==New Bark Town
Izzy leaned back, almost numb from exhaustion. Between the
disappearances of Hitomi, Hiroki, and his own daughter Ryoko, Izzy's
emotional stability was almost gone. He had worked at his current
project with almost feverish intensity. Almost frantically, he
connected two leads to one of the monitors, and fed power into a
small unit he was working on. The device beeped, made a few whirring
sounds, then began to smoke. With a yell, Izzy ripped the unit off
the computer, and hurled it at the far wall.
It stopped a few centimeters from he wall, encased in a light blue
aura. Mewtwo stepped into the room, his aura matching the one around
the device. "Sleep." was all he said, aura flaring up as he did.
Wordlessly, Izzy fell forward, sound asleep.
A second later, Tentomon flew in, hovering over his partner.
"Thanks, Mewtwo. I was getting worried about him."
"The stress has worn on him, since this all started." the psychic
pokemon replied. "Has he made any progress?"
"With that tracking device? No. But if it works, we can use it and
the digital gateway to link to Hitomi's pokegear. After that, we
just track the signal and send a gateway there."
Mewtwo nodded. He knew this already, but he also knew that inane
chatter was Tentomon's way of dealing with situations like this. He
watched as, still babbling away, Tentomon left to get Kari to carry
her husband back into the house. Mewtwo vanished. Izzy had been
deteriorating lately, and he needed advice on what to do.
==================================================================
Digicross Tamers Episode 12
"Gabumon, I choose you!"
==================================================================
==Tokyo (Tamers), Morning.
Nami looked over the class. "Is everyone ready to go?" she asked.
"Yes, Ms. Asaji." came the standard response. Privately, she
wondered what would happen if the class ever said 'no'. "All right
then, everyone to the bus. Takato? Hitomi?" The two students
walked over as the rest of the class exited. "Takato, is Guilmon...?"
"He's fine." Takato replied. "I told him to stay in the park today.
Henry said he'd go over at lunch to make sure he's all right."
Hitomi nodded. "And Eevee's asleep at your place," she said to the
teacher, "along with Noctowl."
"That's a relief. I'd hate to explain a red dinosaur to the park
attendant."
==Park
Guilmon nudged Gabumon, who had had one of the most restful nights
he could remember. "Gabumon? What's an aquarium?"
"Mmmrm?" Gabumon replied, not really awake. "I think it's where
humans keep fish."
"Oh, okay. Thanks." After a minute, Guilmon nudged Gabumon again.
"Umm, what's a fish?"
Sighing, Gabumon sat up. "Fish are creatures that live in water. I
think humans cook them and eat them."
(Anyone who's followed any incarnation of Digimon Tamers should be
able to guess what happens next. -ed)
"Eat them? Like bread?"
"Yeah. Whatever. Can I go back to sleep?" Without waiting for a
reply, Gabumon fell over, asleep again. This isn't so bad, he
thought. He could keep an eye on the catalyst, and these human
'tamers' weren't so bad. He had no idea why Zhuquiamon hated humans
so passionately...
A soft click failed to wake him up. The sound of feet padding along
the dirt path also didn't rouse him. The rather loud clang the door
made when the wind blew it shut -did- wake him up. "Hey, what
was...Guilmon?" Gabumon looked around the small hut. There was no
sign of Guilmon. "Where could he have..." he suddenly remembered
what Guilmon had been asking about.
"Ah NUTS!"
==Tokyo Aquarium. No, I don't know what it's really called. Or if
it even exists. If Tokyo can have interdimensional portals, then it
can have an aquarium. Deal.
"Okay class, stay in your groups." Nami called to the students.
Takato looked around. "Hey, where are Kazu and Kenta?"
"They forgot their permission slips." Jeri answered. "Well, I'm
partners with Hitomi, so I'll see you around."
"Ehh hehe right. Later Jeri." Takato watched as Jeri skipped away,
joining Hitomi. He hoped his face wasn't too red as he walked over
to talk to his partner.
"You're in a good mood." Hitomi said to Jeri as they wandered down
one of the halls.
"I just like coming here. It's peaceful and relaxing. Are there
aquariums where you live?"
"There was a really big one in Olivine that had a whole bunch of
water pokemon. Asuka went there a lot." Hitomi looked at the small
signs under the windows. "Penguin tank. This must be it."
Jeri checked the assignment sheet. "Yep. How many are in there?"
"About 12, according to the sign." The two answered the rest of the
questions on that part of the assignment, and moved on.
"Asuka...that was T.K's daughter, right?"
Hitomi nodded. "She loved swimming more than anything else. No one
was surprised when she got the digiegg of reliability. Mantaraymon
was a perfect match for her. I...is that Takato?" Hitomi looked at
the corner of the assignment sheet, where Jeri had doodled a
picture of Takato in the lower left corner.
Jeri giggled. "I guess...he has been following me around for a
while now. Haven't you ever had someone act like that around you?"
Hitomi looked confused. "You know, they get all embarrassed and they
can't talk straight around you? And they totally freeze up when you
ask them a question? It's pretty hard not to notice."
"No, I..." Hitomi stopped, stunned. "Wow." she whispered, sitting
down on a bench. "I never knew..." Hiroki?
"I knew it!" Jeri said, excited. "Who is it?" Hitomi blushed, not
wanting to answer. "Is it Sam?" Hitomi looked at her feet. "No,
it's that other boy, Hiroki! That's so sweet!"
"You can't be serious! Hiroki's only nine!" Hitomi protested. Jeri started
laughing at Hitomi's expression and stammered excuses.
==
Henry stepped outside of the school. It was lunchtime now, and
Henry enjoyed the chance to get out of the classroom. Mr. Morita had
a way of sucking the already feeble enjoyment out of mathematics.
And the way he kept pausing when Ms. Asaji raised her voice in the
next room. Aren't there laws against teachers dating, he wondered
sourly.
"Hey, Henry!" Kenta yelled, running over. "We just saw a digimon!"
"Where?"
"This way!" Kenta grabbed Henry's arm and dragged the tamer to one
of the fences. There, with Kazu staring at him, was Gabumon, looking
around frantically.
"Gabumon? What are you doing here?" Henry asked.
"Guilmon got away! I think he's heading for the aquarium!"
"Why would he do that?" Kazu asked. "There's just a bunch of fish
there!"
"Just a..." Henry trailed off, realizing what Guilmon was probably
thinking. "Oh god." he moaned. "I need to find a phone!" Henry ran
back to the school.
"There goes the only guy who'd run -back- to a school in an
emergency." Kazu remarked.
"Which way to the aquarium?" Gabumon asked.
Kenta pointed down the road. "It's about half an hour by car that
way. By the marina; there's signs all over the place when you get
near."
"Thanks!" Gabumon ran up a nearby tree, and jumped off, landing on
the roof of the passing cross-town express bus.
