Chapter 5
-just so you know, time in both words are equal in this story, but day and night are opposite. So they will spend as much time in the Digital world as the have been absent in the real world. Just clearing that up.
After about five seconds, all of the kids realized what a mistake they had made by accepting a fight. The blame was heavily placed on Zak, because he said the whole "Brandon Jacobs treatment", thus insulting and angering Ogremon even more. They all began to think of what to do, Jake, meanwhile, took out his digivice and tried to press the "Home" button. Jake continued to try to press "Home" on the digivice, but it wasn't working. A voice from it said, "We are sorry, but you cannot use that function until you find a gateway. Thanks and Have a Nice Day" Jake was getting mad, "A gateway? Where in the hell is a gateway?"
He assumed that it would just send them home, but apparently he was wrong. "Please start to monologue, please start to monologue." Zak started to whisper to himself, knowing that a monologue would give them the chance to get away; unfortunately this was not like a James Bond Movie. "PUMMEL WHACK!" Ogremon shouted before whacking the crap out of the digimon. They all flew backwards, each landing on the ground; hard. The kids each ran up to their digimon to see if they were alright, even Kyle. "Agumon, you alright man?" Jake asked, Agumon nodded slightly, smiling. "Biyomon, are you insane?" Alex asked the beat-up bird. "No, because I know we can take him."
"Gomamon, you aren't hurt are you?" Zak asked. Gomamon shook his head. "You think a big, smelly, ugly, green digimon can take me down?" he asked. "Hey! I resent that!" Ogremon said, prior to lifting up his arm to smell. He gave a face that signaled that he did smell, "Alright, I will give you the facts that I an green and I smell. But you will pay for saying I'm ugly."
At this the digimon all hopped up. "Gabumon, are you crazy. You just got slammed to the ground by this creep." Kyle asked, finally feeling a friendship growing. Gabumon turned to him, "If we don't stop him, he will go after all of you."
Megan looked at Palmon, "You sure about this?" she asked. Palmon smiled and nodded, "Yep, he isn't a match for us."
TJ bent down and said, "Go for the throat." Patamon nodded and said, "Yeah, I'll try."
The digimon all lined up, ready to attack. "You punks want more, alright…PUMMEL WHACK!" At this, with the bone club swinging, all of the digimon jumped back. First to strike was Agumon, "PEPPER BREATH!" at that a ball of fire shot out of his mouth and hit Ogremon in the face. "Ow, hey that wasn't nice."
"MARCHING FISHS!!!" Gomamon shouted, and on cue about 100 multi-colored fishes slammed into Ogremon, whom was failing to hit them away with his club.
"SPIRAL TWISTER"
"BLUE BLASTER!"
"BOOM BUBBLE!"
"POISON IVY!"
After all of the attack hit on cue, Ogremon backed up. "Alright, you win. For now." At this he ran back into the woods, leaving an ecstatic group of kids and Digimon.
"Nice one man." Jake said to Agumon, who smiled and nodded. "Thanks Jake." While everyone was congratulating their digimon, Jake looked at his digivice and remembered what he was trying to do. "Hey Agumon, do you know where a gateway would be?"
New York Harbor, New York City
The quiet night settled on Manhattan, New York, and the still water of the Atlantic Ocean in New York Harbor, was quietly sitting in the harbor. The ship, the USS Gateway was called here after the news of the New Mexican base attack, to make sure there wouldn't be anything happening in New York City. The base attack had been assumed carried out by al'Qaeda and thus the battleship was placed here to make sure nothing would be attacking New York.
Inside of the hull of the ship were computers and men placed at them to track anything that would be happening in the water. "Sir, do we have to be here?" asked one of the men who was situated at a computer and half-asleep. A man dressed in white captain's uniform was walking through the aisles. "Yes, we need to keep an eye on these waters." All of a sudden there was a beeping noise coming from the computer. "What is that?"
