"Ok guys we got business to attend to!" George said re-emerging into the cave "Operation Breakout is go!"
The Tamers that were sitting in the cave all at once darted around the cave there Digimon hiding any trace that anyone or anything had inhabited the cave, Anna and Sonya mounted Unimon and Snimon taking to the skies while Catherine and Floramon joined Lou astride Tortomon. Willis stood awaiting orders along with George and Zac
"Willis I need you to Digivolve both Lopmon and Terriermon to Mega and lead the way and I shall Digivolve Gigamon and follow behind" George said twisting the face of his D-Touch
"Yes, Sir" Willis replied in his thick American accent, pulling out his Digivice in the process "You heard him guys"
His Digivice shone gold
"Terriermon warp Digivolve to….
….MegaGargomon"
Where Terriermon had once stood now stood a fifty foot tall robot-like creature armoured with large green plates, two long thin plates horizontally pointing from its head, his arms were covered
"Lopmon warp Digivolve to….
….Cherubimon"
Where Lopmon once stood now stood a large angelic creature with pale pink skin and two large ears and large hands, two golden rings tied to his ears
"Zac you and Racoonmon can ride with Cherubimon" Willis smiled "Don't worry he's perfectly safe"
Zac was nervous not only was he flying into battle but he also knew that this Cherubimon had once contracted a virus that corrupted him and caused Cherubimon to nearly destroy half of California, this Cherubimon was different though the infected Cherubimon had been dark blue and purples where as this one was different shades of pink. Cherubimon held out a large hand.
"Hop on!" the Digimon smiled in a deep baritone voice as Zac and Racoonmon leapt into the creatures large palms and being lifted and placed on its shoulder
Willis had already positioned himself on MegaGargomon's large shoulders
"Cherubimon take the west flank make sure to keep an eye on Tortomon in case he needs aerial support" Willis called to his second partner, he looked at Zac and gave him a warm smile before MegaGargomon's rockets volleyed him out of the cave
"Hang on tight little guy" Cherubimon said softly before floating out of the cave leaving George and his partner alone in the cave
"Do you reckon everything will be alright Gigamon?" George sighed
"Negative sir" the Digimon replied "Once we leave this cave we leave for war that we may not return from sir"
George pondered on his decision
"We can turn around now sir" Gigamon interrupted "There's enough power left to make a final portal to anywhere it doesn't have to be here or the Digital World you know where these portals can take you"
"I can't just abandon them there my friends" George sighed "Where's the Justice in that?"
"Justice is not your crest though sir" the Digimon smiled
"And where does it say that a person cannot be more then one thing" George sighed looking down at his D-Touch, the crest of Faith, a black spiral with spines coiling around it looking slightly like an ammonite shell, blazing on his wrist "Besides it shows a lot when I don't even have faith in myself for this task"
Gigamon looked up and smiled
"Its not the first time a Digidestined has questioned there own power" he said "But deep within you it is true, the crests choose you so they know who is the best for that purpose…the crest chose you because of the faith you display in others"
"You really think that?" George smiled
"Only you can answer that one" Gigamon replied "Now we had better catch up before we lose them"
George nodded and turned the face of his D-Touch it glowed golden
"Gigamon Digivolve to…..
….Cyborgmon"
Where Gigamon once stood was now a bulky humanoid with thick armour of metal and mechanics around his body, he looked like an Ogremon with parts of Machinedramon as armour, he wasn't ugly as Ogremon but neither did he have the radiance of Angemon, on his left arm was a large cannon and over one eye was a blue lens the let him see the data within everything he saw. His voice was now less mechanic but a hint of machine was still audible.
"If you fight then I fight with you" Cyborgmon's low voice said as he looked down on his partner "To whatever end"
George climbed onto Cyborgmon's back as his jet boots kicked into action rocketing them out of the cave
"To whatever end" George thought with a lump in his throat
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"How long will it take us to get there?" Zac asked as he soared through the sky astride the angel
"Longer then usual" Cherubimon sighed "A Digi-Bridge is a lot easier but alas all the gates are closed"
"What's a Digi-Bridge?" George shouted through the wind
"Its like a teleportation system where you travel through the digital signals to another destination via the internet" Cherubimon replied
"Wow that's incredible" Zac smiled "Where about are we now though?"
Cherubimon looked closely at the ground beneath him then shrugged his shoulders
"This is your world you should know" he chuckled "All my life I've been in California, Willis never wanted to take us out to far after what happened with the virus, even though he knew id reconfigure into a healthy Digi-Egg it does something to your brain that drives you slightly crazy each time"
"Humans aren't used to it" Zac said "When we die we just die"
"But what happens then?" Cherubimon asked confused
"No one knows" Zac laughed "I suppose you could say no ones lived long enough to find out, but there are whole I suppose you could say organisations dedicated to theories of what happens"
"So you leave it all to chance" Cherubimon asked confused
"Pretty much" Zac replied
"What about the facts or the data?" Cherubimon asked becoming more and more puzzled
"There aren't any" Zac smiled "That's what makes living so enjoyable cuz you never know what will happen"
"So you have absolutely no way of knowing when anything will happen" Cherubimon said with a slight terror in his voice
"That's the whole fun of it" Zac said "But its also the curse"
"Curse?" Cherubimon's voice boomed
"Your constantly worried and your blood rushes whenever you do something remotely dangerous knowing that this could be it if you fuck up" Zac laughed, he knew just how bad living on the edge of things had been.