"I have got to get him for a partner!" Kazu said admiringly. "He is
just the coolest!" Hearing Kenta snort, he turned on his friend.
"What? Don't snort at me, mister 'closet Palmon fan!'"
"What? Palmon rocks!"
"Does not!"
"Shows what you know!"
==
Nami walked over to Jeri and Hitomi. "Have you finished your
assignment?" Jeri nodded, handing the sheets to the teacher. Nami
gave them a quick check. "Looks good. I should have them marked by
next week." Nami looked at the lower corner of one page, and sighed.
"Jeri, next time, remember to erase the doodles you do of Takato."
"S...sorry." Jeri mumbled, blushing. Hitomi's pokegear began to ring.
"Hello? Henry? Yes, Takato is nearby. I...GWAAH? Uh-huh...okay,
we'll get him." Hitomi sighed and closed her phone. "Henry said
Guilmon's headed this way."
"Ah nuts." Nami moaned, rubbing her forehead. "Why?"
"Someone told him that fish are edible." Jeri and Hitomi had a
sudden image of Guilmon sitting down to a meal of slightly charred
shark, pulled right out of the tank.
"I'll get Takato." Nami said. "Wait here."
==
Calumon hovered near the entrance to the aquarium. "I heard that
there's a lot of fun here. Maybe we should have a look around!"
Beside him, Unown trilled, curious. "There are some creatures called
fish here. I hear they eat planks of wood or something. I wanna see
it, don't you?"
Unown looked over the place for a second, then agreed. The two flew
in an open window, never noticing the wisp of fog following them in.
A few minutes later, Guilmon, sneaking through the bushes, made it
to the entrance. "I smell something weird. Must be all that fish
Gabumon told me about!" There was a quiet rumble from Guilmon's
stomach. "I should have eaten more bread before I left. Oh well."
Guilmon entered the aquarium.
A few minutes after that, Gabumon, covered in soot and grime, showed
up. "He's got to be in here somewhere." Gabumon muttered, looking
for the best way to get into the aquarium.
==
"Okay, Tewwiermon, let's play dwessup!" Suzie, having a bit of a
fever, was staying home from school today. Once Henry and Janyu had
left, Suzie had sneaked into Henry's room and grabbed Terriermon.
The digimon was now being buried under a pile of clothes.
Why me, Terriermon thought to himself.
==Hypnos, scanning dome
"Sir, bio-emergence detected. It's coming up at the Tokyo aquarium."
Yamaki looked up at the screen, scowled. "Janyu, you'd better get
up here." In a few minutes, the Monster Makers that Yamaki had
managed to recruit were in the Scanning Dome. "What we have here is
a graphic representation of a digimon bio-emerging."
"You mean...it's actually appearing in our world?" Babel asked,
stunned. Even after everything he had been told, he'd had a hard
time believing it.
"We have a tap into the security cameras there." Talli reported.
"Bringing it up now."
"You can access that?" Dolphin whispered.
"Hypnos was originally formed as a covert observations branch of the
government; its original mandate was to monitor world communications
and keep an eye out for communications by criminal or terrorist
organizations. However, since these digimon reside in a dimension
created by our own communications technology, it was a simple matter
to modify the system to track them instead."
Janyu looked at one of the displays, marveling as it resolved into
a live feed from the aquarium. "It looks normal...Hey, what's that?"
Yamaki walked over, giving a command to Reilly. The image paused,
and rewound itself. The image replayed, then paused. There were two
small creatures, one white, the other black. Janyu stopped himself
from blurting out Unown and Calumon's names when he recognized them.
"Sir," Reilly reported, "there's some form of energy coming from
those two creatures. I think it's contributing to the formation of
the rift."
"So, they're the ones that are bringing digimon here. We'll have to
recapture them."
Janyu was about to ask what Yamaki meant by 're-capture' when he saw
a familiar face. "Takato?" he blurted out.
"Who?" Yamaki demanded.
"He's a friend of my son's, they play that card game a lot." Janyu
lied. He remembered Henry mentioning that Takato's class was having
a field trip to the aquarium. That meant Hitomi would be there too.
Robert 'Dolphin' McCoy looked at Janyu surreptitiously. Whatever's
happened to you, he thought to himself, you're still a rotten liar,
Tao. Good thing Yamaki there's too obsessed to notice it. "If
digimon are going to appear there, shouldn't we evacuate the place?"
"The alarm signal's already been sent." Talli reported.
==
Takato looked up as the alarm went off. "What was that?" he asked. "A fire
in an aquarium?"
"Who knows?" Takato's partner asked. "Come on, we'd better get going." The
boy ran off. Takato started to follow him when Ms. Asaji intercepted him.
"I didn't do it! Honest!"
Nami sighed, feeling a familiar headache coming on. "Guilmon might be in
here. He's probably the one that hit the alarm."
"Guilmon? Why would he be here? All that's here is a bunch of...oh great."
Takato took out his digivice. Instantly, a small red compass appeared, the
arrow pointing off down one of the hallways. "I'd better go get him."
"We'd better go get him." Ms. Asaji corrected her student. "It'll be hard
enough explaining this to the rest of the class." She sighed quietly. "I'm
getting too old for this." she muttered.
==
Outside, the students waited for the alarm to stop. "What do you think
happened?" Jeri asked.
"Maybe it was a drill? Or someone pulled the alarm by accident?" Hitomi
looked at one of the windows, wondering if Guilmon had tripped the alarm. She
and Jeri had been herded out of the aquarium by one of the staff before they
could search for Guilmon. As she looked, she was nearly knocked down by
something small and furry as it ran past her. She nearly fell over, but Jeri
caught her.
"Was that...Gabumon?" Jeri asked.
"Gabumon? Why would he be here?" Hitomi asked. Then, without any warning, a
dense bank of fog exploded out of the building. "A digital field!" Hitomi
gasped.
==
Guilmon rummaged through the freezer, looking for something to eat. He
finally found a box marked 'Shark Tank - received xx/xx/xx'. "Smells yummy."
Guilmon said, dragging the box out of the freezer. The door he had come
through had locked itself shut, but there was a second door leading out to the
pools where the larger specimens at the Aquarium lived. "I wish Takato was
here." he whispered sadly. "He might know how to eat this. Oh well." Guilmon
lifted up a frozen chunk of tuna, and took a bite.
He quickly spat it out. "Ick! it's all hard and cold!" He got an idea. He
took out a second piece, and cooked it with a fireball. "Much better!" Guilmon
yelped after trying this second piece. He dumped the whole box out, and
started barbecuing the whole pack. So caught up in this activity, he missed
the digital field forming, coming from the pool right behind him. He did look
behind him when something large started to come out of the water.
"Do you want some fish too?" Guilmon asked Gesomon, offering a piece of tuna
to the digimon.
