Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Legacy ❯ Guardians: Chapter 1 ( Chapter 3 )

The man wearing a military uniform stood up,"Yes, good, good. " He pointed to an older man wearing a business suit,"This is the President of Tokonawa Electronics, Mr. Hakado."

"How do you do, sir?" Yamaki asked, bowing.

"Mr. Yamaki," Hakado asked," My company is extreamly interested in funding your 'Digimon Bounty Hunters'. Could you give me some background information?"

"Of course sir," Yamaki said,"These invaders, called Digimon, come from a place called 'The Digital World." We are not sure how this world came to be, however, we believe that a group of programmers created them twenty-seven years ago, in a project to create artificial life.."

"Kasumi, I don't want you to fight, understand? It's too dangerous, I don't want you to end up like your Aunt Kari!"

There was a long pause before Kasumi's response came,"Dad, Mom says that if you train me, I can stay with you for a while, like maybe a year or two..."

Takato was trying to get control of his breathing,"I.I..I think you're Guilmon, and I think I created you."

Guilmon looked confused,"'Created me?"

Ice Devimon coughed slightly,"Alright...alright....'cough' I don't know who he really is, but he wants that girl Alice McCoy for some reason...."

"What reason?" Tai asked.

"I don't know," Ice Devimon said,"All he told me was that five deaths will occur, then Armageddon will arise."

Tai glanced to Gatomon, then back at Ice Devimon,"Who told you?"

Ice Devimon started laughing,"The next Master Digidestined of Tokyo! Hahahahah!"

"Rika!" Takato shouted.

The girl scowled even more,"How do you know my real name? Well, I suppose it doesn't really matter. If you have anything to say to your Digimon, you'd better do it now."

"Why?" Takato asked.

Rika grinned,"Because Renamon here is going to tear him apart!"

December 5, 2015

The Book of Guardians

Chapter: 1

"Why?" Takato asked.

"What do you mean?" Rika asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Why do we need to fight?" Takato asked, stepping in front of his digimon.

"You're a Tamer, right?" she laughed,"And you don't understand why? Ha ha!"

Takato clenched his fist,"Why are you laughing?! Stop it!"

"Tamers fight!" Rika chuckled,"That's why we have digimon, that's what we do."

Takato glanced at Guilmon, then back at Rika and Renamon. "It can't be. There has to be more to it than fighting!"

"I am not talking about this any longer," Rika snarled,"Either fight or be destroyed. I'd prefer the former, but I'll easily take the latter."

Renamon flipped over Rika's head and landed on the ground in front of her. Takato starred at Renamon's eyes, then slowly stepped to the side to allow Guilmon to stare at the fox digimon. His eyes turned to slits and he leapt at Renamon. He dug his claws into her and the two of them rolled on the ground.

"Guilmon," Takato said, "You don't have to do this if you don't want to."

Rika started roaring with laughter. "Are you for real, Goggle Head?"

Takato brushed the goggles on the top of his head and growled. "What is your problem>? You are such a witch!"

Rika crossed her arms and smirked. "You didn't even have the guts to call me the b-word, did you?"

Takato growled, then turned to the battle. "Get her, Guilmon! Tear that fox apart!"

The two digimon rolled around on the ground for a few feet before Renamon broke free and somersaulted backwards. She jumped into the air, throwing her arms apart. "Diamond Storm!"

A dozen glowing diamonds shaped objects appeared around her, then shot towards Guilmon. To her horror, the glowing objects simply bounced off of Guilmon's skin. Takato gasped. "What, how can that...that be? Guilmon....I...how strong did I make you?" He turned towards Rika, but found that her expression remained the same. "She either doesn't care, or doesn't have any emotions at all!"

Renamon landed on the ground, then skyrocketed forward. She slammed her fist into Guilmon's jaw, throwing him on his back. Unfortunately, Renamon was caught in his backwards roll. Guilmon used this opportunity to catapult Renamon into the air with his hind legs.

"Pyro Sphere!"

Renamon flinched as Guilmon's fire attack hit her in the stomach. Takato's dinosaur charged forward and head-butted Renamon into one of the trees. Rika's digimon slowly got to her feet, but Guilmon snapped his jaw onto her shoulder.

"Renamon!" Rika shouted,"You're embarrassing me!"

"Sorry, Rika," she hissed in pain, clutching her shoulder,"He's stronger then we thought."

