"Okay, let's get to work," Kei muttered as she looked at the screen. "The Green Syndicate Hive... there we go. I should have known it's already pre-made..."
"I'm sorry," HolyCalumon apologized. "Bio's influence prohibits me from preventing things like this."
"Well, let's just hope we can change enough things to help the others get past all the obstacles. What do we have here? Oh great, looks like Cyberdramon's troops have blocked several tunnels with layers of indestructable, hardened slime..."
HolyCalumon made a disgusted face. "Bio always had a preference to everything unpleasant and disgusting... so, what shall we do to remove the blockades?"
"Let me try removing them..." Kei murmured. "Dang, it doesn't work. Would have been too easy, right? Well, if they can't get through them... they just have to get behind them some other way."
"What do you suggest?" Holy asked.
"Well, for starters, let's add a small room next to this tunnel... and in its middle, we'll put some sort of teleporter that brings my friends to another room, one that lies behind the blocked passage."
"Good idea!" Holy smiled. "Kei, you're getting really good at this."
"Thanks, but we still don't know if it's gonna work or not. Lemme see... Aw, damn, I was hoping for some shiny tiles that could warp them in a flash of light, but all the program can offer me are slimy holes that are connected with each other by a vacuum tunnel. Oh well, it'll have to do..."
Stingmon frowned. "Did you have to use such a huge display of fireworks to take down that Snimon? I'm not surprised if the whole base now knows we're here."
"We took them out before they could warn anybody," Kitsunemon said. "Fast and efficiently. Don't tell me you'd want to waste more time by sneaking around. Who knows how long we might have had to wait until that guard moved out of the way? Hours? Days? We don't have that time, Stingmon!"
"If you consider that this base is most likely another dungeon, it could very well be that he'd have never moved at all..."
"You talk about weird stuff sometimes, but I'm gonna stop complaining if your plan actually works. But now come on, we have to go this way... huh?" He stopped right in front of the huge pile of hardened slime that was filling the tunnel up to the ceiling. "Since when is this here? They must have put that slime here to impede our progress."
"HI-YA!" Brawlmon kicked as hard as she could against the obstacle. She then winced and rubbed her foot. "Solid as a rock! We'll have to find another way."
"This is the only tunnel leading further into the hive, I'm afraid," Stingmon frowned.
"But... wait a minute, how can that be?" Ryo wondered. "They must be able to get out of there as well. I doubt they would have sealed themselves in there, effectively imprisoning themselves in their own base."
"You're right, there has to be another way," Kitsunemon nodded. "Stingmon, you know this hive better than us. You got an idea?"
"Now that you mention it, there is a way... but you won't like it."
"If it brings us to our goal, I'm willing to try anything," Kitsunemon stated, although Rika was a bit worried about what was in store for them.
Stingmon lead them through a few other tunnels until they reached a small, round chamber with no other exit. That is, if you don't count the slimy hole in the middle of the floor, with pulsating edges. A purple liquid was oozing out of its sides.
"Eeeww..." Ryo retched. "What IS that?"
Stingmon grimaced. "The egg transportation system. To bring their eggs from one part of the hive to another, they put them into these tubes. The slime and the soft walls make sure they don't get damaged on their way. I almost forgot that they sometimes misuse the tunnels to quickly bring soldiers from one part of the base to another. But we should be able to use it as well, to reach the inner caverns."
Kitsunemon looked into the pulsating hole and wrinkled her nose. A foul smell was coming up from down below. "Isn't there any other way?" she whined.
Stingmon shook his head. "No, this is the only way. If you want to reach their general, we have to go in there."
"Oh, all right... but if I find out that Kei is responsible for this, I'm gonna stuck her head into the next toilet bowl once we come back."
"Look at it this way, Rika," Brawlmon smirked. "Could it get any worse?"
"And here I hoped you would be wise enough not to say things like that..." Ryo grumbled as he climbed down into the hole.
The tunnel was tight, soft and wet, and the four heroes were sucked through it at an astounding speed. When they popped out of the tunnel's other end, Brawlmon and Ryo landed on their butts, while Kitsunemon rolled across the floor. Only Stingmon managed to land gracefully on his feet."
He noticed his companions' jealous stares and shrugged. "Practice, that's all."
Kitsunemon stood up and shuddered. "That was one of the most awful experiences in my life... please let's never do that again!"
"I'm sorry to bring this up, Rika, but we'll have to repeat this at least one more time. Or how else do you plan on getting out of here when all of this is finished?"
The multi-tailed vixen groaned.
Suddenly, Stingmon's antennae perked up. His whole posture became very tense, and he slowly walked up to the room's only exit.
"What's wrong, Stingmon?" Brawlmon asked.
"Be quiet..." he grumbled. "I'm sensing something..."
They followed him as he stepped out into another tunnel, but this tunnel ended pretty quickly in front of a tall door which looked like it was made from the carapace of a giant bug. Several feeler-like antennae were attached all over the floor in front of the door.
"What are those?" Ryo whispered.
"Sound wave generators..." Stingmon growled. "Step in-between those and the sound waves coming from the feelers will turn your brain into a chaotic mess of insanity. Only insect Digimon can safely pass through here. I would be able to get in with no problem, but..."
"You wouldn't be able to take on Millenniummon all by yourself..." Ryo frowned.
Stingmon shook his head. "No, and not even Antlermon, the original leader of the Green Syndicate. We have to find a way to switch all of them off."
"And how do we do that?" Kitsunemon asked.
Kei groaned. "Bio never gives us a break..." he sighed. "How did he come up with that kind of barrier? It's a good thing that as a spy, Stingmon has to know about this kind of stuff. But what now?"
"Well, there is a reason Bio used a new kind of barrier. He wanted to use a new kind of blockade that can't even be avoided using the tunnel system we created. And since the insect Digimon can easily get past the sound waves, there is no reason why they would have to use the egg tunnels. I suppose you'll have to come up with something else..."
"Okay, I can't just delete it, I already know that. But what if I can change it?" Kei made a few changes in the game and nodded. "There, now the feelers are connected to a guardian in a lower chamber. These feelers are actually part of the Digimon guardians, and if these Digimon are defeated, they can't produce any more sound waves."
"But I don't know of any Digimon that can create such sound waves..." HolyCalumon frowned.
Kei smirked. "Then I'll just have to create a new kind of Digimon. Sound waves, let's see... how about a giant cricket? Or even better, a cicada? And we'll call it... Cicadamon!"
HolyCalumon sweatdropped. "I really don't wanna know how a Digimon can have an imagination like you, Kei... or a human boy, for that matter."
"I'll take that as a compliment!" the Palmon girl grinned.
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