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Chapter 2
Separate Agenda's

"That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard of." Naruto made his thoughts heard after Davis gave his plan on attacking the Digimon Emperor head on. "Did you stop to think about the Digimon under his control?"

"We just free them then problem solved." Davis stated as if it was obvious.

"What's going to stop him from using them as shields huh? Or as distractions for him to get away, what then? Oh fearless leader." Naruto's latter statement was dripping with sarcasm.

"Look I never asked for your help, Namikaze, nor do I need it." Davis got right in Naruto's face. The others could do nothing but watch as the two went at it. The digimon were also watching, but seeming to be more entertained with it. It seemed like they were watching a tennis match, eyes on the ball as their heads went back and forth; looking from one boy to the other.

"Oh, well you sure as hell needed it back there, or did you forget who saved your ass." Naruto returned Davis's glare, with an equally heated one.

"I say we just take down the Emperor right now while we have him outnumbered." Davis reinstated his plan.

"And I Say we find a way to first get rid of the Emperor's control on the digimon, and then take him out." Naruto retaliated with his response.

"If we take down the Emperor then we save the digimon, problem solved." Davis acted as if it was the most obvious thing.

"Do you not hear how idiotic and childish that sounds?" Naruto threw his hands up in the air. "This is a war, and until you free the war prisoners you'll have nothing but casualties." Naruto's statement spoke of wisdom beyond his years.

"This isn't a war, it's a fight, and you're wanting to run away. Well I'm not going to, I never run from a fight." Davis stood proudly thinking he must of looked cool. "Besides what do you know about war?"

Naruto paused, flashbacks, war flashbacks, of his comrades dyeing, of fighting monstrous beasts and god like men. He glared at the boy, "Fine, you want to take this path, then take it, but leave me out of it. I'm going to do things my way, with or without you all." He turned to walk away, "Let's go Wormmon." Naruto's old partner soon followed him out; he crawled up the blondes leg to reside on his shoulder.

"Naruto-kun!" Kari called after her boyfriend, but he didn't answer. "Davis, look what you did, we needed him to help us."

"We don't need him, not when you got me." Davis said with a cocky attitude.

"I think we should just let Naruto go and do his own thing." TK finally spoke up. "If we really need his help, I'm sure he would be there for us if we call him." The others, aside to Davis, agreed.

XxX

Naruto was currently laying on his bed inside his room, looking around his thoughts started to wander. Before he could take any trips down memory lane, Wormmon spoke up. "What's wrong Naruto?"

The blonde sighed, "I don't know, it's just, we need to free those Digimon. But in a way Davis is right, the Emperor has to be stopped. If we do save the digimon, then what about him?"

"I have a suggestion," Wormmon stated staring at his partner.

"What's that buddy?" Naruto gave the worm his full attention.

"Why don't we let the others try and fight the Emperor, they may save a few digimon in doing so. While we do what we do best, spy." Wormmon said the last word with a lot of dramatic feeling.

"So, let me get this straight, you think we should try to spy on the Emperor while the others keep him busy?" Wormmon nodded, Naruto thought about it for a while. "That's not a bad idea, we can try to find out more about him, figure out how the dark rings work, and find a way to shut them all down." Wormmon nodded, "Sounds like a great plan, lets get started right away."

"But how? The only portal into the digital world is at the school." Wormmon pointed out.

Naruto thought for a while on a plan, he could easily sneak inside the school with no problem. The only thing is what to tell his parents. "I got it." The blonde grabbed his phone, this was his new phone that he had gotten earlier when he got home. It was an early birthday present, he thought it was convienent that his birthday was still October tenth. It was one of the newest smart phones, one that he has been wanting for a while. After musing about his new phone he sent a text out to TK. Soon his phone rang. "'Sup?" Naruto answered.

"What was with that text? What kind of favor do you need?" TK asked.

"I need you to cover for me if my parents call you, can you do that?" Naruto asked as he started to get ready.

"Yeah, but why do you need me to do that?"

"I'll explain later, but for now can you do that for me?" Naruto grabbed his bag to stuff some supplies into it.

"Alright, you can count on me, whatever it is, good luck man." TK stated.

