The Revenge….
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"What?" Taichi stammered as Mr. Nishijima revved the engine and swerved around stopped cars as a blizzard of Kuramon swarmed through the streets.
"Sorry, didn't want to blow my cover, but it's the job you know." Mr. Nishijima said.
"So the government has been…" Taichi started.
"Since the Odaiba fog incident…" Mr. Nishijima said as he steered the car back and forth through the traffic. "Well, actually more accurately we started looking for you then, we found you when the Diablo virus attacked."
"But why?" Taichi asked shaking his head slightly in disbelief. "And why didn't you guys do anything when the others-"
"We had issues," Mr. Nishijima said, flicking a look at the rearview mirror. "The global nature of the event left us unprepared and then you disappeared. It kinda is what caused us to get more involved. Last year we were still dealing with the global influx of digi-destined, and then the dragons obliterated our infrastructure. We've been caught with our pants down twice, not a third."
"Where are you taking me?" Taichi asked, sitting back.
"To the other Chosen Children, to a secure facility." Mr. Nishijima said, as his fingers tightened around the steering wheel and he threaded between cars. "We're getting you together now, to nip this in the bud."
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"I don't understand…" Takeru said as a Yamato pulled at his and Sora's arms. The entire studio was alive with shouts of surprise and the chirping of Kuramon that swarmed in all directions looking for egress.
"Come on, this way to the back!" Yamato shouted as he pulled them past the schools of children swatting at the swarms of little digimon.
Yamato kicked at the door that leisurely swung open as he pulled Takeru and Sora through it. The door then leisurely swung closed, clicking shut resolutely. The hallway was dark and slightly industrial looking with the lingering shadows of cameras and equipment that were waiting to be used on stage sitting to one side. They swept past shut doors and then Yamato came to a stop and pushed at one of the doors, it opened to a fairly luxurious dressing room. Sora and Takeru walked in behind Yamato. He shut the door behind them and turned. A woman was sitting at the desk in the dressing room. She was on the phone.
She was professionally dressed with a dark suit jacket and a dark skirt. Her hair was short and brown but as she turned she revealed herself to have long eye-covering bangs.
"They just got here." The woman said into the phone. "We'll be getting underway as soon as I hang up."
The woman closed the phone and pocketed it. "Ms. Takenouchi, Mr. Takaishi, nice to meet you."
"Uh, nice to meet you as well Ms…" Takeru said unsuredly extending his hand.
"Himekawa, Maki Himekawa, UNIT special agent in charge of digital asset targeting and surveillance." The woman said standing up from the desk. "Let's go then, we have to get you across town."
Takeru looked over to Sora as the woman blew past him and opened the door. Sora shrugged her shoulders. The two looked over to Yamato.
"I have no idea, she came out of nowhere when all the little digimon showed up, told me to get you two and meet here." Yamato said, shoving his hands into his pants pockets. He flicked his eyes over to Takeru . "I didn't even know TK was here!"
"There was a girl and she-"
"There always is…" Yamato said shaking his head as he clasped his younger brother's shoulder. "Come on, she's seems fairly serious."
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"No, I tried to talk to him." the man said into his earpiece as he walked down the hall of the school. "He will not comply!"
"Then make him comply." came the voice over the ear piece. "We need them all!"
"Yes, sir." the man said as he looked up. The teenager was still stomping towards the door. The man sprinted forward. "Mr. Kido!"
The young man grumbled turning and walking backwards, glaring at the man. "I told you, I want nothing to do with this stuff!" the boy waved his hand at the Kuramon flitting about the hallway. "It's gotten me into enough trouble today as it is!"
"I don't think you understand-" the man started.
The boy stopped, adjusted his spectacles and glared at the man. "I understand perfectly. The Digital World is going spare, again, and you are part of some organization that's supposed to make sure we do our 'jobs' or something to that tune. I'm sure there's some fancy name based upon Greek mythology or some kind of acronym pun on data, or computers or something….or maybe it's just a dumb acronym period. I've been part of saving the world three times in the last five years…I think maybe it's someone else's turn now! I'm not going, that's the end of this discussion, now leave me be!"
The boy turned and walked forward, but not before tripping over a garbage bin. The boy yelped swore a little and staggered regaining his footing before hitting the door to the school and leaving. The man frowned and then pushed forward exiting the school. The world outside was growing insane. The little Kuramon were swarming in the air and in the streets. Millions of them were giggling and chirping as they twisted through the skies. The teenager was down on the sidewalk, unlocking his bike from the bike stand. The man walked down the stairs.