==
"Hey, I'm getting something weird." Takato said, looking at his digivice. "It
looks like there's another digimon in here, and it's coming towards us."
"Guilmon?" Ms. Asaji asked.
"I don't know, I can't get this thing to tell me...here it comes!" The two
humans heard something that sounded like laughter coming from ahead of them.
It got a bit louder, then seemed to level out. A minute later, Calumon and
Unown flew by.
"Isn't that Unown?" Ms. Asaji asked. "And Calumon?"
"Yeah. But what are-" Takato stopped as the entire hallway was suddenly
covered with a thick, dense fog. "A digital field! Why now?" There was a
loud rumble, shaking the building.
==Asaji home
Eevee napped quietly under Hitomi's cot. He wished he could have gone with
her, but both she and Ms. Asaji had been very clear about Eevee and Noctowl
staying here. The phone started to ring, waking Eevee up. His first instinct
was to answer it, but he remembered to let the machine take a message. After a
few rings, it did so.
"Eevee," Hitomi's voice came over the machine, "I need you at the aquarium! A
digital field just appeared, and Ms. Asaji and Takato are still in the
building!"
Oh, Eevee thought. Digital field, right...."Digital field?" Eevee shouted.
"Noctowl, wake up!"
Two minutes later, Eevee was riding Noctowl towards the aquarium. Between his
paws he held one of Hitomi's empty pokeballs; he figured they could use it to
get the intruding digimon out of the way without too much undue attention.
Noctowl cawed loudly. "Hey, I've been working out! You're the one that's been
sleeping all day! Now step on it!"
==Aquarium
"You could have just said no!" Guilmon cried as one of Gesomon's tentacles
slammed into the ground where the slightly charbroiled fish was. Gesomon
roared, trying to grab Guilmon.
"Guilmon!" Takato yelled, coming through one of the entrances to the tank
area. He spotted the large digimon, and checked it with his d-arc. "Gesomon,
champion level virus digimon. Special attacks are Devil Bash and Night Shade."
"How did that get here?" Nami demanded.
"I don't know!" Takato replied. "Maybe Calumon and Unown brought him here by
mistake or something! They've been around the other times a digimon's appeared
here!"
Gesomon spotted the two humans, and made a lunge for them. Takato knocked Ms.
Asaji out of the way, but was caught by Gesomon's tentacle. "Takatomon!"
Guilmon yelled. His expression shifted to a snarl, as Guilmon charged Gesomon.
"Pyro Sphere!" he yelled, launching a fireball. The attack struck Gesomon, but
did little damage. "Let Takatomon go!" Guilmon snarled. Gesomon snarled in
reply, dangling Takato in front of Guilmon, using the boy as a shield.
A blast of blue fire caught Gesomon on the back. Nami saw Gabumon had entered
the area, and was also challenging Gesomon. "Be careful!" Nami yelled. "He's
got Takato!"
==
Hitomi felt her way down the hall, wishing this fog wasn't so blinding.
Behind her, she heard footsteps. "Who's there?" she demanded.
"It's me!" Jeri called. "I can't see!" Sighing, Hitomi made her way back,
and took Jeri's hand.
"Why are you here? It's dangerous!"
"You went in!" Jeri replied.
"Yeah, but Eevee and Noctowl are coming." Hitomi sighed, wondering if her
parents ever had days like this. "Well, just stay with me, all right?"
"We are partners. Besides, you still have that assignment sheet." Jeri
giggled.
Smiling, Hitomi checked her D-3. "We're close. It should be just up this
way." Hitomi led Jeri up a flight of stairs.
"I think we're nearing the large tanks they keep the sharks in. I saw it on
the map Ms. Asaji gave us."
"The outdoor one? Good, that means if there's a fight, we won't cause as much
damage." Hitomi went back to picking her way along the stairs. "I think the
fog's starting to thin out. We must be close." She looked at Jeri. "Just
promise you'll stay clear, all right? I don't want anything to happen to you."
Jeri nodded. the two stepped over the threshold, through the open doors. The
fog abruptly gave away.
"Gesomon!" Hitomi gasped. "How'd it get here?"
"He's got Takato!" Jeri shrieked.
"Eevee! Where are you!" Hitomi yelled. A raptor's cry got her attention, as
Noctowl, Eevee on his back, dove down, landing in front of the two girls.
"You called?" Eevee asked. "I brought a pokeball. We can catch that thing
and sneak it out of here!" Hitomi nodded, picking up the pokeball and
expanding it to its regular size. "I'd better digivolve!"
Hitomi nodded. "Digiarmour energize!"
"Eevee, armour digivolve to...Templarmon, loyal defender!" Templarmon looked
over Gesomon, wondering where to strike first. "Hitomi, Gesomon's got Takato.
I can't use any of my attacks!"
"Why not?" Jeri asked.
"They're all electricity based." Hitomi explained. "Any attack he used would
be conducted to Takato. Noctowl, can you hypnotize Gesomon?" Noctowl flew
over, but couldn't get close enough.
Gesomon heard Hitomi, and tried to attack her, tentacle shooting towards her
and Jeri. The two girls dodged, but Hitomi lost her grip on the pokeball. It
rolled towards the pool. Jeri ran over and picked it up. "I've got it!" Jeri
called. Gesomon tried to grab Jeri this time, but Gabumon knocked Jeri clear.
The tentacle closed around Gabumon and lifted him up.
==Hypnos
"Building is not completely clear. I'm getting reports of humans still in the
area." Reilly reported. "Also, we have reports of explosions. Wild One
confirmed in area, type unknown. Tracer not responding."
"Our response teams?" Yamaki asked, voice hard.
"On the way."
"Response teams?" Janyu asked.
"Special teams assigned to capture and bring in any Wild Ones that appear.
Once done, the Wild Ones are studied and, if necessary, destroyed."
"You're kidding." Dolphin gasped. "They're alive!"
"'They' are nothing more than electronic signals with delusions of grandeur."
Yamaki replied in that same hard tone. "Or would you rather those things that
you created wander the streets freely, destroying everything in sight?"
Dolphin was about to reply, when he caught Babel's expression. "I see." was
what Dolphin could manage.
"What about humans that are caught in the crossfire?" Janyu asked, voice level.
"We've been lucky so far in that no one has actually encountered a wild one
and made a credible report about it. If necessary, we detain any humans who
come into contact with digimon and debrief them, then swear them to secrecy.
This is not a child's game, Janyu. This is a war."
More like a vendetta, Janyu thought to himself. Unknown to him, Dolphin and
Babel were thinking the same thing.
==
"Now what?" Jeri asked as Gabumon was lifted up to near where Takato was
hanging. Guilmon and Templarmon circled Gesomon, waiting for a chance to
attack.
"Hitomi! Jeri!" Nami yelled. "Get out of here!"
