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Chapter 7: Robots in Disguise

The three Autobots charged at the two Dark Digimon, Dokugumon and Gorillamon, with the monkey-like Digimon having Kari Kamiya in his grasp. Her fellow teammates watch shockingly as three giant robots charge at the two combatants. Jazz drew his blaster and aimed it at Dokugumon.

"Hey, ugly!" teased Jazz as he made a side flip. "Why don't you make like a spider and crawl off?!" He fired a three-burst round at the spider-like Digimon, only for her to dodge the attack by leaping into the air.

"Poison Cobweb!" She shot her signature attack. Jazz jumped out of the way, but one of the cobweb's ends hit Jazz shoulder, causing to corrode as if it was splashed by acid. As Jazz landed on the road, he checked his shoulder, noticing the corrosion. It was short-lived however.

"Man, that was a close one."

Star Saber engaged Gorillamon up close.

"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!"

"Like you!" laughed Gorillamon, as he shot an Energy Cannon blast on Star Saber, but the Autobot leader jumped up in the air and gave him a nice kick on the chest. As he took the full force of the blast, Gorillamon dropped Kari as the girl was falling to the ground, still unconscious.

"Kari!" yelled Davis.

"I got her!" Bumblebee transformed into his Volkswagen form and quickly raced and caught Kari into his interior. He sped off behind one of the buildings to get her to safety. Gatomon, awakening from her injuries, noticed Kari being taken away by the yellow robot and ran to catch them. Meanwhile, the two remaining Autobots prepared to attack the Digimon. The DigiDestined and Ash were still behind a building, watching the battle.

"What are these things?" asked Davis.

"You ask me. They look like some butt-kicking robots from your video game!" said Veemon.

"Those robots sure are tough." said Armadillomon.

"Yeah. but didn't one of them take Kari somewhere?" said Cody.

"Oh no! She could become some experiment for those mechanical baddies! We have to stop them!" Davis tried to rush in to follow Bumblebee's trail, but he was stopped by T.K.

"Hang on, Davis. We can't fight them." said T.K. "We don't even know whose side they're on, and besides our Digimon and Pokemon are all washed out. We'll have to sit this one out."

"We have to do something." said Ash.

~I want to run into the action too. ~ thought T.K. ~I just hope Kari's okay. ~

Meanwhile at a car parking lot, Bumblebee parked at a spot and transformed into robot form, placing Kari gently on the sidewalk and tried to regain her consciousness. She finally opened her eyes slightly, only for them to open wide real quickly with the sight of a giant robot in front of her. She moved back, frightened by their first encounter.

"Who are you?! What are you?!" asked Kari, still frightened.

"Calm down! Let me try to help!" Bumblebee tried to calm down the nervous human girl. She faced monsters more fearsome than Gorillamon and Dokugumon, but never before has she faced such a sight from a robot, but then she thought if monsters like Digimon can be kind and gentle in many ways, then maybe robots like Bumblebee can be too.

"O-Okay." stuttered Kari, still nervous. "I'm Kari."

"Name's Bumblebee." Bumblebee was relieved that Kari took her time to calm down and introduce herself.

"Bumblebee? Why call you that? Is it because you sting like one?" asked Kari, curiousl, and her nerves soon began to calm down

"Uh…" Bumblebee had probably never heard the word would actually refer to something on Earth. "… yeah. That's right!"

Kari could just giggle at his statement. She now realized how docile the Autobot could be.

"I'm guessing you don't really what an Earth bumblebee is, don't you?"

"Well, I…" Bumblebee was interrupted by a knock on the head. He fell to the floor and looked back to find that Gatomon attacked him.

"Stay away from Kari, you big meanie!" warned the protective young Digimon.

"Gatomon, wait!" Kari stood up and stopped her partner on time. "He's on our side!" Gatomon quickly stopped her next attack and walked up slowly to the downed Autobot.

"Whoa, for a little organic, you sure know how to pack a punch." He got back up to his feet.

"Sorry about that." giggled Gatomon, scratching the back of her head.

"So, what are you guys?" asked Kari.

"I'm an Autobot and we're supposed to be in secret when this…" As he was about to speak, an explosion sent Jazz hurling into a building. Bumblebee turned around to see his comrades being toyed around, as Star Saber was being twirled and twirled by Dokugumon and was thrown at Jazz.