"I'll give you points for persistence." The teen said in an aggravated tone. He looked up at the man. "It is one of my things after all…but leave me-"
The man reached to his hip and pulled up the stun gun. The man looked down to the teen. "I'm sorry, but it's orders-"
The wires flew forward. The teen yelped in pain before dropping in a short spasm of muscle movements. The man grumbled as he pulled the pins loose and reeled in the wires. He reached up to his ear.
"The kid's acquired." the man said as he knelt down, grunting and lifting Jyou Kido into a fireman's carry.
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Daisuke swung the broom forward smacking the little digimon in its all consuming eye. The creature screamed and skittered off somewhere into the gallery.
"What was that thing!?" yelped Ms. Tachikawa.
"Kuramon, I think." Hikari said as she looked over to Daisuke.
"That thing that you guys fought in the internet?" Daisuke asked breathing heavily.
"Not me, Yamato and my brother…" Hikari said as she took a few cautious steps towards the doorway. She peered out into the room. The Kuramon wasn't visible, either hiding or had escaped outside. She turned. "I think that's just the In-training form…"
There was a squawk. The two kids looked up to see Ms. Tachikawa adjusting a radio antenna.
-Reports are coming in across all prefectures of tiny creatures emerging from network connected devices. Authorities are telling all citizens to shut off their network connected devices and not to approach the creatures. As of now the small creatures appear to be mostly harmless but they are growing in number exponentially and much of the city has become crippled due to gridlock caused by-
"Well, that does not sound good." Ms. Tachikawa said. "You kids better just hunker down I'll call your parents tell them that you're-"
A bell in the gallery rang. Ms. Tachikawa furrowed her brow as she walked to the doorway of the back office. Before she could say anything a man in a black suit walked into the office from the gallery.
He looked at the two kids. "Ms. Yagami, Mr. Motomiya?"
"I-well, yes?" Hikari stammered.
"You two are to come with me." The man said as he pulled out his wallet and exposed a very official looking badge. "Right away."
"Now these children are under my care-" Ms. Tachikawa flustered. "What business do you have-"
"These two are integral to stopping the current crisis, Ms. Fumiko Tachikawa," the man said abruptly. "I am taking them to join the other children. They will be perfectly safe with me."
"You know me?" the woman blinked at the man.
"You are the aunt of Mimi Tachikawa, we know everything about you." the man said, not half sinisterly.
"Now wait just a second." Daisuke started. "Why should we go with you? You could be any old creepy guy in a suit. I mean what if you're like Myotismon or something possessing a human? I'm not going-"
"If you do not come with me peacefully I am ordered to bring you less peacefully." The man said, sharply lifting the bottom of his jacket revealing a holster.
"Daisuke-" Hikari whispered as she looked at the gun in the holster.
"Ok, ok, fine we'll go, we'll go…" Daisuke grumbled as he held up his hands. He narrowed his eyes. "But if I don't like where we're going, you're going to wish you hadn't bothered me!"
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"Will there be Wifi there?" Mimi asked as she looked out the window at the swarms of Kuramon.
"I assume so." The man said as she drove through the blizzard of digimon swooshing through the streets.
"They're kinda cute if you can get past the giant eyes and the squid stuff." Mimi said as the creatures rolled through the air. "It's kinda like a snow storm, like the kinds we had in New York, except you know not tiny little monsters…" The girl stopped and thought for a second. "Maybe each snowflake is that…just a tiny little monster…that's an interesting thought-"
"Yes, very poetic." the man said, as he dipped and dove between abandoned cars.
"So I'll be seeing Palmon?" Mimi returned to asking questions.
"If that's your partner's name, yes." the man said with a mild groan. He'd found her jumping around the Kuramon in the park, trying to get pictures of it to send to someone, which of course seemed to only spawn more of the little creatures. He had had to confiscate her phone, which had not gone as well as he'd expected. Since the moment they got in the car she'd prattled on at him about every little thing that seemed to bounce into her head. He'd heard two or three stories about her break up with her boyfriend. Now she seemed to just comment on whatever she saw out the window.
"Oh, hey, I know that place, Myotismon kept me and my family hostage there back in the old days!" the girl shouted as she pressed her finger against the window leaving a smudge mark. "Wow they did a good job rebuilding it, didn't they?"
"I suppose so, I'm kind of busy trying to drive-" the man grumbled, he looked up and saw other UNIT cars. "Thank god-"
"I'm sorry?" Mimi looked up.
