here in Japan are the following: Mount Aso in the city of Aso, Kyushu, the Sapporo Clock Tower in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Osaka Castle in city of Osaka, Tamachi Station here in Tokyo…" The reporter read off but that last one caught my attention.
"Wait? Did he say Tamachi?" I said to myself.

"Hurry up you guys!" Ross shouted as we all started running towards Koushiro's. Ross was way up ahead with Yamato while Taichi, Hikari and myself, along with our Digimon, were bringing up the rear by a good hundred meters as Yamato and Ross were running across the street. However, when we got to the crossing, I suddenly stopped and Taichi noticed.
"What are you doing, Daisuke? Hurry up!" I sighed before looking up at him.
"I'm… going to Tamachi." I told him.
"What?"
"Didn't you hear? A tower was in Tamachi. That means that Ken and Osamu-san are in danger. I'm gonna go over there and help them, they probably aren't even aware of the tower!"
"But Tamachi isn't the only place in trouble." Taichi tried to argue with me. "People all over the world are in danger."

Hikari soon noticed we were both stopped and turned around to join us.
"We should meet up at Koushiro's place for now and come up with a plan." Taichi continued to explain.
"But Ken and Osamu-san are important friends! We simply can't just leaving them alone without at least some help!" I countered.
"Daisuke-kun…" muttered Hikari. Taichi sighed as he relented.
"I see… you're right. I'm sorry, Ken-kun and Osamu-kun are our friends and probably will need help. Alright then, leave this to us. You go to Tamachi." I smiled as Taichi said that.
"Yeah!" I nodded. "Come on, Chibimon!" I ran the other way and soon was on the back of Lighdramon as we dashed to Tamachi.

P.O.V. – Third Person

As the news reported earlier, it wasn't just Japan that was having to deal with a Digimon infestation. The Dark Towers were all over and Digimon were coming through and panic was beginning to set in. At Niagara Falls, a TonosamaGekomon was taking a nice nap in the falls, Flymon were flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru, at Nathan Road in Hong Kong, a Mojyamon was walking the streets, near the Gold Coast of Australia, a fishing vessel was intercepted by a Gesomon and an Ebidramon. In response, nations were launching military forces in an effort to stop the Digimon and destroy the Dark Towers. However, as soon as they entered the Tower's sphere of influence, their computers would malfunction and make them unable to properly attack the obelisks. Supercomputers that countries had which was supposed to be storing any of the data about the Digital World they had learned three years ago were suddenly turning up blanks. It was if someone had been altering the files… which was actually the truth. The act was so precise that no one had even noticed until it was too late. In the Digital World, Qinglongmon hovered in the mountains above a small man in a white robe that was bowing down to him. A small sphere on the Ultimate dragon's body soon floated down to the man who held it in his hands. He bowed once more before Qinglongmon started to disappeared behind a mass wall of dark clouds.

Izumi Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. December 25th, 2002. 0757 Hours.
P.O.V. – Taichi Yagami

All of us, excluding Daisuke and the Ichijouji', were cramped up in Koushiro's room as he typed away on his laptop.
"Take a look at this." He said. Kinda hard to see without crawling over someone, Koushiro. "E-mails keep coming from Chosen Children all over the world."
"Amazing…" Iori was wide eyed. "There are more than two hundred e-mails!"
"Are there that many Chosen Children in this world?" questioned Miyako.
"Like Michael-kun, they're children who witnessed the Digimon who appeared in this world three years ago." Koushiro explained to us. "Or, they're like Miyako-kun, children who sent e-mails supporting Omegamon back in March of 2000. In addition, by some chance, children all around the world were chosen."
"Just like you told us before." I reminded. "You asked us to keep in touch with them through the Internet just in case something like this happened." A few months ago, Koushiro asked us to keep track of some of the other Chosen Children which we did. "Now, now it's the time for all of us to join forces and fight together!" I declared as we heard the sound of a whistle from a kettle pot going off in the kitchen. Koushiro's mother was making us all some tea.

