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First off, I don't own any Digimons or other name that involved in this chapter. However, I do own Al and Amelia. I apologized first hand if there are spelling and/or grammar errors because my English is second. Any introductions are similar with the previous chapters. Anything else, enjoy.

Chapter 55: Inspecting the Site, Life in Crisis.

The Destinies investigates the site where Al's paranoia came true. Nearly half of the Destinies team, including Al the white eye Agumon, GreenGuilmonX aka Derek the jade eye Growlmon, Amelia the emerald eye Renamon, Rika and her partner Renamon, TK and Angemon, Matt and Garurumon, Henry and Rapidmon, and Beelzebmon were wandering the Woodlands in the Digital World with their trusty D - Server as their guide.

When they are near at the scene, Al can see faint black mist. "Wow, guys. I can see the black mist near here." Al warned the others.

All the Digimons tense up and stop their movement. Their partners looked at them and then look at their surroundings. They can't see the mist like Al but they ask anyway. "How bad is it?" Matt asked.

Al can't tell for sure how bad was it until he asked Derek to come with him to go further. It took them for almost 30 meters to see the density of the mist. The mist itself isn't too thick like the last one and like he thought, the mist were faint and it is possible for the real Digimons to pass, leaving only minor weak sore or any similar effects, he hoped. Al nodded at Derek and they gave a wave, signaling them to come.

Every Digimons were hesitated at first, but one stood forward and walked into the mist. It was Amelia. She didn't see the mist and can tell how terrified they were about it, but she trust Al and that makes her move forward to Al and Derek.

Al looked back to the team and saw Amelia walked towards them. He actually hated when she put her life in danger, but she wanted to. He looked for any symptoms of the Glitches on her. At first she showed none. But when she was close to them, he can see the effects of the faint mist. She somehow exhausted, similar like heavily trained athlete. "Are you feeling okay, Amelia?" Al asked her.

"I'm fine." She answered. "Though, I do feel a bit tired like after running circling a mountain."

"Let us hope it stayed that way." Al relieved and smiled at her after hearing her condition. The rest of the Digimons saw them and walked slowly towards them.

They keep on moving to the location, while raising their guards despites the fatigue they have from the mist. Of course Henry wrote down the side effect after being exposed to the light black mist, considering it is very new to them. Everyone came to halt after finding two of the craters lining side by side just as the map showed. Matt and Garurumon looked for another crater that was close to the first two.

Henry and Rapidmon entered the crater to inspect it more thoroughly, while the rest looked at the surrounding to find anything out of the ordinary.

"What kind of power that can make these?" Amelia asked.

"I do not know." Henry replied. "That is why we exanimate it."

"And judging by the size of the craters, it is the same size at least." Rapidmon measured.

"The third crater isn't as big as the other two, but the damage was severe." Matt reported his finding with Garurumon. "I can see trees broke by force."

"What kind of power that can make all of these?" Derek asked while Al is in train of thoughts.

Beelzebmon accidently found something when he looked at a tree. TK and Angemon walked to see what Beelzebmon found. He found a small hole on the tree where it shouldn't have. TK check the hole and then asked Angemon to lend him his staff. The size of the hole is the same size as the staff itself.

"This tree has a piercing mark." TK reported. "The size is similar to a staff or any similar kind."

"As far as I know it, not many Digimons have a staff as their weapon." Renamon replied.

"Then who..." Amelia wanted to ask but she was interrupted by an energy ball that came towards her. She quickly shoved Al and Derek away from her and jump away avoiding the attack.

Everyone was surprised by the ambush attack. A moment later a second attack and it was aimed at Renamon and Rika. Renamon sense it then grab Rika and jump away, avoiding the second attack.

"Flush it out, Rapidmon." Henry ordered. Rapidmon complied by high jump and shoot random stray bullets to the trees and bushes.

