Hope everyone enjoys the cheesiness of this chapter XD
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The van hit every bump and pot hole with perfect precision making the teenage captives bounce and ricochet around the back of it, each teenager had their eyes stared at one boy, their eyes were cold and filled with anger, confusion and disappointment. No one said a word.
"Explain Azza" Tai said breaking the silence "You seem to know something of this"
"All you need to know is that this is Echo and that-" Azza couldn't bring himself to finish his sentence
"Azza?" Kari asked worried and afraid
"That we're all gonna die" Azza sighed closing his eyes fighting back he tears "I'm sorry I've brought you all to your deaths"
"What!" Tai snarled in outrage "You bastard"
He propelled his foot and hit Azza square in the jaw making his glasses fly off and blood fill his mouth
Azza chuckled
"You were right Matt" he said his eyes filling with tears as he spoke "Death and Destruction wherever I go"
Matt had sobered up extremely quickly when he had been tackled and arrested, he turned his eyes away from Azza
"Azza?" Julia sobbed, Azza couldn't look at her, her voice became harsh and angry as tears ran down her face "Look at me!"
Azza turned his head to look at her
"I-I'm sorry" he said more tears forming over his face "I didn't want you to be dragged into this"
"But you love working at Echo both you and Tom did nothing but talk about it for as long as I've known you" Julia sobbed "So why have they suddenly turned on you?"
Azza opened his mouth to speak but Tai cut him off
"What is this Echo?" he growled
"Its an organisation" Azza sighed "It used to help send rogue Digimon back to the Digital World or treat them if they were ill etcetera"
"Doesn't sound so bad" Izzy said, Tai glared at him
"Your right Izzy it wasn't, but then the Head Coordinator, Dr Naigen, disappeared and was replaced by Dr. Lazarus, the man you saw tonight" Azza sighed "He began corrupting the organisation and when we tried to leave he found means of blackmailing us-"
"Us?" Julia asked "What's been happening and to who?"
"The whole of Alpha Team we've all been forced to stay in service somehow" Azza sighed "Jack's grades would only be kept up if he stayed in service, Zac's family would be able to live in a proper house rather then the streets if he stayed, Sian tried to leave but an 'accident' put her in a coma that she hasn't awoken from yet, Nathan gets to work hand in hand with the Navy as long as he answers to Echo first and as for George he's the only one they had no hold over so he managed to get away before all this escalated, Tom was always the good soldier though he just took orders without any sense of personal honour"
Azza looked around into their eyes for any sense of understanding
"And you?" Julia said still disgusted with her boyfriend "What excuse do you have to remain with them if they disgust you so much"
Azza swallowed hard trying to bring himself to word it
"Well?" Julia sobbed angrily getting impatient
"Thomas" Azza sighed
Julia looked gob smacked while the others were confused
"Who's Thomas?" T.K. asked
"His nephew" Julia said still shocked "Azza what's happened to him?"
Azza was shaking with worry, anger, depression all the emotions he had buried for the last three years that they had him finally dug their way to his surface, the others looked at him waiting for an answer
"Azza!" Julia screamed her emotions taking over "What have they done with him?"
"T-they t-t-took him" Azza cried "When e-ever I don't c-cooperate they hurt h-him"
The silence became eerie
"How longs this been going on?" Julia asked crawling closer to him
"Three years" he said "Its his birthday tomorrow…what's to say they haven't already killed him"
Azza broke down finally three years of worry and depression caught up with him as his eyes went manic, and he shook as if he were extremely cold, he looked around the van with the manic eyes not seeing not feeling just looking. Julia rested her head on his shoulder and he jumped, feeling her soft hair brush his neck and her soft cheeks rest on his shoulder, his breath calmed and his shaking slowed.
"We're gonna save him" Julia said her face smiled but her eyes were filled with dread and worry "I promise you"
"Don't make promises that aren't certain to work" Azza said moving from her affection turning from the Digidestined "We have no hope"
"There's always hope" T.K. said, his chest glowing yellow "Even in the darkest hour without hope what do we have?"
"Well a light would help" Azza sarcastically responded
"That does always help" Kari replied, her chest glowing pink "If there's no light in your soul then your just empty"
"It would be foolish to try" Azza sighed
"Not idiocy" Izzy said his chest glowing purple "If we have the knowledge to know what we're getting ourselves into"
"Wow guys" Azza smiled "After everything that's happened how is it possible for you to still rely on me?"
"No matter what the person" Joe said his chest glowing silver "They still have someone who needs to rely on them"
"We may fight and argue" Mimi said her chest glowing green "But without each other where's the happiness? Where's the Sincerity?"