"We can't leave Takato and Gabumon behind!" Jeri protested. "We have to stop
Gesomon!"
"Jeri!" Hitomi called. "Press the button on that pokeball, and throw it at
Gesomon when I give you the word! That'll capture it so we can get it out of
here without anyone noticing." Jeri nodded. Hitomi caught Templarmon's eye;
the armoured digimon nodded, and got ready. "Templarmon, attack!"
"Go!" Templarmon yelled. He dodged a swat from Gesomon's tentacle, then ran
up the limb, punching the aquatic digimon in the head, then backflipping off.
Gesomon fired a spray of ink, catching Templarmon in the face. He rolled,
landing near Ms. Asaji. "Jeri, NOW!" Templarmon yelled.
Jeri nodded, pressing the button and hurling the ball. Gesomon saw this item
coming at her, and tried to block it with one of his hostages. As luck (and
dramatic necessity -ed) would have it, the pokeball hit Gabumon instead. The
ball opened, sucked Gabumon in, and returned to Jeri's hand.
"Ah NUTS!" Takato yelled. Distracted, Guilmon jumped onto one of Gesomon's
arms, and bit down hard. Gesomon roared in pain, grip on Takato slackening.
Templarmon, having wiped most of the ink off his face, saw this, jumped onto
the tentacle that held Takato, and pulled the boy off.
"Hitomi! Something's happening!" The pokeball in Jeri's hand was sparking,
and rocking back and forth, as if trying to get out. Abruptly, the ball
opened, and Gabumon reappeared.
"What was THAT all about?" Gabumon yelled at Jeri. "I thought I was going to
suffocate in there!"
"I was trying to catch Gesomon! Really!" Unnoticed, the now open pokeball
continued to spark. Then, it glowed white, its shape shifting.
"Well, you could have...what's that?" Gabumon asked. Jeri looked at her hand,
ready to answer that it was a pokeball, when she saw it had changed into
something more familiar to her. "It's a digivice." she breathed. It was a
digivice, resembling the ones Takato, Henry, and Rika had. However, this one
had a yellow ring around the screen.
"A what?" Gabumon asked. "Wait, you don't mean..."
"Look out!" Hitomi yelled. Gesomon span in the tank, and fired a blast of ink
at Jeri and Gabumon. Jeri screamed, and crouched down. As she did, her
digivice lit up, light flaring out of it.
"Gabumon, digivolve to...Leomon!" Leomon blocked the shot, black ink spraying
over his chest. "I'm back to my Champion form." Leomon whispered, stunned.
"Did that girl do this?" Then, in a louder voice. "I don't know what's going
on here, but I think you've worn out your welcome. Fist of the Beast King!"
Leomon's attack slammed into Gesomon, forcing the digimon against the wall of
the tank it was now trapped in.
"Payback time!" Takato exclaimed. "Digi-modify! Raidramon's Thunder Blast
activate!" Guilmon fired a bolt of lightning, which got a boost from
Templarmon's own Thunder Baton attack. Gesomon writhed in the tank, then
disintegrated.
"That was...different." Leomon said, then glowed and reverted to Gabumon.
"Hey, I changed back!" He looked at Jeri. "This is going to take some
explaining."
"Just great." Nami sighed. "Now we've got another one. They never covered
this in university."
==Hypnos
"Teams report that there were no Wild Ones in the area, though there was
extensive damage to the upper areas. It looks like there was a fight there."
Talli finished her report after debriefing the investigators, then let Reilly
take over.
"Just before the Wild One was eliminated, we recorded two power spikes,
possibly from other Wild Ones in the area. It may have been them that
eliminated the first one."
"Any images? Clues left behind?" Yamaki asked.
Reilly shook her head. "Nothing yet, sir. Technician Ramone is working on
footage from one of the security cameras; he said he might be able to clean up
the image a bit.
In his office, Technician Michael Ramone stared at the screen. It was mostly
static, but he could pick out a few forms moving around. He knew that whatever
had removed that digimon was powerful, and possibly a source of trouble for his
own plans. Still, he knew he could uncover something useful. After all, he
had an edge when it came to digital equipment.
==2 hours later.
"You wished to see me?" Yamaki asked Ramone as he entered Yamaki's office.
"Yes, I managed to uncover something you might find interesting. I was only
able to get a partial image off the feed from the security cameras, but I
managed to clean up the image enough to make this out." Ramone handed over a
set of printouts, screen captures from the security camera. "I believe that
this is the same girl that Reilly reported in the park a few weeks back, yes?"
Yamaki looked at the photos. It was indeed her, that same girl that he had
tried to follow, the one with the odd creature on her shoulder. She had
something out, a small oval device, but he couldn't make it out. She looked so
normal, yet he could not find out anything about her.
"Orders, sir?" Ramone asked.
Yamaki looked up. This is a war, he reminded himself. If she is who she
appears to be, then she has nothing to fear. "That's all right. I'll see to
this myself. You've done well, Ramone. I will need you again in a day or so."
Ramone nodded, and left. Once he had, Yamaki picked up a phone, and began
giving orders.
==2 days later.
Hitomi was in the park, taking Eevee for a walk. She had to leave her
pokegear at home, as the charge was low. Noctowl had declined to come along,
preferring to sleep in the daytime.
"It's weird, isn't it? Jeri's a Tamer now." Eevee said to Hitomi. "I wonder
how long it will take for Gabumon to get used to the idea."
"He did sound a bit like Terriermon, at least whenever Suzie gets a hold of
him." The two kept walking along the path.
They were approaching the exit when a pair of hands reached out of one of the
bushes and grabbed Hitomi. She tried to scream, but one of the attacker's
hands was clamped around her mouth. Snarling, Eevee turned, trying to tackle
the man, but was intercepted by a second man. Both were wearing suits and
black sunglasses.
Hitomi started kicking, and the heel of her shoe landed on her assailant's
kneecap, hard enough to make the man grunt in pain, and release Hitomi. Eevee
had managed to dodge around his attacker, and had managed to land several bites
on his hands and face. "RUN!" he yelled. Hitomi started to, then felt a sharp
jab in her back. Suddenly woozy, she collapsed, the knockout drug making her
unconscious in seconds. Eevee went berserk, slamming his head into the second
attacker's chin, knocking that man out, and loosening several of his teeth in
the process. He jumped off, and ran at the third attacker, a man with what
looked like a large rifle. His Skull Bash flattened that man, but not before
he received two darts. Eevee collapsed.
"Hypnos agent Yagami. We have them, but need medical assistance."
Next Episode
Learning that Hypnos has captured Hitomi and Eevee, the other tamers mount a
raid to try and recover her. However, they must make it into the Hypnos
building, where they learn something surprising about Yamaki. Next time on
Digicross Tamers:
-Bring Back Hitomi! Rika and Jeri to the rescue!
