Another chapter done fast... nothing to important happened today... well, one thing, but it was only TIGER WINING THE (Bleep)ING MASTERS! HE'S BACK, BABY!
Sorry...
Shoutouts to Whiteling, DigimonAT0318, MadDogLucario96 and God of the Challenge for the reviews.
I almost forgot, Challenge, you round out my five core members of my fanbase.
Thanks a lot to MadDog for some of the writing he help did in the Rio section of the chapter. And of course, thanks to JubiaMaJo for the story drawings once again. I know I commissioned her for them, but I still feel I owe her... so she's going to be fully immortalized in the story when we come to Rio. I'll alert you all if she liked it.
Anyways, let's finish out the world tour.
Chapter 47: Fierce Clash! Love, Redeemers, and Blizzards!
Mérida, Mexico. December 24th, 2002. 2204 Hours. (CDT); 1304 Hours. (JST)
P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji
After we parted ways with Daisuke and Mimi in Miami, we got onboard the Navy helicopter and flew out to Mérida on the Yucatan peninsula. It was a quiet and short flight as we flew of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. We had a bit of conversation with some of the pilots who had a few questions that we answered. They were old friends of Ross's father which is the reason they were taking us out here. Once we touched down outside the city near the jungle where a Dark Tower was standing. We probably attracted a crowd back in the city as Stingmon and Garurumon got to work.
"Fox Fire!" Garurumon's attack knocked out a large chuck of the tower near the base, leaving Stingmon ready to finish it.
"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon's attack tore through it and cut it in half causing it to fall; it disintegrated before it could hit the ground and destroy any part of the jungle.
"Nice!" Yamato cheered. I, on the other hand, had gotten word of where the missing Digimon who were last spotted here had ran off to.
"Yamato-san!" I called out to him as I ran over. "It seems the Digimon we're after escaped southwest to the Mayan ruins in Palenque." He nodded.
"Okay. Let's go!" We headed back to where the helicopter was and soon took flight to the ruins.
It was about an hour later when we landed in a clearing in the jungles and started to make our way to the ruins. We were in the bushes and looked out to the ruins where we saw a bunch of guards around the ruins. Yamato quietly asked me where all the other Chosen Children were, since they were to meet up with us.
"Unfortunately, because it's so late, it seems like the other kids can't leave their homes. The country tends to enforce curfew on children a bit more than say back home or in the United States." I explained to him.
"I see…"
"The Digimon are in here?" Gabumon questioned, somewhat wondering how unknown creatures were able to somehow sneak by that whole perimeter of guards.
"Some of the Chosen were trying to lead them to a more empty location, but… they ended up going here and the Chosen were forced to go back home it seems.
"It can't be helped." Yamato said. "Let's go in, then. First, me and Ken-kun. You two stay in the bushes." He told the Digimon.
"Okay." I nodded.
We got out of the bushes and headed towards one of the entrance ways into the ruins before a guard spotted us and got in our way.
"¡No, no!" The guard said in Spanish. Thankfully, I knew three languages: Japanese, English and the main reason why I came here, Spanish. I wonder how Osamu and Sora are doing at the moment, the third language he knows is Italian, not Spanish or Portuguese. Anyways, I soon tried to talk the guard into letting us pass.
"Por favor, déjame entrar." I asked him to let us in.
"Los niños deben de irse a dormir a esta hora." He told us that as children, we should be going to be this time.
"¿Qué?" I loudly questioned him before- shit! He just pulled a damn gun on me! I held my hands up as he smirked and pulled down on the gun hammer. I found myself looking down the barrel of a loaded revolver that if he pulled the trigger… I'm dead.
"{A-Alright! I will back! Back, alright?}" Yamato exclaimed in broken English.
"Está bien, nos iremos a casa..." I told him we'd go back home before we turned around and headed back to bushes.
That… was terrifying. I really thought he was going to pull the trigger, especially after he smirked. Thank goodness, Wormmon probably didn't see that… or I'm sure he'd tear that guard to shreds as Stingmon.
"It's no good." Yamato sighed. "Nothing we can do about it. Let's try to sneak in from behind."
"Okay." I went along with his suggestion… of course, we try to get in again and get caught…
"Hey, Ken-chan, what's that language you were speaking to that person?" asked Wormmon.
"Well, that was Spanish." Wormmon's eyes started to glow as he looked so enamored with my abilities.
"You can speak Spanish too, Ken-chan?" I actually had to chuckle at him.
"Well, just enough to get by; I'm not really that fluent in it."
"I'm impressed." "Yeah, me too!" Yamato and Gabumon added.
