Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 9 - And Now the Guns are Silent ❯ Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Kari stood holding a katana in a defensive stance. Ian, one of the Lambda Guardians stood facing her, also with a katana preparing to attack. He yelled and brought the blade down to hit hers three times. She twisted her back and brought her blade under his and sent it flying. A kick to the back of his knee sent him to the ground just as the sword embedded itself in the wooden floor of the gym.

"What was that?" Ian asked.

"Just a little something I thought up," Kari said. "You better be prepared for an enemy to be a lot more creative when his life is at stake." Kelryn came over carrying the sword.

"This almost hit me," she said. "Yours?" She asked handing the blade to Ian.

"So I'm not much of a swords guy," he said. "Why do we have to use swords and throwing stars and sai and things like that anyway." Kari walked over to the bench and pulled a gun from her bag. Not the kind the fired bullets, but rather foam darts.

"Rachel, come here," Kelryn said. Rachel came over with a pair of stars in hand to see what was going to happen.

"There are twenty-four shots in that thing," Kari said handing Ian the toy. "Try to hit me." She stood five metres from him with her blade out. He drew and fired three quick shots. All the darts were tossed from the air with her katana. Ian got mad and fired the entire magazine empty, while Kari swatted each from the air. When it clicked Kari jumped, yelled and brought her sword down cutting the toy in half while still in his hand.

"So what does that prove?" Ian asked. "You couldn't get real bullets like that."

"True," Kari said. "But this blade doesn't rely on ammunition."

"Our stars do," Rachel said. "Why do we use them instead of guns?"

"Remember how hard it was to use them when you first started?" Kelryn asked, Rachel nodded. "You could use a dropped gun, but the enemy can't use a dropped star. They'd probably cut their hand the way you did when you first tried." Rachel and Ian thought about it while looming at the other pairs of people in the large gym learning to use alternative weapons. Swords, katanas, sai, staffs, stars, and simple hand-to-hand. Kari called Kelryn aside to share a drink. "You two keep practising," Kelryn said.

"They will be getting guns when this happens for real, won't they?" Kari asked.

"Yeah, Kovin and Ken have a stockpile ready to go for them. TK also has enough uniforms for all of us now so there won't be any confusion over who is who."

"Is that wise?" Kari asked. "Having all of us marked for Alexis and her guys to pick off?"

"It'll keep one of them from shooting a friend. Don't worry," Kelryn said.

"I just hope it's over soon."

"You and me both," Kelryn said.

* * *

Yolei, TK and Ken were walking around downtown between their outposts on rooftops. All three were wearing the navy-blue flight suits as uniforms, in fact all the Guardians were now. People were being rushed about by the soldiers in the mass evacuation. It was slightly more controlled than chaos if one gave the situation a quick glance, but it was working. They were also wearing the blue uniforms so the military could easily identify them as the 'special operatives', and not force them to evacuate.

"This is crazy," TK said. "Can the seventy of us really defend an area the size of Tokyo?"

"We can do it," Ken said. "I just never thought I'd be in control of a city at this age."

"You've only got like 1.4% control," Yolei said.

"No one likes a math geek," Ken said.

"I was never really that good at math," Yolei said. "I checked before we left, I was curious. TK, who has post four?" TK didn't answer. "TK?" He had stopped and was scratching the calculation on a piece of paper. "Wake up! You don't have to check it."

"It's more like 1.42 I think," TK said.

"Oh shut up," Ken said laughing. "Who has post four?"

"Zeta," TK said. "You should have seen Ivy freak-out when she saw how high up it was." Ken pressed the elevator button to select the top floor of the building they entered.

"She not like heights?" Yolei asked.

The elevator opened on the observation platform of the building. They found James and Robin looking towards the horizon with a telescope each, and the other five playing cards in the empty restaurant.

"You guys have permission to be in here?" Yolei asked.

"No one was around, so we decided to wait inside to ask them," Martin said. "Don't worry, the door was unlocked, the security system's off, and al the snacks are ones we brought."

"We had to," Franklin said. "I don't think any of us can stand Japanese food."

"Bakabakashii," Yolei said. Ken and TK had learned English, and Yolei already knew both languages. Everyone else there could only speak English, so the other three could talk clearly.

"Karera ariyou daidou," TK said.

"Hai," Ken said.

"Hi to you too," Phoebe said. "Can we talk in English?"

"Gomi," Yolei said. "You have any nachos in there?"

"Yeah," Ivy said. "And you ain't getting any. You three live in Japan, you know where to get food you like."

"Whoa, gear-down there, big trucker," Yolei said.

"That has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard," Bennett said.

"I knew you'd understand it, then," Yolei said. "You guys seen anything yet?"

"We've been able to identify fifteen hundred different digimon out there," Martin said.

"Fifteen hundred now?" Ken asked as Yolei's cell phone rang. "That's a tad many, isn't it."

"Should be one hell of a party when they get here," Martin said.

"What's keeping them?" TK asked.

"I think they're trying to whip together a few of those cannons we saw earlier," Martin said.

"How soon?" Yolei asked still on the phone and her face was white. "All of them?" Everyone stopped when the heard the urgency of the call. "I'm coming right now." Yolei hung up the phone. "TK, Ken, let's go."

"What's going on?" Martin asked.

"We have the weapon to end this war," Yolei said.

"What' wrong then?"

"To fire it correctly, we all have to be hit as well. All seventy of us."