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Digimon World Wars

Chapter 25 - Junk Village

Rex sat at the back of the helicopter, he had no idea how it had happened but somehow he and Flamon had been charged with drying out Ling's clothes. Rex looked like he could blow his lid at any moment as he held Ling's shirt out in front of him, while Flamon held a fireball in his hand, trying to quickly dry out the shirt.

Kotaro, "How much longer Guardromon?"

"Still a while to go," answered Guardromon. They had finally reached the Omega Continent, but still had ways to go until they finally came to Junk Village.

Kotaro sighed as he sat down next to Hinata. Kotaro noticed that her face was completely red as she made sure not to look at Ling who was sitting near the back of the helicopter in his boxers.

"There!" Rex threw Ling's shirt, socks, and pants at him, "You better not expect us to dry your damn underwear too!" Rex sat back down with an obviously pissed off expression on his face.

Ling chuckled as he pulled his clothes back on, "Thanks Rex, if it's any consolation we won't ignore you anymore."

"I think I rather have endured being ignored for another month, then drying your clothes for you," everyone laughed and Rex lightened up a bit.

Monodramon, "Hey Flamon, Gomamon can I ask you two something?"

"Sure," Gomamon turned towards Monodramon and Flamon jumped off his seat, happy to have been included again.

"What's it like digivolving into your ultimate forms?" Gaomon, Palmon, and Tentomon who was lying next to Uryu, still very sore from his fight with MegaSeadramon, were all listening and waiting intently for their answers.

Flamon placed his hand on his chin, trying to figure out how to describe it, "Well..."

"It's awesome!" Flamon fell back as Gomamon burst out with his extremely simple answer.

Flamon lifted himself back up, "How bout this, imagine fighting in your champion form, but being about five times stronger than you usually are." Flamon's answer was pretty simple, but seemed to be enough as Monodramon and the other rookies began to fantasize about their ultimate forms.

"Hey Guardromon," Rex walked up to the front of the helicopter, "what exactly is the plan once we reach Junk Village? Angemon rushed me out of the hospital and didn't have time to explain what the plan is."

"When we get there, we're gonna rendezvous with an ally of ours, then we'll try to search the town and gather any information we can, from their it's just luck I guess," said Guardromon.

Rex, "So how do we know that this Datamon is even still at Junk Village?"

"Unfortunately, we don't," said Guardromon, "but it's all we got to go on. If we can find him and persuade him to join the resistance, his invention will be of great use to us."

"There's something I've been curious about," Rex turned his head around as Uryu spoke, "Datamon's invention sounds like a simple jammer, how come Andromon wasn't able to invent something like that?"

"Your wrong Uryu, it has to be much more than a jammer, Master Andromon could make one of those easy," said Guardromon, "if you think about it, wouldn't DATS become suspicious if they came across an area where their radars simply didn't work."

Uryu, "I guess your right, then how do you suppose the device works?"

"I can't be sure, but it sounds like it can somehow simply erase the signal we digimon give off when we're in the real world, without messing with any radars or other devices."

Rex, "That sounds interesting, but does that really help us that much?"

Kotaro, "Well with something like that Andromon and Angemon would be able to go to the real world without being detected, wouldn't they?"

"That isn't what they want to use it for," stated Guardromon.

Kankuro, "What do you mean?"

"The ally we're gonna meet near Junk Village is named Shurimon, he is a ninja digimon who is a very gifted warrior and a master of stealth," explained Guardromon.

Uryu, "Oh, I get what the plan is."

Guardromon, "Yep, Master Andromon and Angemon are hoping we can acquire this device, so that they can send Shurimon to the real world, so he can try to keep tabs on what DATS is up to in the real world."

Ling, "It sounds like it could be extremely helpful, but is this Shurimon alright with going to the real world?"

"Yes, we've already contacted him, that's why he is meeting us, he's gonna aid us in our search for Datamon, and should it go well, he'll be returning to the base with us and will hopefully be sent to the real world."