We soon got back up and started to try to find one of the rear entrances to the ruins. We kept as much noise as we could to a minimum as we didn't want to get the guards attention again. We poked our heads out of the bushes and found more guards.
"I guess we'll have to force our way through…" Gabumon reluctantly admitted.
"Yeah." Yamato sadly had to agree.
"Who's that?" Wormmon lightly exclaimed and we turned around to find Gennai right behind us!
"I'm Jose." He told us. "To make it simple, I'm a copy of Gennai." Way ahead of our questions then.
"We heard about you from Gennai-san." Yamato said in reference to Gennai saying he had allies organizing the other Chosen Children.
"Thank you for meeting with us." I thanked.
"No problem." He smiled. "Well, leave this to me." He gave a thumbs up and suddenly ran out of the bushes towards the guards!
He quickly got their attention as a bunch of them confronted him and had their hands right near their guns. He soon started to do some martial arts moves that completely drew the guards complete attention to him. They honestly had no earthly idea what he was doing. Truth be told, neither did we.
"What's with this person?" Wormmon questioned. Jose soon began to motion us to sneak by and get inside while he kept the guards occupied.
"I see! Alright, it's our chance!" Yamato said.
"Right!" I followed him and the Digimon followed us as we snuck on by. After a quick dash, we were soon inside the temple. I have to say… being here… I do wish I could stay longer and just explore the history of this place. Sadly, we had a job to do so there was no time for sightseeing.
"I heard there's a king's grave at the bottom of these ruins." I gave a little bit of lore to Yamato as we walked deeper into the ruin.
"Really…?" He nervously chuckled and was starting to sweat a bit. I heard whispers from Takeru that Yamato was bit scared of ghosts.
Meanwhile, Wormmon… was way more frightened. He suddenly screamed before he latched himself on my back.
"Are you okay, Wormmon?" I took him off my back and held him in my hands. I looked over to a carved stone face that had probably frightened him. He soon jumped back down on the stone floor.
"Sorry. I shouldn't be scared, right? Oh, yeah! Since you don't like the dark…" He quickly dashed away… and returned with two candles taped to his head! "I'll make it bright for you!" We were all completely questioning where he found all that stuff so fast.
"I think Wormmon is scarier than the darkness or the ghosts." Gabumon admitted. Yamato broke down and laughed.
"H-hey, Gabumon!"
"Sorry." I just gave out a relived sigh.
Wormmon stood out in front as he led the way through the dark passages of the temple as we continued our search for the missing Digimon.
"This makes it much easier to walk." Yamato told us. "Good idea, Wormmon."
"Nah, it's nothing…" He turned his head to look at us before he walked right up next to a Gotsumon that turned the corner. The two of them quickly scared each other.
"Gotsumon?" Yamato questioned.
"So Wormmon is scary after all?" Gabumon said.
"I hope he goes back to the Digital World without complaining." As soon as he said that, a small brown haired Mexican girl with two pigtails ran right in front of us and blocked us. She had a stern look on her face before she got happy.
"¡Buenas noches!" She greeted, telling us 'Good evening.'
"B-buenas noches." I replied.
"Yo soy Chichos Altuve. Me escapé de casa. ¡Por favor, déjame ayudarte!"
"What did she say?" Yamato asked me.
"Her name is Chichos. It seems she sneaked out of her home to come help us."
"So you're her Digimon partner?" Gabumon pointed to Gotsumon.
"¿Quién eres tú?" She asked who we were.
"Yo soy Ken. Ellos son Yamato, Gabumon y Wormmon."
"Ken…" She put her hands to her cheeks and blushed. Oh, dear. Even in another country, apparently girls are enamored with me. Wormmon made some twitches while Chichos grabbed my arm and started to drag me forward.
"Wh-what's with this girl?" Wormmon questioned.
"Yamato is popular, but Ken is popular too!" said Gabumon.
"Ken-chan!" Wormmon tried to jump on me but Chichos pulled me forward and caused Wormmon to face plant on the floor. "Hey, Tacos!" He shouted at her.
"¡Chichos!" She angrily shouted her name back at him. Jeez… I never realized Wormmon was this defensive about a girl liking me... We're gonna have a long conversation when we get back home. Last thing I need in a few years when I start dating is Wormmon getting jealous and chasing off a girl I like.
"O-okay… anyway, let's keep going." Yamato tried to defuse the situation. "We have to hurry and return the Digimon who escaped back to the Digital World."
"R-right!" I nodded.
"You're right. Let's go, Ken-chan." He started to walk ahead before purposely bumping into Chichos. "Sorry."
"¡Carnada de pez!"
"What?" He turned back to look at her.
