Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 9 - And Now the Guns are Silent ❯ Chapter 7

Chapter 7

The female members of the Alphas sat around the base, pretty much doing nothing. Relaina occasionally responded to the radio taking status reports from their outposts around the city. Kari and Yolei were playing checkers while Kelryn was sleeping.

"This is so crazy," Kari said. "I don't want to fight like this. This is a real war and we're in the middle of it."

"I know," Yolei said. "It's scary. I never wanted this much responsibility at eighteen."

"I sometimes wonder if I can handle all this," Kari said looking at Gatomon sleeping with Kelryn and Demireumon."

"I guess we'll find out," Yolei said. She made another move. "King me." Out of the blue they heard a loud gunshot. Yolei whipped around and had both her side arms out in the process and Kari at four stars in her fingers ready to fly. Both of them were also still calm looking for the source of the shot. Relaina stepped into the light with a smoking gun.

"Don't worry," she said. "It was just a blank." They looked at Kelryn who didn't wake up, but both cats were inching around the corner of the hallway they hid in, their fur standing straight out.

"Why did you do that?" Yolei asked holstering her guns.

"To show you two something," Relaina said. "You both drew your weapons with great reflexes and remained calm while looking for the source of danger."

"Yeah," Kari said. "So what? We've had a lot of practice."

"Don't worry about the battle we know will happen," Relaina said. "Worry about afterward."

"What do you mean?"

Relaina sat down in a chair beside them to explain. "When this is all over, we have to go back to normal lives. Schools and jobs, parents and boyfriends. Do you really think it will be so easy to just pick that back up again? How long have we been fighting?"

"I was eight years old when I got Gatomon," Kari said.

"And I was thirteen when I met Hawkmon," Yolei said.

"Exactly," Relaina said. "I was fourteen when I met Wyrvenmon. This battle is just going to be the same as everything we've always done. It's afterward that we'll be in new territory. That's what scares me."

"That is kind of scary," Yolei said.

"We'll be fine," Kari said. "I'd like some peace and quiet."

"Sometimes I wonder how all this started," Yolei said.

"Oh yeah," Relaina said. "You guys had already left when we figured that out. Kovin and Kelryn started it."

"No I mean the war," Yolei said. "How we got to where we are."

"If you follow the cause and effect back far enough, it was a Kelryn making a mistake. Or Kovin making one. They both say it was their own fault."

"What are you talking about?" Kari asked. "How could they start a war?"

"OK, we are fighting an army of rouge digidestined and watchers," Relaina said. "They have and army because they were able to form the groups together. The groups formed because the Guardians were too good at their job, and they wanted to be stronger. The Guardians formed because Kovin shattered the Ultimate Twelve. The rouge watchers broke away because he was attacking the Ultimate Twelve. He attacked them because he was nearly insane from Kelryn shooting him. I tried to help when I knew him, but he just kept getting worse. And Kelryn shot him because she misinterpreted Demireumon's explanation of the game, and thought she had to fight him. Make sense?"

"In the weirdest way," Kai said. "It does. If Kelryn had taken three seconds to talk, none of this would have happened."

"It is my fault then," Kelryn said. They looked over to see her sitting up, she had been listening to them. "There's not even a question anymore, all these people will die because of me."

"That's not true," Relaina said.

"You had no idea one thing could snowball this far," Yolei said. "It's just really bad luck."

"I hope Kovin can handle all this," Kari said. "We don't need him snapping in the middle of it."

"Why haven't you told him yet?" Yolei asked.

"When and what I tell him is my business," Kelryn said. "Besides, he doesn't need to think about that right now."

"Maybe he does," Kari said. "He should know. He's going to find out sooner or later."

"I know," Kelryn said. "But right now I can keep this hidden, and that's the way it's going to stay. All five of you promised."

"How many people do know?" Relaina asked.

"As far as we can tell," Kari said. "Kovin and Ozlimon are the only two Alphas who don't. No one from other sections know. I don't see why they would anyway."

"Just don't tell him," Kelryn said. "He can't know."

"Whatever," Relaina said. "Do we have any idea when this fight is going to happen? We're building up and preparing, but both sides are just staring at each other waiting."

"Tomorrow at noon," Kovin said. He, TK and Ken just came through the tunnel into the room. Because of the acoustics they could hear the girls talking, but couldn't understand anything but the last question.

"We got into their camp," TK said. "All of them, human and digimon are suffering from food poisoning so their going to attack tomorrow before the digimon get any weaker."

"That is sick and sadistic," Kari said. "Making everyone fight when they're sick."

"Also," Ken said. "If any of them start leaving on the north highway on foot, let them go. We have a deal with some people who don't want to fight."

"What makes you think they're not screwing you over?" Relaina asked.

"If it happens, great," Kovin said. "Otherwise, it makes almost no difference to us. So let it happen." Kovin looked around at the seven digimon who were all just listening to the conversation. "You guys ready?"

"You know it," Gatomon said.

"Do we have a vote it on using the weapon?" Kovin asked. Kelryn handed him a sheet of paper with lots of notes on it.

"Then that's it," Kovin said. "Call red alert. We have ten and a half hours. I want everyone ready and rested. Tomorrow we finish it."