Tamachi District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. December 25th, 2002. 0803 Hours.
P.O.V. – Osamu Ichijouji

Talk about a wakeup call. What should've been a time for celebration due to it being Christmas morning, was replaced with terror. Watching the TV and seeing Dark Towers springing up all over the world. Here I thought we destroyed some of the last objects of my cruel reign, only for it to follow me home! People were running in panic down the street as it was being taken over by a large triceratops - like Digimon that Monodramon told us was Triceramon. Ken and I ducked into an alleyway as we hid.
"I'm counting on you, Monodramon! Evolve!" I shouted. Monodramon nodded and strained… but nothing happened.
"Osamu-chan, I can't evolve!"
"Then that means there must be a Dark Tower nearby." Wormmon guessed.
"That also means… it's them." Ken said as we both turned around and saw Archnemon and Mummymon on a billboard that was on top of a building and were starting right down at us.

"Too bad, kids." She taunted us.
"How's about calling your friends before Triceramon squashes you?" chimed in Mummymon before he laughed.
"Lighting Blade!" We heard Lighdramon's attack ring out before the sound of an explosion filled the air. We soon saw the Dark Tower toppled over before Lighdramon and Daisuke ran in. Daisuke hopped off his partner's back and Lighdramon devolved back into V-mon.
"Daisuke!" "Motomiya-kun!" We called out for him.
"Hey, you guys need a hand?" He gave us a winning smile.
"Good timing, Daisuke." Ken told him.
"Hey, say thanks later, we've got to do something about that Digimon." I reminded them before pointing to Triceramon who was still rampaging. We looked and saw him smash his foot down on a 2000 Toyota Vitz before he roared once more. We all ran up to meet him and to try and stop him from causing any more damage.

"Let's go, V-mon!" "Let's go, Wormmon!" "Let's go, Monodramon!" The three of us said to our partners at the same time.
"V-mon, evolve! XV-MON!" "Wormmon, evolve! STINGMON!" "Monodramon, evolve! STRIKEDRAMON!"
"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon dived down on Triceramon's back but found his stinger didn't penetrate the hard armored skin of the dinosaur Digimon. The three horned Digimon responded by quickly turning his head and smacking Stingmon hard into a nearby building, causing a bunch of damage. XV-mon moved towards the triceratops' blind spot.
"X-Laser!" The attack did nothing but just make him angry. He charged forward and flattened XV-mon into the wall of a building. Strikedramon soon jumped up and got on his back and started to ride him. However, he was soon hit by Triceramon's tail and throwing him to the ground before he stomped Strikedramon into the pavement and started running around again.

"Go, Triceramon! Good, good! Keep it up!" I heard Mummymon cheered.
"He won't listen to anything you say." I overheard Archnemon's loud voice as she was trying to talk to Mummymon over the chaos. "He's not a Dark Tower Digimon, he's just a lost Digimon." Ah, so similar to last night then. "Still, why did only one of them come to help? Where are all the others?" That's a good question, where's Ross when I need him?
"What can they do against a worldwide attack like this? I'm sure they're all crying by now." I'm certain he's wrong about that… but I hope they've got at least a good reason of why they're not here. My attention went back to the issue at hand. Triceramon was really tough, so I had to assume that he must be a Perfect-Level Digimon. Daisuke and Ken made the same assumption.
"Ken, Jogress!"
"Got it!"
"XV-mon!" "Stingmon!" "Jogress Evolve! PAILDRAMON!"

Paildramon went right to work as Triceramon charged at him once again. This time, Paildramon grabbed him by his horns and stood fast as the dinosaur tried to gain ground. Ken turned to Daisuke as he opened up his laptop.
"Digital Gate, open!" Daisuke held up his D-3 as we planned to send the Digimon straight back to the Digital World.
"Paildramon, bring him to the gate!" Ken ordered. He was unable to do that as Triceramon overpowered him and rammed him into another building.
"Paildramon!" Daisuke cried.
"Strikedramon!" I called out for my partner. Strikedramon got back up and tried to assist but was struck down once again by that nimble tail.