"We're nearly there-" the man said.
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"I know it's Kuramon, Wallace." Koushiro said over the satellite phone. "I'm trying my best, I don't know why Lopmon can't get out of the server. I'm a little busy right now…"
"Mr. Izumi." A woman in military green was standing over his shoulder.
"Look, Wallace, I'll shut down the bio-filter, get Lopmon out, as soon as you can." Koushiro said. "Just be careful."
"Mr. Izumi!" the woman growled a little more persuasively.
Koushiro pushed a button on the satellite phone and turned. "Yes, I know, Kuramon. I had to deal with that first, I felt responsible."
"I realize that but, the conditions now are worse than before, the globe is drowning in these little creatures!" the woman said, sharply. "What are you going to do?"
Koushiro turned and looked at the bank of screens. He flexed his fingers and started swinging from one terminal to the next, lines of text filling the screens. His hand swept back and forth across the desk's surface as the mouse flew, opening windows, double clicking icons, opening new windows with their own seemingly alive text lines flying across the screen. He turned and looked to the woman. She had dark skin and tight, curly hair. "All of these computers are scouring the web, looking for Diaboromon. Given the resources UNIT has, it should have the internet fully blanketed in a few minutes."
"What are these creatures doing? Is this an invasion?" the woman asked looking at the TV screens that seemed to line the room. Across the world the cities were filled with Kuramon.
"No idea, brigadier, Kuramon themselves aren't that threatening in a physical sense." Koushiro said as he looked back at the terminals. "They eat data though, very greedily, they grow and evolve very quickly and then they become Diaboromon, who is dangerous physically." Koushiro looked up at the screens. "There are so many of them, but they aren't eating data, they aren't evolving, they aren't doing anything; just frolicking."
"A distraction then." the woman said.
Koushiro narrowed his eyes and then reached down and opened his smart phone. "The message-"
"Close that before-" the woman shouted.
"It's safe, I put this building's network around a personal firewall." Koushiro said lifting his hand. "The Kuramon that had been attached in this message was embedded in a photo-" Koushiro tapped at the phone. The photo opened. Koushiro gulped slightly. He knew that photo, they all had a copy of that photo, well all of the original eight. It was a picture of them in the Digital World right after the defeat of Apocalymon. He looked at the message. It was a simple one, a request. Koushiro whispered. "Do you know who they are?"
"They were looking for you?" the woman asked.
"Possibly." Koushiro said. His thought was broken by the sound of voices. He looked up and frowned slightly inside.
"IZZY!" came the voice of Mimi as she walked through the door and climbed down a set of stairs. "This is crazy right!?"
"It's pretty, confusing, Mimi-" Koushiro said as he tried to block her out and resume his thoughts. He stopped. "Mimi, give me your phone!"
"I-I don't have it, the guy that brought me does." Mimi said as she looked at all the terminals. "Oh wow, this looks fancy-" Mimi reached forward.
"Don't touch it!" Koushiro yelped, slapping Mimi's hand.
"Oh, well, looks like we weren't the first here." Koushiro looked up to see Yamato, Takeru and Sora walking into the room with a woman walking behind them.
"Guys give me your phones." Koushiro said beckoning with his hand.
"Our phones?" Sora said as she reached into her pocket.
The others gave him their phones. Koushiro opened them. The message for Yamato and Sora were the same, but Takeru's.
"Yours is different." Koushiro said, looking up at Takeru. He pointed the phone at Takeru.
"Yeah that was a picture that Ken's mom took at that Christmas party we had when the control spires started showing up in Japan." Takeru said looking at the screen. "I haven't seen that in a while…"
"I just don't see why you have to push!" shouted Daisuke's voice.
The others looked up to see Daisuke and Hikari walk into the room. Behind them was Taichi who was pushing Daisuke.
"Phone!" demanded Koushiro as he ran up to Daisuke and Hikari. The two younger kids handed Koushiro their phones. "Same as Takeru's…" Koushiro said a few minutes later. "But both pictures ask if the receivers know who we are…"
"JYOU!" yelped Mimi as the girl pointed. The others looked up to see Jyou wobbly push through the door. His hair was mussed up, his clothes disheveled.
"You look like crap!" Yamato said, crossing his arms.
"Yeah, getting tasered does that to you." Jyou growled as he straightened his clothes.
