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So, here it is! Chapter 8, primed and ready! Please R&R!

Chapter 8: Teams Assemble

It's been hours since the battle between two Dark Digimon and our DigiDestined-Pokemon team, only for it to be joined in by three large Autobot robots. Now, after a brief encounter with an old enemy, the DigiDestined were forced to retreat without their beloved friend, Kari Kamiya, who was in fact in an Autobot ship called the Ark, watching over the Autobot who saved her from LadyDevimon, Bumblebee. She was in that ward for hours with her partner, Gatomon, aware that her friends and family were probably worried sick about her, but she couldn't leave her injured friend without a "thank you". She sat by his arm and waited and waited for him to come back online.

Moments later, the Autobot's optic sensors came online. The pulse line in the ER screen began to become a little more edgy, indicating his life-force recovering slowly. He turned his head slowly to find that Kari was sitting beside his arm, with Gatomon purring quietly on her lap. Kari quickly turned her head to face the awoken Autobot. She smiled. His face had a piece of armour-plate covering his mouth.

"Thank goodness you're okay." said Kari.

"You sure took a long cat nap." teased Gatomon. However, as the Autobot tried to speak, only a buzz noise came out instead of words.

"BZZT!" he exclaimed, trying again and again to communicate, but to no avail. Kari and Gatomon were just as shocked. Bumblebee had lost his voice from the blast!

"BEEP, BZZT." His beeps went softer and his face shown a sign of sadness. Kari got up and placed her hand on the poor Autobot. How could such a thing happen to poor old Bumblebee?

"It's okay, Bumblebee. Everything will be fine." she smiled as Bumblebee surely made a smile himself. She didn't need to see his mouth to know he felt comfortable with her kindness. Just then, Jazz entered the room, realizing the incident that happened to Bumblebee.

"Speechless, bro?" teased Jazz. "That's a first." he chuckled. Bumblebee didn't take it as a compliment, though.

"BEEP, BZZT, BOOP, BEEP, BEEP!" he mumbled.

"Sorry. I'm just trying to help." Jazz apologized.

"Seems to me you aren't." said Gatomon.

"BEEP BRRK."

"Huh? What do 'ya mean I ain't funny, Bee?"

"BEEP BEEP BZZT BRRK"

"Ha ha. Very funny."

"Wait," Kari was confused. She can't understand Bumblebee, yet Jazz was able to understand. "You can still understand him?"

"As you can see, Bee's vocal processors have been damaged in the battle with that devil woman. So apparently, he can't talk much." explained Jazz. "However, he has a backup buzzer unit that'll help him communicate in a code-like language that only our processors can understand."

Kari and Gatomon couldn't really get the picture, as he was explaining in a Cybertronian matter, but Kari took the guess.

"So LadyDevimon's attack damaged his voice box, causing him to lose his voice and there's some buzzer to beep in a language you can understand." She put it to human terms, which sounded much more understandable to Gatomon.

"Uh, yeah. That's right." said Jazz, confused. As the chatter continued, Star Saber was at the control room, monitoring Japan. He was briefed about Bumblebee's condition by Teletraan-1.

"So, Bee's lost his voice from the blast? Hmmm, poor bot." said Star Saber. He was also concerned about the Decepticons' supposed fate. Whether they survived their crash-landing on the Moon or not, one thing's for certain, there were Decepticons who escaped the burning ship before it crashed. He was worried that they managed to crash-land on Earth as well. He just kept on staring at the monitor for hours. Jazz then came up to the control room. He gave a salute to Star Saber, who saluted him back.

"How's Bumblebee so far?"

"He's speechless alright." Jazz chuckled. "But so far, he's A-Okay."

"Good to hear." Jazz started to wonder.

"How long have you been standing there, looking at the monitor this whole time?" he asked.

"I'm pretty sure our enemies are out there. I'm just worried that we might start the war anew. And with those dark Digimon Kari called them, we might just raise the stakes." answered Star Saber.

"Nah. It'll be fine, sir." Jazz reassured to him. "Kari and her friends are probably hard-core warriors themselves, although they do look like they're at the stage of little protoforms*."