"Come on, let's hurry." I started to walk ahead as the two stared daggers at each other. Yamato and Gabumon ran up to me as I groaned at their little fight.
"What did she just say?" Gabumon inquired me.
"'Fish bait'."
"Don't tell him what it means." whispered Yamato. We soon continued to walk deeper into the temple before Jose appeared in front of us and freaked out Wormmon once more.
"The Digimon are over here. Follow me." He pointed towards another hall.
"Okay." We all nodded. Chichos snickered at Wormmon because of his fear before running after Jose.
"Sorry. She's just only eight." Gotsumon apologized to Wormmon for her actions.
"Dime, ¿tienes novia?" Chichos held onto my hand as we walked asking if I had a girlfriend. "¿Qué tipo de niñas te gustan?" She then asked what kind of girls I liked. "Y dime, ¿qué opinas de mí?" Finally, she asked what I thought of her. I'm so glad that Wormmon doesn't understand Spanish at the moment, or he would truly lose it.
"What is she saying?" He asked Jose.
"'Do you have a girlfriend? What type of girls do you like? What do you think about me?'" No, Jose! Now, Wormmon looks like he's about to blow.
"She's really straightforward!" Gabumon chuckled.
P.O.V. – Yamato Ishida
We soon walked a pretty good distance into the ruins before we heard the sounds of growls up ahead. We soon found some eyes staring right at us and soon found a Minotarumon and a Dokugmon in one of the chambers.
"Dokugmon and Minotarumon!" exclaimed Gabumon.
"This is bad. They're pretty wound up." I observed.
"Yamato-san, this is a world legacy, so we can't damage it." Ken warned me. Understood, but try telling that to them.
"You're right. Fighting here would be bad." Jose added.
"Let's lead them outside." I said.
"Okay."
"Gabumon, let's go!" The two of us ran right towards the two Digimon. "Hey, over here!" We flailed our arms before turning around and running for the exit; with the two of them following right after us. The others stood in the corner so they could block them from going back into the chamber.
We kept moving forward until I glanced behind me and saw Chichos trip on a small gap in the floor and fell over hard. She started to cry before Ken went back for her, which caused her to stop crying.
"¿Estás bien?" He turned around so she could ride on his back. "Aqui tienes." He started to run again before Wormmon tripped himself.
"Ouch… Ken-chan!" He tried to jump forward as I guess he assumed Ken came back for him as well, but he ended up slamming into Gotsumon's chest. As Gabumon and I ran faster, we could soon see the outside and soon were back in the open air and out of the confined space. We kept trying to put some distance but Minotarumon decided to stop and use his mechanical arm to start damaging the ruins.
"This is bad! Wormmon!" Ken turned to his partner.
"Wormmon, evolve! STINGMON!"
"Stingmon! This is an important Mayan cultural heritage, so protect it at all costs!"
"Got it."
Stingmon took off and shoved the minotaur Digimon away from the ruins and into the jungle nearby.
"Good! Keep it up, Stingmon!" Ken called out to him before following along. Meanwhile, Dokugmon knocked down a tree along with Minotarumon in the clearing that Stingmon led them to.
"It's not looking good." I observed. "We need to calm them down somehow."
"Yamato, it's time to use the power Qinglongmon gave us." Gabumon suggested.
"Alright. Let's go, Gabumon!"
"Gabumon, evolve! GARURUMON! Garurumon, super-evolve! WEREGARURUMON!"
"Gotsumon!" Chichos called out for her partner.
"Gotsumon, evolve! MONOCHROMON!" Stingmon turned around and quickly grabbed Minotarumon by the horns before Dokugmon tried to jump him.
"Monochromon!" The Digimon followed Chichos' orders and stopped the spider from getting Stingmon in the back and nailed him into the ground. Stingmon threw Minotarumon in the air where WereGarurumon jumped up in the air, punched him in the stomach before knocking him into the ground as well.
"Okay, that's it. Now, Ichijouji!" Jose pulled out Ken's laptop and held it out for us to send the Digimon back.
"Right! Digital Gate, open!" The two Digimon were soon sent back to the Digital World. I gave Ken a thumbs up as we completed our job. We all then soon discovered that Chichos had fallen asleep.
"Stingmon, eres increíble…" Ken was surprised but Wormmon looked disappointed.
"She's insulting me even in her sleep." Ken chuckled.
"She's not. She said Stingmon is amazing." That suddenly made Wormmon blush as now he was proud of himself. "Come on, let's take her back home."
We soon got her back home and left her right outside the house as we watched from a distance. Her parents opened the door and quickly embraced her. Probably wondering where she was and what she was doing out at this hour. Gotsumon was hiding out behind a pot out of their view.