"Is that really okay," asked Rex, "we're searching for Datamon because he has something we want, and should we get it we're gonna put Shurimon's life on the line, just to help gain the upper hand against DATS."

"You got it wrong Rex," said Hinata gently, "Datamon is already in danger because DATS will be out to kill the one who made the device, we're trying to save him."

Kankuro, "Andromon already made it clear, that we're not gonna force Datamon to do anything he doesn't want to, the same goes for Shurimon."

Rex sighed, "Alright, I just wish we didn't have to put others in danger."

"Rex, as long as DATS and Daemon are out there, everyone is in danger," stated Uryu.

Everyone was silent for a few moments before Kotaro decided to break the silence, "Come on guys, let's play cards to kill time."

Rex, "Huh, why didn't you pull those out earlier when I mentioned it?"

"Because you wanted to play cards, and we were still ignoring you. So we couldn't do anything that you wanted, obviously," laughed Kotaro.

"Gee, thanks!" Said Rex sarcastically.

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Somewhere in the darkest depths of the digital world, SkullSatamon walked through a long torchlit underground passage towards a large wooden door decorated with various carvings of horned demons. SkullSatamon pushed open one of the doors and stepped into a large room, at the other end sat Daemon on his large throne.

"I thought I told you not to show yourself before me, SkullSatamon."

SkullSatamon quickly bowed down to his knees, "I'm sorry my lord, but I heard that MegaSeadramon was defeated."

"Yes, I already know," Daemon stood up and SkullSatamon kept his head bowed, "why are you here? You already made a fool of yourself when you were forced to flee from battle, perhaps you'd like me to just end your miserable life now."

"My lord, I'm here because I'd like to redeem myself," even though SkullSatamon feared that Daemon might just destroy him at any moment, he raised his head and stared at his master, "I'd like to capture Angemon for you, and bring him here."

Daemon stared at SkullSatamon for a while, before sitting back down, "Do as you wish, if you succeed perhaps I'll forgive your previous failure."

"I won't let you down my lord!" SkullSatamon quickly left Daemon's throne room.

Daemon smirked sinisterly to himself, whether SkullSatamon succeeded or not, in the end it didn't matter to him.

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Kotaro, "Ugh... Guardromon are we there yet?" Kotaro, Monodramon, Kankuro, Flamon, Gaomon, and Ling had just had to endure getting beaten by Rex in every single card game they played.

"Actually we'll be there in about five minutes," said Guardromon.

"Thank god," said Kankuro tossing his cards into a pile.

Rex had a huge grin on his face, "Oh come on guys, one more game, we got time."

"You know, I'd swear he was cheating if he had sleeves to hide cards in," whispered Ling to Kankuro.

Kotaro put the cards away as Guardromon began to lower the helicopter to the ground. Guardromon lightly landed the helicopter and shut off the engine.

Kankuro and Monodramon jumped out of the helicopter, "Um Guardromon... I thought we were heading for a village," said Monodramon. Guardromon had landed the helicopter in the middle of a clearing surrounded by trees.

"Junk Village is less than a mile through these trees," Kankuro and Monodramon spun around looking for the source of the voice. "Up here," the rest of the group stepped out of the helicopter and looked up into one of the trees where a strange ninja stood, instead of arms and legs, the ninja had spring like appendages connected to large three-pointed shurikens.

Guardromon, "Shurimon, it's good to see you!"

Shurimon, Armor Level, Mutant Digimon, Data Type

Shurimon jumped out of the tree and landed next to the group, "It's nice to see you Guardromon, and it's nice to finally meet some of the destined." One by one the group introduced themselves to Shurimon.

Kankuro, "Shurimon, have you managed to gather any info before we arrived?"

"Not yet, I just arrived here about an hour ago and managed to find a place for us to stay in the village before coming to meet you" said Shurimon. "Let's not waste time, follow me please."

Shurimon walked into the trees followed by Guardromon, the six destined and their partners. They didn't have to walk too long before they came to the end of the forest and found a large, pretty run down looking village.

"So that's Junk Village," Kotaro looked at the village in front of him and was unimpressed.

