Chapter 7 Declaration

Ryo frowned as he looked around the corner of the building he was hiding behind. Yamaki had sent him and Cyberdramon on a scouting mission. It was his job to see just how screwed they were. And they were pretty screwed. Most of the digimon were ether in the champion or ultimate level. However there were defiantly some megas out there as well. Not counting the four royal knights and those were the digimon he was mostly worried about.

Ryo motioned for Cyberdramon to move back. They couldn't afford to get spotted now so they moved back down the alley.

"Ok Cyberdramon, we should get going before we're spotted."

"Oh I do believe it's far too late for that young tamer."

Ryo and Cyberdramon looked up in shock and horror as floating above them was Crusadermon. Crusadermon lowered herself to the ground, the whole time neither she nor Ryo and Cyberdramon took their eyes off each other. Cyberdramon growled and took a step forward, but Ryo grabbed the cyber dragon making sure he stayed put.

"Ryo the great digidestined who fell Millenniummon. I must say this is a great honor to meet you at last."

Ryo frowned at the mention of his old enemy. He had not thought of that subject in some time and for obvious reasons. Those memories weren't the most pleasant.

"I don't suppose I can just ask you and all the other digimon to leave could I?"

Crusadermon snorted, "I'm afraid not. Our orders are clear, and we will carry them out."

Ryo looked back to Cyberdramon, and then to Crusadermon, "We won't let you. Takato is our friend, and we will defend him."

Ryo's statement seemed to amuse Crusadermon, "Oh course you will. If we thought that we could simple kill the tamer, we wouldn't have brought an army with us."

Ryo gripped his D-ark tightly. He had very limited options here. He could bio-merge and become Justimon but that would grab the attention of every digimon in the area, and he defiantly didn't want that. He also couldn't just run away. They'd follow him and Cyberdramon right back to Takato. Granted he didn't know for sure if they already knew Yamaki had moved him, but he couldn't take the chance.

He needed something that would give him the chance to get away discreetly. His fingers slid over his pouch of cards, counting each one, and naming them off in his head. He was going to have to be extremely lucky that he picked out the right card and that Kazu and Kenta hadn't gone through them lately. They never put them back in the correct order. He counted to, the hopefully, right one and said a small prayer.

He grabbed the card and without looking went to swipe it.

"Digimodify! MaloMyotismon Mental Illusion!"

It worked. Bright lights caught Crusadermon off guard and temporarily had her caught in an illusion but Ryo knew it wouldn't last long. Grabbing a speed card and swiping it too, Ryo hopped on Cyberdramon's back and sped off, while still staying in the alley ways to avoid any more encounters.

Crusadermon shook her head trying to get her vision back. She wasn't surprised to find that both Ryo and Cyberdramon were gone. There was a reason he was a legend in the digital world after all.

"All in due time digidestined. All in due time."

-Hypnos-

The tamers each sat in chairs in one of the many Hypnos meeting rooms, with their digimon standing besides them. Impmon, whose tamers he had sent home since he didn't need them to digivolve, glared as an important human told them what they were expected to do. He implied he was important because unlike everyone else, for the most part, this guy was a complete ass hole. He had learned from experience that most human assholes seemed to think they were better than other humans, which usually meant they held some important job or some kind of crap like that.

"Now our intelligence reports have indicated that the army of wild ones does not seem to know that Mr. Matsuki has been moved. We need to use this to our advantage."

Renamon tilted her head in thought, "Excuse me sir? How do you know this?"

The man hesitated when addressing Renamon, which didn't go unnoticed by the other tamers. The man, Mr. Kuro, clearly wasn't comfortable around digimon. Yamaki stepped in for Kuro, "I sent Ryo and Cyberdramon on a scouting mission so we would know who we are going up against and to better our chances at protecting Takato."

"And how to better our chances at protecting Shinjuku is what I think you mean Mr. Yamaki. Mr. Matsuki is of little importance right now."

A low growl came from the tamers direction but neither Yamaki nor Kuro could tell if it had come from one of the digimon, or Rika, who looked about ready to kill Kuro after what he had said. Kuro however didn't seem to mind the death glare he was getting, and in fact turned to Rika to meet her glare.

