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Digimon World Wars - Part 2
Chapter 4 - DATS's Next Move
As the ship carrying the destined approached the city, Andromon's barrier opened up, allowing the large ship into the city. The D-Carrier hovered over the street until the road began to slide open, allowing the ship to descend into the hangar below. Andromon looked up to see Guardromon flying the D-Cyclone over to one of the other hangar entrances as he lowered the ship.
Andromon landed the ship, and turned off the engine. As soon as they landed Duo threw open the sliding door and jumped out along with Veemon.
"Duo, Veemon!" Duo and Veemon turned as a small boy ran up to them.
"Hey Leon," Duo gave the boy a high-five as he ran up to them. Leon suddenly tackled Veemon and started to wrestle playfully with the digimon. Over the last couple of months, Veemon and Duo had been spending time and playing games with the boy, when they weren't busy training or out on a mission. Leon seemed to be much happier lately, and lately was always waiting for Duo and Veemon to come back from one of their missions. After Veemon called uncle, Leon jumped up and grabbed Duo's arm, Duo held his arm out as Leon hung from it, trying to pull him off-balance.
"Having fun?" Duo smiled at the boy as he hung from his arm.
"You're too strong Duo," Leon dropped down as the rest of the group filed out of the D-Carrier.
Angemon walked up to the group, "Excellent work everyone, -" before Angemon could continue the Doc rushed in front of him and caught sight of Haru's burnt hands, Kanda's bloody forehead, and Ling's bruised body.
"Sonoko, Kazuha, get these three to the medical room, now!" Out of nowhere, Sonoko and Kazuha ran in, each wheeling a stretcher. The two forced Haru and Ling on to them and wheeled them off to the medical room. Kanda followed behind them grumbling that they could bandage his head, but he wasn't staying in the damn medical room.
Angemon stepped forward again, "Anyway, as I was gonna say, -" Angemon was suddenly interrupted again as Jerry ran in.
"Come on everyone! Your meal is ready for ya!" Most of the digimon began jumping in joy. Veemon, Flamon, Dorumon, Terriermon, Coronamon, Lunamon, Palmon, Gomamon, Gaomon, Veedramon, Tentomon, Monodramon, Impmon, Gabumon, both Agumons, Wormmon, Guilmon, Falcomon, and Commandramon chased after Jerry as he led them to the cafeteria. Renamon and Strabimon slowly and calmly followed after the rest of the digimon.
"Alright, we need to throw another party," said Elie, "what do you say guys?" Kotaro, Negi, and most of the group cheered and agreed to the idea. However Setsuna, Shikamaru, and Rex didn't.
Rex, "Count me out, I still haven't recovered mentally from your last party."
"Huh, what was wrong with it... oh wait, I remember," Elie remembered the incident that had caused Rex to once again get chased around the base by Setsuna, for four hours straight.
Angemon stood there, as all the destined forgot about him, too interested in going down to the cafeteria and having fun, or just going to their rooms to get some sleep.
Andromon chuckled as all the destined but Duo left, "Sorry Angemon, looks like you'll have to tell them tomorrow. By the way what did you want to tell them."
Angemon looked a little annoyed at being ignored, "We just got a message from Lady Ophanimon, she wants to see all the destined to personally thank them for their accomplishment."
Duo stood a few feet away, Leon was now hanging off his shoulder, trying to wrestle him to the ground, "Angemon, did you guys by any chance get a message from Shurimon?" Shurimon had been in the real world for two months now, trying to find DATS's bases and eavesdrop on their plans. Before Shurimon had left however, Duo had asked the digimon to do him a favor.
Angemon turned to Duo, "As a matter of fact we did, he sent a private message addressed to you too." Angemon walked over to one of the Guardromon and got the message that they had printed for Duo, "Here you go."
"Thanks a lot," Duo folded the paper up and put in his vest pocket. "You hungry Leon?" The boy nodded and Duo made his way for the cafeteria, with Leon still hanging on his shoulder.
As Duo walked down the hall, Rex walked past him, back towards the hangar, "I thought you were going to go rest."
"I am, but I almost forgot to give Andromon the info I pulled from DATS's computers," Rex pulled his digivice from the holster on his hip and walked back into the hangar to give it to Andromon. Duo and Leon waited for Rex to come back.
"You sure you don't want to come hang out with us, I doubt Setsuna is going to be there, you won't have to worry about having to run for your life... again," Duo grinned and Rex thought about it for a few seconds.
"Alright, I am kinda hungry."
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Ten minutes later Duo and Rex were at the cafeteria entrance, Duo had dropped Leon off at his room so he could bring his grandmother. The two were gonna meet them in the cafeteria. Duo and Rex walked in and found nearly every one there. Rex looked at Duo as he saw Setsuna standing in the corner of the room. "Heh, Elie must have dragged her, Kanda, and Shikamaru here," Kanda had a bandage wrapped around his head. The only two missing were Haru and Ling, who probably would both be stuck in the medical room for the next day or two.
Elie suddenly rushed over and grabbed the two of them, pulling them into the cafeteria and forcing them to sit down next to Renji and Kiru as she went to put on music.
