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Chapter 15: Meeting the New Enemy
Cody and T.K were walking to the school together to meet up with Kari and Davis. Cody was hoping Yolei would go with them but when they went up and knocked on her door her sister said she wasn't home. Cody then knew that she would be showing up with Ken. He knew that is they all got the e-mail from that woman then Ken did too.
"You know Cody. Maybe you should give Ken a chance."
Cody looked up at the older boy, "I know I should but I just can't bring myself to forgive him."
"I can see where you are coming from Cody but everyone deserves a second chance. Ken is trying to fix what he did wrong."
Cody didn't answer him. He knew T.K was right but he wasn't going to admit that. Maybe he should give Ken a chance. He obviously is making Yolei happy. He hasn't seen her this happy since they were younger. The two boys walked the rest of the way in silence.
In the computer room Davis and Kari were waiting for them to arrive. Davis was sitting in a computer chair and Kari was looking out the window watching for T.K and Cody. All Kari could think about was what would happen today. She was hoping they weren't walking into a trap set by this woman.
"Anything yet Kari?"
"No not yet. They should be here soon. The e-mail said to meet her at 1pm and it is only 12:15."
"I know but if we got there sooner we could see if there were any traps set by this woman."
"That would be a good idea."
"Really? You think so?"
"Of course I do Davis," Kari turned from the window to look at him, "That way we also have a better idea what we are getting into."
Davis could see the worry in Karis' eyes. He stood up from the chair and walked over to her. He placed a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry Kari. It is just one weird witch lady and 6 of us. This should be a piece of cake."
"I wish I had your optimism Davis."
"Well I have enough for the both of us."
Kari smiled at him. She knew he was trying to help her and she appreciated it. She was lucky to have someone like Davis in her life. Sure he acted like Tai a lot but there was something about him that was just so wonderful she knew he was nothing like Tai. Kari then closed the distance between them and put her arms around Davis in a hug. Davis returned the hug, holding her tightly. Without words she knew he wouldn't let anything bad happen to her.
'I wonder if this is how Yolei feels with Ken?' Kari then shot her eyes open. She didn't pull away from Davis. She didn't want him to see the look on her face. 'Where did that thought come from?'
Just then they heard the door to the computer lab open. Davis and Kari pulled away before Cody and T.K could see them. The last thing Davis wanted was them asking a lot of questions and Kari getting embarrassed. 'Well why would she be embarrassed it was just a hug between friends.' Davis thought but when he took one last look at Kari he could see the slight blush on her cheeks.
"Hey guys. I hope you weren't waiting long."
"Nope not too long T.K."
Everyone looked at Davis. "Are you okay Davis?"
"Yeah why? Do I look sick?"
"No. You just got T.K's name right!"
"Oh yeah I guess I did. Well I figured I should start acting like a leader and get everyone's name right."
"I think you are just maturing Davis."
Davis blushed a little at Kari's comment. Maybe he was maturing. He didn't want say anything more. "So where is Yolei? I thought you were gonna ask her to come with you guys."
"We did. When we knocked on her door one of her sisters said she wasn't home. We could only think that she is going to show up with Ken."
"Well think of it this way Cody she will be with us. Even if it is just for today."
"Yeah I guess."
"Well alright team I say we head to the Digital World!"
They held up their D-3's and entered the Digital World. When they got there they were outside of this giant house. They decided to walk around to see if there were any traps set for them. Kari and T.K went around one way while Davis and Cody went the other. They figured they could cover more ground that way.
"Gatomon?"
"Yes Patamon?"
"What was going on before we came in? Kari looked a little pink. Is she sick?"
"No Kari isn't sick. Her and Davis had 'A Moment'."
"A Moment?"
"Yes I am not sure exactly what it is but I have seen it in Kari's romance movies that she watches."
"Are you saying Kari and Davis are in love?"
"Not necessarily but I think there are some feelings there. I don't really understand it."
"Sounds confusing. I am glad I am not a human."
"I couldn't agree with you more my friend."