"Yes that's it, now please don't get separated," said Shurimon. Once again the group followed Shurimon as he led them into the village.

As they stepped into the village, they saw that it was pretty lively. Lots of different digimon walked through the village, some were talking with one another, some were trying to sell stuff, some were eating, and the younger in training digimon bounced around playing tag with one another.

Hinata smiled as she saw the young in-training digimon playing, but her smile faded as most of the digimon noticed the group's presence and began to quickly vacate the streets. Hinata watched the younger digimon run away scared, and the older ones simply slip away.

Kotaro, "Guardromon, what's wrong with them, don't they know that we're the good guys?"

"I'm afraid, that this is what it's like throughout most of the digital world," said Shurimon, "DATS has most of the digimon population scared of humans."

Hinata, "It's awful."

"We should hurry and get off the streets," said Shurimon. The group followed Shurimon as he walked further down the street. The boys were trying to ignore the looks of scared digimon as they peeked around corners and through windows at them, but it was all Hinata could notice. With each digimon she saw, she became sadder and sadder.

Palmon, "Hinata, you okay?"

Hinata nodded her head lightly trying to hide her face from her partner. Palmon wasn't fooled though, she had been around Hinata long enough to know when she was depressed. Palmon put her hand on her partner's back, trying to silently comfort her.

"In here," Shurimon pointed to a building that was missing a door, one by one the group filed in. The building had two floors, two rooms on the bottom floor and two on the top floor, little to no furniture, and luckily a bathroom, since no one had gotten to use one since they left the base.

Uryu, "Alright Guardromon, where do we start?"

"We need to first gather information, I think it's best if you six stay here while we digimon," Guardromon pointed to Shurimon, Palmon, Gaomon, Flamon, Gomamon, Tentomon, Monodramon and himself, "go through the town and ask around about Datamon."

Kotaro, "Wouldn't we be able to cover more ground if all of us went out?"

"Sorry little man, didn't you notice how the digimon reacted to our presence, we'd be lucky if we could get the time of day out of them," Kotaro became irritated by Kankuro's 'little man' comment.

Guardromon, "Kankuro's right, you all should stay here for now, the rest of us will form four teams of two and spread out through the town." Guardromon began to split the eight of them into teams, Flamon and Tentomon, Guardromon and Palmon, Monodramon and Shurimon, and Gomamon and Gaomon.

The eight digimon began to exit the building, Gaomon and Gomamon made their way to the southern part of the town. Palmon and Guardromon walked towards the northern part of town while Monodramon and Shurimon walked off towards the eastern part of the town.

As Flamon and Tentomon began to walk/fly towards the western part of town, Uryu poked his head out of the building, "Be careful Tentomon, don't do anything rash, you're still injured."

"Don't worry Uryu, if anything bad happens I'll just use Flamon as a shield," joked Tentomon.

Flamon, "Hey!"

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(One Hour Later)

"See any of them yet?" Asked Kotaro for about the twentieth time as Hinata stuck her head out the building.

Hinata stood near the door and Kotaro sat on a wooden chair in what would be a kitchen, if it actually had food. In the next room Kankuro and Uryu sat quietly on an old sofa that sat against the back wall and Rex and Ling... well.

"Okay I give up," said Kankuro finally, "what the hell are you two doing?" Rex opened one eye at Kankuro's question, he and Ling were sitting on the floor next to each other cross-legged, as though they were trying to meditate.

Ling, "We're trying to figure out how to tap into the next level of digisoul at will."

Uryu, "Why exactly do you need to act like your meditating to do that?"

Rex and Ling blinked a few times, "Well... we thought it might help, now don't bother us for a bit," Rex closed his eyes again. Both he and Ling had their digisoul wrapped around both their hands as they quietly tried to figure out how to increase their digisoul's strength.

"Really guys?" Ling and Rex ignored Kankuro. "Fine if you guys somehow manage to figure it out, you better tell us how to do it too."

Another hour ticked away as the six destined waited for their partners to return. The group had barely moved during that time, especially Rex and Ling.

