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Chapter 5:

Assault

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           Rukan always came in through the back door of his room these days. It was habit he had picked up from all of his sneaking out at night. This time, though, he was sneaking his friend in. Takeshi Miazaki was younger than Rukan but was a genius when it came to computers and technology. Leading his friend to the computer desk Rukan let Taka set up his equipment.

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           Renamon was nowhere to be seen but Rukan knew she was close. He could always feel when she was nearby like she had a link with him. The digimon was quietly watching from her hiding spot in the closet just as curious about the findings as Rukan was.

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           "Ru hand me the chip." Said Taka rather bluntly.

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           Rukan shrugged and walked to the closet opening it slowly. He saw Renamon and gave her a bit of a smirk before picking up the air-powered handgun and ejecting the clip to pull out the last undamaged projectile. It was a small red sphere about the size of a dime in diameter.

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           The Hisashi closed the door to the closet but kept it cracked open a little so Renamon could watch on as Rukan handed his friend the ball, "Here ya go."

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           Taka looked up at Rukan with a frown and then back to the ball, "Are you kidding me? What was this trip really about then if you don't have a microchip? Are you in trouble again?"

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           Rukan chuckled a little and snatched the ball back as he set it down on the desk and shook his head, "I'm not kidding there is a chip in that. Here let me help." Rukan pulled out one of his tontos and carefully began to pry at the seam of the ball wiggling the two pieces apart as a puff of red dust covered his desk. Taka didn't look impressed.

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           "Well? Where is this so called chip?" Said the younger of the two

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           "Patience young grasshopper. The answers are beneath the surface." Said Rukan with a smirk as he brushed away the dust to show the small chip.

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           Taka quirked a brow and shook his head, "This doesn't make much sense and horribly cliché movie lines aren't helping my brain work." With that said Takeshi took the chip and blew off a bit of the extra dust before plugging it into his home made data reader. Taka was the kind of kid you never told even a bit of a secret to. He would find all of the information in the end. Rukan often thought Taka should become a detective or something of that sort.

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           Rukan and his classmate looked on as the screen started to flicker a bit and then went black as red data started to stream across the screen quickly. Taka frowned a bit and shook his head, "This makes even less sense now... Look here, on this line. This is a sort of digital signature of the company HYPNOS. Where did you get this chip Rukan? Is it from one of their new projects?"

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           Rukan shook his head and frowned a bit, "I didn't know it was from HYPNOS. Aren't they the people that make all of the digimon stuff?"

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           Taka nodded a bit still watching the screen, "Ya... My guess is this is something still in the testing phase."

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           "Why do you say that?" Replied Rukan

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           "Well look at all of this code. It would corrupt just about any system to a point where it would destroy itself... It seems that there was a version before this one to. This seems to be version 2.0 of project X... Boo for their horribly overused project title." Answered Taka

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           "Does it give any information on the first model?" Asked the tamer.

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           "No... You'd have to get one of those chips and bring it to me for you to get the answers on this one... I don't see why it is so urgent though. It's not like we can compete with a huge corporation like HYPNOS." Said Taka as he began to shut down his computer and turn around in the seat to face Rukan.

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           "It's not that... it's just..." Rukan saw Taka's screen flash as it refused to shut down. Some creature's face was on the screen. It looked like a digimon but Rukan hadn't ever seen one of that type before. He furrowed his brow as the computer locked up and the screen quickly went blue with white text, "Your computer froze..."

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           Taka looked surprised as her turned in the chair to see his computer locked up. He frowned and shook his head, "Must have been all that corrupt data... I'll have a hell of a time fixing this one."

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           "Sorry if I broke your compy." Said Rukan with a sincere look on his face.

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           "Nah... you got me just as interested as you now. I've fixed this thing so many times now it should be a cinch. Do you mind if I stay here tonight? I would rather not walk home with it being that dark out." Said Taka looking up at the Hisashi curiously.

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           Rukan bit his lip at the question and frowned a little. If Takeshi stayed then Renamon would be cooped up in that closet all night. Rukan glanced into the crack and saw those animal eyes starring back at him. He knew she wouldn't want his friend to have to walk home in the dark. The streets were dangerous when the sun went down. Rukan and she would know that better than anyone.

