Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 9 - And Now the Guns are Silent ❯ Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Kovin hung up his cell phone and turned back to Izzy. They were in one of the larger labs of their new base. Relaina was checking some calculations; not because she doubted Izzy, but because she doubted the rouge Watcher's research. "Yolei, TK and Ken are coming now. I've already called Kari and Kelryn, they were still at the gym," Kovin said.

"You guys are sure about this?" Relaina asked again.

"For the last time, yes," Izzy said.

"We've checked it over too many times because we didn't believe it ourselves," Joe said. Kovin looked around the various tables of computers and papers.

"How much time between when I say to do it, and it's actually done?" Kovin asked.

"Did you even hear what I said would happen?"

"Yes I did," Kovin said, angry. "I just want to know both sides of the coin. How long?" Izzy scrambled some calculations.

"I think," he said punching some buttons on a scientific calculator. "Between confirmation and complete execution would be about five minutes. Though it will likely be less than that."

"Five minutes," Kovin repeated. "Five minutes, five minutes, five minutes." He looked around again. "How will it happen?"

"No idea," Joe said.

"What's the play?" Relaina asked.

"We're going to try using it without using it," Kovin said. "Joe, get on the radio and call 'yellow alert'. Izzy, make sure every last one of our digimon are informed about this. They have a say in it too. Unless all one hundred and forty of us agree to it, we don't use it."

"Agree to what?" Ozlimon asked coming in. "What are we studying?" The little bird hopped up on the table. Kovin scratched his head some.

"I've got to go out at the moment, and I have to leave you here. Izzy will explain it, and I need you to tell all the other digimon," Kovin said. "Joe, can you also get Sora and Tai in here? I need everyone with a digivice outside."

"No problem," he said.

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"Now I know this isn't smart," Relaina said. "You should've brought Kelryn, or Yolei, or Ken. Or maybe you should have brought anyone but me. Better yet, why even do this? This is bloody suicide."

"I have a white flag," Kovin said.

"Yeah," Relaina said. "But what are the red and green ones for?"

"Christmas is coming," Kovin said.

"Not for like five months," Relaina said. "And you don't celebrate Christmas."

"OK, I'll find something else for them to do."

Kovin and Relaina continued walking along the road. It was an access road to an abandoned power station in the hills above Tokyo. On their left the landscape swept away below them, revealing the cityscape and the bay leading to the ocean beyond. The sunlight shimmered on the water behind the deserted city. Not a building was lit, and not a street had people walking it, but that didn't take away from the powerful look of the place, and the need to defend people's homes. To their right the forested hills rose toward the sky. They had seen four people following them at various times in the trees, the followers thought they couldn't be seen, but Kovin and Relaina could see and identify them easily.

"It'd like to remind you that this is suicide," Relaina said. Kovin ignored her and left the road to begin scaling the hill. Relaina was close behind but still weary that what they were doing was the worst idea anyone had ever had. He hadn't even consulted the rest of the Alphas on his plan. Even she was unsure what was going to happen when they walked right into the enemy camp. They crested the top and looked into the valley. The void between and the hills beyond were covered with tents, and their human and digimon occupants. Neither of them needed to count to tell that all three thousand were there. They descended a few metres and were met by three kids wielding a rifle each, and a digimon.

"Come with us," the lead boy said.

"Am I to see Alexis?" Kovin asked.

"Yes," he said.

"Am I to walk away when I'm done?"

"That remains to be seen," the boy said. They were led to a ring of tents, and to the larger one within it. Alexis was sitting on a bench with another man sharpening a daikatana.

"Kovin, a pleasure to meet you," Alexis said.

"Indeed," Kovin replied and sat on the bench across from her.

"Relaina," Alexis said with a detestable hatred in her voice. It was no secret these two had no love for each other. Both wished they could bury sharpened steel in the other's chest. "You played us all didn't you? As a watcher you played us, but you also played the watchers back, didn't you? But then you betrayed us all because you were a digidestined yourself. And you betrayed my free digidestined by selling their secrets to the Guardians."

"I sold nothing," Relaina yelled.

"Why am I here?" Kovin asked, interrupting the fight.

"First, why do you come freely when I tried to have you brought forcefully?"

"If you want to talk, I'll talk. But I can walk on my own," Kovin said.

"Anyway, I'd like to offer you and your Guardians a chance to leave with your skin intact. I don't want you I want the lab," Alexis said.

"You know we've found it," Kovin said. "We can reverse the experiment."

"Which one, there were seventeen critical experiments in there."

"Number one," Kovin said. Alexis' face went white, making her look like a porcelain doll against her straight black hair. "We can reverse it. And then you loose. For good."

"You'll be the one loosing, boy."

"That kind of fight we're guaranteed to win."

"Why don't you leave before a bullet finds you?" Alexis asked and went back to sharpening her daikatana. Kovin drew one of his normal katanas and in a fast, but powerful swipe managed to break her blade in a shower of sparks. Three people around her drew blades and others drew guns preparing to rip him apart. Alexis just laughed. "You've got a hell of a blade there," she said.

"Or you can leave before thy blade finds your chest," Kovin said. Alexis thought for a moment.

"Do you really think you can walk out of here alive?" She swiped away Kovin's white and green flags. "And what are these for?"

"The white one was for you, so you wouldn't attack me coming in. I have to be holding green one when we leave or you all die."

"We die?" She laughed. "How it that possible?" Kovin pulled a red flag and threw it above his head. Three bullets ripped it apart, but there was no report of the guns to follow to the shooter. "I see. I assume you have more that three people in my forest."

"Yes," Kovin said. "May I leave?"

"You may. But don't get cocky. You'll have out answer soon enough." Kovin turned and he and Relaina walked out following the same course they took in. They had to go back to the city and await the battle. They also had to defend the supply of food therein, because this mobile army needed to be fed, and Kovin wanted them hungry.

"When did we have three guys with us?" Relaina asked.

"Never. But a flagstaff with a few pyrotechnics looks like it was shot, doesn't it?"

"That was risky," she said. "I still think we should have died."

"Let's get back and keep that very thing from happening," Kovin said.

"Hey, if we fight all out. If we retreat, or even if we activate Izzy's thing. All ways people die. There's no way to win," Relaina said.

"Perhaps not," Kovin said. "But if we can't win we'll make their victory taste so bitter it might as well be a defeat."

"I thought you were the good guy of this story?" Relaina asked. "What's with the sore looser routine and chopping her blade? You've never done anything the way the hero or good guy is supposed to."

"This isn't an animé or movie or story, and no one said I was the good guy," Kovin said with a smile.