Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 4 - How to Build an Army ❯ Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The eleven humans and nine digimon climbed on Aeromon's back. Veemon didn't go willingly and had to be physically thrown. He took off and flew low along the surface of the water. It was now night and the darkness would mask their approach. Everyone loved the feeling of open flight. With the wind in their hair and the smell of the warm summer night. Back on the island they had decided to take the new children back to Japan for training. Four of them were runaways and had lived on their own for a long time. The other three, Sara, Mitzy and David that still lived at home had no desire to remain there. The decision to go was unanimous.

"So Kovin," Tyler asked. "Can you do any more tricks with those swords?" Kovin turned to him and smiled.

"I got one. We did this the first time by accident, but we've been able to do it a few times since."

"No!" Cried Demireumon.

"Come on fraidy-cat." Kelryn jeered.

"No!" She repeated.

"What is the trick?" James asked.

"You'll see. We'll try it without the cat but it won't be as good." Kovin said. Everyone started pressuring Demireumon to join in, even though they didn't know what her part was. She reluctantly agreed. They landed and let everyone off, except Kovin, Kelryn and Demireumon. Aeromon took back to the sky and moved out over the water. They turned and started coming up to the land fast. Suddenly, Aeromon veered strait up. They could see Kovin hanging onto his back as he threw both his swords at the ground. After a shrill whistle they hit, a meter apart and standing strait up. It happened so fast that they looked like they popped out of the ground. Aeromon banked left and spiralled toward the ground. When he was only ten meters from the ground Kovin jumped of, did a flip in the air, and landed on his feet between the two blades in the ground. As he did that the massive bird angled back up, but only went twenty meters before reverting to Ozlimon in a flash of light. He small bird angled his body into a nosedive and landed quickly right beside Kovin.

Kelryn and Demireumon, still moving up from Aeromon's momentum, slowed, stopped, and changed direction coming back down. Kelryn looked like she was trying to angle her body a specific way, but it wasn't working, and she hit the water with a massive blast of white. Demireumon had her tail to control her decent but was also in trouble. She was headed for the ground and lightning speed. Ozlimon was expecting her to change direction so he didn't move. The small cat hit him square in the chest and sent them both tumbling back along the ground several meters. She sat up and shook her head, still sitting on Ozlimon. Kelryn had pulled her self from the water came up to find everyone laughing enough to burst.

"That was not what was supposed to happen!" She screamed.

"That was better!" Kovin said between tears. She walked up to him, took off her jacket and snapped him with it. "Fuck! Ow!" Demireumon limped over to Kelryn.

"At least I had something soft to land on." She said. Ozlimon finally sat up, still in a daze. Biyomon and Hawkmon also being birds, went over to see how he was. When Biyomon patted his back he coughed up a large chuck of black cat hair. He limped over to Demireumon.

"I thought cats were supposed to land on their feet." He said.

"You shut up, feather-duster. You didn't go high enough."

"Sue me. I don't have an altimeter and I've never done it at night. Here, have your hair back. You need to shampoo." He handed her the mat of cat hair. She started and was checking herself all over, looking for a bald spot. She glared at Ozlimon, then flipped back and swiped at Biyomon and Hawkmon. When she stood, she had a pink, white, and brown feather. One from each bird.

"Insult my fur will you. You feather-heads are all the same. If someone doesn't have wings, they don't count." The birds looked ready to tear her apart when their respective partners pulled them out of it, despite laughing at such an outrageous argument.

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They found the plane right were it should be in its hangar. Kovin had it fuelled while Kelryn, Yolei and Izzy tried to conceal the fact that fourteen more life forms would be leaving than arrived with customs. When the seven children were on board and hiding in the rear cabin, which had no windows, Kelryn and Yolei got enough food for the trip. The plane's small galley would make cooking for twenty-one a challenge. But they thought that some of the younger ones should have some culinary skills beyond TV dinners and Kraft macaroni and cheese. They ended up getting a supply of hot dogs and hamburgers. With some salad stuff for Yolei who was a vegetarian.

"I'd never eat anything with a face." She said later when asked about it by David.

"I on the other hand," said Kovin. "Need for something to die." He took a bite of his thick hamburger.

"You know a cow had to give it's life for you to eat." She said.

"Yeah? Well dipped in this barbecue sauce he's living better than in a barn with seven thousand other cows. I'm sure he doesn't mind." Kovin took another bite and made his way to the cockpit where Kelryn had taxied the plane.

"Alpha Omega four seven, you are cleared of take off on runway zero two." The tower said over Kelryn's headset.

"Thank-you tower, and thank you for having us." She said. Kelryn adjusted her position in the seat and flipped a switch on the console to speak over the plane's PA instead of the radio. "Belt in boys and girls. I'm in the mood for some speed." She said with a grin.

Kovin grinned with her and tightened his own belt. He put on his own headset and started flipping switches on the navigator console. "Cabin pressurised, port and starboard engines stable, batteries and fuel tanks at one hundred percent capacity."

"Glad to hear it." She said. She reached to the centre console and gripped the throttle. "Accelerating." The plane's engines roared to life, and it started creeping slowly down the runway. Eventually it started picking up speed. The tarmac became a blur as the speed increased.

"Minimum velocity for flight." Kovin said. She waited. "Plus twenty knots." He said. Kelryn pulled back slowly on the steering column. The plane's nose gently lifted off the ground until they were at a thirty degree angle, then the back wheels left the ground. The plane gained height until it was a three kilometres above the Earth. "Set course two-eight-five."

"Course two-eight-five locked. Speed and altitude set. Stomach confirmed hungry." Kelryn said unbuckling her straps. "If there isn't at least three hamburgers left, heads will roll." She said.

"I'll stay here, I'm felling kind of tired." Kovin said.

"Come on back, have some fun."

"I don't think so."

"Your loss." She said and left. Kovin leaned back in his seat, hoping the dark night and quiet regular hum of the engines would give him a few hours sleep. He heard a muffled thump from the other side of the door.

"Kelryn? You alight?" There was no answer. Either he misheard or her pride wasn't letting her speak up. Then again there was another sound, louder. Followed by another. Kovin felt the need to investigate. He removed his straps, stood, and stretched. He stepped over the centre console and moved to the door. He opened the door. "Kelryn?"

Kovin saw three things. Kelryn kicking against two guys barely holding her down. The barrel of a gun an inch from his from his forehead. And three partner digimon for each of them guarding them.