Things soon took a worse turn as I overheard Mummymon once more.
"Archnemon, it looks like their friends aren't coming, so this is our chance to get rid of Paildramon. Check this out." He jumped off the roof and turned into his Digimon form and landed behind Paildramon.
"Look out!" Strikedramon groaned as Mummymon aimed at Paildramon's exposed back.
"Take this!" Paildramon roared in pain as he was hit in the back before Strikedramon forced Mummymon to take a few steps back… and turn his fire onto him. Paildramon staggered in pain while Strikedramon couldn't take the force of the attack and devolved back into Monodramon.
"Paildramon!" "Monodramon!" The three of us cried out for our partners.

P.O.V. – Yamato Ishida

Koushiro soon pulled up a map of the world on his computer and red dots were flashing all over it.
"This is the gate sensor's data on the locations where gates were opened."
"Th-then… Digimon have appeared in all those marked locations?" Iori worried.
"Right now, all the gates are closed. To send the Digimon back to the Digital World, we have to go there and re-open the gate with our D-3s."
"That many places?" Miyako was dumbfounded by the suggestion.
"Can't we go from the Digital World?" Taichi suggested.
"We can only open one gate in each area." Hikari feared. "Getting to the gates all over the world would take too long."
"The Dark Towers around the world are causing distortions." Takeru reminded. "We have to at least destroy the Dark Towers, or something even worse might happen."
"I see… that's what you mean. Understood. I'll try." Koushiro said to himself as Takeru was talking.

"Everyone, please stand back." He requested. We did as he asked and backed up. He opened his laptop and then pointed it and his computer screen at each other. Two bright lights shot out of them and collided with each other that soon made a man in a white robe appear before us out of thin air.
"A phantom? A ghost!?" Miyako cried in panic.
"Please calm down, Miyako-san!" Poromon tried to calm her.
"It was successful, Gennai-san." Our jaws suddenly dropped.
"What!?" Ross exclaimed in shock.
"Gennai-san!?" Taichi said.
"Gennai-san, is he…?" Iori questioned.
"He's the one who helped us at the Digital World back then." Takeru explained to him and Miyako.

Gennai took off his hood and revealed that he was no longer an old man but rather looked like that younger version of himself that we saw when Homeostasis explained how we became the Chosen Children.
"It's been a while, Chosen Children." He said.
"No way!" Oh, boy, I think Miyako now finds him cute. "I heard that Gennai-san was very old, but he's actually pretty handsome!"
"Gennai-san, the world is in trouble." Koushiro brought us all back to the crisis at hand.
"I know. That's why I'm here." He then pulled out this small blue sphere that looked like it glowed with energy.
"What is that?" Iori questioned.
"This is one of Qinglongmon's twelve Digicores. Qinglongmon gave me this sphere in order to help you Chosen Children. Now, your Digivices." We all soon held out our D-3s. We all looked to the Digicore as it began to glow bright.
"What is this feeling?" Tailmon questioned.
"It's really warm." Patamon informed.
"Upamon, evolve! ARMADIMON!" "Poromon, evolve! HAWKMON!"
"They evolved!" exclaimed Miyako. We then suddenly saw the Digicore shoot a bright beam of light that went out the window and arced into the air.

P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji

Mummymon cackled once more as he struck Paildramon with his rifle's fire while stepping on Monodramon. Paildramon clutched his chest to brace against the attack but he left his back open to Triceramon who struck him and knocked him up into the air. Daisuke and I ran over to him, but Mummymon turned his fire towards us and caused us to jump out of the way. His attack struck a building that sent large debris falling right towards us!
"Ken-chan! Daisuke!" Paildramon cried as the debris approached. However, suddenly he was hit by a bright light and somehow achieved the impossible.
"Paildramon, ultimate-evolve! IMPERIALDRAMON!" Our eyes were wide as we looked up and saw our new Digimon above us, protecting us from the debris. Imperialdramon was a giant winged, draconic, quadrupedal Digimon with a giant cannon on his back. And that face… quite intimidating.
"Are you okay, Daisuke, Ken-chan?"
"Y… you…" Daisuke was dumbfounded.
"Paildramon… evolved…" I muttered.