Izzy leaned back, almost numb from exhaustion. Between the
disappearances of Hitomi, Hiroki, and his own daughter Ryoko, Izzy's
emotional stability was almost gone. He had worked at his current
project with almost feverish intensity. Almost frantically, he
connected two leads to one of the monitors, and fed power into a
small unit he was working on. The device beeped, made a few whirring
sounds, then began to smoke. With a yell, Izzy ripped the unit off
the computer, and hurled it at the far wall.
It stopped a few centimeters from he wall, encased in a light blue
aura. Mewtwo stepped into the room, his aura matching the one around
the device. "Sleep." was all he said, aura flaring up as he did.
Wordlessly, Izzy fell forward, sound asleep.
A second later, Tentomon flew in, hovering over his partner.
"Thanks, Mewtwo. I was getting worried about him."
"The stress has worn on him, since this all started." the psychic
pokemon replied. "Has he made any progress?"
"With that tracking device? No. But if it works, we can use it and
the digital gateway to link to Hitomi's pokegear. After that, we
just track the signal and send a gateway there."
Mewtwo nodded. He knew this already, but he also knew that inane
chatter was Tentomon's way of dealing with situations like this. He
watched as, still babbling away, Tentomon left to get Kari to carry
her husband back into the house. Mewtwo vanished. Izzy had been
deteriorating lately, and he needed advice on what to do.
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Digicross Tamers Episode 12
"Gabumon, I choose you!"
==================================================================
==Tokyo (Tamers), Morning.
Nami looked over the class. "Is everyone ready to go?" she asked.
"Yes, Ms. Asaji." came the standard response. Privately, she
wondered what would happen if the class ever said 'no'. "All right
then, everyone to the bus. Takato? Hitomi?" The two students
walked over as the rest of the class exited. "Takato, is Guilmon...?"
"He's fine." Takato replied. "I told him to stay in the park today.
Henry said he'd go over at lunch to make sure he's all right."
Hitomi nodded. "And Eevee's asleep at your place," she said to the
teacher, "along with Noctowl."
"That's a relief. I'd hate to explain a red dinosaur to the park
attendant."
==Park
Guilmon nudged Gabumon, who had had one of the most restful nights
he could remember. "Gabumon? What's an aquarium?"
"Mmmrm?" Gabumon replied, not really awake. "I think it's where
humans keep fish."
"Oh, okay. Thanks." After a minute, Guilmon nudged Gabumon again.
"Umm, what's a fish?"
Sighing, Gabumon sat up. "Fish are creatures that live in water. I
think humans cook them and eat them."
(Anyone who's followed any incarnation of Digimon Tamers should be
able to guess what happens next. -ed)
"Eat them? Like bread?"
"Yeah. Whatever. Can I go back to sleep?" Without waiting for a
reply, Gabumon fell over, asleep again. This isn't so bad, he
thought. He could keep an eye on the catalyst, and these human
'tamers' weren't so bad. He had no idea why Zhuquiamon hated humans
so passionately...
A soft click failed to wake him up. The sound of feet padding along
the dirt path also didn't rouse him. The rather loud clang the door
made when the wind blew it shut -did- wake him up. "Hey, what
was...Guilmon?" Gabumon looked around the small hut. There was no
sign of Guilmon. "Where could he have..." he suddenly remembered
what Guilmon had been asking about.
"Ah NUTS!"
==Tokyo Aquarium. No, I don't know what it's really called. Or if
it even exists. If Tokyo can have interdimensional portals, then it
can have an aquarium. Deal.
"Okay class, stay in your groups." Nami called to the students.
Takato looked around. "Hey, where are Kazu and Kenta?"
"They forgot their permission slips." Jeri answered. "Well, I'm
partners with Hitomi, so I'll see you around."
"Ehh hehe right. Later Jeri." Takato watched as Jeri skipped away,
joining Hitomi. He hoped his face wasn't too red as he walked over
to talk to his partner.
"You're in a good mood." Hitomi said to Jeri as they wandered down
one of the halls.
"I just like coming here. It's peaceful and relaxing. Are there
aquariums where you live?"
"There was a really big one in Olivine that had a whole bunch of
water pokemon. Asuka went there a lot." Hitomi looked at the small
signs under the windows. "Penguin tank. This must be it."
Jeri checked the assignment sheet. "Yep. How many are in there?"
"About 12, according to the sign." The two answered the rest of the
questions on that part of the assignment, and moved on.
"Asuka...that was T.K's daughter, right?"
Hitomi nodded. "She loved swimming more than anything else. No one
was surprised when she got the digiegg of reliability. Mantaraymon
was a perfect match for her. I...is that Takato?" Hitomi looked at
the corner of the assignment sheet, where Jeri had doodled a
picture of Takato in the lower left corner.
Jeri giggled. "I guess...he has been following me around for a
while now. Haven't you ever had someone act like that around you?"
Hitomi looked confused. "You know, they get all embarrassed and they
can't talk straight around you? And they totally freeze up when you
ask them a question? It's pretty hard not to notice."
"No, I..." Hitomi stopped, stunned. "Wow." she whispered, sitting
down on a bench. "I never knew..." Hiroki?
"I knew it!" Jeri said, excited. "Who is it?" Hitomi blushed, not
wanting to answer. "Is it Sam?" Hitomi looked at her feet. "No,
it's that other boy, Hiroki! That's so sweet!"
"You can't be serious! Hiroki's only nine!" Hitomi protested. Jeri started
laughing at Hitomi's expression and stammered excuses.
==
Henry stepped outside of the school. It was lunchtime now, and
Henry enjoyed the chance to get out of the classroom. Mr. Morita had
a way of sucking the already feeble enjoyment out of mathematics.
And the way he kept pausing when Ms. Asaji raised her voice in the
next room. Aren't there laws against teachers dating, he wondered
sourly.
"Hey, Henry!" Kenta yelled, running over. "We just saw a digimon!"
"Where?"
"This way!" Kenta grabbed Henry's arm and dragged the tamer to one
of the fences. There, with Kazu staring at him, was Gabumon, looking
around frantically.
"Gabumon? What are you doing here?" Henry asked.
"Guilmon got away! I think he's heading for the aquarium!"
"Why would he do that?" Kazu asked. "There's just a bunch of fish
there!"
"Just a..." Henry trailed off, realizing what Guilmon was probably
thinking. "Oh god." he moaned. "I need to find a phone!" Henry ran
back to the school.
"There goes the only guy who'd run -back- to a school in an
emergency." Kazu remarked.
"Which way to the aquarium?" Gabumon asked.
Kenta pointed down the road. "It's about half an hour by car that
way. By the marina; there's signs all over the place when you get
near."
"Thanks!" Gabumon ran up a nearby tree, and jumped off, landing on
the roof of the passing cross-town express bus.