Rika reached inside her back pocket and pulled out her deck of cards. She easily maneuvered them through her fingers, then choose own. She slid it through the side of her D-arc. "Digi-modify: Snimon's Twin Sickle Activate!"

Renamon stood up firmly as her arms became giant blades. She leapt towards Guilmon, her blades glistening in the moonlight. "Guilmon!" Takato shouted, turning his head away,"I can't watch."

Guilmon charged at Renamon. He managed to sneak inside the blades, and butted his head into Renamon's stomach, which sent her flying backwards onto her back. Guilmon jumped into the air, then slammed into her already injured stomach with his feet. The blades on her arms vanished.

"Renamon!" Rika shouted,"What are you doing? Get up!"

Renamon slowly got to her feet, but fell onto her knees," I'm sorry, Rika," she moaned,"I can't...."

Takato was slowly starting to realize what had happened. He had actually won. "I won!" he cheered,"I actually beat the Digimon Queen! Hey, I guess that makes me the strongest Tamer in the city, doesn't it?"

Rika glared at him, her eyes red with anger. "I'm going to kill you!" she screamed.

"What's going on here?"

The group twirled around and saw two figures standing on the small hill at the edge of the park: a tall teenage boy with black hair and a small dog/bunny creature at his feet.

"Another Digimon?" Rika asked,"They're showing up all over the place." She glanced at the dog/bunny digimon, then at Guilmon, who was still ready to fight. "Renamon! We're leaving!"

"As you wish, Rika," Renamon moaned and she suddenly disappeared.

"What happened here?" the boy asked, running into the clearing.

"She started it!" Takato suddenly shouted, wanting the other boy to make sure that he was not to blame.

The dog/bunny that was at his feet ran over to Guilmon. "Hi, how's it going? The name's Terriermon, who are you?"

"I'm Guilmon!" he smiled.

The tall black haired boy smiled and held out his hand,"I guess I should introduce myself, Henry."

"I'm Takato. You're a Tamer too?" he smiled,"I just received my digimon earlier today, and already I've already been thrust into a community!"

"That was the Digimon Queen, right?" Henry asked. Takato nodded. "And you actually beat her! How did you do that if you only met your digimon?"

"Truth be told, I have no idea.":

The top of the apartment building lit up for a second before returning to night darkness. A creature had appeared from the light, a small white being with large feet and ears; he had a upside down red triangle on his forehead.

He looked around. "Hmm, what kind of place is this?" he asked. He grinned slightly and hopped along the ledge before reaching the end of the building. Glancing over he saw the lights of the cars on the streets. "What kind of Digimon are those? And why do they keep spitting out all those people?"

Calamon just shrugged, then floated across to the other building.

Rika slammed the door to her house and ran down the hall. On her way, she passed by the kitchen where an elderly woman was busy in front of the stove. "Hello Rika!" she called.

"Hi, Grandma!" Rika snapped back, running across the yard to her room, where she slammed the doors once again. She charged over to her small desk and collapsed on top of it.

"Renamon!" she snapped.

The fox appeared in the shadows behind her. "Yes, Rika?"

"How did you lose?" she shouted.

"I'm not sure, Rika," Renamon said calmly,"That Digimon was much stronger then I thought."

"Was he a Champion? An Ultimate? A Mega?"

"No," Renamon shook her head,"I'm sure of it. I would most likely be dead right now if he was stronger then a Champion."

"We need to figure out a way for you to digivolve," Rika growled, clutching her fist,"I will not be humiliated! I will have revenge!"

The next morning found Takato quickly charging into the classroom seconds before the bell rang. As he did, he was greeted by the sight of Jeri standing in front of him with her arms crossed. "J-Jeri!"

She reached over and slapped him across the face,"You stood me up last night!"

Shoot! He was suppose to meet her last night, but he got caught up in the battle with Rika, then talking to Henry. "Jeri! Listen, I know this is going to sound weird, but...."

"Save it!" she snapped, walking towards her seat.

"Jeri!" he called, walking after her, only to find that there was a woman at the back table that he had never seen before. He suddenly felt very uncomfortable, and shot into his seat.

"Wipeout, man!" Kazu shook his head,"What were you doing that you couldn't meet here?"

"Something very important," Takato sighed,"How long do you think she'll be angry?"

"Who knows?" Kenta asked,"Girls are weird."

