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

Chapter 9

Talomon took to the air and was followed by the other forty-two flyers. Kovin had five others following him directly in the crimson squadron. Sara on Phoenixmon, Kari on Magnadramon, Ken's Metalangemon, TK's Seraphimon, and Relaina's Draconismon. Relaina, Ken, and TK were with the ground runners because their digimon didn't easily carry them. The flyers moved up off the rooftops then used gravity to build up speed coming down and swooped over the runners. The land-based digimon looked up to see the blanket of flyers cover them, and their number. The whole three dimensional formation was able to move along one street and did so until they left the city, which wasn't long.

"Kovin, Kelryn," Kovin's headset crackled. "All target forces moving in, looks like terminal speed. Contact in fifteen seconds."

"Two factions came here today," Kovin said. "But in the end, there can be only one." The rouge digimon group can only be described as a fleet when it came over the hill like a tidal wave of destruction waiting to happen. Several hundred shots came at them from digimon and vehicle based gun. "Now!"

Talomon digivolve to ... Aeromon

The massive white bird shot into the sky straight up as all the other flyers took different directions. The ground runners all pounced in new directions themselves. It was like seeing a bomb go off with the pieces of shrapnel ripping into the coming wave. The rouge digimon's entire rank fell back from the ferocity of the Guardian attack.

The goal of self-defence is to make the attacker believe they're the ones being attacked, and that's just what the Guardians did. All seventy fired their most powerful ranged attacks at two targets in the enemy ranks. It cut their quarry into three more manageable sections, but the ratio was still nearly fourty-three to one, so now it was time to go to work.

"Relaina, Kovin," Kovin said. "Get our jeeps in behind the enemy, that anti-air fire is going to bring us down."

"All the digimon can take lots of bullet hits," she said.

"Yeah but I can't!" Kovin yelled into the radio. "A human can't take and anti-air bullet. Take them out NOW!" Kovin banked on Aeromon and fired at a huge pterodactyl-like digimon, making it pixilate instantly.

Relaina was driving one of the fifty-nine jeeps in their control, and Ken was running the machine gun. They, like a few others could not be with their digimon in the fight. They were also beefed up with a few of the watchers and the last of their resources. "You want to keep it steady there?" Ken asked.

"You want to drive?" Relaina yelled back. They crossed the paths of three other similarly equipped cars, and Ken made scrap metal out of all of them.

"No," Ken said. "I rather like it here." He looked up to see one of their own taking hits in the air from a few others. He lined up the gun and put bullets into the eyes and face of them. They shrugged of the target and came at Ken. Aeromon sweeping around and firing his 'Ionic Force' saved him.

Kari was driving for TK lining him up with shots. He was making better use of time and ammunition than Ken with his marksmanship skills. He was also ripping apart cars like they were toys. "Does anyone else think this fight is going way too easy?" TK asked into the radio.

"They've lot one hundred fifty-seven units, we've lost zero," Kelryn's voice came back.

"And why is that?" Kovin asked. "The scales weren't tipped that far."

"Ain't broke," Relaina said. "Don't fix it." Kari spun the jeep around so TK could fire at an enemy ground runner that was attacking another jeep.

"Kelryn," Kovin said. "How many units are we facing right now?"

"All of them, I imagine," she said.

"Only one thousand, two hundred," Izzy's voice came back on the radio and said. "That's only half of them!"

"Izzy, find the others now!" Kovin banked again to dodge several hit coming at him. Metalangemon and Seraphimon silenced those shooters forever. He banked the other way to engage a pocket of targets to his right.

"Magnadramon!" Seraphimon yelled. Kovin looked to see her spiralling toward the ground. She had taken six hits at once and was plummeting. Seraphimon broke formation to try and catch her, and ended up taking hits himself. TK and Kari's jeep was no where to be seen in the horrendous melee. Kovin had the rest of them turn down and cover them long enough to regain their flight.

Once back in the air Kovin saw a girl on a similar eagle digimon fly up beside him. "You really think you can win this?" She said with a smile, yelling across the void. Kovin answered by drawing a gun from his said and putting a bullet in her chest. She and her digimon screamed in pain and plummeted. The digimon pixilated and Kovin looked away before the girl hit.

"Yeah," Kovin said to himself. "I do think I can win." He holstered the gun and flew off.

* * *

"Where are they Izzy?" Sora asked. She and Tai were watching the screens tracking their own forces, while Izzy and Joe tracked and scanned for the enemy.

"I can't find them," he said. "They must have some way to mask their signal."

"Impossible," Joe said. "We've never seen a way to mask D-Power."

"Keep looking," Tai said. He turned his attention back to the screens of lines and colours that was almost a jumble of garbage with all the contacts. Sora was tracking and giving bird's eye hints to the ground units, while Tai made attempts to cover the flyers.

