A Discovery And An Ally
- New chapter, hope you enjoy, and I changed some things in here (i.e. to make the whole different attacks for Black WarGreymon make sense.) so please enjoy. peace out
Digital World
The sun had risen in the Digital World to signal the start of a new day. The group had just left their camp sight near the lake and was currently walking through the forest. Jake and Agumon were in the front leading, everybody else was behind; in tow.
"Where are we going?" Agumon asked Jake, but Jake simply shrugged before pressing onward.
"I don't think he even knows." Alex whispered to Megan, leading both girls into a snickering fit.
Jake knew they were making fun of him, but he simply shrugged it off.
They got to a clearing from the forest and realized they were facing a valley of mountains. The mountains were not really high, but were more like gigantic hills full of lush, green vegetation and forest. However, just the sheer though of going through the valley made Jake cringe. Jake shook his head,
"Please God tell me the gate isn't through those mountains." He whispered to himself before he took out his digivice and looked at it to see where the directions to the nearest gateway were.
"The nearest gate is quite a distance, but to get closer you must trek through the mountain valley."
Jake let out a long, deep sigh and turned to face the group, who had stopped once he had, and were just as shocked as Jake had been.
"Ummm, guys," Jake started, "We have too…"
"Don't tell me we have to go through this valley." Kyle said, mouth agape.
Jake solemnly nodded, and everyone's mouths' dropped.
"Are you serious?" Gabumon asked, mouth hanging so lo it nearly touched the ground.
Jake sighed and motioned everybody to come follow him. Agumon seemed frozen in place by shock before shaking himself out of it and resumed walking with Jake.
Everyone else was still standing. They were upset that even with all of the walking they had done already, they still had hill-like mountains to climb, both in a metaphorical and literal sense.
"You're sh#tting me." Megan said under her breath.
"There is no way I am going to cross this stinking valley!" TJ complained, crossing his arms.
"Yeah, this whole thing is really ridicules." Biyomon complained.
"Yeah it is," Kyle began; "But we have no choice, so we'd better go." And with that, Kyle began trekking off, Gabumon in tow.
"Well, this completely and utterly sucks…but Kyle is right." Zak sighed.
"Zak, are you actually doing something outside your comfort zone, like climbing mountains?" Gomamon asked, knowing Zak seemed unsure of things. Zak sighed and nodded,
"It is our only opportunity to get home," Zak then stopped talking and looked at the others, " I mean stop me if I am wrong."
The others said nothing,
"Well, I guess we should keep following Jake." Biyomon sighed, not exactly happy that she had to hike up steep escalations.
"At least you can alternate flying with walking," Palmon complained "Where does that leave me?"
As soon as Palmon stopped talking, Megan bent down and lifted her up, putting Palmon on her back, as a father would do for their child to give them a piggyback ride.
"We need you rested, so for now I will carry you." Megan grunted, under Palmon's weight, which while not tremendously great was enough to help Megan get a workout.
"TJ can you carry me?" Patamon asked. TJ simply laughed;
"But you can fly." Patamon just then realized he made a stupid blunder, and chuckled at his stupidity;
"Oh right."
"ARE YOU GUYS COMING?" the group heard Jake yell, for he was already quite far ahead and stopped to wait for the others; along with Gabumon, Agumon and Kyle.
"Right, let's go." Biyomon said and the rest of the group went to catch up with the others.
Lexington, New York
Mrs. Harris was making dinner for Emily and her husband, trying her best to keep cheerful, even though her son was missing.
Just then there was a ring at the doorbell. She put down her cutting knife and went to answer it.
At the door were two cops dressed in blue police uniforms and along with them…was Jake; or so it seemed. He looked just like Jake, but had no expression to his face...at all.
"Oh my God! Jake!" Mrs. Harris knelt down and hugged her "son".
"Where was he?" she asked, through her tears of joy.
"We found the kids outside the school, everybody was alright and accounted for."
Mrs. Morris began to sob in jubilation, "Thank you so much!"
The cops nodded and bid her a good night before going off.
"Honey, you're alright." Mrs. Morris began to say in-between her sobs of joy; "Wait until I tell your father and Emily."
Little did she know this was not her son, but just a copy in order to make her happy, sent by an unknown and close ally.
Grand Junction, Colorado
The group of soldiers had just arrived at a Holiday Inn that coincided with the Grand Junction Airport.