"Sorry to interrupt, but my friends need me. You just get somewhere safe and try to stay out of this. Reinforcements will be nice, though."

"Okay." agreed Kari. "But remember, they're innocent Digimon corrupted by those Dark flowers on their heads. You have to get them off their heads." He nodded and transformed into vehicle mode and rushed to the scene. Kari and Gatomon ran and hid behind a mailbox. Bumblebee arrived to help his two comrades, transforming to robot mode and shot his cannon at the two Dark Digimon.

"Sorry I'm late, guys."

Jazz tried to get up, but stopped for he was hit badly at the arm.

"Man… *groans* you sure took your sweet time, Bee." complained Jazz.

"Just stay down. I'll deal with these clowns." He smiled and jumped over them. Seeing the two Dark flowers Kari had mentioned, he took a shot at each of their heads. The flowers were gone.

"Got 'em."

The two Digimon fell to the ground from the impact. Recovering, they looked around, clueless to where they were.

"Hey! Where are we?" Gorillamon was completely dumbfounded by the fact he was not in the Digital World. Dokugumon was just as confused.

Cody wasted no time and rushed to the scene, with his laptop primed and ready.

"DigiPort open!" The laptop flashed and the light sucked in the two Digimon back to their world. The team gathered around while the Autobots recovered from the battle. Suddenly, another silhouette appeared in the sky and descended to the ground, slamming hard with a force that sent everyone falling to the ground. Soon, the dark figure revealed itself as a lady-like figure, covered with darkness and with bats swarming over her.

"LadyDevimon!" the DigiDestined shouted, shocked to see an old enemy, thought to have been destroyed by the DigiDestined last Christmas.

"You DigiBrats have a lot of nerve showing up here." She grinned as she unleashed her signature Dark Wing attack, sending her swarm of bats against the DigiDestined and the Autobots. As the teams took cover, she then had something in her hand. A glowing orb of energy, unstable and about to blow. She dropped it to the ground and the orb became more and more unstable. Knowing what would happen, everyone took cover. Bumblebee, however, noticed that Kari and Gatomon were behind the mailbox they were hiding behind during the last attack and quickly ran to them. The orb was about to explode in a huge explosion. The Digimon Digivolved back to their Champion forms and shielded their partners from the blast. Bumblebee did the same for Kari and Gatomon. The Autobots moved with the last of their strength and struggled to head to wear Bumblebee protected Kari and Gatomon. Then, the orb at last exploded. A huge radius of the town was covered in a blinding light and everyone completely disappeared from LadyDevimon's view. She flew off, satisfied of what she saw.

~ A few minutes later ~

The blast cleared. The town was somehow still intact. Everything was still the way it was before the orb exploded. However, at the roadside, the Digimon were hurt quite badly, as if the blast only affected them instead of everything else. They put their lives on the line to protect the defenseless humans and Pikachu. Their bruises and scratches were very much visible to the others. Very soon, Davis, T.K and Cody went to pick up their partners. Just then,

"Guys! You okay?!" A voice came from afar. It was Yolei, along with Aquilamon, Ken, Stingmon, Dawn, Piplup, Iris, Axew and Cilan. They all landed on the ground to check on the others.

"Ash? You okay?" asked Dawn. Ash just smiled and said, "No need to worry!"

"Pika!" followed Pikachu. The blue-haired girl just smiled. However, Yolei and Ken were more concerned about the situation.

"What happened here?" asked Yolei. "It's like a battle out of sci-fi movie here."

"Exactly!" said Davis.

"Huh?"

"We'll explain later." T.K suddenly said. "Where's Kari?" Their attention then turned to the battle scene. They seemed to notice that Kari went missing with Gatomon.

"Those nasty robots took her!" exclaimed Veemon.

"What on earth happened?" asked Ken.

"Worry about that later! We have to get these poor things back home." Iris was even more worried about the Digimon being hurt from LadyDevimon's attack.

"You're right. We'll head back home to treat them, and talk about this event." agreed Ken.

"Wait! What about Kari?!" exclaimed Davis, furious about leaving her behind.

"She'll be fine, Davis." said T.K.

"No, she won't. Those robots abducted her! And you're here not worried about a single bit about her!"

That gave T.K the last straw and he clenched his fist, feeling like punching the boy.

