Chapter 18 – A New Objective

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Takato's POV

"What?! Seth's going to try and take over the Digital World?" Takato said loudly. "How? He has to take down the four Sovereigns, not to mention almost every Digimon in this world."

"Incredible, isn't it?" Sarah asked. "I don't know any details, but I think he has some kind of special device that can help him with the attempt."

"That could be bad," Rika said. "If he has help of any kind we need to get rid of it."

"Don't you think I've already tried that?" Sarah said. "That's why I was separated with Gabumon."

"Can you tell us what happened?" Takato asked.

"Sure," Sarah said. "I was going through the Digital World with Gabumon, just looking for something to do, when suddenly I saw a light shine into the sky like a spotlight. Curious, I went towards it. When I got there, I saw that Seth was down in a little ravine surrounded by a couple of Tuskmon. I started to cry out, but Gabumon stopped me. The first Tuskmon stepped forward to attack, but Seth didn't move. He stuck a hand in his pocket and pulled something out. I couldn't see it clearly from my distance, but it looked like a magnifying glass, but there was no glass in the center. He shot it at the Tuskmon, and it grew and wrapped itself around his arm. Suddenly, the Tuskmon stopped moving. Seth said something I couldn't hear and the Tuskmon turned on its comrade. After that I ran off, thinking of what had happened. I didn't get far because Reppamon had spotted me and Gabumon. Before I could get Gabumon to Digivolve, Reppamon had attacked and knocked me out. After that I had little flashes of memory, but I don't remember very much. Then I woke up next to you guys."

"Wow," Rika said.

"I'll say," Takato said. "If this is true, then he really is like Ken."

"That's what I said earlier," Sarah said. "Anyway, if he succeeds in taking over the Digital World, then life as we know it here will most likely disappear with the Sovereigns. They are supposed to keep this world in balance."

"So we just have to stop him before that happens," Takato said.

"Again, that's what I said," Sarah said. "You are pretty dense, aren't you?"

"You have no idea," Rika said.

"Hey!"

The group continued to argue for a bit, but was interrupted by Renamon.

"Will you please be quiet?" she asked. "We need to get searching for the others."

"Right," Takato said. "Well, we'd better get started. Guilmon, are you ready to digivolve?"

"Uh-huh," Guilmon said.

"Digimodify! Matrix Digivolution activate!" Takato slashed a blue card through his D-Arc.

Guilmon matrix digivolve to…Wargrowlmon!

"Incredible!" Sarah said. "You can digivolve just like that?"

"Yea," Takato said. "Climb on. We can talk in a second."

"Takato, is there any way we could use your D-Arc as a GPS or something?" Sarah asked.

"I don't know," Takato said. "Ever tried it Rika?"

"No, I haven't," Rika said. She started to mess with her D-Arc, pushing random buttons. Takato started to do the same thing.

"I can't find a navigator program, but I found the time," Takato said. "Oh, wait. Here it is."

A screen popped up and showed the surrounding area. On it were contour lines and little red dots.

"I'm guessing that the dots are Digimon," Rika said. "See if you can expand it and search for another D-Arc signal."

Takato pressed some more buttons and the screen shrunk, showing more detail in the immediate area. "Oops, wrong direction." Reversing what he did, he saw three blue dots nearby in the forest area. "If red dots are Digimon, then blue dots should mean Tamers. Let's go check it out."