P.O.V. – Third Person

Imperialdramon knocked away some of the debris on his back before he turned his attention back towards Triceramon and Mummymon.
"This is terrible! Just now, under that bright light, the monster has grown larger!" A reporter shouted on Koushiro's laptop.
"Wh… what is that?" Iori questioned as the rest of the Chosen Children saw Imperialdramon on the news.
"Imperialdramon." Gennai answered. "Absorbing Qinglongmon's light, Paildramon evolved to Ultimate-Level."
"Qinglongmon's light?" inquired Tailmon.
"Yes. You also absorbed that light. You should be able to reach Perfect-Level now."
"Perfect-Level?" All the Digimon got excited by that news. "That's great."

Imperialdramon continued to stare down the two Digimon looking at him.
"You evolved again, which means… Ultimate-Level?" Mummymon began to panic. "Is that even fair?"
"Imperialdramon! Save Monodramon and deal with Triceramon!" Osamu ordered.
"Yeah!" "What he said!" Ken and Daisuke agreed with the plan, considering that Imperialdramon was their Digimon and not Osamu's. Imperialdramon took a few steps forward causing Mummymon to retreat and free Monodramon. The small dragon ran back to Osamu as fast as he could with his hurt body while Triceramon charged forward. Imperialdramon just simply grabbed him in one of his claws and the dinosaur was immobile.
"Now! The gate!" Imperialdramon advised.
"Got it!" Ken opened his laptop again. "Daisuke!"
"Digital Gate, open!" Triceramon was placed in front of the screen and quickly sent back home to the Digital World.
"We did it!" Osamu breathed out a sigh of relief.

"Let's hurry, Daisuke, Ken-chan, Osamu-chan! We have to destroy the other Dark Towers!" Imperialdramon told them.
"But how?" Daisuke asked as the three boys ran towards the titanic dragon. A light shined on Imperialdramon's back and the three of them were dragged into it before they found themselves in a protective dome on his body.
"I know where the Dark Towers are located." Imperialdramon soon took off into the sky before flying rapidly into the atmosphere. "Positron Laser!" The large cannon on his back glowed before firing off multiple beams that went directly towards the Dark Towers all over Japan and destroyed them. He then flew off towards Sapporo in a flash.
"Aah, damn it…" Mummymon cursed as he and Archnemon watched Imperialdramon fly away.
"I didn't think the divine power could affect this world." Archnemon said.
"Daisuke-kun, Ken-kun and Ichijouji-san…" Takeru said as the other Chosen Children saw the bright streak of light that was Imperialdramon.
"You shouldn't just leave it to them." Gennai told them. "You all have your own tasks. It's time for all Chosen Children to combine their powers."

In Sapporo, Imperialdramon landed forcing Knightmon to turn around and pull out his sword towards the large dragon. Daisuke and the Ichijouji brothers were let out back on the street as they got the laptop ready once again.
"We're counting on you, Imperialdramon!" Monodramon cried as he rested in Osamu's arms. Knightmon was quickly grabbed and sent back to the Digital World before he even knew what hit him.
"Okay, next place is Osaka!" Daisuke informed as the boys continued their work.
"Please tell me. What have you been doing all this time, Gennai-san?" Iori asked the old ally.
"Three years ago, the Digital World came abnormally close to the Real World. Do you remember?"
"Yes, I remember." Iori nodded.
"Everyone in the world witnessed that incident. The final battle with Apoclymon. Ever since, in many country's military labs, secret research on the Digimon and the Digital World began. If the Digimon became public knowledge, they could be used for evil purposes."

"Einstein once said: 'I do not know with what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones.' At that point, he was just referring to nuclear weapons… but it's more than possible that using Digimon as weapons of mass destruction would easily be just as feasible." Ross explained.
"Exactly." Gennai nodded in agreement. "Without anyone noticing, we slowly started to modify the data in order to hide the existence of the Digital World and the Digimon." At the same time in Osaka, Imperialdramon was throwing WaruMonzaemon into the gate. Ken closed up the computer as the dark teddy bear was sent back.
"Kyushu is next!" Osamu determined.

