Chapter 19 – Betrayal
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Ryo's POV
"You can't be serious," Ryo said, nodding in disbelief what Seth had just told him. "How the hell are you going to take control of the Digital World if you have to destroy four Sovereigns, millions of Digimon, and us?"
"I have my ways," Seth said. "Consider yourself lucky that I was not expecting you to show up to protect these two. You would have suffered a painful fate by the hands of someone that you would expect least of all."
"Care to explain?" Ryo said.
"No," Seth said. "You will see soon enough anyway. Reppamon!"
Seth leaped onto Reppamon's back and they jumped out of the canyon, disappearing over the cliff.
"What was that all about?" Kazu asked.
"I have no idea," Kenta said.
"We need to find the others," Ryo said. "Let's go."
They cautiously climbed onto Cyberdramon, knowing full well of his mood swings.
"Are you sure it's safe?" Kazu asked as he sat down behind Cyberdramon's left wing.
"Absolutely," Ryo said.
They took off, flying the direction that they had come from.
After an hour, Cyberdramon shook violently, almost causing Kenta to fall off.
"Cyberdramon! What's wrong?" Ryo asked.
"Something…evil," Cyberdramon said in his usual dialect of few words.
"Take us down," Ryo said.
They flew downwards, landing somewhat roughly on the ground below. Kazu, not paying much attention, fell off on back.
"Ow," he moaned. "Warn me next time, will you?"
"It's your fault," Kenta said, pushing up his glasses. "Ryo even said we're going down to the ground."
"He did?" Kazu looked dumbfounded.
Everyone sighed.
Cyberdramon shook again, this time looking off into the distance.
"It's coming," he growled. He prepared an attack just in case.
Suddenly, a black, heart-shaped bubble appeared on the horizon, floating towards the group. It stopped short of Cyberdramon, then popped, spraying him with black specks all over. He screamed in pain.
"What the hell was that?" Ryo asked. "That attack seems familiar, but where have I seen it before?"
As if to answer his question, a figure floated around a rock. To everyone's shock, it was a small, pink Digimon with a little red heart on it's chest. Around its neck was a ring as black as a starless midnight. Coming towards Kenta, it smiled and blew a black bubble from its mouth, engulfing Kenta inside.
Kenta yelled something out, but was muffled by the bubble.
The Digimon turned and blew two more bubbles at Ryo, Kazu, and Gabumon. Once they were inside, he turned towards Cyberdramon, who was still writhing in pain from the attack earlier.
Ryo was left awestruck at what he was seeing. Inside of his little bubble, he pulled out his D-Arc. On the screen flashed some information that almost made him faint.
It read 'MarineAngemon, Virus type, Mega level, attacks Shadow Waves.'
What I wouldn't do for a D-Terminal right now to contact the others, Ryo thought, staring at MarineAngemon.
Kenta meanwhile just sat down in his bubble and cried for what his partner was doing, tears falling down onto his jeans.
Another figure appeared from behind the rock, this one was as familiar as MarineAngemon.
"I see that you have met my newest friend already," Seth said, climbing off of Reppamon. "MarineAngemon, will you kindly put these losers into a holding cell back at base?"
MarineAngemon proceeded to put a bubble around Cyberdramon. Pushing all of the bubbles into the air, they floated on towards Seth's base, still in shock from what had happened.
"That gets rid of four more," Seth chuckled. "Now if I'm not mistaken, then there are only five left to foil my plan."