As I'm sure everyone knows, I don't own Digimon blah blah blah.
Digimon World Wars
Chapter 26 - Closing In
"No, DEPUTYMON!" Starmon watched as his sidekick was blasted and destroyed by SkullSatamon. The dark digimon laughed as though he was having fun as he absorbed the fallen digimon's data, "YOU MONSTER!"
Starmon blindly charged at SkullSatamon, throwing punches and kicks that were dodged with ease. Starmon was swatted away and crashed into one of the old western buildings, smashing through the wall and landing in a pile of broken tables and chairs.
"Last chance, tell me, where is Andromon's base!"
Starmon lifted himself from the rubble, staring at the skeletal digimon that stood in front of him with pure hate, "BITE ME BONEHEAD! METEOR SHOWER!"
SkullSatamon slowly stepped forward ignoring the falling meteors that were hitting him, "Fine then, I was gonna kill you anyway! SKULL HAMMER!" SkullSatamon slammed his staff on top of Starmon creating a large shockwave on the digimon.
Starmon gave one last defiant look before SkullSatamon's attack destroyed him. SkullSatamon stood still absorbing the fallen digimon's data before silently cackling to himself.
SkullSatamon tore through the buildings in the western town until he found what he was looking for, a map hidden in an old whiskey bottle. There was a spot marked on a map, it wasn't labeled but SkullSatamon knew what it was. Starmon and Deputymon had been in league with the resistance, they would need to know where the base was and how to contact them.
SkullSatamon grinned wickedly as an idea came to him.
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Rex's group was in the middle of day two of the search for Datamon. The digimon were out once again asking around town trying to find out where Datamon's old shop used to be and where he moved to.
The five boys were all moving extremely sluggish, none of them had gotten any sleep the previous night. All five of them, in an act of chivalry, gave the couch to Hinata while they all volunteered to sleep on the hard floor. The digimon didn't have a problem sleeping but for Rex and the guys it was nearly impossible. Luckily Uryu had asked Guardromon to bring back coffee for them. The machine digimon whined a bit about spending all his savings but agreed, seeing as how they needed to be ready to go at anytime.
Guardromon returned with Palmon carrying several large cups of coffee, passing them to each of the boys.
"Thank god, I feel like I'm gonna pass out on my feet," said Kotaro quickly taking a drink of coffee and burning his tongue.
Palmon, "Blow on it first dummy."
"Kotaro!" Gaomon ran into the building followed by Gomamon, "I found it!"
Kotaro walked around Rex and Uryu to get to his partner, "You found Datamon's old home?"
Gaomon nodded, "Yes, a Prariemon knew where it was, he explained exactly how to get there too."
Kotaro patted his partner on the shoulder, "Nice job buddy, let's get over there now."
"Yes lets," Guardromon walked to the exit, "I want Palmon, Gaomon, Kotaro, and Hinata to come with me, the rest of you stay here and inform Shurimon and the others when they get back." The guys nodded and Guardromon followed behind Gaomon as he led the way.
As they walked down the street, the town's digimon once again fled the streets at the sight of Kotaro and Hinata.
"How far is it Gaomon?" Asked Kotaro who was still drinking his hot coffee.
"Not too far," said Gaomon, "It's back in an alley up ahead."
"Hey humans!" The group turned around as a Gazimon yelled out to them. As Kotaro turned around he was hit in the side of the head with a rock.
Hinata and Gaomon, "Kotaro!"
"What the hell was that for!" Kotaro held the side of his head as blood began to trickle down the side of his face. The Gazimon gave Kotaro a look of pure loathing, before the digimon picked up another rock and chucked it at Hinata.
Kotaro jumped in front of Hinata and swatted the rock out of the air, "Knock it off!" Gaomon and Palmon stepped in front of their partners glaring angrily at the Gazimon, and Guardromon stepped up behind Kotaro and Hinata.
"Traitors!" Yelled the Gazimon pointing at Palmon, Gaomon, and Guardromon, "How can you side with the humans instead of your own kind!" The Gazimon turned around and ran away as Palmon and Gaomon took a step forward.
"Let's hurry and get to Datamon's old place, before he comes back and starts a riot," said Kotaro wiping the blood from the side of his face.
"What are you talking about, we should head back and get that wound patched up first," said Hinata worriedly.
Kotaro, "I'll be fine, don't worry about me."
"Alright, but let's hurry so we can get back to the others and get you bandaged up," said Guardromon.
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"I'm back Kankuro," yelled out Monodramon as he walked into the building.
Kankuro walked out of the back room into the kitchen, "Good news, Gaomon found out where Datamon's old shop is."
Monodramon, "Awesome!"
