Tamers EXE 2 Chapter 10.
"The area in Namaste is where I can feel Laika's spirit reacting with mine. The island area is coordinants given to me by Zhuqiaoumon. He said that that's where the activity of Darkloid digimon is strongest, it's possible that's the place where the digimon are entering the real world from!" Xuanwumon said.
"We should tell Dr. Hikari and Meijin about this!" Meiru gasped.
"No need to worry about that! I had my secretaries do that for you because I felt they needed to know this new information!" The mayor said.
"Thank you for your help, sir! It is much needed and greatly appreciated!" Enzan said.
Suddenly a Dimensional area was set up around the Tri-city area, and a Dokugumon appeared from behind a nearby skyscraper. Netto, and Enzan slashed their blue cards right away, allowing Guilmon and Impmon to evolve to Growlmon and Boogeymon.
"Leomon! Help them out!" Meiru shouted.
Leomon unsheathed Shishioumaru and jumped into battle. The Giant Spider digimon shot a web cannonball from it's mouth at the three digimon. Leomon jumped out of it's path, and Boogeymon flew away from the web, but Growlmon was too big and slow to avoid it. The cannonball opened up into a full-blown spider web which covered the red dinosaur digimon.
"Growlmon! Battle Chip! Sword, Wide Sword, Long Sword! Slot IN!"
Rockman used his Life sword to cut Growlmon free of Dokugumon's web.
Card Slash! Mugendramon: Giga Cannon!" Netto shouted, slashing a card.
A Giga Cannon appeared on Growlmon's back. Growlmon shot a powerful laser at the big spider digimon, damaging it heavily. In a pained frenzy, the Dokugumon waved it's front legs around, barely scratching Boogeymon's left arm.
"Boogeymon!" Enzan yelled.
Suddenly, a dark aura engulfed the spider digimon, and half of it's injuries were healed. With some fight in it left, the Dokugumon shot poisonous web tissue out of it's mouth. The webbing hit Growlmon, Leomon and Boogeymon. In it's rampage, the Dokugumon crushed the car that took the net saviours to the city hall. (The driver had stepped out of the car earlier.) Deciding they needed a little extra help, Roll healed Growlmon, Leomon and Boogeymon with her powers.
"Battle-Chip! Sword, Wide Sword, Long Sword! Slot in! Program Advance!" Enzan yelled, inserting the corresponding battlechips in Blues's side of the PET-Arc.
"Battle-Chip! Cannon, G-Cannon, M-Cannon! Slot in! Program Advance!" Netto yelled, inserting the corresponding battlechips in Rockman's side of the PET-Arc.
Rockman and Blues's combined Program Advance attacks severely wounded the Dokugumon, Leomon finished it off with a Beast King Fist attack. After the spider digimon was destroyed, the dimensional area disappeared, much to the relief of the citizens. Netto wiped the sweat off of his brow and sighed.
"Are you alright, sir?" Meiru asked the mayor.
"Yes, thank you...Everybody else alright?" Asked the mayor.
"Oh, crap! The car's been totalled! Now how will we get back to Scilabs...?" Netto whined.
"Oh, my! This is not good, how about I arrange a ride back to Scilabs for you? It's the least I can do for your help!" The mayor offered.
He then turned to the man next to him. "Get the limo ready on the double!" He ordered.
"Sir."
And so the tamers and the driver of the original car rode back to the scilabs building in the mayor's personal limosine. When they arrived, the first to get out were Netto and Guilmon, then Meiru and Leomon, and the last to get out were Enzan and Impmon. When they entered, they first reported to the Net police, the other Net Saviours and the scientists.
"How did it go?" Manabe asked.
Enzan held out Laika's PET-Arc. "The mayor was asked by the Sharoan government to give us this. Apparently Laika dropped it at the site of the attack..."
"Yes, and according to Xuanwumon, Laika and Terriermon are being held prisoner somewhere in Namaste..." Meiru added.
"I see..." Kifune acknowledged.
Searchman and Xuanwumon's holograms appeared over the PET-Arc. Xuanwumon moved a green orb over the device's screen, and inside it's center was a white light, small and dim.