"They tasered you!?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, just because I didn't want to get into a car with a stranger." Jyou said as he walked down the stairs. His eyes met the woman in the military fatigues. He narrowed his eyes and pointed. "I suppose you were the one behind that!"
"Sorry, it's protocol, when the Digital World starts to impinge on the human world, I am under orders to gather the Chosen Ones. Whether they want to be gathered or not." the woman said, unflinching in the face of Jyou's indignation.
The door opened again, this time it was Iori, and Ken, and Miyako. They were ushered in.
"They got you over the Rainbow bridge safely then!" the brigadier said as she walked forward. "We were worried that the bridge would be blocked."
A man behind the children stood to attention. "It was blocked, ma'am. We had to use a helicopter."
"I got a guy in a sedan." Miyako grunted, folding her hands over her chest.
"I'm surprised you didn't demand a rickshaw, empress." Daisuke glowered at the girl.
"Oh don't start with me, gogglehead." Miyako growled. "I was in the middle of my show when this burly guy busts in and grabs me."
"Well, I was in the middle of my date-" Daisuke started, as he flipped up the collar of his red and blue jacket.
"Ken and I were at kendo practice-" Iori said, with his raspy voice.
"We have more important things to worry about now." Taichi shouted loudly, looking at everyone. "These Kuramon, firstly."
Everyone turned and looked to Koushiro. The cinnamon haired boy looked at everyone and then around himself and then pointed to himself. "Me?"
"You're the brainy one." Daisuke said.
"I'm looking for where they came from." Koushiro said as he turned to the terminals. He walked past Mimi, and sat down. He peered at the screens and quickly became aware of Mimi nosing in alongside of him. He frowned and gently put his hand up and pushed her head back. He looked back to the screen. "There-" He pointed. "Dark net server, looks like…" He looked at the lines of code. A flash of something familiar flew by. He pulled back. "Oh, oh dear-"
"Oh dear?" Yamato said as he and the others huddled around Koushiro.
"Yeah, they've been busy on the net." Koushiro said as he turned his head back to everyone. "I saw code in there for Diaboromon."
"God-" Taichi groaned.
"Good news, I know exactly where he is." Koushiro said. He turned and opened a gate program. "So-"
"Yeah, Yamato, come on. Let's end this already." Taichi said, as he lifted his D-3, grabbing Yamato's hand. The gate program barely had time to open before the gate flashed to life and sucked the two teens into the screen.
"Guys-I…" Koushiro yelped as he dove out of the way. He lifted his head and sighed loudly. "I'll send Gabumon and Agumon to where he's at then…"
"We'll go too!" Takeru and Hikari said as they scrambled forward.
"Then we should go, you know just in case!" Miyako and Iori said as they walked forward.
Before Koushiro could say anything. The four kids were gone.
"Right let me add Patamon, Salamon, Hawkmon and Armadillomon." Koushiro grumbled.
"Hey I want to-" Daisuke started.
"Stay there!" A voice came from the terminals' speakers. It was Taichi. "We don't know what the Kuramon that are already in the human world are doing. We can handle Diaboromon, you stay back in case this is what it feels like it is."
"What do you mean?" Daisuke asked.
"A trap-" Ken said as he walked forward. The boy was still in his kendo outfit. A white bogu and a dark blue hakama. "I remember you telling me that Diaboromon gave you a bit of a run around the last time he showed up."
"Yes, we chased him all over the web." Koushiro said as he looked at the screen. "According to these logs…"
"He's not left the server he formed on." Ken said, his lips thinning.
"Are they going to be ok?" Mimi asked looking with concern to Koushiro.
"Even if it is a trap, Diaboromon can't take Omegamon, ClavisAngemon and Ophanimon…" Koushiro said as he looked at the screen. "He couldn't handle Omegamon…"
"Then we should start worrying about these Kuramon out here then." the brigadier said. "How do we deal with them?"
"I've been having a think about that." Koushiro said as he turned in his chair. "I think I may have figured that part out."
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"Taichi!" Agumon's voice called from the depths of the spiralling tube that the boy was flying through.
Taichi turned to see the yellow tyrannosaur diving towards him. Behind the little tyrannosaur was a small mammal looking digimon with a horn and a blue pelt.
"Gabumon!" Yamato shouted as the blonde smiled at the incoming digimon.
"Matt! It's been too long!" the digimon called out as it dove towards the boy. The two embraced.
Agumon dove for Taichi but Taichi twisted and looked further ahead towards the opening at the end of the tube.
Taichi lifted his D-3. "Agumon, we don't have much time, it's Diaboromon!"