Sanji and Coronamon suddenly burst out of the kitchen, each holding trays of sweets in their hands. Lavi ran up to him as he made his way for the table, "Awesome, don't mind if I do!"
Sanji suddenly kicked Lavi's hands away, "Ladies first!" Sanji and Coronamon walked around Lavi. Sanji set his tray in front of Nodoka, Hinata, and Setsuna and Coronamon set his next to his partner's, in front of Palmon and Lunamon.
Veemon and Flamon ran over along with Renji's Agumon, each handing their partners and Kiru a soda before running over and digging into the buffet of food. Duo noticed Impmon and Tentomon sitting on the table itself, stuffing pastries into their mouths. Strabimon and Renamon sat at the end of the table, both quietly eating dango. Monodramon, Gomamon, Dorumon, Gabumon, Falcomon, Guilmon, and Terriermon all sat at the buffet, stuffing their faces.
Rex turned to Renji and Kiru, "So how did the battle go on your guy's side?"
"We kicked ass obviously," smirked Kiru.
"Kanda and Tankdramon really did most of the work though, I swear, he must have an infinite supply of ammo, cause he didn't stop shooting until all the enemy digimon were down," said Renji taking a drink.
Elie suddenly appeared behind Renji, "Will somebody tell me who Tankdramon is?" Before Renji could answer, Elie felt someone tugging on her skirt. Elie looked down to see Commandramon pointing at himself. "Commandramon, why didn't you just say so?" Commandramon shrugged, before walking over and sitting next to Kanda in the corner of the room.
Renji, "You know, he was with all of us there for a moment, back at the DATS base, didn't you notice him with Kanda, before he changed back to his rookie form?"
"Nope, must of missed him," chuckled Elie. Duo couldn't understand how she had missed the giant reptile with tank treads and all those guns and cannons.
Kiru, "Why do you think he never talks?" Renji and Elie shrugged.
Elie, "I think it's kinda cute actually. You'd never know he was partnered to our angry, moody Yu Kanda."
"Just watch what you say about Kanda around him," whispered Gomamon who appeared out of nowhere on top of the table. "He gets really mad when someone talks bad about him, it ain't pretty."
"Gomamon, where did you come from?" Asked Elie, un-sure of how he had managed to get up on the table without them noticing.
"What do you mean?" Gomamon tilted his head to the side, confused.
Renji, "Never mind."
"Elie, can you help me take some food up to Ling?" Asked Gomamon. Elie smiled and nodded, before walking over to the kitchen window to ask Jerry for carry-out food.
Dorumon ran over to Elie as she reached Jerry, "Don't forget Haru!"
"Well I'm gonna grab something to eat, before they eat it all," Rex pointed over his shoulder, where the digimon were still putting away food. Rex walked over and sat with Uryu, Kankuro, Shuhei, and Yumichika who were all trying to get some of the food before it was gone. In the other corner of the room, Shikamaru sat quietly next to Musica, each drinking a soda. Wormmon and Shikamaru's Agumon sat quietly next to their partners, with a plate of food in front of them.
Kotaro and Negi on the other hand, had been arguing with each other over something stupid, and now the two youngest destined were arm wrestling to win the argument, while Toshiro sat quietly watching, having been nominated their judge. Gaomon and Veedramon stood next to their partners, cheering for them with their mouths full of food.
Duo looked over at Renji and Kiru, who were both sitting quietly drinking their sodas. Duo suddenly noticed someone walk up behind Kiru.
"You two better not be drinking alcohol again," Kiru spit out his drink in surprise and turned around to find Nagisa, glaring at him and Renji.
"What are you doing here?" Asked Kiru annoyed.
"What, I can't come down and hang out with the rest of you... jerk."
Kiru's eyebrow twitched, 'I wouldn't mind it as much if she'd leave me alone, instead of nagging at me constantly.'
"Anyway, Duo!" Duo turned in surprise as Nagisa called his name, "Leon and Granny Sayo aren't coming down, Leon fell asleep while he was waiting for her to get ready. Poor guy was waiting all day for you and Veemon to come back too."
"Don't worry, when he wakes up, we'll do something fun with him," said Duo.
"It's kinda cute, you two almost look like brothers," smiled Nagisa. Duo nodded and stood up, excusing himself.
Duo walked out into the hall and leaned against the wall for a moment, 'I'm not good enough to be that kid's brother.' Deep down Duo still blamed himself for what happened to Kuwagamon and Kunemon. 'Not like I know how, never been a brother before.' Duo pulled the note from Shurimon out of his pocket, finally taking a moment to read it.
Duo scanned the paper and sighed in relief. Before Shurimon had left for the real world, Duo had asked him to check on someone for him. Duo had discovered a few months back, that the few family members that his fellow destined had in the real world, had been moved into safe houses by the resistance's allies to protect them. Few of the destined actually had any family though, Kiru had his father, Kankuro had a sister, Shikamaru had both his parents, Hinata had her father, and Musica had his grandfather.