Kankuro stared at the doorway for a few seconds, "Where's Shurimon?"
"I'm not sure, he disappeared suddenly after a Triceramon nearly ran me over, stupid dinosaur should watch where he's going."
"Aren't you a dinosaur too, Monodramon," said Gomamon as he walked into the kitchen.
"I'm not a dinosaur, I'm a dragon," shouted Monodramon annoyed, "a dragon!"
"I don't get it, what's the difference?" Monodramon flew into a rant about how dragons are better than dinosaurs and Kankuro laughed as Monodramon's words just went right over Gomamon's head.
"I still don't get it," said Gomamon with a smile.
Monodramon face palmed, "I give up!"
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At the edge of Junk Village Shurimon jumped off the roof of a building onto the thick branches of the forest, trying to find where the Triceramon had gone to.
Monodramon hadn't noticed the white blank look in the Triceramon's eyes as it walked past them, but Shurimon did. Shurimon didn't bring Monodramon with him since he worked best alone, and he didn't want to alert everyone until he was absolutely sure that his suspicions were correct.
Shurimon silently jumped from tree to tree, following the large footprints left by the Triceramon as he stomped off into the forest.
Shurimon slowed down as he finally spotted the ultimate level digimon as it trudged on through the trees. In its hand it held a folded up piece of paper. Shurimon followed after the digimon as they got further and further away from junk village.
Shurimon froze and remained still as the Triceramon suddenly came to a stop. It stood still for several seconds before Shurimon saw a group of humans walk up to the digimon.
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"What happened here?" Asked Palmon, as she, Gaomon, Guardromon, Kotaro, and Hinata walked into Datamon's old home. The door was broken off its hinges and the place had been torn apart. Datamon had left behind many gadgets, a few tables and shelves, and several blue prints when he moved, and all of those were thrown around the large room.
Hinata, "You don't think someone beat us here do you?"
"Hate to say it, but it looks that way," said Kotaro, "Digitize, Beast Arts!" Kotaro's blue digivice started to glow and disappeared into his body. Kotaro's nails suddenly grew a little longer and sharper and his canines became a little more pointed.
"I think we can assume that whoever did this was looking for something in particular," stated Gaomon, "and they tore through everything looking for it."
Kotaro and Gaomon began to sniff around the building, seeing what kind of scents they could come up with.
Guardromon, "Smell anything?"
"Well it smells strongly of rusted metal in here," said Kotaro looking at Guardromon, "or maybe that's just you." Kotaro grinned and Guardromon looked annoyed.
"Kotaro is right, it does smell mostly like old rusted machines in here, but I am picking up another scent," said Gaomon as he continued to sniff the air, "do you smell that Kotaro?"
Kotaro closed his eyes and sniffed the air again, "Yeah there's another scent in here, definitely a digimon, could be whoever did this."
Palmon, "How do you know, are you sure you're not just smelling one of us?"
"Don't underestimate our noses Palmon," said Kotaro with a grin, Gaomon nodded in agreement.
"Alright let's search the wreckage, see if we can find anything of use," said Guardromon turning towards Hinata.
"Digitize, Byakugan!" Hinata's eyes faded to white and the veins around her temples began to pop as she searched every nook and cranny of the building for any kind of clue.
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'This isn't good,' thought Shurimon as he looked down at the group of men below him.
One of the men, wearing the traditional DATS black suit, tie, and sunglasses stepped forward, "Did you find anything?"
Triceramon very slowly and stiffly held the folded piece of paper up to the man. The man snatched the piece of paper and forced Triceramon back into his container. The man unfolded the piece of paper and showed it to two other black suited men.
"Alright men, our target is two miles south of here," stated one of the three suited men, to a group of twelve soldiers.
Shurimon's mind raced, 'Two miles south, could that be where Datamon is? These men are without a doubt from DATS and if that's the case...' Shurimon slowly turned around, heading back to the village to let Guardromon and everyone else know. As he silently made his way back the other way, he found a Gazimon standing in one of the trees behind him, and before he could stop the rookie level digimon.
"IT'S DATS!" The young Gazimon jumped out of the tree and faced the men.
'That fool!'
"You killed some of my brothers! I'm gonna get revenge for them!"
The suited man holding the folded paper looked unamused, "These creatures just never learn their place, Realize!" The man raised a digimon container into the air and released the ultimate level Gigadramon.
"Kill that runt for me," the man pointed at Gazimon and Gigadramon slowly nodded his head at the order.
"Genocide Gear!" Gigadramon aimed his left arm towards the rookie and fired an organic missile.
"Damn, DOUBLE STARS!" Shurimon's arms extended out striking the missile and sending it off course, the missile exploded against a tree destroying it and several trees around the impact point.