"Thanks man, I owe you one." Naruto answered back as he hung up his cell phone. "Now the cover is well covered, lets go Wormmon. Meet me outside okay?" The digimon nodded as he headed to the window. Naruto left his room, his parents were in the living room watching a movie on the television. "I'm going over to TK's for a study session."

"Isn't it a little late?" Kushina asked.

"Not really, if I hurry we'll have time to study before going to bed. I'll see you after school tomorrow." Naruto gave a wave good bye to his parents, he slipped on his shoes and headed out the door. When he made it to the outside of the building, he called for Wormmon. The worm digimon came out of the grass, "Let's get to the school."

XxX

It's a school, there wasn't that much security, none actually. Well who would actually break into a school anyway. So needless to say Naruto had no trouble breaking into the school, a little lock picking and rewiring of the security system. He just set it to reset in two minutes, just enough time for him and Wormmon to get to the computer lab. Once there just turning on the computer, again he set it to shut down after a couple of minutes. He didn't want to leave any kind of foot prints, sort to speak, behind. So once in the digital world he will be there until someone turned on the computer in the morning, hopefully they will.

Once in the digital world Naruto once again admired the weaponry that he had on his person. He did wonder though how it was possible and how his quiver was fully stocked. He shrugged, chocking it up to the digital world just being the digital world. He immediately led the way to the nearest control spire, there was a lot of them now. So one was not hard to find, he stayed in the shadows waiting to see if there was any kind of patrol sentries or guards. Other than a couple of digimon with rings around there person, nothing.

"Let's take care of them first Wormmon." His partner nodded, he leapt out and sprayed them with his sticky string causing them to be slow in their movements. This allowed Naruto to throw a couple Kunai to strike the dark rings, causing them to go up in data. "You're free, now flee while you can." They nodded, with a quick thank you the two were off. Naruto walked up to the control spire, he placed a hand on it and removed it quickly. "Damn, that's hot, this thing must put out some kind of power. Hmm," He pondered that bit of information for a moment, suddenly his phone went off, signaling that he had gotten a text. He expected it to be from TK, but when he checked it the ID said unknown. He read the message aloud for Wormmon to hear as well. "'If you want information on the spires, dark rings, digimon emperor, or even why your quiver is full whenever you come to the digital world; then come to the spot indicated on your digivice.'" His digivice then beeped, when he pulled it out he saw a red dot beeping, "Okay, that's weird, well I'm not going to say it isn't suspicious, but what choice do we have?" With that he and Wormmon walked off toward where his digivice took them.

When he got to the coordinates he came across a cliff, he looked over to see an endless abyss. No bottom could be seen whatsoever. "Uh, is this right?" He looked at his digivice and indeed it was correct. His phone went off again, another text, "'Jump'?" He looked at his phone and at the abyss, then at his phone again. "What?!" He looked at his partner, then at the cliff, he shook his head. "No I don't think so, let's go Wormmon." When he turned to leave, that's when the ground he was standing on catapulted him and his partner into the abyss. "Ahh!"

Minutes went by, still no bottom, Naruto looked at his partner. "What the hell is going on?"

"I don't know, how long have we been falling?" The digimon asked.

"I have no idea!" He yelled.

More time went by, by now Naruto was so bored that he was on his phone playing one of his app games on his new phone that was already on there. Wormmon watched as he saw Naruto move a wingless bird with his finger in a slingshot to fire said bird at green legless pigs that were hiding behind wood and glass. Suddenly lights shot on, Naruto and Wormmon looked around seeing some kind of base. He looked up to see the top of the cliff as being only like a ten or twenty foot drop. He looked below him to see a giant fan that was keeping him up.

"Hey kid, long time no see." Naruto looked toward the voice to see a machine digimon, he recognized him right away.

"Datamon!" He shouted happily. The digimon flipped a lever that turned off the giant fan, Naruto flipped and landed on his feet onto the grate that covered the giant fan.

"Still got the ninja skills I see." Datamon smirked.

Naruto ran to the digimon and wrapped his arms around him. "I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you."

"Bah, water under the bridge. Let's get on to the more important matters shale we?" Datamon asked as he waved off Naruto's apology.

"Yeah, wait, so are you the reason my quiver is full?" Naruto questioned remembering the text.