"Ken-chan, how's 'goodbye' in Spanish?" Wormmon asked.
"'Adios'."
"Adios, Chichos." They took her back inside and we headed back to the helicopter. Our work was now done so we needed to get back to Miami to meet with Daisuke and Mimi, hopefully they were already done with their job too.
Copacabana, Rio de Janerio, Brazil. December 25th, 2002. 0004 Hours. (BRT); 1104 Hours. (JST)
P.O.V. – Osamu Ichijouji
The first thing we noticed when Sora and I were dropped off by Imperialdramon was how balmy the air was, even at this hour. Compared to the biting cold winds of Japan, it was perfect weather to shed our coats, which we did. The city was in complete spirits with it being Christmas time in the city. Especially since we landed in Copacabana, one of the most popular destinations in this city. With everything going on, it was almost hard to believe that there was any danger at all, at least danger in terms of Digimon attacks I mean.
"So this is Rio de Janeiro, huh?" Sora said, looking around and seeing all of the lush green surrounding us and in the hilltops outside of the city. "Kinda wish I had brought a bathing suit with me. This weather's perfect for that, even if it is nighttime at the moment."
"I'll say!" Piyomon agreed, a smile on her face as she flew happily through the air. "It's lovely! I wonder what it's like during the day!" I had to smile and shake my head.
"We're not on vacation, Sora-kun, Piyomon." I pointed out, much to their disappointment. "We have a job to do, and we must get it done."
"I know, I know… still, wish we honestly could get some fun for once." We looked around the beach and saw that due to Imperialdramon's landing, as well as Monodramon and Piyomon being around; we had caught a lot of attention. All around us, I could hear people muttering to each other in a language I didn't understand. I knew it was Portuguese, but what they were saying was beyond me. Hopefully, someone speaks Japanese, or we're gonna have issues with the Chosen Children of South America.
"Come on." I grabbed her hand. "Let's get off the beach."
The two of us made our way off of the sand and back onto the sidewalk. Since it was close to New Year's Eve as well as it being Christmas morning, the streets and beaches were packed with people. We heard many different languages as we walked down the street until finally stopping in a park that was thankfully less crowded.
"So, who are we looking for?" Monodramon asked. I looked down at the papers that Koushiro had given us. The portraits were of a boy and girl who lived close to the city, with their names underneath and the other important details we needed; all of it from e-mail correspondents that Koushiro had set up with the Chosen Children around the world.
"Apparently, the two kids were are supposed to meet up with are named Pedro, who actually lives here in the city, and Jubia, who's actually Argentinean and from Buenos Aries. Their Digimon partners are PetitMamon and Bearmon." I explained.
"So, how are we going to find them?" Sora asked. "Rio's such a big city that it won't be easy."
"Ei!" A voice called out to us in an unfamiliar language. I didn't know what that actually meant, but it seemed like the owner of the voice was trying to get our attention. Sora and I turned to see two children running towards us…along with two Digimon. One of the Digimon was a small black bear with a backwards baseball cap on its head and leather belts wrapped around its fists. The other one was a small purple devil-like Digimon with cute red eyes and a staff in its hand. It clung to the girl's shoulder. As for the kids, they looked closer to our age. The boy was black haired and green eyed while dressed in a Brazilian National Team football jersey, green shoes and some black cargo shorts. The girl had fiery red hair and brown eyes with a black sleeveless shirt, black boots with fishnets on her legs and a red flannel skirt.
"Hello," We greeted, saying it in Japanese. The kids looked at us puzzled, obviously not understanding our greeting. Yeah, that's what I feared; they don't understand Japanese. The boy, who I assumed was Pedro, said something in Portuguese that I couldn't understand, but that was when the bear Digimon stepped in.
"Greetings, strangers." It said in flawless Japanese. "Welcome to Rio. What brings you here?"
"We were sent here by Gennai-san and Koushiro-kun." answered Sora. "We are two Chosen Children from Japan. My name is Takenouchi Sora, and this is Ichijouji Osamu. Would you mind asking your partner and his friend to tell us their names?"
"Certainly," said the bear before turning back to the boy and repeating what Sora had just said in Portuguese.
"Meu nome é Pedro. Isso aqui é Bearmon." The boy introduced himself.
"Mi nombre es Jubia y este es mi socio de Digimon, PetitMamon." Jubia introduced herself.
"Hello, pleased to meet the both of you!" PetitMamon gave us all a bit of a wink.
"The pleasure is all ours." I bowed. This was going to be difficult if we couldn't find a language to speak and had to rely mostly on Digimon to communicate. Maybe they understand English. "{If you don't mind me asking, but do either of you speak English?}" I asked. Both their eyes widened.