"I'm sure of that." agreed Star Saber, for now at least. He turned off the monitor and headed back to Bumblebee's ward with Jazz.

~Three hours ago~

-In Ken's house-

Hours before Bumblebee's recovery, at Ken Ichijouji's house, the DigiDestined and their Pokemon allies gathered around to talk about what had happened that day.

"What?! Giant robots?!" yelled Yolei in a mixture of excitement and shock.

"Yeah. These giant robot fighting machines appeared out of nowhere and attacked Dokugumon and Gorillamon!" explained Davis. "Then, they took Kari and Gatomon somewhere. That's when LadyDevimon showed up!"

Yolei was now more in fear than excited. She was nearly killed in a confrontation with LadyDevimon that Christmas night when the devil Digimon perished at the hands of the combined efforts of Hawkmon and Gatomon. She just shivered in fear as she heard the name of LadyDevimon.

"And we've thought we've seen the last of her." said Ken. Their Digimon and Pokemon were still snacking around, even with all the paranoia and anxiety, even Patamon. T.K's head was still facing down, probably more worried about his best friend's safety. Just then, he raised his head.

"I think we should find those robots…" Everyone turned to T.K with high hopes. "… and ask for an alliance."

Everyone was now surprised about his suggestion. How were they to trust them for taking Kari with them? Davis was obviously against the idea the most.

"Why should we?! You saw what they did to Kari." exclaimed Davis.

"I know, Davis, but try to remember that yellow one. He took her off from the battle. And then he returned and fought the two Digimon. He shot off those Dark Spores accurately as if he knew of the situation." He raised a good point there. It now made sense even to Davis. The Autobots can be trusted, but still everyone was suspicious.

"Well, wherever they are, they must've taken her someplace where our D-Terminals can't contact her." said Cody.

"I wonder where they could be." said Yolei, worried.

~Present~

-The Ark-

The Autobots were still aboard the Ark with Kari and Gatomon. Kari went up to Star Saber.

"Star Saber, sir." she called. The Autobot leader bent down to see to her.

"I was wondering why I can't contact the others with my D-Terminal."

"The Ark's defensive barrier blocks out all radio contact to prevent our detection from the outside." explained Star Saber.

"Well, they're probably worried sick about me. I'm just worried for them as well. And if I don't call my parents, they'd probably call the National Guard."

"Earth customs. I haven't thought of that. I may not know what a parent is, but I guess we shouldn't keep them waiting." He turned to Jazz.

"Jazz, open up the barrier for a while. Let's give Kari some time to contact her friends."

"You got it, Boss-Bot!" Jazz pressed a button and the Ark's barrier was lifted. Kari opened up her D-Terminal and contacted her fellow DigiDestined.

-Ken's house-

Moments later, Yolei's D-Terminal started beeping. She opened it up and found that she received a message… from Kari.

"Guys! It's Kari!" she yelled. Everyone quickly went to her.

"Well, spill! What did she say?!" exclaimed Davis.

"She said she's fine and she wants us to meet her and the robots at the port where the DarkTyrannomon attacked."

"Well, what are waiting for?" said Iris.

"Axew!" added her partner, Axew.

"Wait, what if it's a trap?" Davis was still suspicious.

"No time." said T.K. "We have to go there."

"T.K has a point." said Ash.

"Pika!" said Pikachu.

"Well no use standing around here." said Hawkmon.

"Let's go find them!" exclaimed Patamon in excitement.

"Alright, agreed. We'll go to the harbour. Let's go!"

~At 10:00 p.m. ~

-Odaiba Port-

The DigiDestined have been waiting at the harbour for half an hour, but still no sign of Kari, Gatomon or the robots. Davis was beating his head lightly on a shipment box.

"Davis! I told you for how many times, stop banging your head!" complained Yolei.

"Well, you stop tapping your foot like a tap-dancer!" Davis answered back. Iris and Cilan hushed them up.

"Quiet down!" whispered Iris, angrily.