Once the four met back up with each other neither one found any traps outside the giant house. Not sure what to expect they decided to wait for Ken and Yolei to arrive. Davis was sitting on a rock while Kari and T.K were leaning against a tree. Cody was sitting on the ground.
"Hey Davis?"
"What's up Veemon?"
"What if Ken and Yolei don't show up?"
"They will. Have faith in our friends."
"I do Davis. I guess I really just want to see Wormmon. After we DNA Digivolved I felt really close to him. Like our hearts and minds became one."
"I felt the same way Veemon."
Davis and Veemon turned around at the voice. It was Wormmon, Hawkmon, Ken and Yolei. Kari looked over and saw them. She smiled and ran over to her friend. Yolei smiled when she say Kari running over. Yolei met her half way and they hugged. Davis and T.K walked up to Ken. T.K gave Ken and handshake and Davis put his hand up for a high five which Ken returned. Ken looked over at Cody who had stood up from the ground but didn't move to greet them. Cody nodded over to him. Ken knew that was a big step for Cody to just acknowledge him so he smiled at the boy.
"Sorry we are late. Ken's computer decided it wanted to do a software update."
"It is okay. We walked around the building and we didn't find any traps waiting for us."
"That only means that the traps are inside waiting for us. She must have some kind of plan or else she never would have sent that e-mail to us."
"Ken has a point. I think we should split up into groups of three. Three of us head in first and then the rest follow us in."
While they were figure out a plan no one saw the figure standing on the roof. She was looking at them with binoculars. She lowered the binoculars and smirked. She knew once she put her trap in place these kids would not stand a chance against her. She walked towards the hole in the roof to enter the building.
"Is everything in place."
"Perfect. Those brats will be entering soon."
"And what about the one our master needs?"
"I am sure he will not mind if we brought the kid injured but alive."
Outside Davis decided that himself, Ken and Cody go as the first group. Kari, T.K and Yolei would follow. Davis and Ken had their Digimon Digivolve and they would carry them in. ExVeemon broke a window and they made their way in.
Kari, T.K and Yolei were standing outside. They were getting ready to make their way in when Gatomon's ears started to twitch. Gatomon then made a quick turn and pushed Kari out of the way. A Snimon that was behind them tried to attack quietly but it didn't work. They quickly had their Digimon Digivolve and they started to attack back. When they realized how out numbered they were they decided to retreat and get in the house thinking it would be cheaper. Once they all got in the air a swarm of Flymon started to attack.
"Hold on tight everyone!"
The Digimon maneuvered to not get fit by the attacks. They then took off towards the building hoping to lose them in the giant house. Nefertimon did her Rosetta Stone attack and broke another window for them to get in.
"Maybe we should split up. Try to get them to lower their numbers."
"Sounds like a good idea. I'll go this way. You and Kari go that way."
"Yolei are you sure? I don't want you to be alone."
"I will be fine Kari. Those Digimon are right behind us we do not have time to agrue about this! You guys watch out for each other!"
Yolei and Aquilamon took off down the hallway. T.K and Kari watched her go until they heard the Flymon and Snimon swarms coming in after them. They took off down the other way of the hall. The Flymon went down the way Yolei went and the Snimon went the other.
Ken, Davis and Cody were having their own problems. They were being attacked but a lot of Roachmon. They were coming out of drains and cracks in the walls. They were fighting them off the best they could but if they took one out five more took it's place. At one point Stingmon was knocked out of the air and he and Ken went down in the sink. Cody had Ankylomon revert back to Armadillomon and Armor Digivolve to Submarimon. They entered the water and saved them. They went into a grate to get away from the Roachmon. Submarimon reverted back to Armadillomon. Ken and Stingmon went up to them.
"Thank you Cody for your help."
"Don't look to much into it Ken. That was me repaying you for saving me from Thundermon. Now we are even."
"I understand. Thank you again though."
Suddenly they heard a sounds coming from the other end of the air system they were in. They walked towards it and came out in another room. There they saw the woman they were looking for. She stopped playing her tune and looked that them.
"Well it took you long enough to find me."
"Find you. You wanted us here you could have been the one to greet us and not these Digimon!"