"{Yes! Yes, we do!}" Pedro smiled.
"{Thank goodness… I was worried we were going to have trouble talking with you.}" Jubia wiped her forehead in relief.
"{That's good to hear. Honestly, I wish we could hang out, but we all know what is going on.}" Sora said. The four of them nodded.
"{Right, we need to deal with the Digimon that are running around.}"
"{And meet up with the other South American Chosen Children and send all the Digimon back to the Digital World.}" added Pedro.
"{Okay then, so… where are we meeting up?}" I asked. Pedro pointed upward to the top of the mountain nearby and the large statue on it… and by that was a Dark Tower.
"Cristo Redentor. {Christ the Redeemer… and next to the son of God is affront to his glory and love. A black object of darkness that corrupts the land and brings harm…}" Pedro growled as he looked to the tower.
"{Forgive Pedro. He's a very devout Catholic.}" We both nodded in understanding, although I was still a bit uneasy considering my actions with those towers.
"{No matter what a person had done… he didn't judged their past. He suffered on the cross to erase and forgive the sins of our past.}" He then looked at us. "{Sorry, don't mean to preach.}"
"We're all planning to meet up with the other Chosen Children at the base of the statue." Bearmon explained.
"And with them, all the wild Digimon that are around the continent that need to be returned." PetitMamon pointed out.
"{Come on, we'll catch a taxi and head up there.}" Jubia led the way.
P.O.V. – Sora Takenouchi
We walked out of the park and into the crowded streets of the city where there were still many celebrating.
"{Boy, you guys sure have fun at Christmas.}" I looked around as we kept up with Jubia and Pedro.
"{Eh, half of it I think is still from winning the World Cup this year.}" Pedro smiled which earned him a look from Jubia.
"{Oh, you just had to bring that up.}" She smirked and gave him a light punch on the arm.
"{Not my fault Argentina got knocked out in the preliminaries.}" He chuckled. Oh, yeah, I forgot. The World Cup was hosted in Japan and Korea this year. We were all more focused on fighting the Kaiser than to keep track of that.
"So you guys go on a lot of adventures?" Bearmon asked our Digimon.
"Yep! Me and Sora have gone on so many!" Piyomon nudged my leg as I held her hand causing me to smile.
"You two remind me of Jubia and myself." PetitMamon jumped up onto Jubia's shoulder and gave an affectionate nudge as well.
"They're certainly in the holiday spirit." Monodramon observed with Osamu.
"Looks that way doesn't it?" He said as we soon found a taxi.
We were driven pretty far up the mountain before we all hopped out. The area was pretty quiet which made Pedro very nervous.
"{Something's wrong… shouldn't be this quiet.}"
"{Well, there is a Dark Tower here, Pedro.}" Jubia told him.
"{No… there's something more…}" We soon got an answer when we heard a loud growling and soon found a black, three-headed dog Digimon climbing out of the trees and growling at us.
"Look out! That's Cerberumon! He's one angry dog that will unleash his Hellfire on all that gets in his way!" PetitMamon shouted. We all quickly took cover as the launched his flaming attack right at us.
"{Everyone, listen, we need to evolve now to take him on!}" I said to the others.
"{Right!}" They all nodded.
"Monodramon, evolve! STRIKEDRAMON!"
"Bearmon, evolve! GRYZMON!" Gryzmon was a large grizzly bear Digimon.
"PetitMamon, evolve! WITCHMON!" Witchmon was a witch dressed in red riding on a broom.
"Come on, doggy! Follow me!" Witchmon teased him as she flew by his head. "Balulua Gale!" A large gust of wind soon hit the three-headed dog in the face causing him to flinch.
"Strike Fang!" "Crescent Dawn!" Both Strikedramon and Gryzmon tried to bite at the dog but he quickly knocked Gryzmon on the ground and sent Strikedramon crashing into Witchmon!
"Sora! He's a Perfect-Level Digimon! The others don't stand a chance!" Piyomon exclaimed.
"Then let's fight fire with fire!" I held up my D-3 and she nodded.
"Piyomon, evolve! BIRDRAMON! Birdramon, super-evolve! GARUDAMON!"
"{Careful everybody! Don't damage the statue!}" Pedro warned. Garudamon nodded and flew up into the sky as the other Digimon backed away from Cerberumon.
"Shadow Wing!" Garudamon's attack flew down and stuck Cerberumon hard into the ground. She then flew down and picked him up… before petting him on the head as he calmed down.
"See? Told you he was just a big doggy." Witchmon chuckled.
We soon got out Osamu's laptop and got everything set up.
"Digital Gate, open!" He held out his D-3 and activated the gate. We soon put Cerberumon in position and had him sent back home to the Digital World.