"I am connected to Laika's spirit, I can pinpoint his location and help you find him. That light represents Laika's life energy, it shrinks as he gets weaker and grows as he grows stronger. If he dies, the light disappears. We must find him before this happens."
"Laika..." Netto murmured.
There were several worried murmurs from the crowd of people. Yuuichiro gave his son a reassuring hug and smiled a caring smile.
Netto hugged his father back. Searchman got on his knees.
"Please let me help you save Laika. My tracking and searching abilities outmatch any NetNavi in existance...I can be of assistance in any way possible...Let me help you please!" He begged.
There was a small silence. Kifune broke the silence by giving an order.
"Ok, listen up! Half of you and your digimon will be sent to Namaste, and the other half will investigate the island region where there's darkloid digimon activity, you will be escorted by authorities once you get there during the entire search! Team one, follow Xuanwumon's lead, and please...Try to bring him and Terriermon back alive. Team two, best of luck." He declared.
Later the first group took the first plane they could get to the desert country. The second group took a ship to the southern pacific islands. The first group consisted of Yuriko, Miyabi and Mushamon, Pride and Knightmon, Charlie and Hawkmon, and Dingo and Dinohumon. The second group sent to infiltrate the island consisted of Netto and Guilmon, Meiru and Leomon, Jasmine and Renamon, Enzan and Impmon, Nenji and Tyrannomon and Tesla and Thundermon. When the first group got to the airport lobby, they saw six officials waiting for them, the one out in the front held out his identification and said "Net saviours I presume? We are members of the Namaste police force, we're coming to escort you. The southeast part of the city you'll be searching in is very dangerous."
There was a small pause. Charlie then replied "Thank you. Let's get going!"
"The sooner we find Laika, the better..." Pride said.
Yuriko was in charge of holding Laika's PET-Arc. Xuanwumon's orb materialized over the monitor, and a green arrow appeared in front of it. The flame inside was dangerously small.
"I will lead the way, just follow the arrow!" Xuanwumon's voice instructed.
Xuanwumon lead them through the crowded streets of the shantytowns for about an hour and a half until the arrow disappeared upon reaching an empty building.
"Wait a minute! We remember this place!" One member of the Namaste police force shouted.
"This was our former headquarters until we moved to the new building..." The chief said.
"Wouldn't a police station have jail cells and stuff?" Dingo asked.
"The perfect place for holding someone hostage..." Miyabi said.
"We'll make sure it's safe, you kids stay back!" The chief said. "Everyone in position?"
The policemen broke down the door and aimed their rifles at any potential threats. The main lobby was empty. The chief gestured for the group to come in, and the Net-Saviours followed the police through the building. Miyabi opened a door leading down a hall. He skulked down the hall under the cover of the shadows, careful not to be seen. He stopped at the last cell at the end of the hallway and gasped.
"It's Wily and Terriermon!" He shouted.
As the police followed after, Miyabi used a throwing star to pick the lock on the door. Terriermon was curled up asleep in a dog's cage inside the cell. Dr. Wily recognized Miyabi's face and sighed in relief.
"Thank god you've made it here. The professor hasn't hurt me out of respect for me, but he wasn't so respectful to Laika...He is a cruel, twisted man..." Dr. Wily shuddered.
"Terriermon?" Pride asked.
When Terriermon awoke, he pleaded with his friends.
"I'm so relieved to see you guys here! You have to help Laika! I haven't seen him yet, but for the past couple of days I've heard his screams of pain! It was horrible!"
"So Laika IS here!" Yuriko said.
Terriermon pointed towards the door nearest them and said "Judging by the screams, he's somewhere in that end of the building. Please hurry!" He cried.
The little dog digimon jumped on top of Charlie's head. The group looked at the orb on Laika's PET-Arc and noticed that the flame had gotten smaller.
"This is bad..." Dingo muttered.
"We have to find him, and fast!" Tesla said.
"Please don't let us be too late..." Pride sighed.
They explored the other side further until after five minutes of searching, they found who they were looking for. Laika's bare chest was covered with bruises and scratches, his back had long gashes on them, and he was currently unconscious. Dingo turned away from the group and retched violently at the sight. Even Miyabi, who was normally tough as nails, was disturbed by Laika's condition.