"Now, now boy where is the fun in that?"
"This is where we are going to stop you."
"You think so? Well think again. I will destroy all of you and my associate will take care of your other friends."
"Associate? She knew we might split up."
"Ken?"
"She knew. This was her trap! All six of us separated."
"Well that doesn't matter. You are I are together. I say we DNA Digivolve."
"Agreed. Stingmon!"
"You got it Ken!"
"And that is where you are wrong again."
The woman started playing her flute again and Stingmon stopped what he was doing. The next thing they knew Stingmon was attacking ExVeemon. Ken was trying to get his attention but it wasn't working. Cody had Armadillomon Armor Digivolve to Digmon to help ExVeemon but she played the same tune again and then Digmon was attacked ExVeemon as well.
"Dude what is going on?"
Cody looked at the woman and then suddenly put two and two together. "The flute!"
"Huh?"
"Her flute Davis. She is controlling all Insect Type Digimon!"
"Exactly. Of course you figured it out too late. Your Digimon are under my control!"
Digmon attacked the floor they were standing on. Cody, Ken and Davis fell through and landed on a giant spider web. Davis looked up and saw ExVeemon standing his own against the two Digimon but he knew he wouldn't last much longer. He was wishing they never split up in the first place. He knew he made a mistake for suggesting it. Now he was also hoping the others were okay. Davis looked over to Ken and Cody. Cody was sitting and Ken was on his back. Both unable to move.
"Well I guess it is a good thing this web broke our fall."
"I wouldn't be happy about that Davis."
"Really why not?"
"Um that might be why Davis."
Davis and Ken then turned to where Cody was looking. A Dokugumon was slowing coming towards them. Neither one of them knew what to do. Their Digimon were no help being under the control of that woman. All Davis could do was hope the others would find them in time. Ken made the suggestion to Cody to reach out for help since his hands were the only ones that were free to call for help. Cody immediately tried Kari.
Kari and T.K were hiding in a study behind a bookcase. They were hoping the Flymon or the Snimon wouldn't find them. All Kari could think of is Yolei on her own. She hoped that she was okay. She was also hoping Davis, Cody and Ken were having better luck than they were. Just then a Snimon sliced a book and found where T.K and Kari were hiding. They took off knowing that they couldn't take all of them on. Nefertimon and Pegasusmon made a small opening with some books they could hide behind. Kari's D-Terminal then went off.
"T.K Cody and the others need help."
"Any word from Yolei?"
"None. I hope she is okay."
"As much as I would love to help them how can we get out of here?"
"I don't know T.K. I really wish there was something we could do other than hide."
Kari replied back to Cody saying that she and T.K couldn't help. They had their own problem to try and deal with.
"Kari and T.K can't help. They are trapped in a study with a bunch of Snimon."
"What about Yolei?"
"I will try."
Yolei was on Aquilamon's back. They had Flymon coming from all sides. Yolei heard her D-Terminal and grabbed it. She read the e-mail from Cody and immediately sent back a reply.
"Hold on Yolei."
Aquilamon then flew straight up fast so the Flymon would fly into each other. He knew this tactic wasn't going to last long but it would do for now. She finished sending the e-mail.
Cody then opened the reply from Yolei. "She can't help either. She is being attacked by Flymon."
"Yolei is alone?!"
"Ken calm down! We need to get out of our own situation here!"
Ken knew Davis was right. He looked up and saw the air condtioning system by the ceiling. He then looked and saw the debris from when they fell onto the web. Dokugumon was closing in on them and he knew if this plan didn't work they were going to be goners.
"Davis. If we can get this to turn on the air conditioning system we can blow Dokugumon away."
"Hey that is a great idea."
Ken then picked up a piece of debris with his feet and tossed it over to Davis who then kicked it to the air conditioner. It hit it's target and the air suddenly started to blow. Dokugumon stopped and the web itself started to shake. Where the Digimon was standing the web broke and the spider Digimon fell. Cody let out of yell of happiness but that was short lived. Where they were stuck to the web it started to fall apart. Cody was falling fast but before he knew it someone caught it. He looked up.