"What do we have here," said the suited man now amused as Shurimon jumped in front of Gazimon.
"I can't allow you to harm the innocent, KUSANAGI!" Shurimon grabbed the giant shuriken on his back and threw it with incredible speed and accuracy. The shuriken stabbed into Gigadramon's chest, but the digimon didn't even flinch.
"Genocide Gear!" Shurimon grabbed Gazimon and jumped away as Gigadramon fired two missiles. Shurimon shielded Gazimon as the missiles exploded and the shockwave impacted against his back. Shurimon spun himself around as he was flung through the air and his back slammed into a tree.
"Let me go, I want to fight, I want to kill DATS!" Gazimon struggled to get free but Shurimon held onto him. Shurimon slowly lifted himself back to his feet, between shielding Gazimon from the explosion and the impact, Shurimon's back was badly injured and starting to bleed.
"I can't let you get yourself killed," Shurimon held onto Gazimon as Gigadramon and the DATS soldiers closed in, "we're getting out of here, NINJA WIND!" Leaves swirled around Shurimon, and as the leaves fell back to the ground Shurimon vanished.
"Damn, we need to hurry and get to the target, I have a feeling he'll be back with allies," the three suited men in charge lead the soldiers south towards their target.
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Meanwhile Guardromon's group was walking back up to the doorless entrance of their temporary headquarters.
"Kotaro did you hear that?" Asked Gaomon as his ears twitched.
"I didn't hear anything," Kotaro had already released his power and had returned his digivice to its holster.
"How'd it go guys?" Asked Rex as Kotaro, Hinata, and the three digimon walked in.
"Bad, someone beat us to it," stated Kotaro, "if I had to guess, I'd say it was DATS."
Palmon, "How do you know, didn't you say it was a digimon?"
"Who else besides us would be looking for Datamon," said Kotaro, "they probably sent one of their soulless digimon slaves to search the building."
"What happened to you Kotaro?" Asked Flamon, pointing at Kotaro's head which had dried blood along the right side of it.
"Come on, let's get that looked at," said Hinata leading Kotaro into the other room, "Palmon grab my first aid kit." While Hinata was bandaging Kotaro's head, Gaomon and Guardromon explained what they had found at Datamon's old place.
Uryu, "So what do we do now?"
"What can we do, we have no idea where Datamon is now, we don't have the means to search an entire continent, and by the sounds of it DATS is ahead of us," said Kankuro bluntly.
"I could sniff around town and see if I can find the digimon that tore apart Datamon's place," said Gaomon.
"We don't know how long ago that happened, chances are that digimon is long gone," pointed out Tentomon.
"So what, we failed," said Ling angrily. No one replied, the entire group felt angry and ashamed.
"Can't we just keep asking around town, someone must know where he went," said Flamon hopefully.
"Yeah we can't just give up," said Gomamon.
Rex slowly stood up, "I'm going out."
Uryu, "What, why?"
"I'll ask every single digimon in this village if I have to, it's all I can do," Rex walked towards the exit and Flamon followed after him.
"We're coming too," Kotaro and Hinata walked out of the back room along with Palmon, Kotaro had a small bandage on the side of his head. Uryu, Kankuro, and Ling stood up along with their partners.
Rex smiled, "Alright guys, leave no stone unturned!"
As Rex stepped out onto the street someone stumbled up to him," Wait!"
"SHURIMON!" The digimon fell to his knees and Guardromon and Hinata ran up to his side. Shurimon's back was covered in his own blood.
Guardromon, "What happened?"
"It was DATS."
"Come on let's get you looked at," said Hinata trying to help Shurimon to his feet.
"There's no time, listen!" Shurimon shrugged Hinata off of him, "DATS is heading south of here," Shurimon pointed in the direction they were going, "I don't know for sure, but I think Datamon is living a little over two miles in that direction, you have to stop DATS!"
Everything had become serious so quickly. They were now on a time limit to get to Datamon before DATS killed him.
"Guardromon, take Shurimon and get back to the helicopter, we'll try to catch up to them and stop them on foot," Rex began to take charge.
"But-"
"No buts, you're not the fastest digimon around, and Shurimon isn't in any shape to chase after them."
"We need to move fast guys," Ling grabbed Gomamon and slung him over his shoulder.
"Let's go!" The six destined and their partners took off as fast as they could, desperate to catch up to DATS and save Datamon.
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(Meanwhile Back at Andromon's Base)
Duo laid asleep on his hospital bed, his head tossed from side to side as nightmares plagued his subconscious mind.
Duo's mind was playing a horrible trick on him, in his dream he was reliving the death of Himura, only this time Himura laid in his arms blaming Duo for bringing DATS to his door and getting him killed.