"Garurumon, fetch them." Matt ordered. Garurumon dashed toward the bushes and search for the culprit. Several minutes later, they heard a yowl of surprised and struggling swore and curse. But the voice came from a young child voice.

"Yelp, Let me go!" The young voice yelled. "Let me go you dog!"

Garurumon came out from the bushes, holding an ambusher in his jaw. It's a local Digimon they could guess. It shaped like a pigeonwith white and blue head feather and wore red bow tie, a crown, and a pair of snickers. Al didn't know whether the partial bush were accidently chomped off from the bushes or something. Al was curious about what kind of Digimon it is. The pigeon Digimon is still struggling on Garurumon's jaw, demanding to let it go and judging by the voice, it's a male. Garurumon struggled to hold him and with a grunted sigh he pinned him down to the ground. "Stop struggling, Delumon!"

He finally saw the partial bush moved when the pigeon Digimon moved, as if it is his feather tail. 'A bushy feather tail, I guess that scratch one out of the pun jokes.' "Please, we didn't mean you any harm." Al tried to convince him.

"Lies!" The Delumon yelled in anger. "I know you were sent to finish us off."

"What do you mean?" Derek asked.

"Don't play dumb." He yelled eyes shot open to Al. Al was surprise to see that his flame iris eyes were smeared with mud residue. "You worked with those mutts, aren't you?"

"Mutt?" Amelia asked.

"Yeah, you are!" He glared at her. "You killed our friends last night and absorbed their data! Give them back!"

Another ambush attack came from the tree and aimed towards Renamon. Rapidmon step forward and block the attacks. Another attack came from the bush and this time it aimed towards Amelia. Beelzebmon moved to block the attack with his shotgun. Beelzebmon aimed towards the source and fire a couple of rounds to scare it out or better, smoke it out.

Another Digimon appeared from the bushes. It jumped high to avoid the bullets and gave another attack. Renamon, Beelzebmon and Rapidmon scattered to avoid the attack. Angemon fly towards the Digimon when it's coming down and tackle it to the ground. Rapidmon helped Angemon and pin it down.

Al finally saw the second ambusher. It is another Digimon with brown feather and wears helmet mask with long nose. It has strong long legs and no wings. When he looked closer, it is similar to a kiwi bird in the real world.

Al heard another rustling from the bushes. He had enough of these false accusations and drew an evolution card then placed it on the slot. "If there are any idiots try to attack us again, we will use force to defend and kill." Al threatened the locals to stay off for a moment. "Good. Now will you two explained to me what do you mean by that?" Al asked the two pinned Digimons.

"Their kind killed our friends." Delumon still convinced his state.

"What makes you believe that?" Al asked.

"Does flaming foxes are enough for you?" the kiwi Digimon asked. And it appears that it is a male as well. Al also saw a mud smeared on his eyes as well. "What are you looking at?"

"Do you two realize there's a mud on your eyes?" Al asked bluntly.

"What mud?" the kiwi Digimon asked.

"I don't feel there is a mud in my eyes." Delumon agreed.

"What do you mean by that?" Al asked them and then looked at the team. "Can you guys see it?" The team only gave a blank stare at Al. "Guys?"

"Al, I don't see any mud on their eyes." TK answered. The rest only gave him a nodded and same here answers.

'What? That is impossible.' Al thought. 'Nobody can see the mud except me, which means...' Al's eyes glared at both of them and jumped backwards as if he was shocked. "They were infected by the Glitches." Al yelled at everyone.

Everyone was surprised to hear it, especially Henry. He reached for a scanner to scan the kiwi Digimon and Delumon. And as Al feared it, both of them were infected with the Glitches. The strange things are, they didn't berserk or nearly berserk to be precise. "This is the second stage." Henry noted.

"Second stage?" Al asked.

"Sorry." Henry looked at him realizing that he wasn't briefed about the Glitches infection stages. "Like I said, they were in second stage of infection. There are three stages. One is when they got infected for the first time and tasted the powers they got. Second is when they were getting agitated for no reason but still has their common sense. And last stage, is when they went wild. They didn't think and see friends or foe, like a berserker."