Once again Hinata poked her head out the door, looking for their digimon, "There's Flamon and Tentomon!"

Uryu stood up and walked to the door as Tentomon flew in behind Flamon, "How it go guys, did you manage to come up with anything?"

Tentomon landed on the small table in the kitchen and shook his head, "Sorry Uryu, we didn't find out a single thing about Datamon."

"Most of the digimon we talked to wanted nothing to do with us, since they saw us with you guys when we got here," said Flamon as he looked around for Rex. Flamon turned his head to the next room as a bright red light lit the room.

"No way," said Uryu, obviously annoyed. Flamon ran into the room followed by the rest of the group and found Rex sitting on the floor covered from head to foot in his dark red digisoul.

"Awesome!" Flamon ran to his partner, overjoyed by what he was seeing.

"You got to be kidding me, how did you do that?" Asked Kankuro who was still sitting on the old couch and just as annoyed as Uryu.

Rex stood up looking at his hands, he could feel the high level of power flowing through him, "Well... I realized something while I was sitting there. Both times that I was able to tap into this power were because I was experiencing strong emotions like anger when Ikkakumon was injured and when I fought against At... Nikolai.." Rex tried to think about how he had felt during that fight, but couldn't quite describe it.

Everyone listened intently as Rex tried to describe how he was able to tap into the second level of digisoul, "I realized that my emotions affect my digisoul's power more, then say my strength."

Kotaro, "So you're saying, that we have to use our emotions to strengthen our digisoul, that sounds pretty cheesy."

Rex turned to Ling who still sat on the floor, "Try it Ling."

Ling nodded and closed his eyes again, remembering how desperate he felt when Ikkakumon was injured by MegaSeadramon. Ling's digisoul expanded up his arms as he made a silent vow to never let that happen again, and just like that, Ling's brown digisoul expanded and covered his body on command.

Ling, "Wow, it worked."

"You made that look easy Ling!" Ling turned his head to the doorway as Gomamon walked in. Gaomon, Monodramon, and Shurimon walked in behind him.

Kotaro, "Alright you're back, did you guys managed to find out anything?"

"Sorry Kotaro, me and Gomamon didn't have any luck," said Gaomon.

Kankuro, "What about you two?"

"We did manage to find out something," said Monodramon. Rex and Ling let their digisoul's dissipate as they listened to Monodramon, "A Baronmon told us that he remembered a Datamon living here and owning a shop, where he invented and sold all kinds of different gizmos."

Kotaro, "Great, that sounds like it could be our guy!"

"Wait there's more," said Shurimon, "we also found out that Datamon no longer lives in this village."

"Damn it, that's just great," said Rex, very irritated.

Ling, "What do we do now?"

"We should wait for Guardromon and Palmon to return, before we decide what our next course of action will be," everyone nodded at Shurimon's words.

Hinata stepped outside the building again, the sun had almost set, and she was starting to get a little worried about her partner.

After another half hour Palmon and Guardromon finally returned. Guardromon held several bags in his arms as he walked behind Palmon.

Hinata, "Palmon what took you two so long?"

"We stopped and got food for everybody," said Palmon pointing to Guardromon.

"Alright I'm starving!" Shouted Flamon running into the old kitchen.

Shurimon updated Guardromon about what he and Monodramon discovered. Guardromon was quiet while everyone was digging into the assortment of food that he and Palmon had gotten for them.

Uryu, "So Guardromon what do you think we should do, Datamon isn't in Junk Village anymore."

"We can't give up yet, tomorrow we'll go out again and see if we can at least figure out where Datamon used to stay, maybe we can find a clue," said Guardromon. Most of the town had turned in and they would have to wait til the town's digimon were awake again to try to gather information.

"Okay I got a question though," said Kotaro, "where are we all gonna sleep?" No one had thought about it, the building they were in had one old dusty couch downstairs, but nothing upstairs. Everyone realized they were in for one uncomfortable night.

~To Be Continued~

No action in this chapter, but the search has begun. Please review and thank you for reading