"I have got to get him for a partner!" Kazu said admiringly. "He is
just the coolest!" Hearing Kenta snort, he turned on his friend.
"What? Don't snort at me, mister 'closet Palmon fan!'"
"What? Palmon rocks!"
"Does not!"
"Shows what you know!"
==
Nami walked over to Jeri and Hitomi. "Have you finished your
assignment?" Jeri nodded, handing the sheets to the teacher. Nami
gave them a quick check. "Looks good. I should have them marked by
next week." Nami looked at the lower corner of one page, and sighed.
"Jeri, next time, remember to erase the doodles you do of Takato."
"S...sorry." Jeri mumbled, blushing. Hitomi's pokegear began to ring.
"Hello? Henry? Yes, Takato is nearby. I...GWAAH? Uh-huh...okay,
we'll get him." Hitomi sighed and closed her phone. "Henry said
Guilmon's headed this way."
"Ah nuts." Nami moaned, rubbing her forehead. "Why?"
"Someone told him that fish are edible." Jeri and Hitomi had a
sudden image of Guilmon sitting down to a meal of slightly charred
shark, pulled right out of the tank.
"I'll get Takato." Nami said. "Wait here."
==
Calumon hovered near the entrance to the aquarium. "I heard that
there's a lot of fun here. Maybe we should have a look around!"
Beside him, Unown trilled, curious. "There are some creatures called
fish here. I hear they eat planks of wood or something. I wanna see
it, don't you?"
Unown looked over the place for a second, then agreed. The two flew
in an open window, never noticing the wisp of fog following them in.
A few minutes later, Guilmon, sneaking through the bushes, made it
to the entrance. "I smell something weird. Must be all that fish
Gabumon told me about!" There was a quiet rumble from Guilmon's
stomach. "I should have eaten more bread before I left. Oh well."
Guilmon entered the aquarium.
A few minutes after that, Gabumon, covered in soot and grime, showed
up. "He's got to be in here somewhere." Gabumon muttered, looking
for the best way to get into the aquarium.
==
"Okay, Tewwiermon, let's play dwessup!" Suzie, having a bit of a
fever, was staying home from school today. Once Henry and Janyu had
left, Suzie had sneaked into Henry's room and grabbed Terriermon.
The digimon was now being buried under a pile of clothes.
Why me, Terriermon thought to himself.
==Hypnos, scanning dome
"Sir, bio-emergence detected. It's coming up at the Tokyo aquarium."
Yamaki looked up at the screen, scowled. "Janyu, you'd better get
up here." In a few minutes, the Monster Makers that Yamaki had
managed to recruit were in the Scanning Dome. "What we have here is
a graphic representation of a digimon bio-emerging."
"You mean...it's actually appearing in our world?" Babel asked,
stunned. Even after everything he had been told, he'd had a hard
time believing it.
"We have a tap into the security cameras there." Talli reported.
"Bringing it up now."
"You can access that?" Dolphin whispered.
"Hypnos was originally formed as a covert observations branch of the
government; its original mandate was to monitor world communications
and keep an eye out for communications by criminal or terrorist
organizations. However, since these digimon reside in a dimension
created by our own communications technology, it was a simple matter
to modify the system to track them instead."
Janyu looked at one of the displays, marveling as it resolved into
a live feed from the aquarium. "It looks normal...Hey, what's that?"
Yamaki walked over, giving a command to Reilly. The image paused,
and rewound itself. The image replayed, then paused. There were two
small creatures, one white, the other black. Janyu stopped himself
from blurting out Unown and Calumon's names when he recognized them.
"Sir," Reilly reported, "there's some form of energy coming from
those two creatures. I think it's contributing to the formation of
the rift."
"So, they're the ones that are bringing digimon here. We'll have to
recapture them."
Janyu was about to ask what Yamaki meant by 're-capture' when he saw
a familiar face. "Takato?" he blurted out.
"Who?" Yamaki demanded.
"He's a friend of my son's, they play that card game a lot." Janyu
lied. He remembered Henry mentioning that Takato's class was having
a field trip to the aquarium. That meant Hitomi would be there too.
Robert 'Dolphin' McCoy looked at Janyu surreptitiously. Whatever's
happened to you, he thought to himself, you're still a rotten liar,
Tao. Good thing Yamaki there's too obsessed to notice it. "If
digimon are going to appear there, shouldn't we evacuate the place?"
"The alarm signal's already been sent." Talli reported.
==
Takato looked up as the alarm went off. "What was that?" he asked. "A fire
in an aquarium?"
"Who knows?" Takato's partner asked. "Come on, we'd better get going." The
boy ran off. Takato started to follow him when Ms. Asaji intercepted him.
"I didn't do it! Honest!"
Nami sighed, feeling a familiar headache coming on. "Guilmon might be in
here. He's probably the one that hit the alarm."
"Guilmon? Why would he be here? All that's here is a bunch of...oh great."
Takato took out his digivice. Instantly, a small red compass appeared, the
arrow pointing off down one of the hallways. "I'd better go get him."
"We'd better go get him." Ms. Asaji corrected her student. "It'll be hard
enough explaining this to the rest of the class." She sighed quietly. "I'm
getting too old for this." she muttered.
==
Outside, the students waited for the alarm to stop. "What do you think
happened?" Jeri asked.
"Maybe it was a drill? Or someone pulled the alarm by accident?" Hitomi
looked at one of the windows, wondering if Guilmon had tripped the alarm. She
and Jeri had been herded out of the aquarium by one of the staff before they
could search for Guilmon. As she looked, she was nearly knocked down by
something small and furry as it ran past her. She nearly fell over, but Jeri
caught her.
"Was that...Gabumon?" Jeri asked.
"Gabumon? Why would he be here?" Hitomi asked. Then, without any warning, a
dense bank of fog exploded out of the building. "A digital field!" Hitomi
gasped.
==
Guilmon rummaged through the freezer, looking for something to eat. He
finally found a box marked 'Shark Tank - received xx/xx/xx'. "Smells yummy."
Guilmon said, dragging the box out of the freezer. The door he had come
through had locked itself shut, but there was a second door leading out to the
pools where the larger specimens at the Aquarium lived. "I wish Takato was
here." he whispered sadly. "He might know how to eat this. Oh well." Guilmon
lifted up a frozen chunk of tuna, and took a bite.
He quickly spat it out. "Ick! it's all hard and cold!" He got an idea. He
took out a second piece, and cooked it with a fireball. "Much better!" Guilmon
yelped after trying this second piece. He dumped the whole box out, and
started barbecuing the whole pack. So caught up in this activity, he missed
the digital field forming, coming from the pool right behind him. He did look
behind him when something large started to come out of the water.
"Do you want some fish too?" Guilmon asked Gesomon, offering a piece of tuna
to the digimon.