In was extremely late, and they were all settled in for the night.
Will, David and Timothy were sharing a room, and Timothy was joyous because he called his wife and found out that the cops found TJ and Kyle.
"You see I told you that your boys would be alright man, you just gotta have faith." David said, after taking a big swig of water he bought from the vending machines across the hall.
"Yeah, your right I'm sorry I doubted you man." Timothy said, "Hey, you guys want some snacks from the vending machine down the hall? I'll buy."
David shook his head,
"Nah man, I am trying to study the cell phone footage I got of the attack." He said, prior to whipping out his cell and getting the recording.
"I will man. I love Cheddar Cheese Doritos." Will said. Timothy nodded, grabbed his wallet and the room key-card.
"Right, I'll be back." And with that he left.
David was watching the recording and Will turned on the television.
"Yo man can I have my wallet, I want to see how much cash I have left." David said, pointing at his fanny pack.
"Sure man," and Will went over and un-zipped the pouch.
He dug in deep and pulled out the wallet.
"Got it!" he said in triumph, but when he turned, his arm accidentally knocked over the pouch, causing the contents to spill out.
"Oh damn it Will." David said, jumping for the bed and bent down to help Will pick up the mess.
"Sorry man, " Will said,, laughing sheepishly, "Rookie mistake."
David looked at Will and laughed slightly before picking up his son's digimon cards that had fallen to the ground.
"Why in God's name do you still have those things?" Will said pointing at the cards. David gave him a look,
"My son gave them to me, that's why." David said making Will feel really stupid.
David was picking up the digimon cards, when one specific one caught his eye. He picked it up and the card revealed a large, black, bipedal dinosaur-like creature with tough-looking armor on.
David looked at it carefully, running his thumb over the words Black WarGreymon written on the card in gold lettering.
"Oh my God." David whispered under his breath, realizing that the digimon on the card was the one that attacked at the base.
"What man?" Will asked. David took his eyes off of the card to look at Will,
"Umm…well…you have got to see this." He handed the digimon card to Will, who looked at it, before realizing it was what attacked them.
"Whoa." He whispered under his breath, then caught himself.
"Well, we are not sure it is the same." Will said in a re-assuring manner. However David quickly grabbed the card back from Will and turned it around,
"Main attack: "Hades Force"; that sounds an awful lot like the "Terra Force" attack it used at the base."
Will laughed, "But it wasn't."
David sighed but continued reading, and then looked like he re-discovered something.
"In some instances, very special Black WarGreymon's can use another attack similar to Hades Force called Terra Force, used by their close relatives, WarGreymon. This instance is very rare, so if it can do this, congratulations; you're Black WarGreymon is valuable and is useful in card battles."
David laughed nervously;
"So we have a…special…Black WarGreymon after us?" Will asked, gulping as David nodded solemnly.
"We have a…cartoon…monster…after us?" he asked, and once again, David nodded.
Will sighed, "Huh." And then screamed.
"GET TIMOTHY…NOW!!"
Digital World
The group was walking through the last bit of field before entering the forest that led up the first hill-like mountain.
"Well," Jake sighed, "This is it."
"Huh." The rest of the group sighed, but what they really wanted to say was; "CRRAAAAAPPPPPP!!"
The hill mountain was larger than they had thought previously, larger and fuller of thick-green vegetation.
"Alright," Kyle sighed, "Does anybody think we should've brought an oxygen tank so if we collapse due to exhaustion, we will have something to do about it?"
No body answered, all too upset they had to actually climb these things.
"Alright, let's go." Jake said and he and the group went off.
"That's one small step for man," Zak said, "One giant step closer towards a heart attack."
The group started to climb the first mountain-hill, everybody but Palmon exhausted since she was being carried by Megan.
"Alright Palmon, tell me when you are alright to get off." Megan grunted from below her.
"Sure." Palmon said, but really thinking "Yeah right."
Just as they reached the part of the mountain that met with the ground, everybody stopped to get their bearings straight, sigh, and began to press on.
Not even five minutes after beginning the hike, some of the kids and digimon began to get fatigued. Patamon and TJ were sweating bullets, Biyomon was heavily out of breath, Gabumon was also fatigued, Gomamon felt dizzy, and Megan (normally good endurance) was tired under Palmon's strain.