"You may not like it, but protecting our city is your priority. So I suggest you accept it and deal with the problem at hand."

Rika stood up but hands from both Jeri and Kenta kept her from charging Kuro. Slowly both were able to bring her back into her chair.

Henry looked up at the map showing the locations of the digimon, "I have a question. How are we going to attack them? The moment they see us coming from this building they're going to put two and two together and know that Takato's here. So any advantage we might have had goes out the window."

"Yes that is true," Kuro started, "So you will be using the underground tunnels that run under the city and attack them from behind."

Terriermon frowned, "underground tunnels sounds a lot like you're talking about sewers."

"That's because I am."

The tamers and digimon said nothing, for about a second before, "You have got to be kidding me." Both Impmon and Terriermon yelled.

Kazu looked ready to cry, "Can't we use the sub way systems, or something other than using a sewer?"

Yamaki shook his head, "I'm afraid we can't. Even if we were able to move you to the nearest entrance to the subway without being seen by the digimon, the tunnels wouldn't spread you all out as well as the sewers would."

"So you want us to move through the sewers so when we engage the digimon they won't know where to focus their attacks which will keep them spread out. Is there anything else we're going to need to know?"

Rika was not enjoying being around this Kuro guy, and she wanted to get away from him as soon as she could. The sooner she and the others put down this army, the sooner she could get back to Takato.

"Yes, you need to hold them off till our military can reach our destination and provide back up."

"What's taking them so long anyway?' asked Henry. Many of the tamers and digimon nodded in agreement.

"Unfortunately many of our military leaders don't see digimon as something that's their problem and want to leave it to Hypnos. They are coming now but they're dragging their feet about it."

"Wow…they suck." Impmon stated simply.

"So, how long till we move out," asked Suzie. Henry wanted to say she wasn't going anywhere but knew it was pointless. She had grown up to the age where she didn't listen to him anymore or anyone else for that matter.

"We will be waiting for Ryo to return with any last minute info then we will lead you all to a building close by with direct access to the sewer system."

"Then I suggest that we get moving right now."

Everyone turned to see Ryo and Cyberdramon entering the room.

"You looked like hell Ryo. What happened?" Ask Henry. Ryo looked pale and was taking some deep breaths.

"Had a little close call but, we made it out of it well enough, and we weren't followed."

Yamaki frowned, "What of the situation? Have there been any changes?"

"They still don't seem to know where Takato is, and right now they don't seem to be taking any drastic measures, probably because Alphamon is in charge. But I don't trust some of the others to keep it up."

Jeri looked surprised, "wait do you think they'll just start attack the city to bring Takato out?"

"Alphamon wouldn't…the others I can't say."

"Holy crap…" Kazu rubbed his brow, "this is a little much. Guys what's going to stop them from blowing buildings up? Even while we're fighting them, what do we do if they target a school or a hospital, or hell a district with homes?"

"If we keep their attention on us till the military gets here we should be good. I highly doubt they're going to stay to fight a war against a human army." Ryo stated simply

No one brought up the 'should' that all there plans were ridding on.

Mr. Kuro nodded, "very well then, Tamers if you and your digimon would follow our agents they will lead you out and to the building where you will enter the tunnels."

Everyone nodded, grabbing their cards and D-arcs. Henry walked over to Jeri, "you have to stay here you know."

"I know…I just wish I could do something…" Henry wrapped his arms around her, "don't worry we need someone to watch over Takato, just to make sure he or Guilmon don't do anything drastic ok."

"Or anyone else." Rika stated coldly.

As the tamers and digimon made there way out of the room that left Yamaki and Mr. Kuro alone to ponder Rika's parting words.

"That girl doesn't trust us very much does she Yamaki."

Yamaki turned to Kuro, "you're surprised?"

"…Let me ask you something Yamaki. All these years, all the money your organization has, you've never been able to come up with a plan or weapon in case a situation like this ever came about?"