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           "I guess it will be alright. Mom's out of town so we won't have to worry about her." Replied Rukan before his silence would have been suspicious.

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           "Is she in Kyoto with all of the other news companies reporting on that weird electrical storm?" Said Takeshi.

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           Rukan hadn't heard anything about an electrical storm, let alone one that would alert all the major networks of Japan. He quirked a brow and Taka got the picture.

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           "Jeeze Rukan you have to keep up on current events. Three nights ago a strange electrical storm came out of nowhere in the skies above Kyoto. It's destroying anything that runs on electricity. Some are even reporting the most bizarre computer glitches ever. What I would pay to get some of that data."

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           Rukan bit his lip again. Three nights ago was the night Renamon and he had investigated the warehouse. Could this mysterious storm have something to do with the rouge digimon? He looked back into the closet and knew without hearing that she was thinking the same thing. They had to go to Kyoto as soon as possible.

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           "Wow... sounds pretty bad. What are they saying about it?" Said the Hisashi.

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           "Only that it came out of nowhere and doesn't seem to be moving. Kyoto could be in serious danger" Replied Taka.

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           Rukan smirked a bit, "gonna have to check that out."

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           Taka laughed and shook his head, "Are you insane? It's dangerous"

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           "I guess I am because I'm going there tonight. You can stay here or come with." Replied the tamer.

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           Taka sat there for a moment just staring up at Rukan blankly like he was kidding. It soon hit him that he wasn't, "I'm coming."

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           Rukan quirked a brow, "What happened to it's dangerous?"

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           "It's still dangerous. But your sudden interest in this has me intrigued. Like the change you've gone through in the past months. Your attitude has completely changed." Replied Takeshi with a curious look in his eyes.

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           Rukan looked to the closet again and this time his friend caught it. Taka looked at the closet and shook his head, "What is so interesting in there?"

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           Rukan frowned as he had been caught and shrugged, "It's nothing. Just thinking."

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           Takeshi shook his head and laughed, "That's a lie if I ever heard one."

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           "So you're calling me a liar now?" replied Rukan

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           "I guess I am." Said Takeshi looking at Rukan and then to the closet, "What are you hiding?"

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           "I'm not hiding anything."

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           "Sure you're not. Rukan you're always hiding something."

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           "Look just let it go!?" Shouted Rukan finally

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           Taka frowned and furrowed his brow, "Ok ok... Jeeze. No need to get so defensive... Sooo... What is it?"

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           "Takeshi! It's nothing!" Growled Rukan

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           Taka stood up and nodded. He wasn't as tall as Rukan. He had to look up to look into the Hisashi's fiery eyes. Takeshi knew it was something important now. Rukan wouldn't be so defensive if it wasn't major and considering that Rukan had just shared top-secret technology with him it was something quite important. Taka shrugged and looked to the closet, "Then you wouldn't mind if I took a look."

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           Rukan quickly moved to block his friend but Taka was small enough to squeeze by and throw open the closet to find Renamon standing there looking down at him. The young boy froze as the Digimon walked forward and shook her head speaking softly, "You should not have done that."

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           Taka couldn't process the information that was being set before him and suddenly his legs felt like they were made of gelatin. He stumbled backwards and ended up falling backwards now sitting on the floor gazing at the digimon in astonishment, "Y... Y... This is impossible..."

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           Taka's eyes rolled back and he fell to the floor the rest of the way.

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           Rukan shook his head and bit his lip, "Now what are we going to do?"

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           Renamon shrugged and looked down at the boy, "He doesn't seem to be the type that would spill a secret. Do you trust him?"

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           "I suppose so. Though you have to add in the factor that he just saw something that is supposed to be impossible." Replied Rukan with a nod.

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           "You didn't pass out when you met me."

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           "Well in all fairness you didn't walk out of my closet saying "You shouldn't have done that." Replied Rukan with a smirk.

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           Renamon chuckled a little and looked at her tamer and friend, "So we are going to Kyoto?"

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           Rukan nodded slowly and looked down at his resting friend. He bit his lip and grabbed a blanket to put over the sleeping youth before getting into his black trench and sunglasses, "There's no telling what we might find there. We haven't ever tested the range of the D infinity either. This could be digimon related or simply a fluke but I don't want to be caught by surprise again... We don't leave each other's side alright?"