"Tai?" Agumon asked, but the little tyrannosaur nodded and blazed with a light, emerging as a armored dragon warrior.
WarGreymon sliced through forward, and Taichi dropped down onto the brave shields on his shoulder. Taichi looked over to Yamato.
"Gabumon, let's go." Yamato said as he lifted his D-3. The blue-pelted digimon nodded a glowed with a blue light emerging as the lupine cyborg Metal Garurumon. Yamato grasped the two airfoils that stuck out from the wolf's shoulders as the cyborg charged forward.
Taichi and Yamato looked eyes and then looked forward as their digimon erupted into the opening, exiting the tube they had been flying through. The room was huge inside, and dark, save for the ambient lighting that glowed from spears of data that fired from one side of the room to the next going into and leaving different portals. Suddenly flood lights flashed on and the room was fully illuminated. The lanky figure of cable-like tendons attached to armor, its head vaguely that of a cybernetic demon. Long claws hung from the end of tendonous arms and legs. Its chameleon like pair of eyes swirled around in a mad fashion.
The two boys nodded to each other. The cybernetic wolf and the dragon warrior glowed. The two forms drawn together. The boys reached out for each other to stabilize themselves on the coalescing form of a white knight, one arm with the head of WarGreymon, the other sporting the head of Metal Garurumon.
"Wait for us!" shouted the voice of Miyako. The two boys looked back to see Hikari and Miyako holding onto the blue armor of Ophanimon. Behind the two girls were Takeru and Iori holding onto the terracotta wings of ClavisAngemon.
"We don't have time to wait." Taichi growled, as he turned his head back up to the bundle of cables and armor that composed Diaboromon.
The digimon hadn't moved, since they had got there. It simply sat pressed against the wall of the room, like some massive, vaguely human-shaped, demon-spider in its web.
"He doesn't seem interested in us?" Omegamon said with the two voices of WarGreymon and Metal Garurumon.
"Then let's get his attention." Taichi said, narrowing his eyes. "Maybe we're lucky and this one is stupid."
"Right!" Omegamon said and lifted its Metal Garurumon arm. The mouth of the lupine head opened revealing a cannon. "Garuru Cannon!"
A blast of blue fired up towards Diaboromon. The digimon's mad, chameleon eyes stopped twirling and quickly swiveled towards the incoming blast. It's head tilted as its face glowed blue with the incoming fire. Then from out of the shadows came millions, legions of Kuramon. The creatures swarmed the blast twisting around it and then the cloud of Kuramon dispersed and hovered there as a fog of Kuramon all staring at the children. The blast was gone, consumed by the cloud, the Kuramon then glowed and immediately doubled in number.
"They ate it!" Miyako shouted in surprise.
"How!?" Takeru asked.
"There's millions of them, they must of diluted it amongst themselves-" Iori surmised, as he looked up at Diaboromon who had returned to madly looking in all directions. "They're protecting him."
"Well then, if a cannon blast won't work we'll slice him to bits!" Taichi growled, as his fingers curled around the spoke on Omegamon's shoulder.
The knight nodded extended its WarGreymon arm and the long broadsword sliced out of the mouth of the WarGreymon head. The knight pivoted forward and shot towards Diaboromon. As the knight charged forward. The Kuramon swirled forming massive walls, interlocking themselves together into panes of solid mass. Omegamon roared as he smashed through the first, and the second. Each time the knight slowed down. The Kuramon grabbed onto the knight and the knight growled as it felt tiny stings against its body. By the fourth wall of Kuramon, Omegamon was nearly stopped as the Kuramon swarmed around him. The knight sliced furiously at the cloud of little digimon swarming him, but it was like applying a machete to a swarm of mosquitoes.
"That's our opening." Ophanimon said, as the female angel looked over to ClavisAngemon.
"Right!" the male angel said and the two of them flew up towards Diaboromon.
The Kuramon tried to form up into walls but too many of them were swarming around Omegamon, so where the knight had hit concrete the angels were punching through tissue paper. The pair of angels swept up to Diaboromon. The demon virus's eyes swiveled down to them as they brought their weapons up and sliced forward. Ophanimon's lance clashed against ClavisAngemon's key blade as Diaboromon leapt over their heads, his tendonous neck twisted down looking at them as he sailed into the open air of the room. His body twisted as his chest armor opened revealing a cannon inside. Diaboromon fired blasts at the two angels who retreated as the bombardments exploded into the wall of the room. The angels regrouped and then made pursuit as Diaboromon bounced across the room. All the while, Omegamon swatted at the millions of Kuramon.