The only ones not affected were Palmon (being carried by Megan) , Kyle, Zak, Alex, Agumon, and Jake. All of the kids that were not tired were in shape due to sports, and Agumon was just in good shape.
Alex, Zak and Jake with soccer; and Kyle with football; Agumon was also not tired and Palmon wasn't that tired either since Megan was carrying her.
"Guys are you alright?" Alex asked. Turning to face what looked like the zombies from "Shaun of the Dead" were following them.
"Alright, let's have a break." Jake said to the exhausted group with annoying enthusiasm.
"Zak…I am exhausted." Gomamon said, panting.
Zak looked down at him, smiled and bent over to pick him up.
"Here, I'll take you for a bit." Zak said, picking up Gomamon, who was groaning in exhaustion.
"Thanksw2." Gomamon said, shaking himself awake as Zak lifted him up.
"No problem dude." Zak said smiling, and then he turned to Jake. "We need to find an easier way to get through this valley."
"Like how?" Jake asked; "I would love to find a flatter plain to cross."
"You know, maybe we could find a way around the mountains at the base." Alex suggested. "It would reduce the strain and make we would still get where we were going."
Jake and Zak both nodded, "Alright, then it's settled." Jake said;
"Agumon, what do you think?" Agumon didn't answer immediately, but eventually did,
"I think I am fine either way," then he turned to Gomamon, "Unlike some of these other weaklings."
Agumon gave Gomamon a sly smile that seemed to be saying, "you know I am talking about you"
"Ha-ha…shut-up." Gomamon said from Zak's arms, laughing sarcastically while he said it.
The others were waiting for an answer from Jake before going further,
"TJ my feet ache." Patamon complained. TJ looked down at Patamon,
"Than why don't you fly for a while and rest your feet?" TJ suggested, immediately Patamon lifted off of the ground with his bat-like wings. He smiled,
"This works." TJ smiled back and went over to Kyle, who was in the middle of making out with Megan.
"They are making out again?" TJ asked Palmon and Gabumon, who both shook their heads in disapproval to TJ's response.
"They have been for five minutes." Palmon said, looking at Gabumon, who didn't look much happier,
"I'm all for the love between them…but this is getting annoying." Gabumon sighed. TJ let out a sigh and strode over to the two "love birds" confidently and cleared his throat to get their attention and called his brother.
"Kyle?" Kyle stopped kissing Megan and looked at TJ.
"Um…sorry to interrupt your public love-making session…but what are we going to do…are they done talking yet?"
Kyle looked over at Alex, Jake and Zak, still immersed in deep conversation.
"Well they are still talking so…yeah." Kyle said, almost snobbishly, prior to turning to Megan, "now if you don't mind…I got my girl to get to."
"Yes you do." Megan said, smiling. They then continued to make out. TJ actually began feeling physically sick at the sight.
"My God, I'm gagging and vomiting at the same time!" TJ said, face full of disgust, "I'm gavomiting!"
After that last statement, TJ ran off behind a tree to throw-up.
"TJ, are you alright?" Patamon asked, going over to his friend, but didn't get an answer since TJ was still throwing up. Gabumon and Palmon noticed this, and looked at TJ with an even more disgusted look than they had watching Kyle and Megan making out.
"Wow, that was an interesting response to Kyle making out." Palmon said, snickering
Gabumon snickered back, "Yeah."
At that moment, finally, Jake, Alex and Zak came back over with their digimon; clearing their throat to get their attention.
"Alright guys here's the plan," Jake started, just noticing TJ was behind a tree, "What's up with him?" Jake called over to Patamon,
"He's lovesick." Patamon said. Jake smiled,
"Awwwww…TJ's in love?" Patamon shook his head,
"No…he's just sick of seeing the love between Kyle and Megan." He said and Jake nodded in response, watching the make-out session. Kyle and Megan both stopped and blushed in embarrassment.
"I see…anyway we decided once we finish climbing this mountain, we are going to go around the mountains as the bases to make this trip easier."
Everybody either said, "Yes!" or let out a sigh of relief or even said "Thank God."
"Alright, let's finish climbing this bad boy and it should be smooth sailing from there."
They all sighed; upset they still had to climb the mountain. They began to trek, exhaustedly, up the escalation, and through the trees.