==
"Hey, I'm getting something weird." Takato said, looking at his digivice. "It
looks like there's another digimon in here, and it's coming towards us."
"Guilmon?" Ms. Asaji asked.
"I don't know, I can't get this thing to tell me...here it comes!" The two
humans heard something that sounded like laughter coming from ahead of them.
It got a bit louder, then seemed to level out. A minute later, Calumon and
Unown flew by.
"Isn't that Unown?" Ms. Asaji asked. "And Calumon?"
"Yeah. But what are-" Takato stopped as the entire hallway was suddenly
covered with a thick, dense fog. "A digital field! Why now?" There was a
loud rumble, shaking the building.
==Asaji home
Eevee napped quietly under Hitomi's cot. He wished he could have gone with
her, but both she and Ms. Asaji had been very clear about Eevee and Noctowl
staying here. The phone started to ring, waking Eevee up. His first instinct
was to answer it, but he remembered to let the machine take a message. After a
few rings, it did so.
"Eevee," Hitomi's voice came over the machine, "I need you at the aquarium! A
digital field just appeared, and Ms. Asaji and Takato are still in the
building!"
Oh, Eevee thought. Digital field, right...."Digital field?" Eevee shouted.
"Noctowl, wake up!"
Two minutes later, Eevee was riding Noctowl towards the aquarium. Between his
paws he held one of Hitomi's empty pokeballs; he figured they could use it to
get the intruding digimon out of the way without too much undue attention.
Noctowl cawed loudly. "Hey, I've been working out! You're the one that's been
sleeping all day! Now step on it!"
==Aquarium
"You could have just said no!" Guilmon cried as one of Gesomon's tentacles
slammed into the ground where the slightly charbroiled fish was. Gesomon
roared, trying to grab Guilmon.
"Guilmon!" Takato yelled, coming through one of the entrances to the tank
area. He spotted the large digimon, and checked it with his d-arc. "Gesomon,
champion level virus digimon. Special attacks are Devil Bash and Night Shade."
"How did that get here?" Nami demanded.
"I don't know!" Takato replied. "Maybe Calumon and Unown brought him here by
mistake or something! They've been around the other times a digimon's appeared
here!"
Gesomon spotted the two humans, and made a lunge for them. Takato knocked Ms.
Asaji out of the way, but was caught by Gesomon's tentacle. "Takatomon!"
Guilmon yelled. His expression shifted to a snarl, as Guilmon charged Gesomon.
"Pyro Sphere!" he yelled, launching a fireball. The attack struck Gesomon, but
did little damage. "Let Takatomon go!" Guilmon snarled. Gesomon snarled in
reply, dangling Takato in front of Guilmon, using the boy as a shield.
A blast of blue fire caught Gesomon on the back. Nami saw Gabumon had entered
the area, and was also challenging Gesomon. "Be careful!" Nami yelled. "He's
got Takato!"
==
Hitomi felt her way down the hall, wishing this fog wasn't so blinding.
Behind her, she heard footsteps. "Who's there?" she demanded.
"It's me!" Jeri called. "I can't see!" Sighing, Hitomi made her way back,
and took Jeri's hand.
"Why are you here? It's dangerous!"
"You went in!" Jeri replied.
"Yeah, but Eevee and Noctowl are coming." Hitomi sighed, wondering if her
parents ever had days like this. "Well, just stay with me, all right?"
"We are partners. Besides, you still have that assignment sheet." Jeri
giggled.
Smiling, Hitomi checked her D-3. "We're close. It should be just up this
way." Hitomi led Jeri up a flight of stairs.
"I think we're nearing the large tanks they keep the sharks in. I saw it on
the map Ms. Asaji gave us."
"The outdoor one? Good, that means if there's a fight, we won't cause as much
damage." Hitomi went back to picking her way along the stairs. "I think the
fog's starting to thin out. We must be close." She looked at Jeri. "Just
promise you'll stay clear, all right? I don't want anything to happen to you."
Jeri nodded. the two stepped over the threshold, through the open doors. The
fog abruptly gave away.
"Gesomon!" Hitomi gasped. "How'd it get here?"
"He's got Takato!" Jeri shrieked.
"Eevee! Where are you!" Hitomi yelled. A raptor's cry got her attention, as
Noctowl, Eevee on his back, dove down, landing in front of the two girls.
"You called?" Eevee asked. "I brought a pokeball. We can catch that thing
and sneak it out of here!" Hitomi nodded, picking up the pokeball and
expanding it to its regular size. "I'd better digivolve!"
Hitomi nodded. "Digiarmour energize!"
"Eevee, armour digivolve to...Templarmon, loyal defender!" Templarmon looked
over Gesomon, wondering where to strike first. "Hitomi, Gesomon's got Takato.
I can't use any of my attacks!"
"Why not?" Jeri asked.
"They're all electricity based." Hitomi explained. "Any attack he used would
be conducted to Takato. Noctowl, can you hypnotize Gesomon?" Noctowl flew
over, but couldn't get close enough.
Gesomon heard Hitomi, and tried to attack her, tentacle shooting towards her
and Jeri. The two girls dodged, but Hitomi lost her grip on the pokeball. It
rolled towards the pool. Jeri ran over and picked it up. "I've got it!" Jeri
called. Gesomon tried to grab Jeri this time, but Gabumon knocked Jeri clear.
The tentacle closed around Gabumon and lifted him up.
==Hypnos
"Building is not completely clear. I'm getting reports of humans still in the
area." Reilly reported. "Also, we have reports of explosions. Wild One
confirmed in area, type unknown. Tracer not responding."
"Our response teams?" Yamaki asked, voice hard.
"On the way."
"Response teams?" Janyu asked.
"Special teams assigned to capture and bring in any Wild Ones that appear.
Once done, the Wild Ones are studied and, if necessary, destroyed."
"You're kidding." Dolphin gasped. "They're alive!"
"'They' are nothing more than electronic signals with delusions of grandeur."
Yamaki replied in that same hard tone. "Or would you rather those things that
you created wander the streets freely, destroying everything in sight?"
Dolphin was about to reply, when he caught Babel's expression. "I see." was
what Dolphin could manage.
"What about humans that are caught in the crossfire?" Janyu asked, voice level.
"We've been lucky so far in that no one has actually encountered a wild one
and made a credible report about it. If necessary, we detain any humans who
come into contact with digimon and debrief them, then swear them to secrecy.
This is not a child's game, Janyu. This is a war."
More like a vendetta, Janyu thought to himself. Unknown to him, Dolphin and
Babel were thinking the same thing.
==
"Now what?" Jeri asked as Gabumon was lifted up to near where Takato was
hanging. Guilmon and Templarmon circled Gesomon, waiting for a chance to
attack.
"Hitomi! Jeri!" Nami yelled. "Get out of here!"