Diaboromon opened its toothy mouth and the barrel of a small cannon popped out of his mouth and strafed the angels as they ducked and weaved towards him. Ophanimon sliced her lance forward and fired a blast of blue lightning up and struck Diaboromon sending the virus tumbling through the open air of the room. As the demon virus tumbled ClavisAngemon turned towards Omegamon and stabbed his key blade into the ether and opened a giant luminous gate that fired a blast at the knight. Omegamon twisted blocking the blast from Taichi and Yamato. The two boys ducked and covered themselves as the burst of energy swarmed past them. When it had gone, they lifted their heads to see the Kuramon had been scattered.
"Now!" shouted Yamato loudly. Omegamon launched himself towards Diaboromon.
The Kuramon however were quick to recover and started forming walls. ClavisAngemon and Ophanimon however dove in front of Omegamon smashing through the walls crashing through the concrete, breaking down the barriers, one after another, until they were right there in front of Diaboromon. The virus moved to leap away, but ClavisAngemon and Ophanimon grabbed him by the arms, holding him in place. Omegamon stabbed his Grey Sword into Diaboromon's shoulder and rammed the Garuru Cannon into Diaboromon's stomach.
Diaboromon squealed loudly, the first sound the beast had made, as the blasts of the Garuru Cannon went off into his gut. His eyes swiveled around and around as he fell limply backward. The kids looked around themselves as the Kuramon that were floating in the air around stared back at Diaboromon and then as if one they all twisted towards the portals where data was streaming in and out of the room and flew towards them as torrents. The kids looked back down to Diaboromon. The demon virus's eyes froze and then swiveled to stare directly at them, and the beast then laughed. Diaboromon glowed brightly and then exploded into a million Kuramon that joined their brethren in the exiting data streams.
"It was a trap!" shouted Yamato as the last of the Kuramon disappeared into the data streams and the portals all slammed shut leaving the kids in the dark.
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"I can't believe this is what we're doing!" Daisuke grumbled as he, held up the palm pilot. The Kuramon tried to scurry away but a light came out of the pilot and pulled the Kuramon in.
"Well, that's seventy-three down-" Ken said in an uplifting tone.
"Yeah, only one point six billion left to go-" Daisuke grunted, as he looked over to another Kuramon. "This will take forever."
"If Koushiro can get the secured recycle bin to everyone in the city and everyone participates we can clean this up globally in no time." Ken said, with a smile as he saw a little girl with a Kuramon in her arms.
"I don't know…I still think this will take forever." Daisuke said as he turned and stared up at the sky. The sky was dark and swirling above where Taichi and Hikari used to live. He looked to Ken who was busy attending to a little girl who was hugging one of the Kuramon trying to coax her into letting him suck it into the secured recycle bin on his palm pilot. Daisuke ran over to Ken. He nudged Ken and pointed. "Hey…was it that stormy looking when we got here?"
"No, the forecast called for-" Ken started as he looked up. "The digital gate-"
"What?" Daisuke looked at Ken.
"At Hikarigaoka!" Ken shouted. "The place that Oikawa tried to get into the Digital World…something's trying to punch through!"
The vortex twisted and then as if someone had turned on a faucet a torrent of Kuramon rushed down from the darkness. Ken turned to the little girl who looked up at the sky her mouth wide opened. The Kuramon she was holding wriggled free and flew towards the torrent. Ken's phone rang.
"Who is it now?" Daisuke yelped.
"It's Koushiro, he wants us back to the UNIT headquarters, he's got Veemon and Wormmon there and the others' digimon." Ken said, one hand over the receiver portion of his phone. He listened intently and furrowed his brow. "It was what I feared, Taichi and the others are stuck in the internet server, it was some kind of trap laid by Diaboromon."
"Then we need to get online and get Hikari!" Daisuke yelped, as he turned to run. "Come on!"
"Wait!" Ken shouted. "Listen, we're going to UNIT headquarters, but we're getting our digimon and staying here." Ken looked at the torrent of Kuramon that were now swirling above Hikarigaoka, they seemed to falling into some kind of formation. "I don't like the looks of that…"
"It's like some kind of giant…egg?" Daisuke said looking up at it.
"Yeah-" Ken said, as he took Daisuke's hand and started to walk. "My experience is that giant eggs create, something equally giant. Let's get going…."
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AN: Dun-dun-dun!