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           Renamon nodded and smiled, "I wouldn't have it any other way... Though I may have a faster way to get to Kyoto than you."

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           Rukan took a piece of paper from his computer desk and started to write a note for his sleeping friend, "And what is that?"

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           "I've been testing my teleportation abilities as of late. It seems I can take things with me. I don't know for sure if it would work with you but I think it would." Replied Renamon.

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           "Sounds dangerous." Said Rukan as he finished the note and placed it on the floor next to Taka before standing and looking up at Renamon.

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           "Since when has that ever stopped you?" Said Renamon with a smug look on her face.

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           "Good point... To Kyoto then." Said Rukan leaning forward to hold himself to his companion.

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           Renamon smiled and put a paw on Rukan's head before shifting her data along with Rukan to a point she knew to be near the outskirts of Kyoto.

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           It was dark in the forests surrounding the city as both Digimon and Tamer looked skyward in awe. The sky was lit up with electrical discharges and the D infinity was beeping faster and louder than it ever had before. Rukan looked down at the watch and nodded, "I guess that answers our first question... There is more activity here than I've ever seen before."

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           Renamon nodded and growled, "I can feel them. They are everywhere Rukan."

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           Rukan frowned even deeper looking down at the watch as his eyes started to grow wide. The display showed several rather large dots heading their way, "Ya... and they're heading this way... Run!"

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           The forest began to spring to life with sounds and movement as Rukan quickly turned with Renamon to run through the forest as fast as they could. Branches slapped them in the face and roots threatened to halt their retreat from the creatures that were pursuing them through the woods.

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           Looking over his shoulder Rukan saw one of the creatures. It was tiny, barely the size of a basket ball. His peek cost him dearly, however. He didn't see the root and his boot got caught under it bringing him to the ground hard. He groaned and started to stand feeling a paw on his back lifting him roughly to his feet.

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           Renamon watched as the small digimon rushed past them as fast as they could bounce and Renamon's fur bristled, "Something's coming."

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           Rukan nodded and quickly reached for his card case as the monster galloped into view.

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           "Centarumon, threat level red, ultimate level digimon. Field advantage."

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           The last line was new. They hadn't known there was any sort of advantage for certain types in different fields. Rukan looked to the sky and frowned deeply figuring out exactly what the advantage was. The monster had caused the electrical storm and now it had all of that power to call down in battle.

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           "Renamon be careful. This thing made the storm. Who knows how much power it has to call down."

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           Renamon nodded and frowned as the centarumon lowered it's arm to point a rather large cannon at them and it began to call down energy from the storm in large bolts of lightning forcing the both of them to cover their ears and cringe at the thunder.

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           Rukan's eyes went wide as he realized they couldn't win this fight no matter how hard they tried it this way. He looked up to Renamon and she knew what he was thinking. She picked him up before he could speak and shifted her data with him to a spot away from the blast.

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           The white beam of plasma shot through the forest clearing the trees and catching it on fire as it lit up the night with it's brilliant light and the loud bang of it's passing shattered glass and shook the ground. Another unwinable battle was in front of the two.

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           Rukan frowned and looked to Renamon, "Hypnos should be all over this by now..."

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           Renamon nodded slowly as they watched from their perch in a tree nearby but far enough away to not be seen, "Unless they are causing it."

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           Rukan froze at the words. What if they were causing it? The extremely rare card with the programming strip in it, their general knowledge about digimon and their already made defragmentation chips. What was the motive in trying to stop Rukan and Renamon then? It made sense but at the same time made none whatsoever.

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           Renamon saw the Centarumon turn and acquire them as a target once more and it started to charge its cannon again. The creature was too slow for Renamon. She once again shifted her data but this time into a park at the edge of the city that bordered the shrine of Inari.

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The sky looked like it was on fire as the electricity tore from cloud to cloud. And a strange green meshing appeared where the clouds parted. Rukan quickly pointed to the sky and frowned, "What the hell is going on here?"

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Renamon looked skyward and spoke softly, "That... is a portal to the digital world."