Takato jerked his thumb over his shoulder to the woman in the back,"Hey guys, who's that?"

"We think it's a substitute," Kenta said with a grin,"I've got a few tricks I would like to pull."

"I hope they don't include the thumb tack on the seat, again."

Kazu and Takato twirled around as Kenta slowly turned to the source of the voice. "No, Mr. Kamiya, I mean...I'm not going to play any tricks, sir."

Tai nodded as he continued towards his desk,"Just make sure that you don't." He placed his briefcase onto the desk, then faced his class. "Okay guys," he said,"According to Kenta here, you have all seen our guest in the back of the room. That is Miss Isage. She is going to be student teaching you for the next few weeks."

The kids turned towards the back. Miss Isage nervously stood up and bowed. "Thank you," Tai said,"Now, we've got alot of work to get done today. Take out your English notebooks...and yes Kazu, it is necessary that you learn how to speak American."

"Oh man."

Miss Isage laughed slightly as Tai started writing English letters on the board. She was only an observer, but she was wondering what had happened between the one girl...Jeri, and Takato. She wanted to help them...ey, they'll make up. She sure hoped so, they looked as though they would make a cute couple.

Yamaki clicked his cigarette lighter a couple of times as he rested against the chair. "I thought you were going to quit?"

He turned around and saw Riley walking into the control room. "I need a few to calm my nerves."

The technician jumped into her elevated chair,"They're going to give you lung cancer if you keep that up."

"I'm glad that at least one person cares for me," he said with a slight grin.

"You have a family," she said.

"An ex-wife and a daughter I never see," Yamaki grumbled.

"Why Yamaki, I never pictured you as a family man."

The blond grumbled slightly as Hakado entered the room. "What is that guy doing here all the time? Doesn't he have a home?"

Hakado grinned slightly as he walked over to Yamaki. "Just thought I'd stop by and see how my investments were doing, heh."

"So he's funding us, our other supporters don't show up like this!"

"Mr. Hakado, forgive me if I appear rude, but to what do we owe the honor of your visit?"

"I wanted him to see more of the Hypnos operations," said a brown haired woman with glasses and a business suit as she entered behind Hakado.

"Miss Shiru, another funder? But why did she bring him here? Wait, I had heard the four supporters were unhappy, but, would Shiru make a play to place Hakado as commander? I've got to play this very carefully."

Takato was sleeping peacefully on his bed when he heard the door to his room slam shut. He quickly shot awake and saw Jeri standing in the doorway with her arms crossed. "Jeri!" he said, fumbling for the clock on his nightstand,"What time is it?

"It's five c'clock!" she said, throwing the stack of books in her hands onto the bed,"Did you forget about me again?!"

"No, Jeri, I was just tired, I didn't mean...Look I had a rough night last night, and..."

"You mean last night, when we were suppose to study?"

Takato slapped his head. "Jeri, about last night..."

"What? What happened last night?"

Takato hesitated for a long while, then pulled the top desk drawer out. "Here," he said, throwing a square device into Jeri's hands.

"What's this, some sort of video game?"

"No, Jeri, that's a Digivice, and I am a Digimon Tamer..."

"Yeah, right."

"Jeri, I'm telling the truth! I'll take you to see my digimon partner if you want!"

Jeri threw the d-arc back into Takato's hands and marched towards the door. Something stopped her though. She turned back around and stared at him directly in the eyes. "T............Takato, you're telling the truth! Wait, you're...you're that Goggle wearing young man that was fighting the...."

Takato nodded. "Yeah, and you're the first person I've told..."

Jeri's eyes lit up. She knelt on the bed and placed her hand on Takato's cheek. "Oh, Takato, I'm sorry, why did you tell me?

Takato fidgeted and looked downward,"Well, I....you're my best friend, and I didn't want you to be mad at me."

Jeri leaned forward and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "Takato....."

There was a knock on the bedroom door. "Takato!" his mother shouted,"Takato! Can I come in?"

Jeri and Takato broke their embrace. "Sure Mom!" Takato shouted.

Mrs. Matsuki quickly entered the room and stared at the two young teenagers. She handed Jeri their portable phone,"Your father wants to talk to you."

"S-sure," the young teenager said,"Dad, what did....what?! Dad, no nothing's happ....No! We did not do that!...But Dad...you don't...What?! All right....All right! I'll be right there."