Just then, the sounds of water splashes were heard. Everyone turned to look and found three vehicles emerging from the water; a jet and two cars. They quickly gathered around. The three vehicles stopped in front of them. Out of the Volkswagen Bug, came Kari, with Gatomon in her arms. The Autobots transformed. Everyone was happy that Kari was safe and well. She went to them. Davis just ran towards her and attempted to hug her, only to trip and fall over a crack on the floor. Yolei smacked her head in annoyance. Everyone else walked towards the Autobots, with T.K walking slowly to Kari.

"I hope you're fine." he smiled cheerfully, trying to hide his concern. Kari gave a gentle punch on his shoulder and smiled back.

"Of course." she answered.

"Well, you still have your nine lives." said Patamon, floating over T.K.

"Ah, shucks." said Gatomon.

Ash looked up at Star Saber and walked up, followed by Ken and Yolei

"So…" he said awkwardly.

"Say no more, human." said Star Saber. "We'll be allies. I hope we haven't caused any further trouble."

"Well, besides the city being on alert and Davis' practical anxiety, I say everything's fine." said Yolei. Davis quickly got up, embarrassed by his fall, with Veemon to help him up.

"H-Hey. Sorry for misunderstanding. I'm Davis." Davis introduced himself followed by Veemon.

"Veemon's the name!" Everyone joined in.

"My name's Cody." He took a bow. "And here's Armadillomon."

"Howdy!"

"I'm Yolei and this is Hawkmon."

"Delighted."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Ken. Here's Wormmon."

"Hello."

"Name's Ash and this is Pikachu."

"Pikachu!"

"My name's Cilan. Nice to meet you." He also took a bow.

"I'm Iris and this is Axew."

"Axew!"

"I'm T.K and here' Patamon."

"Hi!"

"Thanks for watching Kari for us." thanked T.K.

"It's no problem. I'm Star Saber, leader of the Autobots. We're peaceful robotic organisms form the planet Cybertron, ravaged by war."

"Name's Jazz, what's up?"

"BEEP BZZT BEEP!" Bumblebee beeped. Everyone couldn't understand Bumblebee, as expected.

"Bumblebee lost his voice from the blast from LadyDevimon." explained Kari.

"That's awful!" exclaimed Iris.

"BEEP BRRK!" he yelled.

"Don't worry. We'll do what we can to make understandable again."

"So why are you here?" asked Davis.

"Did you come here for fan convention or something?" asked Veemon.

"*chuckles* Nah, we're just here by accident." answered Jazz.

"But with all the fuss going on about these Dark Digimon everywhere in Japan and the world, we decided we should help out, since we ain't going anywhere anytime soon." said Star Saber.

"Great idea." complimented Cilan. "Allies from different world gives a new sense of taste even I can't judge about it."

"So you left Cybertron because of a war?" asked Cody.

"That's correct. We had to leave the planet to escape our enemies, the Decepticons. Their reign of tyranny had left us no choice. We clashed above what appeared to be the orbit of this very planet. Our leader, Optimus Prime, and their leader, Megatron, have subsequently vanished into space, leaving me to take on the role as Autobot leader."

"Sounds like a story out of science-fiction movie." said Ash.

"Pika Pika." said Pikachu.

"Anyway, we're thankful you decided to join us in the battle against the Dark Spores." said Hawkmon.

"I'm sure Kari's briefed to you guys about the Dark Spores, right?" asked Yolei.

"Yes, she has. But you must remember one thing. You mustn't tell everyone of our existence. It's to protect our identity from the Decepticons, in case they're here." said Star Saber." We also shouldn't cause any further concern for the human race. Kari has told us about how Digimon came from the Digital World and the Pokemon team as well from another world. From what's going on here, our interference could make things a lot more complicating."

"Your secret's safe with us." said T.K. Everyone nodded and agreed to the terms of their new alliance.

"We'll make feel right at home." said Yolei, showing a thumbs up.

"I guess Jazz and Bumblebee will fit in well in the big city and Star Saber can take time at the military base." said Davis.

"Yes, that'd be good for us Autobots. As for me, I'll remain in the Ark. Thank you." said Star Saber.