"{Thanks for all the help, you two.}" Pedro thanked us.
"{Yeah, now we just have to wait for the rest of the other Chosen Children to bring the other Digimon.}" Jubia added. We nodded and sat around waiting for the other children to come. Osamu and I soon gazed in awe of Christ the Redeemer. The marble eyes of the statue gazed down at us, almost as if it were staring into our souls. It was one of the most incredible statue that I have ever seen in my life. I had seen pictures of the Tian Tun Buddha in Hong Kong, but never had actually seen it before in person. Seeing this… pictures could never truly describe it. I looked over to Osamu who just continued to stare at it. I don't know what's going on in his mind, but I sure hope that he will someday forgive himself.
Moscow, Russia. December 25th, 2002. 0704 Hours. (MSK); 1304 Hours. (JST)
P.O.V. – Miyako Inoue
Why did I have to draw the short straw today? I'm pretty sure the others are getting much warmer weather; meanwhile I'm freezing to death here! Ross and I were having certainly a lot to deal with as we tried to remove the tower in Moscow. We had to deal with a large swarm of Flymon that were flying over the city. Of course, we decided to wait for some of Eastern Europe's Chosen Children to come and help us with that.
"Alright! Let's do it, Ross-san!" I shouted to him while riding Aquilamon.
"Just watch and learn, Miyako-kun!" He smiled on Guilmon's Perfect-Level, MegaloGrowmon.
"Atomic Blaster!" MegaloGrowmon fired his attack and blew apart a large chunk of the tower.
"Glide Horn!" Aquilamon dived down and soon finished off the rest of the tower.
We soon were met by three of the Chosen right near the Kremlin, two girls and a boy, along with their partners; a Kuwagamon, a Snimon and a Unimon.
"So you're the Russian Chosen Children!" I exclaimed.
"Anna Litvinchuk." A blonde haired girl next to Unimon introduced herself.
"Oh, Anna!" I walked up and gave her a hug.
"Laura Koslov." Another blonde girl, this one with a hat on her head and stood next to Snimon, introduced himself as well.
"Oh, Laura!" I hugged her too.
"Yuri Fedorenko." The boy besides the Kuwagamon finally introduced himself.
"Oh, Yuri!" I gave him a hug as well. "Thank you for coming, everyone. We're Miyako, Ross, and…"
"I'm Guilmon." "I'm Hawkmon." Our Digimon quickly presented themselves.
We all smiled at each other.
"Anna, Laura, Yuri." I pointed to them and they nodded back.
"Miyako, Ross…" Anna pointed to us.
"Guilmon, Hawkmon." Laura pointed to our Digimon and we nodded. We ended up doing the same thing again before I just shouted at the fact that we actually understand each other.
"I give up! We can't communicate at all!" I grabbed my head.
"Unless we understand the language…" Hawkmon said. We then saw Ross snickering.
"What's so funny? Can't you see we're in trouble?"
"Yeah… but thankfully… YA znayu, kak govorit' po-russki." My eyes widened.
"WHAT!?"
"I just said 'I know how to speak Russian'. Kak u menya kstati? Khorosho?" He turned to look at the others.
"Otlichno!" Yuri gave a thumbs up.
"Ross… how do you…?" Guilmon questioned.
"My father. It was still the Cold War so he took up Russian while at Annapolis. Hey, never knew when you were actually going to need to use it. Anyways, he taught me, never thought I was going to use it myself, but hey! Here we are. Why do you think I volunteered first for this?"
"So why didn't you say so sooner?" I asked.
"Where's the fun in not seeing you break down like that?" He laughed. I just punched him in the arm. "Easy, Miyako-kun, it's just a joke. I wasn't going to keep going with it."
"Fine… but no more surprises like that, okay?" I crossed my arms.
"Promise. Now then, we've had some e-mails so we know each other pretty good. Anna is from Barysaw in Belarus, Laura is from Rostov-on-Don here in Russia and Yuri is from Odessa in the Ukraine. I'll be sure to translate for you for what they say."
"{So, you two are from Japan?}" Anna asked.
"{Well, yes, but actually Miyako-kun is a native. My father is in the United States Navy and is stationed in Japan so that's why I'm here too.}"
"{You never did mention that in your e-mails. We all assumed you were just from America.}" Laura said.
"{Sorry about that. But nice to see you guys here. Now then, the time to chat will be later; right now…}"
"We've got to send the Digimon back to the Digital World." I pointed to the Flymon above while Ross translated for me.
"{I must ask, Ross, can Guilmon fly?}" Yuri wondered.