"Guilty." He chuckled as he led Naruto and Wormmon up the stairs to his new lab.

"How?" Naruto asked.

"First let me show you my new lab." He pressed a few buttons, when the metal door before them opened Naruto's jaw dropped. The lab was amazing, very high tech, even having machines and gadgets that he has only seen in a recent super hero movie about a billionaire with a metal suit. That's the only thing that came close to this lab. Datamon walked over to a giant super computer with a huge screen, Naruto and his partner followed. He pressed a few buttons then suddenly above the table in the middle of the room was a holographic model of the digital world. Then multiple black dots appeared. "This is the digital world, the black dots are the control spires." He pressed a few more buttons, then picked up a pad like device that reminded Naruto of his tablet back home. "First off, read that, it's my research on these dark rings and spires." There was a lot of information, Naruto felt a little overwhelmed. "Don't worry I sent you an e-mail." Before he could ask how he got that information, Datamon answered the unasked question. "If you don't want that stuff known, then don't put it up on that MyBook or whatever it's called." He poked an area on the globe, this caused it to zoom in and bring up a flat version of the area. "Let's get started, look at this area here." He pointed at the area littered with black dots, "See how in the middle here," he pointed at the area, "It's small but it's blank, now look at this next area." He brought up another area of the digital world. "See here," he made a circle motion in the middle of the area, "it's the same with this area." He brought it back to the globe, and then four red dots appeared in random places on the globe in a sea of black dots.

"What are those places?" Naruto asked.

"It's in my report," to this Naruto gave the digimon a deadpan look. The digimon chuckled, "Only one thing I can think of, it's the emperor's bases. Where they are exactly is hard to say, that part I couldn't find out." He brought up a digital compass, "You can tell that by this that the four bases are located in the four sectors of the digital world. North, South, East, and West, the emperor was a busy little worker bee. In the five years that he has been here."

"Wait he's been here for five years?" Datamon nodded, "are you sure?"

"Yeah, I came back about a month or so after you guys saved the digital world, I didn't notice anything until six months after, while I was rebuilding my lab. He managed to conceal them, but my sensors that sense dark energy, you know learn from your mistakes." Naruto knew he was referencing how the Dark Masters managed to escape his sensors and get the drop on him and the others. "Anyway, they started to pop up everywhere, no one noticed them until about a month ago, but by then everyone was being taken in by the dark rings. I would have been amongst them had it not been for my spy drones."

"Spy drones?" Naruto asked, suddenly a round floating ball appeared out of nowhere. "Whoa what the hell?"

"That's one of my spy drones, they don't attack or anything, just observe. I've got them all over the digital world all cloaked. The only part I haven't been able to get them into is near the emperors possible bases. He must have some kind of EMP or something, cause they just die if I get within a hundred meters of the place. Not enough to see anything though." He grabbed the one that was floating and showed the back to Naruto. "Luckily I planned for this outcome and made a self destruct procedure. Something that I can detonate from here."

"Datamon, you are awesome. So what's your take anyway on these spires and dark rings, is there a link?" Naruto asked.

"Again it's in my report." Another disapproving look from Naruto, "Okay, okay, I'll stop saying that. Yes I do think they are connected, the spire acts like an antennae, it emits the energy needed to power the rings, that's why it was hot when you touched it." Naruto was about to ask how he knew, but Datamon answered him. "Spy drone. Anyway, the spires on the other hand don't sustain energy which means that in order for them to run they need to have an energy source." He brought up what looked like a digital model, showing green arrows pointing to each black dot. The arrows were originating from the single red dot. "By this model I theorize that the bases are emitting the energy that the spires need to emit the same energy to power the dark rings. So it's all linked in a way, you destroy the ring you save the wearer, destroy the spire you save all the digimon within a five mile radius, and if you destroy a base you save all the digimon in that area."

"It sounds so simple, but I bet it's not." Naruto stated looking at the digital play of what Datamon said.