The bleep began moving closer and closer to the ship. The scared captain walked over to a porthole window to see what was coming. The bleep was almost at the ship; everyone in the room was silent. Finally the bleeping object turned away from the ship and was gone. Everyone sighed in relief, "Man, it must have just been a huge fish." One of the men said. All of a sudden there was a loud screeching noise, then a voice shouted, "ICE BLAST!!!" At this moment, a huge blast of ice-like water shot through the bottom of the ship, coming all the way through the bottom of the hull and ending up going through the deck of the ship.
"Holy God!" the Captain shouted. The ship's bottom floors began to flood and people were drowning. "Abandon ship!" the captain shouted and everyone ran for the upper decks. The ship's oil began spilling into the water, which began rising up towards hanging, electrified wires. Everyone ran to the deck, now icy and causing sailors to slip around the deck as though they were on an ice skating rink and lacked skates. The lifeboats began to fill up with panicking sailors and drop to the water.
Meanwhile, the captain ran into his transmitting room and began to send out a cry for help to any nearby ships. "Hello, this is the captain of the USS Gateway, we are sinking and need assistance! We were attacked!" just then he heard a noise down the hall, he looked and saw a huge fireball coming his way, a flash fire. "Oh sh…" the fire slammed the captain into the room and he was fried alive.
The lifeboats were going away from the ship, and finally, the wires inside of the fuel room touched the water, that had oil in it, and caught the water on fire. The fire went towards the huge tank of fuel, closer and closer…. until.
"BOOM!" the hull exploded and caused the ship to blow apart into a huge bal of fire. Those still aboard either went flying or burned alive. The hundred or so whom were in rescue boats were not out f danger, because a large wave, caused by the ship being blasted in the air and coming back down to create a large ripple effect, picked up the boats and about two of them flipped over into the ocean. The others were fortunate, or so they thought, and the sailors were left in the water after going about half a mile from those whom flipped over. Confused, those in the 4 remaining lifeboats began to ask many questions, including, "What caused the ship to sink…a missile?" and "Was that a terrorist?" Asked other sailors, suddenly a shadow moved under the water. "What was that?" one of the sailors asked.
As if on cue, the water shot up and a huge serpent-like creature that was a teal color and had a look of pure evil. It looked down upon the sailors. "What is that thing?"
The creature smiled, " I'm Seadramon…ICE BLAST!" it shouted and shot another blast of icy-water at the sailors. Many were frozen and others were shot into the water by the impact either injured or dead. Ironically, those that were not noticed by the monster were the sailors of the two boats that flipped over and the sailors that survived being flung into the water by the explosion (not many though), and were thus unmoved while the others went down to the area they were then being attacked. "We gotta go now!" One of the sailors shouted once grabbing the roped attached to the flipped boats and hanging on. While Seadramon began killing the others, these sailors began to paddle away to shore with leg power, while using the upside-down boat as a floatation devise since they had no life-vests. They had an interesting story to tell when they got back, though.
The Digital World
"Guys, I think we have to rest for the night. We are exhausted." Jake said to the others, while trekking through the forest. They reached an opening and decided it was a good place to stop for the night. "Yeah, hey do we have any food?" TJ asked, they all sat down and saw that only Zak, and Alex had bags. "Do you have food Zak, I'm starving." Gomamon asked. Zak reached into his backpack and found a lone Granola bar. "That isn't enough for everyone." Kyle complained, "Nice going genius, I thought you were supposed to be like Joe and be reliable." Zak smiled at Kyle, "So you have seen the show."