"'Us'? You have partners, Gennai-san?" Miyako wondered.
"Yeah. They're cooperating with the world's Chosen Children now." At Mount Aso, Drimogemon was sent the same way as the other wild Digimon that came to Earth: throw right back into the gate.
"We got all the Digimon that had appeared in Japan." Ken informed.
"Yeah." Daisuke gave a fist pump. "Let's hurry back to Odaiba and the others!" Moments later, the boys were riding with Imperialdramon once again on the way back to Tokyo.
"Actually, Gennai-san was the one who showed me the Chosen Children network." confessed Koushiro.
"The world's Chosen Children and my partners have gathered the lost Digimon in certain places. The places are New York, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico, Rio, the Gold Coast of Australia and Paris. These seven locations."
"Daisuke-kun, Ken-kun and Osamu-san are back!" Hikari informed as she looked out the window and sees Imperialdramon land in Daiba Park.

P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

We regrouped at the park and filled in the guys about what was going on. I apologized to Osamu for not being there for him, but he was quick to forgive me. He did express a bit envy with the fact that Ken's Digimon partner was actually able to be an Ultimate. I laughed as he said that and told him I knew the feeling of a younger sibling outshining me. I had the same feeling when Agumon was able to first be WarGreymon… though that was not at the forefront of my mind that day considering we were still fighting VenomVamdemon.
"Now then, the other Chosen Children can't open a gate. Only you can open the Digital Gate with a D-3. So you will all fly with Imperialdramon to these seven locations, join forces with the local Chosen Children, and send the Digimon back to the Digital World." Gennai briefed us.
"Sounds simple enough." Mimi said.
"Eh, knowing our luck, that might be a bit more difficult than we thing." Jou rubbed his head.
"It'll be fine." Daisuke boasted. "After all we just went all over Japan in an instant! Going around the world will be easy!"
"Imperialdramon won't take more than thirty minutes to travel around the world." Gennai told us. "Now, my partners around the world are waiting. Go, Chosen Children." He soon vanished in a beam of light.

"Gennai-san!" "He disappeared…" Miyako and Iori were surprised.
"I'm sure he's returned to his own duties." Sora assured them.
"Okay, let's go around the world!" Taichi declared.
"Right." We all nodded.
"Koushiro." We heard a woman's voice from behind us. We turned to find Koushiro's mother holding a wrapped up box in her arms.
"Mom…" He ran up to her. "Please don't worry. Um… I'll come back as soon as possible." She held out the box. "What's this?"
"I had the feeling you were all going somewhere… So I made some onigiri." He then took it from her.
"Thanks, Mom." She just smiled as we all walked away before heading out on our mission. Fate of the world is at stake and we're the only ones who can save it. I hate to say it but this is starting to get mundane.

P.O.V. – Third Person

A group of onlookers were watching Imperialdramon take off from Daiba Park as a news van carrying Hiroaki drove up.
"Yamato… Takeru…" He muttered as he watched the dragon take off into the skies.
"Nothing!" The cameraman with him complained as he tried to film Imperialdramon. "I can't record anything with this noise! And it was such a scoop!"
"Don't worry about it! We don't have to film it." He said. It was now twenty minutes to noon in Tokyo when the Chosen Children were soon off as they prepared for their latest challenge.
"After we built all those Dark Towers around the world…" Mummymon growled as he and Archnemon looked to the contrail that Imperialdramon gave out. "Those kids are so annoying!" The chirping of a cellphone ringtone went out to which Archnemon answered the cellphone she had.
"Yes. Right away." She then hung up. "Don't stay there whining forever. We got our next order."
"Right."
"While they're away from Japan…" She giggled nefariously. "Come on, there's no time. Let's go, Mummymon."
"Yeah."

The plan those two had was anything but good for the Chosen Children…

Yeah, we all know what's coming next, and it isn't going to be good.

Nothing much more to say for this one, so see you all next time.

"Push the button, Frank."