She turned the phone off. "I've got to go."

"Why?" Takato asked.

"My Dad wants me to babysit my younger brother tonight while my parents go out," she sighed, grabbing her backpack,"I'll see you tomorrow."

After Jeri had left, Takato's mother twirled around to him. "Takato, what have you two been doing?"

"Huh?"

"Is this the first time, or was this going to be a continuing thing?"

"What are you talking about?"

Mrs. Matsuki sighed,"Do you know about protection?"

Realization dawned on Takato's face. "No...no! This can't be happening!"

"Takato," his mother said, sternly,"Do you know about protection?"

"Why would I need protection, when I haven't done anything!"

Mrs. Matsuki crossed her arms,"Well, I think this is more of a father and son thing, so I'll let your father talk to you, okay?" She hugged him, then exited the room.

Takato placed his palms over his eyes and fell back onto his bed.

Tai glanced down at the paper in his hand, then at the house in front of him."This must be the place." He opened the steel gate and slowly walked up the badly damage sidewalk; the front yard was even worse, black grass covered in car parts. The house looked like it was seconds away from collapsing. "I can't believe that a place like this would even be allowed to exist. Maybe I should try to do something about that, huh!"

Tai knocked on the door. A second later a man with a large stomach opened the door. Tai held his breath as the stench of alcohol and body order swelled up his nostrils. "I had heard that this might be a place where Alice McCoy hangs out?"

The man stumbled for a few seconds, then turned around. Tai glanced over the man's shoulder and saw a large circle of older teenager boys and girls seated in a smoke filled room. "Yo!" the man shouted,"Is Alice here?"

The other teenagers mumbled to each other, then the man shook his head. "Alice ain't here. She hasn't been here in a long time."

Tai nodded. "Do you know where I might be able to find here?"

"Sometimes she hangs out at the arcade at 5th street."

Tai bowed. "Thank you." As he walked back down the sidewalk, he pulled out the pad of paper and crossed out the last location on the paper, then wrote a new one right below it. "This is quickly becoming a needle in a haystack. All I want to do is find one blond Gothic girl, in a sea of brown/black hairs, how hard can that be?"

Tai sighed, then rounded the corner. Agumon was on the sidewalk in his trench coat and Gatomon was practicing her tight-rope walking on top of a chain-link fence. "Well?"

"She wasn't there, Agumon," Tai said,"I've got to find out why Ice Devimon was after her."

"And Ice Devimon was working for the Dark Master Digidestined," Gatomon added, jumping down onto the sidewalk,"So if we figure out what's so special about Alice, maybe we'll figure out who the Dark Master Digidestined is."

"I just want to try and help Alice if I can," Tai mentioned to the house,"Espically if her regular handouts include places like that."

Tai started walking, but was surprised to see that Agumon and Gatomon weren't following him. He turned around and saw that the two digimon were standing firmly in place. "What are you doing?" he asked.

"Tai," Agumon sighed,"Gatomon and I have been talking and...well...."

Gatomon shook her head, annoyed at Agumon's aggressive attitude towards Tai. "We think that if there's a Dark Master Digidestined, there's bound to be Dark Tamers as well. We think its about time you accepted your new destiny and train Tamers!"

Tai stared at the two of them. "We've been through this a thousand times. I'm not going to help any kids die! There aren't going to be any more dead children!"

Agumon and Gatomon were quite for a long time before Gatomon curled her back and her fur stood up on its end. "What's wrong?" Tai asked.

"Someone's here, be careful."

Tai cautiously looked around until he saw the figure of a teenage girl standing in front of him. She smirked, crossing her arms,"Well, now here's something you don't see everyday, an adult with two digimon partners!"

Tai kept his calm. "So?"

The girl snapped her fingers and a fox digimon appeared in front of her. "These are to be my opponents, Digimon Queen?" the fox asked.

"That's right, Renamon, tear them apart."

Tai chuckled slightly,"You can't..."

"But I can," Rika grinned,"You see, I recently lost my position as strongest Tamer in the city, and I need to get back to the top. So, nothing personal, you're just my stepping stones."

Tai glared at her. He was calm before, but now his blood was boiling. "I was going to say that you can't beat me, you really don't have a chance."

Rika started laughing. "An old man with a weird looking cat and a pipsqueak dinosaur in a bad disguise? Some threat!"