"We can't leave Takato and Gabumon behind!" Jeri protested. "We have to stop
Gesomon!"
"Jeri!" Hitomi called. "Press the button on that pokeball, and throw it at
Gesomon when I give you the word! That'll capture it so we can get it out of
here without anyone noticing." Jeri nodded. Hitomi caught Templarmon's eye;
the armoured digimon nodded, and got ready. "Templarmon, attack!"
"Go!" Templarmon yelled. He dodged a swat from Gesomon's tentacle, then ran
up the limb, punching the aquatic digimon in the head, then backflipping off.
Gesomon fired a spray of ink, catching Templarmon in the face. He rolled,
landing near Ms. Asaji. "Jeri, NOW!" Templarmon yelled.
Jeri nodded, pressing the button and hurling the ball. Gesomon saw this item
coming at her, and tried to block it with one of his hostages. As luck (and
dramatic necessity -ed) would have it, the pokeball hit Gabumon instead. The
ball opened, sucked Gabumon in, and returned to Jeri's hand.
"Ah NUTS!" Takato yelled. Distracted, Guilmon jumped onto one of Gesomon's
arms, and bit down hard. Gesomon roared in pain, grip on Takato slackening.
Templarmon, having wiped most of the ink off his face, saw this, jumped onto
the tentacle that held Takato, and pulled the boy off.
"Hitomi! Something's happening!" The pokeball in Jeri's hand was sparking,
and rocking back and forth, as if trying to get out. Abruptly, the ball
opened, and Gabumon reappeared.
"What was THAT all about?" Gabumon yelled at Jeri. "I thought I was going to
suffocate in there!"
"I was trying to catch Gesomon! Really!" Unnoticed, the now open pokeball
continued to spark. Then, it glowed white, its shape shifting.
"Well, you could have...what's that?" Gabumon asked. Jeri looked at her hand,
ready to answer that it was a pokeball, when she saw it had changed into
something more familiar to her. "It's a digivice." she breathed. It was a
digivice, resembling the ones Takato, Henry, and Rika had. However, this one
had a yellow ring around the screen.
"A what?" Gabumon asked. "Wait, you don't mean..."
"Look out!" Hitomi yelled. Gesomon span in the tank, and fired a blast of ink
at Jeri and Gabumon. Jeri screamed, and crouched down. As she did, her
digivice lit up, light flaring out of it.
"Gabumon, digivolve to...Leomon!" Leomon blocked the shot, black ink spraying
over his chest. "I'm back to my Champion form." Leomon whispered, stunned.
"Did that girl do this?" Then, in a louder voice. "I don't know what's going
on here, but I think you've worn out your welcome. Fist of the Beast King!"
Leomon's attack slammed into Gesomon, forcing the digimon against the wall of
the tank it was now trapped in.
"Payback time!" Takato exclaimed. "Digi-modify! Raidramon's Thunder Blast
activate!" Guilmon fired a bolt of lightning, which got a boost from
Templarmon's own Thunder Baton attack. Gesomon writhed in the tank, then
disintegrated.
"That was...different." Leomon said, then glowed and reverted to Gabumon.
"Hey, I changed back!" He looked at Jeri. "This is going to take some
explaining."
"Just great." Nami sighed. "Now we've got another one. They never covered
this in university."
==Hypnos
"Teams report that there were no Wild Ones in the area, though there was
extensive damage to the upper areas. It looks like there was a fight there."
Talli finished her report after debriefing the investigators, then let Reilly
take over.
"Just before the Wild One was eliminated, we recorded two power spikes,
possibly from other Wild Ones in the area. It may have been them that
eliminated the first one."
"Any images? Clues left behind?" Yamaki asked.
Reilly shook her head. "Nothing yet, sir. Technician Ramone is working on
footage from one of the security cameras; he said he might be able to clean up
the image a bit.
In his office, Technician Michael Ramone stared at the screen. It was mostly
static, but he could pick out a few forms moving around. He knew that whatever
had removed that digimon was powerful, and possibly a source of trouble for his
own plans. Still, he knew he could uncover something useful. After all, he
had an edge when it came to digital equipment.
==2 hours later.
"You wished to see me?" Yamaki asked Ramone as he entered Yamaki's office.
"Yes, I managed to uncover something you might find interesting. I was only
able to get a partial image off the feed from the security cameras, but I
managed to clean up the image enough to make this out." Ramone handed over a
set of printouts, screen captures from the security camera. "I believe that
this is the same girl that Reilly reported in the park a few weeks back, yes?"
Yamaki looked at the photos. It was indeed her, that same girl that he had
tried to follow, the one with the odd creature on her shoulder. She had
something out, a small oval device, but he couldn't make it out. She looked so
normal, yet he could not find out anything about her.
"Orders, sir?" Ramone asked.
Yamaki looked up. This is a war, he reminded himself. If she is who she
appears to be, then she has nothing to fear. "That's all right. I'll see to
this myself. You've done well, Ramone. I will need you again in a day or so."
Ramone nodded, and left. Once he had, Yamaki picked up a phone, and began
giving orders.
==2 days later.
Hitomi was in the park, taking Eevee for a walk. She had to leave her
pokegear at home, as the charge was low. Noctowl had declined to come along,
preferring to sleep in the daytime.
"It's weird, isn't it? Jeri's a Tamer now." Eevee said to Hitomi. "I wonder
how long it will take for Gabumon to get used to the idea."
"He did sound a bit like Terriermon, at least whenever Suzie gets a hold of
him." The two kept walking along the path.
They were approaching the exit when a pair of hands reached out of one of the
bushes and grabbed Hitomi. She tried to scream, but one of the attacker's
hands was clamped around her mouth. Snarling, Eevee turned, trying to tackle
the man, but was intercepted by a second man. Both were wearing suits and
black sunglasses.
Hitomi started kicking, and the heel of her shoe landed on her assailant's
kneecap, hard enough to make the man grunt in pain, and release Hitomi. Eevee
had managed to dodge around his attacker, and had managed to land several bites
on his hands and face. "RUN!" he yelled. Hitomi started to, then felt a sharp
jab in her back. Suddenly woozy, she collapsed, the knockout drug making her
unconscious in seconds. Eevee went berserk, slamming his head into the second
attacker's chin, knocking that man out, and loosening several of his teeth in
the process. He jumped off, and ran at the third attacker, a man with what
looked like a large rifle. His Skull Bash flattened that man, but not before
he received two darts. Eevee collapsed.
"Hypnos agent Yagami. We have them, but need medical assistance."
Next Episode
Learning that Hypnos has captured Hitomi and Eevee, the other tamers mount a
raid to try and recover her. However, they must make it into the Hypnos
building, where they learn something surprising about Yamaki. Next time on
Digicross Tamers:
-Bring Back Hitomi! Rika and Jeri to the rescue!