"Oh no!" Sora said.

"What?" Kelryn asked.

"We just lost two at once!" She said back.

"Which ones?!?" Kelryn demanded in a panic.

"Jewel from Epsilon, and jeep twenty-six," Sora said.

"Kovin, Kelryn," Kelryn said. "One jeep, and one ground runner gone."

"Keep it that way," Kovin's voice said back. Whenever someone in the field talked they could hear the horrendous sounds of the battle around them. All five of them at their skin crawling when they heard it.

"Joe, scan status?" Izzy asked.

"Ninty-seven percent," he said, and paused. "I got them!"

"Where?"

"Bearing one-six-five," Joe said.

"Their over the water. They're coming in from the ocean!" Izzy yelled.

"Are they coming to hit our guys in the back?" Sora asked.

"Kovin, Kelryn," Kelryn said. "We found your other group. I have nine hundred contacts coming in from the south-east. Trajectory suggests they're not going for you."

"They're going to secure the base!" Kovin yelled. Tai was out of the command room door and up the stairs with all the speed and stamina of a soccer player. He left the entrance tunnel on the stairs to the warehouse floor where a hundred and fifty men with sharp-shooting rifles were waiting. Tai picked one up himself.

"Time to go duck-hunting," he said as they all began filing to one of several ladders to the roof.

* * *

Kari and TK were still mowing through the ground forces and occasionally offering a shot aloft. They were making good progress, and although they took many shots, they were still good to go. Kari spun the car to a new random direction looking for new targets. But she over-calculated and rolled the car. TK was flung clear onto the grass, nearly missing a rock with his head. Kari was trapped under it.

"Kari!" TK yelled. Ignoring a sprained ankle he ran to her. He climbed under trying to find her. She was still belted in and unconscious. "Kari!" TK tried unbuckling her and got her to the ground when she woke.

"What happened?" She asked.

"You're a horrible driver," TK said. "Don't ever do that again."

"Ow!" Kari yelled and grabbed her leg. Two bullets had penetrated, and judging by the blood, it was several minutes ago.

"When did that happen?" TK asked.

"Ten, fifteen minutes ago," Kari said.

"Oh my god, why didn't you tell me," TK said. "You need help!"

"Just leave me a gun and get out of here!" She yelled back.

"I'm not leaving you," TK said.

"Give me a gun and get moving!" She yelled. "I'll be fine, you can still throw bullets around, GO!" TK didn't like it, but he gave her his spare gun and a kiss, and ran off to flag down one of the other jeeps to ride in.

* * *

"Fall back!" Kovin yelled. "Everyone fall back to the city!" They were getting hit harder than they had ever thought possible. Kovin and most other humans in the air had taken lots of hits, and he alone was bleeding from four different spots.

"We've lost two more digimon," Kelryn's voice said over the radio. "Kovin ignored it and swung around to follow all his Guardians back to the city.

"They following?" Kovin asked.

"No," Izzy said. "They're all holding position, it looks like they're regrouping too. They must be much more effected than we thought. We're just taking them apart, and there's only twenty megas in the whole bunch."

"It's still killing us," Kovin said. "And where's the other nine hundred, if I'm doing the math right." Kovin brought Aeromon in to hover over the city's rooftops watching the rest of his guys land.

"Kari's been hurt," Aeromon said. "There." Kovin followed his gaze to a jeep that was carrying Kari on a stretcher, and TK with her.

"Where are the others?" Kovin asked again. "There's like a third of them missing."

"Right here," a voice said behind Kovin. Kovin turned to see the same boy he talked to last night. "Name's Kyle. And I have nine hundred twelve guys ready to fight."

"Where?" Kovin asked landing Aeromon.

"Right there," Kyle pointed to an office building with several broken windows. "All of them are in there waiting my signal. And every single one is a flyer." Kovin looked back at him, and confirmed what he was saying with a pair of binoculars. "I got my hands on a few papers of Alexis' and found out what she was doing. Needless to say, I was able to convince a few more people to come, and to fight for the right side. Sorry we're late." Kovin looked out over the bay.

"You'd be sorrier if you were them," Kovin said. All the digimon coming in had a human partner with them.

"Why?" Kyle asked. "Those are the hand-picked best guys in the force."

"Watch." They watched at the flying armada came over land towards the warehouse that hid the base. Like thunder hundreds of rifles began firing. It was pandemonium in the sky as they started dropping like flies when the humans were killed by the sharpshooters on the roof. They turned to retreat but were cut down before they could even move and inch. All nine hundred of that squad was gone, and no doubt the bodies rained on the city.

"Let's do it," Kovin said. Kyle nodded.

"Anyone with a green band on their arm is mine, make sure your guys know." Kovin flicked the radio switch on and started talking but stopped. His skin went white and eyes wide when he saw what he did.