Lexington New York, late at night
Bella had just heard that Jake and the others were found, and she couldn't be happier about it. However, when she called Jake's mother to talk to Jake, she told her Jake didn't talk much after the incident.
Bella thanked Mrs. Morris, her aunt, and hung up. She got back to her homework, but realized she was done with it for Monday, as well as the Tuesday's work.
"Wow, maybe mom will let me rest now." She said and she happily went downstairs where her mother was watching television and settling in for the night.
"Mom, I'm done with my homework for this weekend and Monday night. Can I relax for half an hour before bed?" Bella asked hopefully.
"Do you know any assignments you have coming up?" Bella's mother asked, and Bella shook her head.
"I have a History test next week, but that's it." Bella's mother nodded at Bella's response,
"Why don't you study that?"
Bella shrugged, "I just want to rest a bit. That's all mom."
Bella's mother put down the spoon she was stirring with and looked at Bella seriously before sighing,
"If you do, you'll never get to Harvard or Yale like you want." Bella's expression dropped,
"Why do I have to do all of this?" Bella asked, "I get straight A's, do community service, can I at least play a sport or actually have some me time?"
Bella's mom was turning red in rage,
"Don't you dare speak to me like that!" she yelled, "you do what I tell you, now got upstairs and DO YOUR WORK!"
Bella ran upstairs sobbing, until she finally got to her room. She went inside and slammed the door shut.
She jumped onto her bed, facedown, and began sobbing harder.
"I wish I could run away for a while and find somebody who understands me."
At that moment, she heard a humming noise coming from her desk drawer. She looked up, through her tears, and saw a white light coming through the cracks of the drawer.
She stood up and walked over to the drawer, and opened it to see the pink device she found the day before. She held it and looked at it contently,
"This is a weird looking iPod." She said under her breath. Just then her computer began glowing as it had a few days previous.
"Why is it doing this again?" she asked, walking over to the computer.
"Freaking PC." She muttered under her breath, "I should listen to those Mac commercials it rings so true, my PC sucks."
She went behind her computer and un-plugged it, only to have it turn back on.
"What the?" she asked herself in shock, "My computer may have a few bugs, but it never does this." She thought, still confused.
Just then she realized her device was glowing the last time her computer was acting like this.
"Are the two connected?" she thought, and suddenly got the urge to hold the device to the computer to see what would happen.
"This is too weird." The computer began flickering, and suddenly Bella was engulfed in the same white light that the devices were letting off.
There was a scream, then silence. Bella was gone, and the computer was blown out, glass all over the carpeting of her room, and smoke billowed from the monitor.
Digital World
The group had been traveling all morning and it was noon when they reached an opening in the canopy that allowed light to shine through.
"This is a good place to rest I think." Agumon said under his breath.
"Yeah, I think we all need a rest, what do you guys think?" Jake asked, turning to the group, who were now all exhausted.
"I agree." Zak sighed, "I'm sick of carrying Gomamon. He weighs too much."
"Hey! I resent that!" Gomamon said sternly. Zak just laughed,
"Relax dude, I'm only kidding." Zak replied.
"Yeah, I think we all need a break." Megan said sitting down and pulling her shoes off.
"My feet ache." She added.
"I concur, I need a break," Alex said, "how about you Biyomon?"
"I want to have a break too...HEY what is that?" she asked pointing to a large, silver platform that was on the grassy ground. Everybody turned and saw what Biyomon was pointing at.
"I don't know." Alex said.
"Hey! It looks like a teleporter-thingy that you find in videogames and Star Trek." TJ said running over to the platform.
"This is strange looking." Patamon said, "I've never seen anything like it."
"I don't think we should touch it," Kyle said uncertainly, "We don't even know what it does."
"Well, let me see if our digivices have information on it." Jake said, and he pointed his digivice to the platform.
"There is nothing on here about it, it must be nothing." Jake shrugged.
"Are you sure Jake?" Agumon asked, still focused on the platform.
"I don't know exactly, but…" Just then a glowing light that shot out of the platform cut off Jake, taking everybody by surprise and causing the group to scream in terror.
The light dimmed and disappeared; leaving a hologram of a man in brown robes with brown hair and looked to be in his early thirties, standing before the group. Only Zak, TJ, and Kyle knew who he was from the cartoon.
"Hello digidestined. I'm Gennai."