"No, don't die! I never meant for this to happen! PLEASE!" Duo pleaded for Himura not to die, not to hate him, but his plea fell on deaf ears. Suddenly the dream changed, Duo saw Kuwagamon and Kunemon standing in front of him. The two digimon stared at Duo as they suddenly began to dissolve.
"You were too weak, because of you Leon will never recover from losing his only friend."
"Stop it!" Duo was trying to force himself awake, he couldn't take much more of this, it was tearing him apart. The dream changed once again, Duo found himself standing in an old playground. It was the same one he and Eureka had always played in as kids.
"Duo." Duo turned his head at the sound of a familiar voice, a voice he had heard recently "You can't save anyone Duo, no matter how hard you fight, no matter how hard you try, in the end everyone will die." The young man pointed past Duo to a group of dead bodies that lay on the ground.
"No... Veemon, Rex, everyone..." Duo's eyes stared at each bloodied and beaten body in turn, seeing all the destined, their partners, and all the allies of the resistance dead on the ground, "Who the hell are you!"
"Don't you know?" Asked the young man as he removed his glasses.
Duo stared at the man as he continued to taunt him, "Most of all Duo, you'll never be able to protect her." Duo's eyes widened as Eureka appeared behind the young man, she reached her hand out to him and began to dissolve and fade away.
"No, please no!" Duo tried to reach her, but he couldn't, his body was shrinking and she was getting farther away as he ran. Once again he was that eight year old scared and lonely boy whose whole world revolved around his one and only friend, "Eureka!"
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"NO!" Duo shot up into a sitting position suddenly, scaring one of the nurses and Gatomon half to death. Duo held his head as a terrible headache came over him.
"Duo, what's wrong!" Asked the nurse, placing her hand on his head, to see if he had a fever.
Duo was the only one still in the hospital, between the sword wound on his chest and the amount of blood he lost, he was the worst off out of everyone. Kiru and Haru recently got permission to leave, although Haru had to once again roll around in a wheelchair until his leg was healed and Kiru had his arm and chest heavily bandaged and was under order to stay in his room most of the time.
"Sorry," Duo took a few deep breaths trying to calm himself down, "bad dream. Can I get a painkiller, I've got a bit of headache." The nurse nodded to Duo as Gatomon went to fetch the medicine.
Duo laid his head back on the pillow as his headache got worse. Duo suddenly felt something itchy on his bareback and grunted in annoyance, "Why is my hair unbraided?"
"Kiru took your hairtie."
"... Why?"
"He said something about ruining another one of his hairties and decided to take yours while you were asleep," said the nurse with a giggle.
"Remind me to kick his ass for that," said Duo annoyed.
"Now now, you're in no shape to be kicking anyone's ass, and we can get more for you guys, it's no big deal." Gatomon returned and handed the medicine to Duo along with a glass of water.
Duo quickly downed the medicine and laid back down, after adjusting his long hair to one side so he wasn't laying on it, "Thanks Gatomon, thanks Kazuha."
"Anytime," said Gatomon happily.
"Hey one more question, have you seen Veemon?"
"Sorry, I haven't seen him," said Kazuha.
"Alright thanks again," Duo hadn't seen his partner since they escaped DATS's base and was starting to wonder what was wrong with him.
~To Be Continued~
I can't get it out of my head, I can't get it out of my head
I hear the words that you say, to me
I can't get it out of my head, I can't get it out of my head
I hear the words that you say, To Me!
That I do this to myself, me and no one else
So help me, tell me how to break free
I'm to blame and that's what really hurts
That's what really hurts
You get what you deserve
What You Deserve by The Exies
Another chapter without much fighting, but next chapter will have another one of the destined unlocking the ultimate level digisoul.
Thank you for reading and please review.
Weapons/Abilities:
Kotaro's Beast Arts - Basically it's his doglike characteristics from Negima. Gives him increased speed and strength, as well as a heightened sense of smell and hearing. No dog ears though.
Notes:
Chapter title refers to DATS closing in on Datamon and SkullSatamon closing in on Andromon's base.
The Gazimon that attacks Kotaro isn't the same one that interfered with Shurimon as he tried to quietly sneak away. Although the two Gazimon are brothers. Their story is that their were originally four of them but two of their brothers were destroyed and their data was stolen during one of DATS's attacks.
I decided it was finally time to name the two nurses in the story, the one Duo talked to at the end of this chapter is Kazuha, and the one Kiru argued with a couple of chapters ago is named Sonoko. They are two characters from Detective Conan, much like with Dr. Knox, that's just who I kept picturing when I wrote the parts of the story they were in.