"Oh I have, it just walked out of the room."

With that Yamaki bowed and left Kuro as he headed up to the control room. Kuro simply stood in the empty room alone, "you better pray Yamaki."

-Sewers-

The dash to the building had been short and luckily the tamers and digimon had been able to make it without being spotted. Two agents helped open a maintenance hatch. The smell hit everyone hard, "God that smells like shit."

"Suzie!"

"What it does."

Impmon plugged his nose, "it's the sewer, what did you think was going to be down there?"

"Let's just go." Rika pushed past everyone and lowered herself down the ladder. As the tamers and digimon made it to the bottom the hatched closed with an ominous thud.

"…yeah I'm burning these clothes after this. There is no way I'm getting the smell out."

Henry wisely chose not to comment on that and just let his sister go off a bit. Ryo pulled out a flashlight, "ok we all need to head up for a bit before the tunnel splits. That's were we go our separate ways."

"Ok sounds good…how do we know we've gotten far enough?" Asked Kenta.

Ryo handed out small maps to everyone, "I've marked where you all should go. The tunnels are marks with numbers so you shouldn't get lost. One more thing, Kenta Kazu , Suzie, theres one more thing We need you all to do for us. Do not under any circumstance confront the royal knights."

"Why do we need to do that?" scoffed Suzie.

"Simple" Ryo started, "the fact that the knights are high level mega's that will tear you guys and your digimon apart. Stay with the soldiers. We'll handle the knights."

-Above the city-

Alphamon floated above his troops as the continued to spread through out the city. As he had feared the hazard was not in any of the hospitals. The humans had moved him. Not that this fact surprised him much if at all. He had been one of the first to confront Omnimon after his failed attempt to kill the tamer.

His friend had told him everything that had taken place in his attempt and the warning the tamers had given him. Any attempt to take the boys life would mean an all out war between the Knights and the tamers.

War. Was that his only purpose in life? To fight wars.

Behind him a WarGreymon flew up to him and kneeled as finally approached.

"Sir, all the Royal Knights report that the hazard is not in any of the hospitals or emergency clinics. Lady Crusadermon suggests that if we damage a few of the building, we may be able to drive the tamers out of their hiding place and we can learn where the hazard is from them."

"I will not just start attacking innocent people. You will return to Crusadermon as well as the others and inform them if they start attacking they will answer to me. We are here only to take the hazard."

"The hell you are!"

Both WarGreymon and Alphamon looked down at the source of the cry. Underthem flying at great speed was Sakuyamon, with an attack already fired at WarGreymon who the hit straight on knocking him from the sky. Flying past the falling digimon Sakuyamon raised her staff and brought it down on Alphamon who raised his armored arms to block the blow. Sparks flew from the clash of metal.

"You will never lay a figure on Takato" seethed Sakuyamon, as she brought her staff around for a second strike which Alphamon quickly deflected. Around them Alphamon noticed several explosions around his troops where the other tamers had begun their attacks. Alphamon moved back putting some distance between him and the raging mega.

"Clever, attacking from all sides to throw us off, and to not reveal where the hazard is being kept."

"Takato."

Alphamon looked at Sakuyamon for a moment. That voice had not been digimon but human. The tamer inside had spoke.

"What?"

"He isn't the hazard. His name is Takato."

Alphamon winced. He had tried very hard not to think of the boys name.

"You must understand tamer, what must be done."

"Screw you. After all Takato's done, you all are just going to kill him. I don't give a damn what your reasons are. I'm done talking to you knights. As long as you're here, Takato's life is in danger. So I'm going to stop you, even if that means killing you and the damned Sovereigns."

With that last declaration, Sakuyamon charged back at Alphamon.

Far below however where WarGreymon had fallen, screams of pain and horror were muffled as the mega digimon was disintegrated into data. Dorthy smiled and she walked through the cloud of data and absorbed it into herself.

"Let the games begin."

Ah chapter 7. I said I would have you finished in Nov of 2009. What a load of crap. I decided to split this chapter in two so I could finally post something. So that means all the action is going to be chapter 8.