"It is alright Cody. I've got you."
"Ken?"
Ken was holding on to part of the web that was still together. They started to slowly lower to a bed. Ken let go of Cody and they fell to the bed. Davis was landing just as they were getting their bearings on the bed. Davis looked up the ExVeemon who wasn't going to last much longer.
"ExVeemon!"
Stingmon attacked and ExVeemon fell through the hole the teens did. He landed on the bed and fell to his knees. He reverted back to Veemon. Davis walked over to him and picked him up. Veemon was sorry but he couldn't fight back against his friends. Davis just smiled at him and told him it was not a problem and that he did his best. Davis then found the large dresser. He suggested they hide in there. Once they got it open Davis and Ken carried over a large slipper they found. They all climbed up it and got in the drawer. Just then Stingmon and Digmon came down after them.
"We need to get this closed."
"How?"
Just then Stingmon flew into the drawer and it closed. "Well that was easy."
"I wouldn't say that Davis."
Just then they heard Digmon trying to break through the wood.
"How can a flute control Insect type Digimon?"
"It's the vibrations Davis."
"If we could eliminate the sound, it would help."
"Cody it right."
"But it won't be easy to get our hands on that flute."
All three of the boys stopped and tried to think of a plan. Ken had then asked if they knew about the story about moths and bats. Cody said that he did.
"Moths listen to the sounds emitted by bats in order to escape."
"They don't just listen Cody. Moths also emit sounds that mix up with the bat's sounds and disorient their sense of direction."
Davis just looked back and forth between the two, "You two sure know a lot..."
"So your saying Ken if we can distort the sound of the flute, the Insect Digimon would return to normal?"
"Exactly Cody."
"But is that a sound we can make?"
Cody and Ken looked at Davis. Then Cody looked down in defeat. "It's impossible. We need to know the flute's wavelength to begin with."
"So we have a solution but no way to execute it," Ken said looking down at the boy.
Davis then got an idea. "I think I have the solution to all our problems!" Davis then took out his D-Terminal and started to send an e-mail.
Yolei who was being chased by Flymon took her D-Terminal out when she heard the message go off. It was from Davis. She read the plan but she didn't know how to do what he wanted.
"It is my specialty but without a computer I can't do it."
Kari and T.K got the same message. "There is a computer here where we are. We are in the study," Kari replied.
Yolei took out her D-3 to find Kari and T.K's signals. Suddenly there were two lights on the screen. A pink and yellow light. She told Aquilamon to go to the door on the left and they would be in that room. Aquilamon went through one of the small holes that Pegasusmon had made and when the Flymon tried to get through they didn't fit. Yolei jumped off Aquilamon and landed right on the power button on the keyboard.
Pegasusmon and Nefertimon pushed all the books they were hiding behind and all the Snimon fell with the books. They then used books to make a small shield around the teens so they could work. Aquilamon reverted to Shurimon to keep the Insect Digimon away. Yolei gave T.K and Kari instructions on how to help. T.K and Pegasusmon were trying to hook up the microphone and Kari was helping Yolei move the giant mouse.
Once everything was set up Yolei and Kari moved the mouse to the record button and started recording the flutes tune. Yolei stopped the record and once the time was right she put the recording on loop. She then told T.K to turn on the speakers to the computer and turn the volume up as high as it can go. Once he was done he told Yolei it was ready to go. Yolei then hit the play button and hoped for the best.
Back in the drawer Digmon and Stingmon were through and ready to attack the others. Davis covered his head waiting for the blow but it never came. He looked up and just saw Digmon and Stingmon standing there. Cody then ran up to Digmon happy his friend was no longer under the influence of the flute. Once they were out of the drawer both Insect Digimon explained they didn't remember what they were doing.
Davis then remembered the woman. He turned and saw her standing at the hole in the ceiling looking down at them. Surprised that her plan controlling the Insect Digimon hadn't worked. She then jumped from the ceiling down to the floor. Davis, Cody and Ken were shocked that she jumped from that height without an injury.
"How could she jump and not get hurt."
"That must mean that she..."