"We're like a family" Sora smiled her chest glowing red "No matter how much we disagree at the end of the day we still love each other"
"It's the kindness towards each other that keeps us strong" Ken said as his chest glowed rose
"And even when all else fails even a miracle can be performed" Davis smiled his chest glowing gold
"But what kind of friend would I be to let you guys risk this" Azza sighed "This is my problem to solve"
"What friends would let you tackle this alone" Matt said his chest glowing blue "Besides its our decision what we do with our lives"
"And if we have the courage to stand up for what's right" Tai said his chest glowing orange "Then by god nothing can stand in our way"
They looked at their chests and their eyes closed
"Kindness"
"Miracles"
"Light"
"Hope"
"Reliability"
"Sincerity"
"Knowledge"
"Love"
"Friendship"
"Courage"
Azza turned to Julia
"You can't stay" Azza said "I cant lose you and if I'm to die then your beauty must live on"
"Beauty is only to the eye of the beholder" Julia smiled, her chest glowing violet "Besides I'd rather have a massacred face then a massacred nephew"
Azza looked around at everyone, their faces showed determination
"I know Echo, and there tough" Azza sighed "Tougher then most Digimon none of your destiny's are to die here that much I'm sure"
"Destinies can change Azza" Cody smiled his chest glowing a mixture of grey and purple
"We make our decisions for what's right" Yolei interrupted her chest glowing a mixture of green and red
"Destiny can change" Azza whispered thinking, he laughed loudly "Of course how could I be so stupid nothing is set in stone if there is willpower"
His chest shone a bright ivory
Both Azza's and Julia's D-Touches began to manically beep and shine, suddenly two bright orbs of light floated in front of Azza and Julia
"What the-" Azza said in confusion as the light began to subside
Laying on the floor where one orb had been was a small fluffy white creature, his snout was long and he had no arms instead to fin-like wings, there were no legs only a small tail. His eyes opened and met Azza's
Where the other light had been now rested a small rodent like creature her small ears twitching as she slept, she was white with golden stripes along her body and her small flesh tail swayed gently through the dust of the van, she opened her eyes looking at Julia
The first creature jumped at Azza catching him in an embrace while the second merely crawled up onto Julia's shoulder nestling gently into her cheek
"Who are you" Azza asked puzzled and slightly scared
"I'm Nimbusmon silly" the creature chuckled "I'm your partner"
"And I'm Haosmon" the mouse creature whispered "I've waited a long time to meet you"
Azza and Julia were taken aback as were the other Digidestined, before another word was said there was another flurry of manic beeping and twelve more orbs of light burst to reveal more creatures
In front of Tai laid a yellow dinosaur with long claws and a large snout
In front of Matt was a furry humanoid wolf with blue fure with purple stripes, one long yellow horn sticking from his head
In front of Sora was a pink bird with a large red beak and ring around her right leg
In front of Izzy was a red bug, large for bug standards, his bulbous eyes a lime green and his arms long and thin
In front of Joe was a small white seal with an orange Mohican, purple marking across his face, back and forearms
In front of Mimi laid a green humanoid plant a bloomed flower acted as her hair, and her long arms were peaked with three long purple claws on each
In front of T.K. was a small guinea-pig like creature with large orange ears that were folded in its sleep, it had small padded feet and a mini tail at the back
In front of Kari was a large (compared to real world) white cat with large ears tipped with purple, a long winding tail with purple stripes running up it at the peak it fanned out into three purple strands, around it was a bulky golden ring with strange markings around it
In front of Davis was a blue lizard with a white horn on its snout and a yellow 'V' on its forehead. The creatures blue hands were large and round as they lay sprawled on the floor
In front of Ken was a over sized caterpillar- creature with long antenna and purple claws, its mouth was like a purple fly trap and it had a purple marking on its forehead.
In front of Yolei lay a red bird with a white feathered head with a belt around its head, a red feather with a yellow tip stuck out of the belt. its wings had three black talons on both.
In front of Cody lay a yellow marsupial- creature with a hard shell on its back and on its forehead, two large ears stuck out either side of his face, on the forehead was a strange red pattern.
The Digidestined stared in amazement and shock
"Agumon!"
"Gabumon!"
"Biyomon!"
"Tentomon!"
"Palmon!"
"Gommamon!"
"Patamon!"
"Gatomon!"
"Veemon!"
"Wormmon!"
"Hawkmon!"
"Armadillomon!"
The Digimon woke up and looked around in amazement and joy
"Tai!"
"Matt!"
"Sora!"
"Izzy!"
"Mimi!"
"Joe!"
"T.K.!"
"Kari!"
"Davish!"
"Ken!"
"Yolei!"
"Cody!"
