Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 9 - And Now the Guns are Silent ❯ Chapter 10

Chapter 10

"They're coming," Kovin said. Kyle turned and saw what Kovin did. All of the remaining rouge digidestined had taken flight or began running at them. They were in an attack line as long as it could be with all of their numbers contributing to it. The fleet coming at them was nothing less than frightening with its speed, numbers, and direction. Kovin's Guardians did have some allies fighting for them but they were separated and they were still licking their wounds trying to recover.

"Wake up over there!" Kyle was yelling at the building. It was a sure thing they couldn't hear him but he was having his hands like signal flags that carried the message to attack. The sight of them all taking flight was incredible. It was like watching bats leave a cave, hundreds of them seeming to be in chaos but all flying in tight formation to surround the city.

"All Guardians we have to get back in this," Kovin said into the radio. "It's not over just yet." His own people were quite a bit slower to respond to the attack command. Kovin knew that Kari was injured, and a few of them had died, and he wondered how many of his friends would live to survive this.

Shurimon landed on the roof of the building and took off again with his agile springy legs to the next rooftop. He was soon followed by Seraphimon and Metalangemon, and then by all the remaining flyers. The ground runners all held back around the base as the last inner wall of defence. There were so few of them left and in their injured state, if it did come down to them, the battle was already lost.

"Aeromon," Kovin said. "Let's get this going." Kovin climbed back on his friend and took off after the rest of the Guardian fleet. He came up close to the others and was sickened by the wounds both human and digimon were carrying. No one there still had his skin intact, but thankfully almost all had bandages. "Everyone tighten around Aeromon for another starburst." They came in slowly together still flying fast at the oncoming force. "Remember, the guys with green arm bands are fighting with us." The closest people to him nodded their acknowledgement. "Go!" Kovin yelled and every single one of them took off in a new direction. Three seconds later they all fired in unison.

"Sonic Blast!" Kovin heard Aeromon's attack call, but his massive booming voice was drowned under the voices of all the other Guardian digimon firing energy blasts as well. The combined force ripped the air and seemed to shatter the very fabric of existence as it slammed into the attacking force. The bright white light faded and revealed it damage, having sent just over a hundred to the ground fatally.

"Excellent," Kovin said. "Make them feel some pain." The flyers arced their flight paths and came down to join Kyle's small fleet in the hugest aerial combat any of them had ever seen, and none had dreamed. Aeromon led half of them under Kyle's ground and laid waste to the last of the enemy runners and jeeps. But when they tried to bank back up they came under a ferocious blast of fire and had to fall back. They were now no longer fighting over the open fields but rather the city, in and amongst the tall buildings. Aeromon was having a hard time manoeuvring with the fire and cramped space and was trying to get aloft to fire downward from the open sky.

Metalangemon forgot his attacks and went into hard hand-to-hand combat slicing through enemy after enemy dealing out justice in the way only he could. Seraphimon was in a similar situation until a good dozen of them jumped him. But his adrenaline shot, vaccine type, and pure will enabled him to throw the group of and cut them all down, however not before several of his wing feathers were ripped off. Shurimon threw his double-stars around like toys, with less than toy-like effect severing limbs like butter. Sara landed Phoenixmon and she was pulling digimon out of the air and crushing them. It seemed to be going well until Kovin saw three of his Guardians fall when a boy banked around on a small fast flyer and removed their heads in quick order with a katana like the one he carried.

* * *

"Capacitors at sixty percent," Joe said. He and Izzy had left the control room for the lab and were powering the many pieces of equipment inside.

"We can't do this," Izzy said. "I can't."

"We have to," Joe yelled back at him over the loudly humming equipment. "There is no other way."

"There's always another way."

"Not this time," Joe yelled back. "Eighty percent." Izzy looked at the control console. Once the power was set the red button was all that had to be pushed to change the world. He didn't want that kind of power at his fingertips and didn't think anyone should. "That's it Izzy, we're set. I don't want to do it either but it's what has to be done."

"I know," Izzy said and they ran back to the control room. He picked up a radio headset and activated it. "Kovin, it's ready to go."

* * *

"Hang on one second," Kovin said standing on Aeromon, holding his feathers of support. "I've got one more thing to take care of first." Kovin switched off the radio and called to his friend while the blood boiled in his eyes. "Get him." Aeromon followed the boy with the katana and arced above him. The smaller flyer was not faster but was more able to turn in the tight streets and was doing his best to avoid the rage he now knew was coming from Kovin. "Give a blast of speed and be ready to catch me," Kovin said.

"Always," Aeromon said and beat his wings to pass the smaller digimon. Kovin turned around and placed his feet on the back of the bird's skull.

"Arc up," Kovin said. "Now." Aeromon aimed at the sky and Kovin let go. The small digimon thought Kovin had given up and had slowed down and stopped the tight manoeuvring. As he fell Kovin drew his katana from the scabbard on his back. He hit the enemy digimon and the impact send all three downward. It was unlikely the bird was going to fly again as Kovin's blade and pierced the chest of he boy, and pinned him down to the flesh of his digimon. Kovin grabbed the other blade and pulled both away as the falling flyer hit a building sending him off. He saw Aeromon as he fell through the air being attacked by over a dozen attacks at once. When he hit the ground, Kovin rolled over his blades and near broke his ankle, leaving instead a bad sprain. When he came to a stop he found himself almost right beside the base building they were using, and many of his friends came to help him.

"Get bandages," someone yelled. Kovin blinked and found that rolling over the blades when he fell left very deep gashes on his chest.

"Where's Relaina?" Kovin asked because she was supposed to be the one holding the second sword.

"She was hurt, they have her and Kari inside," the voice said. He couldn't place it, but did trust it as friendly. The fight was now lost, too many of them were falling before the others. Kyle's fleet was easily wiped out and it was likely that he too was dead. Aeromon was hit again and began falling back toward them. His massive girth hit the ground and they all felt the impact while standing against the building. He bounced up but came down as Ozlimon. Kovin tried to run and get him but was stopped, and another girl retrieved the Snowy Owl, whose white feathers were now stained red with his own blood.

"Someone tell Izzy to do it," Kovin said. Sara landed from behind with Phoenixmon, the only of their flyers still able to. The twelve remaining ground runners and Phoenixmon stood sentry as the last defenders of the base. There were still over six hundred of the enemy force and they completely circled the building and waited. A spot of the circle parted and Alexis walked through with a new daikatana.

"That was one hell of a fight," she said. "But now I'm going to mess you up."

"How many of your guys can fight?" Kovin asked.

"We don't use or even train in hand-to-hand, there's no use for it. We always use the digimon," Alexis said.

The large radio tower near them all began arcing with electrical energy. Everyone looked up at it to see bigger and bigger tendrils of electricity move around it. The sharpshooters on the roof, both sides of the digimon, and both sides of human looked.

"You didn't," Alexis said in a panic.

"We did," Kovin said and a beam of bright white energy shot out at every digimon there, while a larger one shot straight up at the sky.