"Not human? You would be correct."
Then she started to transform. She went from a woman to a grotesque looking spider. "I am Arukenimon. You have no chance in defeating me in this form. Spider Thread!"
As her attack came at Davis Veemon Digivolved to ExVeemon and stopped it from hitting him. After he did she attacked again. Kari, T.K and Yolei were coming down the hall to help when ExVeemon and Digmon were sent through a wall from the attack. Pegasusmon and Nefertimon dropped Kari and T.K on the floor and started to attack the Digimon.
"Who is that Digimon?"
"That is the woman who has been turning control spires to Digimon. She is Arukenimon." Cody explained to T.K.
Pegasusmon and Nefertimon fell from the air after Arukenimon attacked with her Acid Mist. Stingmon and ExVeemon then decided that DNA digivolving would be their best bet against her. Once they became Paildramon he attacked Arukenimon. She would not back down.
"We need to do something to help."
"You're right Kari but how?"
"I wish I knew T.K. Obviously our Digimon are not strong enough to go after her."
"I know!" Everyone turned to Yolei. "We need to go to the dining room. Ken, Davis keep her distracted while we get everything ready. Give us a few minutes and then head to the Dining Room. We will be ready."
"Understood. And please be careful."
"I will Ken."
The other left to get their trap for her ready in the Dining Room. Once Ken and Davis thought they had given them enough time the told Paildramon to get Arukenimon to the Dining Room. Cody was keeping watch and once he saw them heading to the Dining Room he told the others to be ready. Arukenimon went around the corner and stopped in her tracks.
"I hope you like salt!" Yolei said as her and Shurimon started to shake the salt on her. She started to run away but then ran into Digmon and Cody who had a can of bug spray.
"Hope you enjoy this little spray bath!"
Arukenimon then turned and tried to get away from them. She could barely see where she was going when she was suddenly face to face with Nefertimon and Pegasusmon. Kari and T.K both had wires in their hands. When they flew up to her they electrocuted her. Arukenimon then fell to the floor unable to move.
"Answer our question. Why are you trying to destroy the Digital World?"
"What a meaningless question..."
"What?" Paildramon asked.
"Why do I destroy? Because that is my life's purpose."
"How can you turn the Control Spires into Digimon?" Kari asked.
"Another useless question. Without knowing the full nature of the Control Spires you wouldn't understand it if I explained it to you."
"This is getting us nowhere. She isn't going to stop if we let her go."
"What are you saying Shurimon?"
"If we let her go she will keep making Digimon and destroying the Digital World."
"But we can't kill her. She is still a Digimon."
"Cody is right. You guys can't. But I can."
"Ken..."
"No Yolei. There is no need for your hands to get dirty. Mine already are."
"No Ken there is another way," T.K said, "How about we lock her up somewhere?"
"Softies! It will cost you your lives!"
"If you are going to attack," Paildramon said, "Then bring it on."
"Spider Thread!"
"Is that all you've got?" Paildramon asked as he stopped the attack with a flick of his hand.
"Damn you!"
"If you want to settle this then..."
"Then what?"
Everyone turned to a man standing on the table. He was wearing a blue overcoat with a cane and a blue hat. His face was completely hidden from view. "What will you do?"
"Who are you?"
"Who am I? I am..." He then transformed into a Digimon. He was covered by bandages and his cane turned into a giant gun. "I am here to save you Arukenimon."
"Mummymon..."
"Mummymon?"
Mummymon then attacked Paildramon and he was blown right into a window. The other Digimon attacked but he was able to stop them too with his Snake Bandage. He then told Arukenimon that they needed to retreat so she could regain her strength. He picked her up and carried her away. The other Digimon reverted back to their rookie and baby forms.
"So Arukenimon really does have an ally."
"How are we going to stop two of them when we only have one Ultimate?"
"We will figure it out Kari."
"I hope so Davis. I really don't want the Digital World to be destroyed."
"Neither do we Kari. And we will do everything we can to stop them."
Okay that is chapter 15. I hope you all enjoyed it. I hope to start chapter 16 soon. Until then...please review!