Kyle nervously shook his head, "No, it was on when my bro watched it. When I babysat him a few years ago, he would turn it on and I would watch it when I had nothing else to do…that's all." Zak nodded, unbelieving "Suuuure.". They then saw Alex pull out a bag of Smartfood Popcorn and Doritos. "Wow, it's a buffet!" The digimon ambushed her and began to wolf down the food. "Whoa! Calm down guys!" She shouted. The only one whom didn't go for the bags of chips and popcorn was Gomamon, who was held back by Zak. "Here, eat this dude." He handed him the granola bar, Gomamon scarfed it down in about two seconds. Then Zak went over and grabbed a large handful of chips. While the kids also ate a share of the chips, Zak gave all of his to Gomamon. "Zak, why aren't you having any?" Gomamon in-between bites. "You need food more than me. You need the energy dude." Zak remembered digimon need food severely and won't fight well without it. Meanwhile, only Gomamon got a decent amount of food, compared to the others. "That's good man. Keep eating." Jake said, wiping a bit of cheddar powder from his mouth.
TJ gave more that half of his to Patamon, though, since he also knew about Digimon and food. "Palmon, why do each of us have different colored digivices?" Megan asked.
Palmon scrunched her face in a way to tell she was thinking hard, "I believe it is because you each possess different qualities." TJ nodded, "Yeah, on the show each kid got a different crest based off of their personality."
Patamon nodded, "Yeah, that is true. You all need to find your crests." That is when they heard laughing. They turned and saw Kyle was laughing. "Yeah, last time I checked, Zak isn't reliable, but I am Mr. Cool like Matt."
Zak sighed and, then got mad; "Yeah, and you are not the envision of friendship either. And your knowledge that Joe was the crest of Reliability and knowing Matt was Mr. Cool proves to me that you saying you watched the show just because your brother did is B.S."
Kyle lost it and ran up to and tackled Zak to the ground. They began swinging at each other angrily, Kyle hitting Zak in the face; hard. "Kyle. Stop!" Gabumon shouted, trying to pull Kyle off of Zak. Kyle didn't care and shouted, "You aren't the boss of me!" All of a sudden, he got pulled up by Jake, whom punched him in the face, leaving Kyle on the ground, lying there dizzily, he then went over to help up Zak. Zak had a bloody lip and spit out blood. "Are you alright Zak?" Gomamon asked. Zak nodded, wiping blood from the cut on his lip. Kyle was currently on the ground.
"Zak, are you alright?" Megan asked. Zak nodded and got to his feet. Jake walked over to Kyle and grabbed him by his shirt; "What the hell is wrong with you?" he asked. Kyle shoved Jake away and walked away from the group. "Kyle, where are you going?" Jake asked. He didn't answer and disappeared from sight. "Is he alright?" Agumon asked, Jake knew exactly why. He was still upset about his father, and Jake knew the best thing for him was to be left alone for the time being.
"Bro…are you alright?" TJ asked. However, Jake stopped him. "Leave him alone, he needs to have time to himself."
"Zak, you sure you are alright?" Alex asked, concerned. Zak nodded and walked over to his bag. He sighed and fell to his knees; "God he's right. I am not reliable at all. Alex brought more food then me. Maybe I will have a different crest." Zak sighed and dug into his bag to find some medical supplies.
Kyle, meanwhile, was using his pocketknife to stab a tree in anger. "Freaking punk, he doesn't know the pain I have been put through." He muttered under his breath. He then heard a noise behind him. He turned to see Gabumon, "What do you want?"
Gabumon sighed; he was unsure why he was doing this when Kyle, obviously, didn't want anything to do with him. But they were partners, and thus had to watch out for each other. "Are you alright Kyle, you seem upset. What's bugging you."
Kyle sighed and aid, "My dad's base was attacked and he is still missing. I can't be as positive as TJ is. I just can't." With that, Kyle collapsed and began to sob. Gabumon walked over to him and patted him on the back. "It's alright Kyle, let it out." Kyle continued to cry, not caring since he only wanted to be brave in front of his brother, but since he wasn't there it didn't matter.
Back with the others, Alex and Biyomon were talking about Kyle. "I hope he is alright." Alex said, Biyomon looked at her partner. "I'm sure he is, he just need some alone time." Alex nodded and looked at her digivice. "Where is a gateway back to our world?" Biyomon shrugged, but as if on cue the digivice bleeped to life and showed a map. "Hey, what is that?" Biyomon asked. Alex realized what it was; it was a map to the nearest gateway. However, the nearest gateway was only a few miles away. "Guys! I think I know where the nearest gateway is!"