"Davis! Watch your tongue!" yelled Yolei. "She'll be fine and that's that! She's a strong woman and she'll come back unhurt."

Davis felt guilty and backed off. Everyone boarded Aquilamon and Stingmon and flew back to Ken's house. T.K looked back at the scene.

~Kari…~ he thought. ~ Please be okay. ~

-The battle zone-

Meanwhile, as the team disappeared into the sky, the Autobots, battered and wounded, were back up on their feet. Star Saber lent Jazz a hand and the two viewed the aftermath of the blast.

"Wow. Who would've thought a Solar-Cycle* could go by like this?" said Jazz.

Star Saber turned around to look for Bumblebee.

"Bumblebee? Where is he?" They looked around for the young Autobot. For five minutes, there was no sign of him. Another five minutes later, Jazz was shocked.

"Sir!" He called out to Star Saber. The Autobot leader was also horrified of what he saw. Bumblebee was at the same parking lot he was at with Kari and Gatomon. He had seen better days.

He was so badly full of open wounds and scratches that it looked like he went through an acid storm. He was lying on the floor, with electric jolts around his wounds. Kari and Gatomon were there trying to wake him up.

"Bumblebee? Wake up." cried Kari. Gatomon looked back to find that Star Saber and Jazz were on their way to Bumblebee.

"Friend or foe?" she asked.

"We were just about to ask the same thing." answered Jazz. "Considering on how you organics are caring for Bumblebee, I guess the question's answered."

Star Saber crouched forward to examine Bumblebee. He was clearly wounded from the blast.

"We'll have to take him back. He'll be fine." said Star Saber.

"Even without Ratchet?" Jazz figured things were to be different without their finest medic on board the Ark.

"Maybe his medical chamber will be available." said Star Saber. They picked up Bumblebee's unconscious body and went back to the Ark, only to be stopped by Kari.

"I'm coming, too." Kari was serious, worried about her newfound friend's safety.

"I'm sorry, but this is beyond anything you've probably experienced." explained Star Saber.

"We've seen worse." she added. "We've may have just met for a few minutes but he saved us from LadyDevimon's attack. We should be there to thank him."

Star Saber thought about it. Just then, Kari said, "We'll promise to keep your existence a secret." She gave a wink. Saber was surprised that she knew about their vow to remain in secret.

"Very well." He finally agreed. "Jazz."

As Jazz transformed, the two entered in his car mode.

"Welcome aboard." he said. Star Saber transformed to his jet mode, hooked up Bumblebee with a hook on the underbelly of the plane and everyone was off to the Autobot base.

-At sea-

They approached the sea where the Ark was on the seabed. They prepared to dive down deep.

"Uh, will we be able to breathe down there?" asked Kari, worringly.

"Oh, yeah. Sure you will." said Jazz, enthusiastically, but his voice changed to a more confused tone. "What's 'breathe'?"

They submerged deep underneath the sea. As they swam deeper and deeper, Kari and Gatomon looked out the view to see a gigantic shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. The Ark came to view. They landed on the seabed and Jazz drove into the entrance. Star Saber flew with him. As they entered the water-filled chamber, the door behind them closed, and water was drained out of the chamber. They approached an elevator and ascended to the control room. There, Jazz transformed and placed the organic duo down to witness a mysterious new place, where even a military base would be dwarfed by the tremendous size of the interior. Kari then shifted her attention to Bumblebee being carried to the medical chamber. They both ran to the medical chamber. The still unconscious Autobot was placed gently on a metal bed. The Ark's systems then automatically activated the medical equipment and machines as everything was fixed at Bumblebee. Concerned, Kari tried to get a better look. Star Saber crouched down and placed his hand for Kari and Gatomon to jump on and up they went to look at Bumblebee. A gas mask was placed on his mouth. There were signs of life as shown in an E.R monitor, but the lines were pretty faint.

"Is he going to be okay?" asked Gatomon.

"He's a strong Autobot. Reckless, but strong." said Star Saber.

Kari gave a small smile. At least she knew he was still alive from his sacrifice.

"Hang in there, Bumblebee."

So, the secret is safe, but for how long? And how is LadyDevimon back from the dead? Find out on the next episode!

* A Solar-Cycle means one Earth day for the Transformers.

Done! I made the ending a little similar to Transformers Animated. Trust me; the next chapter might be too. Nevertheless, hope you liked this chapter. R&R, please!