"Weird looking cat?" Gatomon shouted.

"Pipsqueak dinosaur?" Agumon shouted.

"Old man?!" Tai screamed,"Alright you little brat, you're going to regret that!"

"Let me take her!" Gatomon pleaded,"She's really asking for it!"

Tai reached inside his jacket pocket and pulled out the pink D3, "Alright, she's all yours."

"A pink digivice?" Rika laughed even harder.

"For your information it belonged to my sister!" Tai growled,"You're really pushing your luck!"

Rika uncrossed her arms,"Let's get on with it."

Renamon and Gatomon stared at each other for a few seconds before both digimon leapt to attack. The cat digimon easily rolled under Renamon's legs and rebounded her direction with her right leg, which sent her paw flying into the fo digimon's back. Renamon lurched forward, but spun around and hit Gatomon with the back of her paw. Gatomon fell to the ground, completely unharmed. Renamon jumped back, then into the sky. "Diamond Storm!"

Gatomon smiled. "This is too easy!" She jumped onto the chain-link fence and quickly clawed to the top before the Diamond Storm sliced the sidewalk apart.

"Your digimon may be fast," Rika said,"but she can't beat Renamon!"

Renamon gracefully landed on her feet and stared up at Gatomon. "We're not finished."

"I never said we were!" Gatomon jumped down and quickly whacked her tail across Renamon's face. Rika's digimon ignored the pain and executed a head-butt which sent Gatomon into the sidewalk.

"Nice shot," Gatomon said, slowly standing up, "I mean, it didn't hurt me, or course, but still..."

Takato placed his hands over his head and put his head all the way on the floor. "I was so embarrassed."

"I can imagine," Henry smiled.

"She preceded to tell me about...it! Followed by a two-hour long lecture from my father!" he sighed.

Henry nodded."Takato, um, did the two of you..."

Takato removed his hands and stared at Henry,"We did not do that!"

Henry held up his hands,"All right, all right. But, if you did, I'd say it was alright."

Takato raised his eyeborw. "Really?"

Henry shrugged. "Yeah, I'm mean, she's not lacking in the looks department, and..."

He was cut off by a loud crashing sound. The two Tamers turned their heads to the right and saw Terriermon and Guilmon lying amidst a pile of rubble from the wall of the hideout. "He got away from me, captain!" Terriermon said in his best impression of a Scottish accent,"But don't worry, I'll get him."

"Guillmon!" Takato shouted,"What are you doing?"

"Terriermon thought it would be fun if we ran around in circles until we hit the wall," Guilmon said, standing up.

"If Terriermon jumped off of a bridge, would you do the same?"

Guillmon's face lit up. "Terriermon's going to jump off a bridge? Wow, what fun!"

"So much for your parenting, huh?" Terriermon asked, jumping onto Henry's head.

"Anyway," Takato said, holding up a card,"Kazu gave me this card, I know your father works for the company that makes these, so I was hoping you could tell me if its worth anything."

Henry took the card and examined it. "It's a Training Grips card. You can use it to increase your digimon's strength, that's about it."

"Oh man, Kazu screwed me!"

Henry laughed slightly,"Don't worry, its just a card."

Suddenly, Terriermon's ears stood straight up on his head.

"Um, what are you doing?" Takato asked.

"A Digimon just crossed over!" Henry gasped,"We'd better check it out."

"R..right," Takato said, following Henry,"Come on, Guillmon."

The group of Tamers and digimon ran outside. A thick fog of white smoke was quickly pouring out of the top of a nearby building covering the area just around it. Terriermon's ears pointed towards a tall building at the edge of town,"Come on!" Henry said.

"Here comes Calamon zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, here comes Calamon, no underwear zoom!"

The small digimon skipped happily across the the top of the brick wall as he stared at the night sky. "That white ball up there looks so lonely, maybe it wants to be friends!" he laughed cheerfully. He ran over to a tall tree and climbed to the top. He still was not any closer to the yellow ball. He sighed in defeat, then turned his head towards the ground where he saw a yellow fox fighting a small white cat. "Why is that dog hurting that cat?" he asked,"Did they lose the mouse?"

Gatomon slammed her tail into Renamon's face, causing her to stumble backwards. "Are you ready to give up yet?" Tai asked.

"I'm not giving up to an old man and a cat," Rika said with a slight smile.