"{Yes. Either in his armor form of Waibanmon or his Perfect-Level of MegaloGrowmon. Considering all the Digimon can fly then, we'll form a squadron to bring down the Flymon so we can send them back with no hassle.}" The three of them nodded and agreed with the plan.
"Ross-san is certainly full of surprises." Hawkmon observed.
"I swear, I think I know everything about him and then he pulls something like this on me." Guilmon chuckled.
"Miyako, listen, the only words that we'll really say up there are going to be right, left, and attack." Ross walked up to me. "So, I think you should probably know them." I nodded. "Okay, pravil'no means right, ostavil is left, and ataka means attack. Think you got that?"
"Think so… pravil'no, ostavil, ataka. Bingo!" He smiled.
"Good, think you can spout those in the air, considering you're leading the flight."
"Wait? I am? Why?"
"Consider it making up for my earlier joke."
"Wow… thanks, Ross-san." I smiled before getting a determined look on my face and facing the others. "Okay, let's get to the skies and bring those Digimon home, okay?"
"Okay!" They all said.
"Pravil'no." "Ostavil." "Ataka." Their three Digimon chimed in.
We all got high in the skies above Moscow and were soon flying fast towards the Flymon horde.
"Digimon squadron, commence operation!" I shouted. I looked over to see Ross smirk. Guess he's thinking he's been sort of an influence to me considering what I just said was something that he would probably say.
"Aye-aye, Captain Inoue!" He cried. We soon came across the first group of the swarm which fired their stingers at us.
"Pravil'no!" We all dived right. "Ostavil!" We then ducked left to avoid more stingers. "Ataka!"
"Holy Shot!" "Shadow Sickle!" "Scissor Arms!" "Double Edge!" "Blast Laser!" Our Digimon dealt with the Flymon in very short order, and dropped them all in to the rivers of Moscow.
"We did it!" "Way to go!" We quickly cheered, but we still had more Flymon to deal with.
"Alright! Keep it up, everyone!" I shouted. I looked back and saw the others salute me. "Go! Go! DigiRangers!" Wait, did I just make a Super Sentai reference? Eh, never mind, focus on the job at hand.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
We dealt with the rest of the swarm with total ease; it wasn't even much of a challenge. We gathered all the defeated Flymon in the Moskva River and Miyako soon opened up her laptop so we could send them home.
"Digital Gate, open!" Miyako shouted as she held out her D-3 and the Digimon were soon sent back to the Digital World. We said our thanks to Anna, Laura and Yuri before Miyako's stomach started to growl.
"Sorry… I got so hungry…" She embarrassingly rubbed her head.
"Probably has to do with the time change and the fact that it's way past lunch time back home." I believed.
"We're starving too." Guilmon groaned.
"Indeed…" added Hawkmon.
"{Would you guys be willing to have some piroshki?}" Anna offered. Miyako and the Digimon's spirits shot up.
"{And some borscht too?}" Laura offered as well.
In all honesty, all of our mouths started to water as we were all pretty hungry.
"You're really going to treat us?" Miyako cried.
"Well, I wouldn't lie with the translation, would I?" She glared back at me causing me to hold my hands up defensively.
"This made coming all the way to Russia worth it!" Hawkmon declared.
"Really!" Guilmon chimed in. We soon heard footsteps and found one of those Gennai clones that Koushiro informed standing in front of us.
"Sorry I'm late. I'm Ilya. To put it simply, I'm a copy of Gennai."
"Nice to meet you, but you're actually way late, we got everything handled." I told him.
"Actually, I'm afraid I need you to go north now. Some Chosen Children from Siberia have chased the Mammon there." Our spirits dropped hard.
"Uh, how far north exactly?" Miyako asked.
Just our luck! It's way far north in a damn blizzard! The three Chosen Children that had herded the Mammon all had Yukidarumon as partners and were trying to corral them in an isolated location. However, they still needed us to bring the Digimon back to the Digital World. Jesus… I don't think I've ever been this cold in my life.
"It's freezing! I'm hungry!" Miyako complained to me as we headed to the rendezvous point.
"Nothing we can do about that. Come on, let's wrap this up quickly and go back to Moscow for some warm food… before we become the next in a long line of General Winter's victims." I told her.
"Agreed!" We soon dived in on the Mammon as soon as we spotted them.
"Blast…" "Atomic…" They didn't get a chance to use their attack as a Mammon fired his tusks at us and forced us to break off.
"Are you okay, Miyako-san?" Aquilamon asked in concern.
"My hands are so numb I may fall!" Damn… I can barely feel mine too. We just weren't dressed for this cold.
"We have to settle this now or they'll freeze to death!" MegaloGrowmon insisted.