"Is it reversible, can they be cured?" Amelia asked.

"The Glitches were act as a virus to Digimons and can cause various illness and damages to their core. We hope it can be cure, but we don't know how." Henry answered.

"Wait, I remember these." Derek snapped in. "I remembered in Biology class. When there is an Antigen, there is an Antibody. When there is a virus, there always a vaccine."

"I know that." Henry claimed. "But we are missing one important thing. A life subject that immune to the virus, which we don't have it right now."

"Long story short, we don't have a cure and my power is the only resort for now." Al concluded and charged up his power and channeled it to his claw arm.

"What are you doing?" Beelzebmon asked while guarding the surroundings.

"Isn't obvious? I will use Data Manipulation in wide scale range." Al answered and raised his claw arm to the sky.

"Wait! Didn't you use that power yesterday? Every power has its own limits. Not even you don't know the limits of that power." Matt tried to make his sense.

"I don't care the limits of this power, as long as I can save and protect everyone!" Al yelled and shot his power to the sky. The shot burst into different location including where he stood. The mist surrounded the area dissipate and the local Digimons slowly regain their common sense. The shot had just purified the Woodland, just like in the Dragon Valley in the game. The Digimons were wondering what are they doing gathering around the craters while they should remain in their domain to protect. That includes the kiwi Digimon and Delumon who got pinned down without a reason in their mind.

"What happened, why am I doing here?" Delumon asked.

The Destinies were surprise of the outcome. The pinned Digimons have regained their conscious but somehow didn't remember why they were pinned down.

"Would someone explain to me why Delumon and I were pinned down here?" the kiwi Digimon asked.

"You mean *pant* you don't remember *pant* a thing?" Al asked between pants.

"Last time I remember, we were running away from something." Delumon answered.

"And that something can use flaming foxes like Sakuyamon." The kiwi Digimon added.

"You think they were telling the truth?" Henry asked.

"No doubt." Rapidmon reassured the Destinies. Garurumon, Angemon and Beelzebmon nodded and let them go.

The kiwi Digimon and Delumon nodded at them and gave them a thank you gesture. They stood up and dust themselves. "Ow... my beautiful feathers." said Delumon within sobs, thinking about his appearance.

"Who are you, anyway?" the kiwi Digimon asked.

"We are the Destinies." Derek answered him. "We came here to inspect the sites."

"I see." Delumon noted while his tears streaming slowly from his flaming golden eyes, still dusting off some dust and soils from his feather. "Kiwimon and I are one of the protectors of this forest. Some of us were killed trying to stall the intruder last night."

"Can you *pant* describe the intruder *pant* for us?" Al asked still exhausted.

"The nocturnal Digimons can't see the face clearly because it was covered with thick hood." Kiwimon answered.

All Destinies looked at each other, knowing what was behind the incident. "It was the hooded figure. We named it like that because it wore hood and mantle to cover its true figure." TK explained to the two local Digimons.

"We've been searching for days to find and eliminate it. It has killed innocent Digimons in the last couple of days." Beelzebmon grunted.

"I see." said Kiwimon with sad expression beneath his mask. "Will you avenge the dead one for us?"

"We *pant* will." Al replied. "But we *pant* don't know *pant* how, *pant* yet." He somehow felt heavy in the chest, and it's hard to breath. "But *pant* we shall." Al wheezed out his last sentences and suddenly fell to the ground holding his chest, forcefully gasping for air.

Amelia quickly reached for him to see what is happening to him in fear and concern. To her fear, she saw something that shouldn't happened in Al. His eyes half shut but she can see that his eyes changed to dark with crimson iris. Henry scanned Al's condition and to his surprise, fear and shock, the scanner showed disturbance in Al's body.

All Henry could say will shock the Destinies. "He is been... *gulp* infected with the Glitches."

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