Pride and Yuriko got into position and Miyabi unlocked the chains with a dagger.
"Get this boy out of here!" The chief of police ordered.
Meanwhile on the southern pacific island...
Netto lead the team ashore and held out his PET-Arc.
"Now everybody check out their area maps..." Netto suggested.
Netto and the others studied their area maps carefully, and after looking at it intently, Renamon stepped forward and said "Let me move ahead. I sense something..."
The fur on her back bristled. Leomon unsheathed his sword and stepped forward as well. The team traveled through the thick, dense jungles until Jasmine tripped on an uprooted tree.
"Ouch! My ankle!" She whined.
"Jasmine, are you alright?" Netto asked.
Nenji hoisted Jasmine over his shoulder and said "Let me carry you the rest of the way, Jasmine. We're not too far from the lab, anyway."
"Yes. Thank you, Nenji!" Jasmine replied.
"Oh, I should have known better that to wear heels..." Tesla sighed in frustration.
They continued walking through the jungle until they saw a small, grey building standing atop a short hill. The group smiled, relieved that the walking part was over.
"Phew! Finally, we found it!" Meiru cheered.
The group approached the lab when all of a sudden, a dimensional area appeared over the island. And then an army of Darkloid copyroids appeared to guard the suspicious building. Rockman and the other Net Saviour navis and the digimon materialized to fight off the darkloids.
"Copyroids...Looks like we're going to have to fight our way in..." Enzan cursed.
The net saviours simultaneously inserted synchrochips.
"Syncrochip IN! Cross-Fusion!"
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DIGIMONTAMERSEXE2
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Two police officers waited outside the facility to guard the van. One of the men saw the kids carrying out Laika and cheered, but fell silent after seeing how battered and bruised he was. The men laid the injured boy gently in the back, put a blanket over him, and the police took the group to the best hospital in Namaste. The thought of what might have transpired there made the chief's stomach turn.
"What kind of monster would do this to someone so young?" He thought to himself.
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PROFESSOR'SREVENGE
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R-Nenji's napalm bombs combined with R-Medii's capsule-bombs cleared the first swarm of rogue navis. A large circle of them ganged up on the digimon. The digimon were able to delete the guards successfully, albeit receiving a few minor injuries in the process. Two large, burly, powerful-looking netnavis remained, the first one tried to tackle R-Blues, but he quickly sidestepped out of the way. The other big darkloid navi had tried to punch R-Rockman, but R-Rockman jumped backwards to avoid being hit.
R-Rockman tried to hurt his enemy with a flurry of shots from his rockbuster, then a charge shot, but nothing fazed him. R-Roll shot a Roll arrow at the navi, but it grabbed it in midair and crushed it with his massive hand. R-Blues jumped at the second giant navi and tried to slice him with his sword, but the blade left nary a scratch.
"Shit! These guys are like walls!" R-Rockman groaned.
"I have an idea. Let's try a Program advance on each of them at the same time!" R-Blues suggested.
"I don't know if it'll work, but let's try it anyway..." R-Rockman mumbled.
"Battle-Chip! Cannon! Hi-Cannon! M-Cannon! Program Advance! Giga Cannon!" R-Rockman declared.
"Battle-Chip! Sword! Wide Sword! Long Sword! Program Advance! Life Sword!" R-Blues declared.
R-Rockman and R-Blues targeted the same Brawny Darkloid, and their combined attacks deleted it. Leomon, Guilmon, Renamon, Tyrannomon, Impmon, Thundermon all attacked the other one at the same time, and their combined powers heavily damaged it. R-Napalmman finished it off with a bomb.
After the other net-navi was deleted, everybody caught their breath for a moment.
"Alright, everyone! Let's enter!" R-Rockman declared.
Netto's team entered the looming building, the Dimensional area still up...
Meanwhile at the Namaste hospital...
"So, with a few days of rest, Laika will be well enough to leave, however my biggest concern is the psychological trauma that the boy has suffered during his imprisonment." The doctor explained.
"What a relief he'll be okay..." Dingo sighed.
"Poor kid must've been through hell." Miyabi commented.
"Laika..." Pride murmured.
TBC.
(Author's note. You'll find out why the dimensional area was still up in the next chapter.)