"If you don't stop calling me that, you're really going to be in trouble," Tai warned.

Rika smirked,"I'm really scared!"

"Gatomon!" Tai shouted,"Tear her apart!"

The white cat grinned. "I'm glad to see that you're finally getting back into the hang of things."

"Fight!" Tai ordered.

Renamon charged forward, but Gatomon dove underneath her. "Lightning Paw!" she shouted, slamming her fist into the fox's stomach. Renamon fell to the ground, but Gatomon performed the same attack on the fox's chin, sending her landing on her back.

"Gatomon," Tai said,"You didn't....?"

"No, she'll be fine," the white cat said, walking back to Tai's side,"After a day or two."

Rika was staring at Renamon, her mouth wide open. She could not believe it, her digimon had lost, however, that was not the reason that she felt the way she did. Something welled up inside of her as she stared at the fallen fox digimon, lying motionless on the ground. She charged over to her side,"Renamon?" she asked softly.

Renamon remained completely still, unmoving.

At the top of the tree overlooking the battle, Calamon frowned. "That mean cat hurt that fox." His ears shrunk inside of his head,"Game over."

"Renamon!" Rika shouted. Suddenly the D-Arc hanging from her belt shot forth a brilliant light.

Tai's eyes opened wide. "She's digivolving!"

"Renamon digivolve to Kyuubimon!"

Calamon grinned, his ears shooting from his head,"Game Time!"

Rika was gasping as she stared at the new digimon in front of her. "K..Kyuubimon?"

"Well, Digimon Queen," Tai said,"I am impressed. I wasn't aware that there wasn't any Tamer digimon in the city that could digivolve. Bravo."

Rika shook her head a few times, then focused her attention back to the battle. She pointed at Tai,"Kyuubimon, are you ready?"

"Yes, " the fox said.

"A Champion?" Gatomon asked, turning to Tai,"Maybe I'd better digivolve.."

"No!" Tai said,"This has gone on long enough! I've got other things to do then spend all night fighting a battle with a girl who shouldn't be in this game to begin with! Agumon!"

"Are you sure?" the orange dinosaur asked.

Tai took out his digivice,"Go!"

"Agumon warp digivolve to Wargreymon!"

On the top of the tree, Calamon looked wide-eyed at the armored dinosaur. "Wow, that guys is awesome!"

Rika was thinking the same thing. She was so filled with awe that she was having trouble thinking of what to do next. She finally held up her D-arc and an image of Wargreymon appeared from her screen. "W..Wargreymon..Dinosaur Digimon....Mega level?

Kyuubimon turned her head to Rika. "Mega? I think it would be wise if we left.."

Rika jumped onto Kyuubimon, but before the fox left, Rika stared at Tai. "If you have a Mega digimon, then that means you're the Master Digidestined of Tokyo!"

Tai crossed his arms and smiled,"That's right."

Rika shot her head back. "Run Kyuubimon! Run!"

The fox digimon took off down the street and disappeared. Wargreymon regressed back to Agumon. "That went well."

Tai smiled again,"Actually, it went according to plan. I only wanted to scare her off. Still..."

"What?" Gatomon asked.

"That girl was strong, powerful. She could become even stronger, with training..." Tai shrugged,"Oh well...I don't know about you, but I want to get home."

"Yeah," Agumon said,"I think I need a new coat."

As Kyuubimon charged down the darned sidewalk, Rika's heart was pounding so hard that it threatened to jump out of her chest at any second. "That was the Master Digidestined! We could have been killed!"

"Who is the Master Digidestined?" Kyuubimon asked. She had never seen Rika so frightened before.

"The Digidestined were the old generation of human/digimon partners. About fifteen years ago, they fought their final enemy, and each of the group was then assigned to a city to prepare for our coming, the Tamers, but our Master Digidestined hasn't been seen. I thought Tokyo didn't have one, but..that guy had to have been the Master Digidestined. I should have recognized the old digivice, but that Mega Digimon of his definitely proves his identity." Rika frowned,"But why would he appear after all this time? I've got a bad feeling about this."

She grinned as she looked at Kyuubimon,"Still you digivolved! We'll never be able to beat the Master Digidestined, but I can think of one Goggle head who's going to wish he was never born!"

Takato and Henry slowly pushed aside the top of the bushed to examine the top of of the building. "This is a really strange fog," Takato said, glancing at the street,"It's so thick that we can't see inside of it, yet when we actually get inside the fog, we can see perfectly."