"You're right, and since I can't get close to the base with my spy drones I can't tell what the place is like, if there are any guards, or even if it is above or below ground. Hell I don't even know how big it is." He went back to his computer canceled the digital globe. "I can't go in myself, it's too risky. But when I notice you arrive well I rejoiced, not only am I happy to see you again, but you can help me see what these basses look like and their exact location." He pulled out a box and opened it, producing a flash drive. "Okay, this flash drive has a way of not only hacking any computer but downloading all of its files onto it. Don't worry this thing can hold at least three terabytes worth of information." Naruto looked at him for a moment, "Yes, that's a lot, all you have to do is break into one of these bases, find a computer, preferably the main computer, pop this baby in. Give it a few minutes, and then you're out of there."

"Uh, okay let's say I get in, I find this computer, and I even managed to get all the files. How the hell do you expect me to get out of there?" Naruto asked.

"Ah, I was hoping you'd ask that. The same way you will be getting near the base." Lights flicked on to show a large pad with multiple circles on the bottom. "My matter transporter. Capable of sending atoms across space in a matter of seconds." Naruto's jaw hung opened at this.

"Datamon, h-how did you do this?" Naruto asked.

"Dude, I've been in isolation for four and a half years, I built a lab full of tech that you humans have only seen in movies. I'm actually surprised you're shocked." Datamon shook his head. "Anyway, here this is how you will be getting out of there." He threw Naruto a watch, it looked like a watch but was only a band with a lone button on the top. "That's a mini-matter transporter, it will transfer you and all you are touching back here. It's only program to send atoms to one location, this location, so no matter where you are, when you hit that button you come back here." Naruto placed it on his wrist, he looked it over seeing the button to which he could press. He assumed that it was the button that would whisk away his atoms and bring him and Wormmon, if the digimon was touching him, back here. "Well let's get started." When Datamon said that, that's when Naruto noticed the time.

"Awe man, I gotta be at school in four hours. Datamon I need a little sleep, is there anyway this can wait?" Naruto asked.

"Well it can, but the longer you wait the longer the digital world suffers. Sorry." Naruto thought about that.

He had to go to school, he didn't want his parents knowing about his little secret, at least not yet. Plus he had responsibilities in the real world, he had two meetings to attend after school. He was going to go out on a date with Kari, after but that's where he has to choose. A date with Kari, or a chance to be one step closer to saving the digital world. "Let's do it tonight, I have a few things to do after school, so I'll come to the digital world after."

"Naruto, don't you have a date with Kari?" Wormmon was there when Kari texted him asking him to accompany her to a new movie she's wanted to see that she didn't want to see alone.

"Wormmon, I have to make a choice whether to save the digital world, or go on a date. This is more important, I'm sure she'll understand." Naruto felt a ping of dread in his stomach, this is something that he didn't want to do but had to. If he could get this done in time he may be able to get to the movies in time.

"Well, why don't you get some sleep then," Datamon pressed a button opening another door to a room with a single bed inside. "Sleep well my friend."

"Thanks Datamon, you really do have everything here." Naruto set his alarm on his phone, he took off his gear and got in bed, and before he lay down he asked something that he has been wondering for a while. "Hey Datamon," the digimon gave him his attention, "How is it that I got all my gear back and get a refill of arrows, kunai, and my other gadgets."

"It's a secret." The digimon grinned and closed the door just before the shoe could hit him. Naruto chuckled as he lay down to get some sleep.

(A/N: This is short, I know hopefully the shortest chapter I will ever write. I didn't mean for it to be short but it's what I wanted this chapter to be about. Hey every book has at least one short chapter in it, I've read a few. Anyway, what did you you think of Datamon's lab? I sucked at describing it but just imagine Tony Starks lab in the Iron Man movies. There will be a surprise next chapter, and some drama, along with some action. If everything goes as planned. Sorry about the random updates, I sort of had a mental break down earlier this year because of all the pressure I have been going through, almost cost me my girlfriend, I just haven't been up to writing luckily I had this chapter done before that happened, I working on the third chapter now, and hope to have it done at some point. There are probably a lot of grammatical errors or spelling errors in this chapter, I don't know if I edited this yet or not, but you all have been asking for an update well here it is. I also wanted to let you know what is going on in my life now and why my updates will be taking a while. I have a mental block, I really can't get through a chapter without the words melting together. Anyway, leave a review telling me what you think and what you thought of this chapter. New gadgets are sure to come, so be looking for that. Well ttfn ta ta for now.)