The Digimon and their partners embraced tightly tears of joy running down their cheeks. The Digimon looked pained and exhausted some even had bruises and blackened eyes
"Why are we in a van Tai?" Agumon's high pitched voice asked
"We've been arrested mate" Tai sighed
"What have you lot done now?" Tentomon sighed
"Nothing" Izzy giggled "We've been arrested for being Digidestined I think"
Izzy turned to Azza, they still hadn't had a full explanation
"I think that's it" Azza sighed, he generally didn't know why they had been dragged along "They wanted me for betrayal I don't know what they have planned for you, my main concern is how the Digimon have got here since I-"
He stopped, he hadn't told them yet, they looked at him waiting for an answer. Azza sighed now was the time to tell all
"Since you what?" Matt asked
"Echo sent me to Odaiba on a mission, I wasn't here for a social visit" he sighed, he saw Tai's eyes flash with anger once more "But I was also here to try and bring Echo to a stand-still"
"Explain" Tai growled
"The mission was to close the gate here in Odaiba so that no more Digimon could pass through worlds and also so no more humans could stumble into the Digital World" Azza said he quickly continued before Tai could get a word in "Me and Alpha Team arranged it so that we were the ones being shipped across the world to the different gates, seven in all-"
"Cut to the chase Azza" Tai snarled
"I'm getting there Tai, please just wait" Azza sighed "The only way to close the gates is with a D-Touch, hence why Alpha Team were the only ones suitable for the job, when the gate is closed by the D-Touch the only way to open again is from the same D-Touch. Five had been closed by the time I arrived that just left the gate in Odaiba and in Echo Headquarters, London. Me and another member of Alpha Team called Zac found out that if we connected the power of five D-Touches from all the continents apart from the continent in which the gate is then you can close the gate and absorb its energy and store it within the shared power of the D-Touches"
"Meaning?" Mimi asked
"Meaning that each D-Touch used has a fraction of the gate" Izzy said "Am I right?"
"Yes" Azza smiled "The energy that the gates give out is shared equally into our D-Touches until such time as we release the energy"
"What happens then?" Izzy asked "Will the energy all re-calibrate itself to the original point or something else?"
"No, the energy will open a portal exactly whe-" Azza stopped and smiled
"What is it?" Julia asked
"The energy will open a portal where you are" Azza said in glee, bringing his voice to a hush to be certain the drivers didn't hear anything "I have an idea but it's terribly risky"
"What is it" Tai asked
"The part of the gate that resides in my D-Touch will make a portal into the Digital World which would close behind me as I walked through"
Izzy clapped his hands in amazement
"The only problem is without any technological source there is no way of pinpointing a location to emerge we could emerge in the middle of a volcano or something" Azza said
"We have to try though" T.K. said "Are we all agreed that we try"
"Agreed" the Digidestined and their Digimon said nodding there heads
"And with the time difference between here and the Digital World if we can open a portal at Sora's house we may be able to save some of the guests"
The atmosphere went cold
"What?" Azza said "What's wrong?"
There was a silence before Izzy spoke
"When we last visited the Digital World the fight with Eramon, a Digimon who controlled the time, when he was defeated the two worlds once again became in sync with each other"
Azza looked defeated, he looked at Sora
"I'm sorry" he said
Sora didn't say a word
Azza pulled his sleeve up from behind his back where his hands were cuffed and revealed his D-Touch, pushing numerous button (A/N: its important to remember that he presses numerous buttons whereas George only pressed one in the previous chapter) it glowed and shot out a ray of light. The ray of light moulded and shifted itself into a floating portal with shards hovering around it
The Digidestined stood, luckily they hadn't been shackled to the vehicle and their legs were free one by one they entered the portal, until only Sora, Julia, Azza and their partners remained, he turned to Sora
"I can cause a time lapse when we get there Sora" he said "I could set the time of us returning to an hour before we set it…enough time to evacuate the party"
Sora blankly looked at him for a few seconds considering her answer, her eyes stinging red from her tears
"No" she replied after a while reminiscing the battle with Eramon "I've learned my lesson when it comes to meddling with time"
She and Biyomon stepped into the portal disappearing, Azza turned to Julia
"I'm sorry" Azza said "For everything"
"Its ok" she said "Seeing your reasons have made me love you even more"
She kissed him softly before herself and Haosmon disappeared into the portal as well
Azza twisted his hands so that he could feel inside his pocket, his hands fell on the small black box and he smiled
"You ready for this Nimbusmon?" he asked his companion "Our first adventure"
"Can't wait boss" Nimbusmon said in a squeaky voice climbing to sit on his tamers head
"Hey don't let Julia or Kari catch you up there" Azza chuckled "They took forever on that hair"
"Hmm" Nimbusmon chuckled "I don't know why but you seem like the kinda guy to prefer a hat"
"You know what buddy" Azza laughed "You ain't far wrong"
There was breeze through the portal as a white Stetson hat, slightly larger then Azza's, rolled through. Azza picked it up, Nimbusmon hovered as his partner placed his hat on his head before once again resting on his head. Azza laughed at the chances of that happening then turned into the portal.
The doors of the van opened just as the portal closed, Lazarus stood there his eyes looking where the portal had been. He grinned evilly.
"You've done well agent" he cackled
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Looks like things are really heating up hope you like the final comment from Lazarus. What does it mean? I hear you cry, keep reading.
What about this small black box Azza's carrying ey? The first person who can message me with the right answer to what's in it will get a cameo somewhere in the story (so that means your name if yours doesn't sound like a character I will try and fit it in somehow)
Also I have seen that reviews are quite thin on the ground so please when you read this just spend two seconds to write a review even if you just say the word good or something just so I know that I'm not wasting my time thanks XD.
And final comment (before this comment bit gets longer then the actual chapter) would you fans be interested in seeing some concept art to the OC's in this story if so I will put some links onto my page. Message me if you would!
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