"Its a Digital Field," Henry said, still looking at the building top,"It means that a Digimon is crossing over somewhere...."

"Like the top of the building?" Takato asked.

Henry turned to him a nodded. The group suddenly heard a loud explosion. They shot their heads to the building top again and saw that one of the windows was missing. In its place was a cloud of thick smoke that was billowing out. A large figure suddenly flung from the gapping hole and slammed into the pavement right in front of the two Tamers.

"Gorillamon!" Hnery shouted.

"Who?" Takato asked.

"We've face this guy before," Terriermon jumped onto Hnery's shoulder,"He's a pretty heavy hitter. We'd better be careful."

Takato was going to warn his digimon, when Guilmon suddenly dove through the brushes and emerged on the other side, head butting Gorillamon square in the stomach.

"Guilmon!" Takato shouted,"What are you doing?"

His digimon completely ignored him as he shot a fire blast into Gorillamon's cannon arm that exploded from the inside. Guillmon balanced on his back tail, then slammed his feet into Gorillamon's stomach. This only made him angrier.

"You've lost control of your digimon again!" Henry shouted to Takato,"Now, we're stuck in a battle we could have avoided!"

Takato was trying to think of something to say, but Henry turned his attention to his digimon. "Terriermon, give him a hand."

Terriermon jumped out of the bushes. "I can give him that and raise him my whole body!"

"Just help Guillmon!"

Terriermon started spinning around until he became a blur. "Terrier Tornado!" A blade of air shot into Gorillamon's stomach, bringing him to his knees. Guillmon did not wait another second; he jumped forward and planted his feet into Gorillamon again. The giant ape had recovered enough to grab Guillmon's feet and slam him into the pavement.

"Guillmon!" Takato shouted.

The red dinosaur turned to him. "What is it, Takato?"

Takato's eyes opened,"Y..you actually heard me? You're listening to me?"

"Of course."

"Takato!" Henry snapped,"Gorillamon's getting back to his feet."

"How are we going to beat him?" Takato asked,"He's a level stronger then we are. We need more training to beat a Champion..."

"Wait a second!" Henry said,"Quick, give me that card that Kazu gave you."

Takato fumbled through his card deck, then gave the card to Henry. "What did you want that for?"

Henry grabbed his D-arc,"You'll see. Digimodify! Training Grips activate!"

Takato turned back to the field. Terriermon's ears suddenly became weighed down by a pair of thick metal grips. "You know what to do!" Henry called.

Terriermon started swinging his ears around until the grips flew off and landed on Gorillamon, binding his arms and legs. Henry turned to Takato,"Terriermon doesn't have enough power, but maybe Guillmon does."

"Oh, right," Takato said, grabbing a card from his deck,"Digimodify: Power activate! Get him Guillmon!"

The red dinosaur opened his mouth, "Pyro Sphere!" A massive ball of red fire slammed into Gorillamon's stomach, blasting him into a million small glowing pieces.

"Load his data!" Takato shouted.

The glowing pieces flew into Guillmon, causing his to glow for a second. Henry placed a hand on Takato's shoulders,"Well, you just defeated your first enemy."

Takato smiled slightly and was going to reply, when the fog of the digital field around them started to dissipate. The group heard sirens going off and helicopters above them. "We'd better get out of here," Takato said,"Guillmon!"

"Come on, Terriermon," Henry shouted as the group disappeared into the bushes.

Yamaki frowned as he glanced up at Riley's elevated chair,"What do you mean, 'he didn't get there in time?"

Riley gulped. "Orion reported that he did not get to the wild one in time, sir."

"So what happened to it?"

"It either crossed back over, or someone else destroyed it."

Yamaki crossed his arms,"But who?"

"Sir," Taily called,"We are getting reports that a Yakuna Kanbara, a leader in Japan's exports was killed by a 'large white gorllia with a cannon for an arm."

"That wild one killed a government official?" Yamaki asked with horror.

"Apparently, sir."

"I want surveillance doubled around government buildings, this is not going to happen again!" Yamaki thundered.

"Yes sir!" both Riley and Taily shouted.

High above the city, a figure stood on the balcony, over looking the city. "Soon," he said,"soon it will all come together. One death has already occurred, only four more, and the world will be mine!"

to be continued....