The three Yukidarumon fired their attacks at the five Mammon causing a welcomed distraction.
"I'm… so cold…" I heard Miyako mutter.
"Miyako-san, don't fall asleep!" Aquilamon tried to keep her awake.
"Miyako-kun!" "Hang in there!" Myself and MegaloGrowmon shouted at her causing her to wake up once more.
"Can we really defeat all these Mammon in this cold weather?" I said to myself. Another barrage of those tusks got too close and I ended up losing my grip and found myself falling to the earth below. I didn't get a chance to scream before I felt that cable on MegaloGrowmon's back wrapping around me.
"Hang on, that's my bad!" He apologized as we landed on the ground.
"Are you okay?" Miyako ran over to me.
"Eh, this one wasn't even close." I smirked underneath the homemade face mask I had on.
Our attention was soon turned to the large horde of Mammon that was soon charging right for us. However, we suddenly saw a small object in the sky behind them approaching fast before it turned out to be Imperialdramon! His high speeds caused a shockwave that knocked all the mammoths to the ground. The Mammon were soon contained and the blizzard appeared to finally die down at the most opportune time as Imperialdramon landed and dropped off everyone, excluding Hikari and Koushiro.
"You okay?" Daisuke asked us.
"Yeah…" I sighed. "Could use a warm bath, but we'll live." Ilya soon ran over to us with a laptop of his own.
"Ilya-san." Miyako turned to him.
"Now, let's send the Mammon to the Digital World." He held open the laptop. A moment later, the Mammon herd was sent back home. "Good job. Well, I'll be going now. We're still going to be busy for a while."
"Okay. Thanks a lot." I waved at him before he vanished into a digital light. Yep, he's definitely a clone of Gennai.
"Now we just need to pick up Hikari-chan and Koushiro-san in Hong Kong and go home." declared Daisuke.
"Go home?" Miyako questioned.
"It's past five PM on December 25th in Japan, so we should go back." Ken informed.
"Eh…!" Miyako made a loud crying moan, like she was about to have a fit. "What about the borscht? And the piroshki?"
"You can find that in Japan." Daisuke dismissed.
"But we wanted to try the real thing!" Miyako started to cry as she held onto me while Hawkmon and Guilmon held each other's arms and cried too.
"Would you three get a grip?" I groaned. "And Miyako-kun, please let go before Mimi-chan kills you. I can see her sharpening the knife in her eyes."
"I'm doing no such thing!" She exclaimed. I smiled at her.
"Just being silly, sweetheart." We soon got back on Imperialdramon and began the final trip back home. The job was done. The Dark Towers were destroyed and the Digimon sent home. I'd sure love to see the looks on Archnemon and Mummymon's faces when they discover how their plan has failed.
P.O.V. – Third Person
In a computer intelligence building in Moscow, Russian cyber-analysts were hard at work trying to recover any data they could get on the Digimon.
"How's everything going?" A general asked one of the men working at the computers.
"It's no good. The rest of the data on the monsters is nowhere to be found."
"It's the same in other countries as well." Another man informed.
"What is going on here?" The general questioned. Ilya closed his computer as his job was now done, along with all that helped Gennai. Around the world, the Chosen Children were all celebrating the holidays. Wallace and Michael were enjoying a nice little party on Michael's father's private jet as they flew back to New York. The Poi brothers all had Hikari on their minds. Chichos was happily dreaming of Ken and Stingmon. Anna, Laura, and Yuri were all in a small bed and breakfast in Moscow enjoying some piroshki and borscht. Pedro and Jubia were being part of a large parade that was going on in the streets of Rio. Dingo and Ganimon were enjoying some seafood mix for Christmas. And Takeru's grandparents were treating Catharine to a nice Christmas breakfast before planning to take her home.
However, while the Chosen Children were on Imperialdramon and on their way back to Japan, Archnemon and Mummymon were spending their whole day working on their sinister plot, unchallenged. A young brown haired boy named Shibata Hiroshi was standing alone on one of the bridges that hung over the busy streets of Tokyo looking sad. A large gray box truck pulled up not too far underneath him. He soon turned and found Archnemon right beside him. A minute later, she was back in the passenger seat of the truck with Mummymon behind the wheel.
And the two of them drove away in the cold December night…
Boy... those two work fast considering what we'll see in the next chapter.
So, I honestly really don't have much to add after all this except for changing the location Ken and Yamato go to from Acapulco to Merida at the start considering the distances. And that's really it.
Apologizes, but the next week I've got some papers to write, so don't expect anything for a while as I'm going on a bit of a hiatus. Maybe I could sneak in a chapter but the next ten days will be busy for me. Take care.
"Push the button, Frank."