"Well, better get moving. It's late now and our parents must be worried. I called your parents, Kari, and they said they're glad you're not in any trouble." said Yolei.

"Thanks, Yolei."

Star Saber transformed back to his jet mode.

"Bumblebee. Jazz. You two watch over the kids and their partners while we're here. You could use a little rest from our little affair."

"Yes, sir!"

"BEEP BZZT"

They transformed to their car modes.

"Hop on in guys. We'll take 'ya guys home." said Jazz.

"Sweet. Our Digimon could use a little break, right Hawkmon?"

"Right. I'm completely buffed out from all this flying as Aquilamon." agreed Hawkmon.

They went into their car modes and headed off back home.

-Kari's house-

Kari and Dawn were the last to arrive at her apartment. Bumblebee parked by the sidewalk outside and let her out.

"Thanks for the ride, Bee. Have good night's sleep."

"You'll need it for tomorrow." said Gatomon.

"BEEP BEEP." said Bumblebee quietly.

As Kari opened her front door, her mum was cooking up a late night dinner at her kitchen. Her big brother, Tai Kamiya, was sitting at the couch watching a football game. It's what he loved those days.

"Kari. Dawn. Thank goodness you're home." said Miss Kamiya.

"You two are sure late tonight." said Tai.

"Sorry I'm late, mom. We just had a little errand to run." said Kari.

"No need to worry." said Dawn, cheerfully.

"That's okay, sweetie. Dinner will be ready soon. You two go get dressed now, okay?"

"Yes, mom."

"Yes, Miss Kamiya."

The two got in to dress up. A few minutes later, Kari went out already in her pyjamas. She sat at the couch next to Tai.

"So, anything happened?" asked Tai.

"Just a few Digimon running madly in Odaiba recently. How's your end in the Digital World?"

"Nothing too big. Agumon's been busting out some Dark Spores here and there. I'm guessing ever since MaloMyotismon's defeat, those Dark Spores just went out of control without their master."

"Yeah. I'm just wondering if everything that had been done to restore the Digital World didn't do good to the Dark Spores."

"Well, they are dark."

"I'm going to check on Dawn. I wonder why she takes so long to do her hair." Kari got up and went into her room.

~The next day~

-Ken's house-

Yolei screamed so loud that Jazz and Bumblebee heard the noise outside Ken's house. They went closer to the window.

"Yolei, what's up?" called Jazz. Yolei could hardly imagine what she saw at the monitor of Ken's computer. Ken rushed in with minimon.

"Yolei. What's wrong?" he asked.

"Look!" she exclaimed, pointing at the monitor. Ken looked and he was alarmed by what he saw. The world map displayed is filled with beeping red dots.

"Dark Digimon everywhere!" he said. Jazz and Bumblebee heard the whole thing.

"Oh no. What on Cybertron shall we do?"

"BEEP!"

"We'll call the others." said Yolei.

"To the Ark!"

~Half an hour later. ~

-The Ark-

Everyone gathered at the control room of the Ark and showed Star Saber of the problem.

"This is concerning. Dark Digimon everywhere around the world?" He was puzzled.

"Who's causing all of this? And what does he or she want to accomplish?" Cody was worried to the bone.

"I haven't seen this many Digimon since that buffet special back at Primary Village." said Armadillomon.

"Do you have to think of food all the time?" complained Davis.

"Well, we agreed to help you, and we will. This is a crisis that could threaten this world. And if at all, our Decepticon foes are behind this, then we should investigate. In the meantime, let's suppress the situation!" Everyone agreed and cheered for Star Saber's determination.

"Autobots…

"…let's TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!" The Autobots transformed to their vehicle modes and dashed off to action with their newfound allies. A new war has begun.

The Transformers and their newfound allies head off! Will they be able to destroy the Dark Spores and who is behind these recent events? Find out on the next episode!

protoforms*- Baby or young Transformers (to put it simple.)

All done! I'd say I'd make this into an anime special! Thanks for all the views, favourites, reviews and follows! ^^ Will work harder to give more on the story soon! R&R please?