Duo obviously didn't have any family, but there was one person in the real world he worried about, even though the only link they had was that they had been childhood friends. Even though no one should be able to connect the two of them together, it didn't stop him from worrying. So he had asked Shurimon to check on Eureka for him, just to make sure she was safe. Shurimon's letter confirmed that she was indeed fine, and that there was no reason to suspect that she was in any danger. Although Shurimon had also written, that the girl seemed to be depressed about something when he saw her.
Duo sighed, 'I wonder what she's sad about...'
Duo had no idea that what had made the girl so depressed, was that he wasn't around.
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(Back In The Real World)
A teal haired girl walked up to her house and walked through the front door. She could hear the sounds of her mother preparing dinner in the kitchen, but her father was nowhere to be found.
"Eureka, when did you get home?" Eureka's mother walked out of the kitchen, surprised to see her daughter.
"Just a moment ago," Eureka removed her shoes.
"How was school?"
"Same as always," Eureka made her way to the stairs.
"You okay dear?"
"I'm fine," Eureka walked up the steps and out of sight.
"That girl is such a bad liar," Eureka's mother, Haruka walked back into the kitchen, taking one last look at an old album she had sitting on the kitchen table. One picture stood out in the album, a picture of Haruka, with her daughter at an old park. Her seven-year old daughter had dragged a young boy into the picture with her. The boy's face was red as Eureka held onto his arm, to keep him from avoiding getting his picture taken.
Haruka remembered the boy very well. When she had first met the boy, his long hair was a mess, and she had offered to give him a hair-cut. She remembered the boy saying he liked his hair the way it was. So instead she had decided to show him a trick to keep it from hanging all around his back. She had shown him how to braid his long hair, to keep it from getting in his way.
'He was such a shy, sweet little boy,' Haruka closed the album. As far as she was concerned, the accusations against Duo, that he had murdered Keba Himura, was a complete and utter lie. 'I hope wherever he is, he's safe...'
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A young man was sitting at a large desk, he had spiky brown hair and wore glasses. He was studying plans for his organization's next big attack, "What is it Venom?" The young man suddenly turned to his door as a much older man walked into his office.
"Sir, our last base on the Delta Continent, was destroyed by the resistance."
"I'm not surprised," he had expected this.
"Sir, we also believe, that all the files at the base have been compromised."
"Good," said the younger man, much to Venom's surprise.
"I don't understand sir, we had sent our battle plans there, for Tomahawk. Now the resistance has them. They'll know what we're planning to do, the entire resistance will stand in the way of our goal."
"Don't take me for a fool, Venom!" The younger man stood up, "I want the resistance to be there, we'll be able to wipe them out and attain what we need, in one move." The young man pulled his glasses off as he looked down on Venom, "Are the Gizumon ready?"
"Almost sir, they just need to have their final program orders installed, and they'll be ready."
"Good, go make sure it gets done." Venom bowed his head and walked out of the room.
"You're so mean to your subordinates Zennosuke," a teenage girl, with long brown hair, clipped behind her ear with a flower hairpin, walked out of the corner of the room and smiled at her older brother.
"What are you doing here Mika?" Zennosuke Minazuki looked over at his younger sister, surprised by her sudden appearance.
"What, I can't come visit my big brother?"
"You know I'm very busy, Mika," Zennosuke sat back at his desk and put his glasses back on.
"What are you trying to attain big brother?"
Zennosuke sighed, ever since they were young, he always had a soft spot for his little sister, "There's a massive amount of data we're trying to collect, the problem is it's highly guarded, that's why we need the Gizumon."
"Where is it?"
Zennosuke pointed at a map that was laying on his desk, "The Delta continent's capital city, GranDelta."
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(Back In The Digital World)
Andromon, Angemon, and several Guardromon went through the files on Rex's digivice. So far they hadn't found anything of use.
"What do you think DATS's next move will be Andromon?" Angemon stood a few feet away from the android, contemplating his own question.
"I doubt they will stay quiet for long, we're bound to see some kind of retaliation, we just have to be ready for..." Angemon looked up when Andromon didn't finish his sentence.
Angemon and Andromon looked over the information that had just been pulled. Angemon gritted his teeth and gripped his staff tight, "No! They can't be serious!"
"Angemon what is this? I don't know anything about a data source hidden in GranDelta."
"Lord... Ser-aphimon..." Andromon eyes widened, "The seal that was formed when Lord Seraphimon sacrificed himself, is hidden beneath GranDelta. It's what maintains the barrier between the real and digital world. The seal was created from Lord Seraphimon's very data. If DATS gets their hands on that, the barrier that keeps Daemon's forces from reaching the real world will be broken! And if that happens..."
Andromon, "Daemon will undoubtedly destroy the real world!"
Angemon, "Guardromon! Gather everyone, we have to go to GranDelta, immediately!"
~To Be Continued~
Thank you for reading, and please... please review.
Characters:
Zennosuke Minazuki, Age 22
Mika Minazuki, Age 16
Notes:
As seven months have passed in the story, obviously some characters have aged. Example Duo and Rex are now 18, and Haru is 17. I'll post on my profile, what the character's ages are at now.
Sorry about the lame chapter title, couldn't think of a better one this time.