He had once lived rough on the streets after his father had lost his job and before he joined Echo, a large part of him wished he hadn't made that choice. But Echo had not always been bad, when Dr. Naigen had been in charge he had always felt like he was dong justice to both this world and the Digital World, but now with Lazarus he knew that all those feelings were left behind and with now being exposed for his plan, he would most likely find himself sleeping rough again soon, he hoped his parents were ok, but then it hit him that knowing Lazarus then his parents were long dead. His eyes foamed with the beginning of tears.
"Why you crying?" Racoonmon asked quietly "Your not nervous are you?"
"No, its not that" Zac sniffed "I've done this kinda stuff millions of times before, im jus thinking of how far will this go before anything gets better"
"There's more to it then that" Racoonmon said "I can see it in you"
"Its my father" Zac sighed "He also works for Echo, I'm going to war against my father"
"Wow dramatic" Racoonmon joked, Zac couldn't help but smile
Zac looked around him, he saw Unimon flying beside him, his partner Anna's eyes were still red from the tears she had shed over Yuri, he had noticed that all the Digidestined present didn't speak very good English apart from himself, George, Willis and Lou, although being in constant access to Digital streams, there Digimon were lingual in many if not all languages.
Snimon was flying not to far from Cherubimon with Sonya resting quietly on her back her face stern but still with a hint of fear, below Zac could just see the heads of Lou, Catherine and Floramon bouncing on top of the colossal Tortomon as they slammed through the foliage below, Catherine's eyes were full of fear and her face was pale as she held tightly to Tortomon's thick back spines
"Why is she so scared?" Zac asked himself quietly
"She's never fought anything this big before" Cherubimon sighed "She the Order's newest member, apart from you, and also the least experienced"
"Has she ever fought?" Racoonmon asked
"Once" Cherubimon replied "Her government files say that she though in France last Christmas Eve against Mamemon, BigMamemon, MetalMamemon and Giromon, her Floramon Digivolved for the first and only time into Kiwimon and she was assisted by a MetalGreymon and MagnaAngemon-"
"So there were other Tamers there?" Zac said
"No, no, no even better there were two Digidestined" Cherubimon chuckled
"What's the difference?" Zac asked
"Well every human with a Digimon partner is a Tamer but if you have a crest or some association to one then you are a Digidestined, so everyone here are Tamers except for yourself, George and Willis" Cherubimon enlightened "You have the crest of Honour, George has the crest of Faith and Willis holds the Digi-Egg of Destiny"
"Wait a second did you say Destiny?" Zac asked, Cherubimon nodded "But that's Azza's crest how can they both have the same"
"There are crests and there are Digi-Eggs of Power or Digimentals to some, these allow a special type of digivolution known as armour digivolution which makes its power level between that of a Rookie and of a Champion level, except for golden armour digivolution which boosts it to the equivalent of a Mega Digimon but there are only three of those, the Golden Eggs of Miracles, Destiny and Honour" Cherubimon told "But a crest bearer cannot carry a Digimental and visa versa for they cancel each other out making them both useless although it has only happened in two rare ocassions to two members of The Celestial Digidestined"
"The Celestial Digidestined who are they?" Zac asked
"They are the Digidestined of Hope and Light, there partners Mega forms are the two guardians of the Digital World, the partner of Hope, Seraphimon, is a human Digimon whereas the partner of Light, Magnadramon, is a beast Digimon, together they both show the unity of the Digital World and store peace if that bond is in anyway broken then chaos will ensue" Cherubimon sighed "I should know"
"How do you mean?" Zac asked
"After the Great War between the human Digimon and Beast Digimon the Legendary warriors sacrificed there lives to restore peace and then left it under the guard of three holy Digimon, Seraphimon to represent human Digimon, Magnadramon to represent beast Digimon and myself who was neither human nor beast, rumour told of a fourth but we do not remember a fourth, anyway when I became possessed with the virus the first time around I shattered the bond between the two Digimon and chaos split the Digital World in half thankfully it was saved by the first Digidestined which were also the reincarnated spirits of five of the ten Legendary warriors, thankfully they managed to purify me before the final damage was done"
"So how were you possessed a second time?" Zac asked as they flew across a large stretch of water
"Well it was millennia after the reformatting of the Digital World but only a year and a half in your time line" Cherubimon chuckled "I and my twin had recently died and had just been reformatted as eggs it just so happened that on the day we arrived at Primary Village it was the day Gennai was searching for the new partners to the Digidestined, apparently there had already been a new wave of Digidestined had come and gone and the third were to be chosen the Digivices had been sent then all that needed was partners, Gennai did not wish to split me and my brother up so he sent us together to Willis who at the time was such a lonely and unhappy child all he needed was friends, he wasn't to be part of the big adventure that took place until now"
Cherubimon chuckled
"So a few Earth years passed and the person who had gave me the virus had sent that same virus to a project on Willis's computer resulting in Kuramon, which later Digivolved into Diaboramon and wiped out half the internet which later infected me" Cherubimon laughed
"Oh yeah I remember that, the military went scitzo, that was the same time I got my D-Touch" Zac laughed, Cherubimon laughing beside him
"We're here guys" Willis called from the distance on top of MegaGargomon with Tortomon in his arms "Get ready for battle"
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Wow so a rescue mission on Earth and an explosion in the Digital World the war is finally kicking off so I shall for warn you expect heartache, drama and death in the chapters to come and thank you to all who have supported me so far