In New Mexico
It was morning in the New Mexico desert, however it was still rather dark out, making Timothy think about using a flare gun that Marcus once told him he had. The 11 or so remaining soldiers decided that it was still un-safe to keep moving since they were still scared about running into Scorpiomon again. "Man, where is the nearest town?" Will asked, now fully healed from his forehead laceration, looking out of the cave. "I don't know, but maybe our walkie-talkies will work now. " Timothy said, pulling out his walkie-talkie, turning it on he realized it wasn't working.
"Crap." He said, placing it back on his belt. "What do we do now?" asked one of the other soldiers previously under Marcus. Timothy kept thinking about the flipped truck, and thinking that there may be a flare gun inside of it. "You know, I am going to go see if a flare gun is in the vehicle, you guys stay here." With that Timothy ran out of the cave, and began to cross the river, with just a pistol and a flashlight.
"Is he insane? What if that thing is back there?" Will asked nervously, David waved his hand. "Trust him, he knows what he is doing. "
Timothy finally got across the river and reached the truck, still on its side. He also smelled the unmistakable smell of leaking gasoline. "God, I better make this quick." He didn't see any fire, so he wasn't worried; yet." He found the windshield smashed and crawled into the truck through it. He got through and opened the glove compartment. The contents fell on top of him, it was then his flashlight went out. "Crap." He thought. He now could not see anything, at all. He found that a lighter had fell out of the glove box. Even with the threat of leaking gas, he lit it and used it to search for the flare gun. He ruffled through papers and finally found it. "Yes!" he said triumphantly, then opening the holster for the flares; it was empty. "Crud, where are the flares!" he whispered hastily, tearing through the papers. All of a sudden, he heard a noise and saw the sand moving not far from the truck. He gulped, and just then saw the box of flares; he reached for them, quietly, and placed two into the gun. He then heard the sand move again; he turned and saw the sand move up. He was looking into the eyes of Scorpiomon. 'Oh god." He said just before there was a screech and the truck got slammed into, causing Timothy to drop the currently lit lighter to the ground, setting the gas-soaked seat on fire. The fire began to move close to the box of flares, "Oh that is not good." Timothy said. Just then he quickly crawled out of the broken windshield. He got up and slipped on the wet sand. He smelled the wet sand and realized it was gas, and he then realized the extreme danger he was in currently. "Oh no." he got up and ran as fast as he could. Just then the sand behind him was moving. Just before the moving thing under the sand caught him, the truck exploded, causing the flares to go off as well.
The night sky lit up like the fourth of July and the sand stopped moving as Scorpiomon went further underground for protection. Timothy used this opportunity and crossed the river as fast as possible, watching flares shoot up into the air. Timothy finally got across and ran back up to his friends. "Man, what the hell was that?" David asked, shocked over the explosion. "I don't know," Timothy said, "But it sure was a display wasn't it?" They all laughed slightly.
Little did they know that they know that they were really close to the tiny town of White Rock, New Mexico; and the local authorities did not see the explosion, but they saw the flares going off. Knowing about the missing soldiers, they called the National Guard to investigate the source of the explosion.
In Lexington, New York
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE WEATHER, I WANT TO KNOW WHERE MY SON AND HIS FRIENDS ARE!" Jake's mother shouted angrily over the phone to the police. "Mam, I know you are upset, and we have personnel looking for your kid and his friends. But the roads are icy and we can only go so fast."
Jake's mother sighed and said, "Well, keep looking." She hung up and heard footsteps behind her. "Mom, how are the police doing?" Emily asked, concerned. Jake's mother looked at Emily with an expression that gave a clear answer.
Emily went over and hugged her mother, whom began to cry. "Where are they?" Emily thought sadly.
- Well, everything in starting to come into place and I had an unusual amount of time to write this weekend. So hoped you enjoy and please review. Peace