"Okay... so let's say we will find those 'rebels'," Romi said. "How will they be able to help us?"
"Always the skeptic, now I know where Rika got it from..." Henry sighed. "Why don't you just trust Kei? She has proven that she can do her job, otherwise the mess with Millenniummon wouldn't have turned out the way it did."
"Who in blazes are you talking about?" Romi grumbled.
"Never mind that now," Kei intervened. "Listen, I've planned this carefully... it's true, we need the original Tamers to defeat Lucemon, and we still don't know where they are. So where can we find out? In Lucemon's hideout, obviously."
"But that would be like running into a lion's maw," Turuiemon protested. "You said it yourself that we can't possibly win against Lucemon's personal guardians yet."
"True, that's why it's going to be a stealth mission," Kei said, grinning down at her brother, who stared at her with wide caterpillar eyes.
Wormmon grinned back. "It was my idea!"
"Just leave everything to me, I'm gonna make sure that you will have to fight no Ultimate Digimon after you have managed to sneak into the tower," Kei promised.
"Still, breaking into that building won't be easy," Suzie remarked.
"Rather impossible, I'd say," Romi grumbled. "She must have placed guards everywhere, not to mention security cameras or even traps..."
"That's why we need the rebels' help," Eiko spoke up. "Kei made sure that with their help, you will be able to enter the tower underneath Lucemon's nose, and if you are careful, she won't know it."
Romi still wasn't convinced, but she decided to wait until she saw that rebel hideout.
"You almost forgot to tell them that they will meet their last team member there," Eiko said.
"Another one?" Gargomon sighed. "Let's see, we have me, my 'better half', my Tamer (who is imprisoned in a Digimon body that can't fight), his now grownup sister, the gender-swapped and age-regressed father of Rika and Renamon, his dangerous father turned loveable twin brother, a fire-girl that has never fought before..."
"Gee, thanks for being so open-minded," Yui muttered. She poked Gargomon's belly with her flaming finger. "For your information, tubby, Kei's little game provided me with all the fighting skills I need."
"Without creating a logical backstory for why she has these skills?" Henry smirked. "Kei, you're slipping..."
"It's not like I want to change everyone's history even more than I already have, okay?" Kei grumbled. "Let's just say she was good in gymnastics at school and she managed to put those skills in use in battle."
"You still haven't told us who that last, mysterious 'eighth member' is supposed to be," Turuiemon pointed out.
"Oh, you know her," Eiko giggled. "In fact, most of you have already met her at least once."
"Can you spit it out already?" Romi sighed.
"It's Alice!" Kei smiled.
Henry shook his head. "Now why didn't I see this coming?"
"Not her again..." Romi groaned. "Oh well, I guess it can't be worse... just tell us where we have to go to find the rebels' base, okay?"
Meanwhile, in the rebel base...
To be exact, in one of the additional tunnels the rebel diggers were working on to expand the base...
"I'm telling you, this is nothing but slavery..." one Drimogemon told the other.
"Oh, stop whining and keep digging," his colleague sighed.
"It's nothing but the truth. That Leviamon could dig a new tunnel with one swipe of his tail, but he does nothing but lying around in his cave and eating fish."
"You want us to be out of work?" the other Drimogemon asked. "Besides, you really don't want to let him do all the digging."
"Why not?" the first one grumbled.
"Well, do you want the whole cave collapsing on your head?"
His colleague grumbled something, but kept his mouth shut for now.
After a while, his friend spoke up again: "Say, don't you think it's getting kind of hot in here?"
"Now that you mention it..."
To both of their surprise, the ground they were just digging through suddenly caved in, and they fell into a much bigger tunnel that was already there when they came digging in.
They fell on a hard, black floor. The first Drimogemon grunted and rubbed his head. "Owch... huh? Say, this floor... doesn't it somehow look volcanic to you?"
"Buddy... I think you should take a look ahead..." the other one murmured.
In the middle of the tunnel, a deep trench was filled with masses of molten magma that was slowly flowing past the two stunned mole Digimon. The heat was unbelievable, and a few sparks that came flying over from the lava were singing their fur.
"H-how...?" one Drimogemon muttered. "We didn't really dig that deep, didn't we?"
"We only dug straight ahead, never downwards," his friend said. "There shouldn't be any lava here. So how...?"
"Oh, that would be my doing," a deep voice close to them chuckled.
They jumped up in surprise, when a tall, muscular man made of metal came slowly rising out of the hot lava, completely unscathed. He was dressed in leather pants that, surprisingly, were not damaged by the lava. A long, metal chain was wrapped around his body, and his hair looked like a plume of blue fire.
"SkullMeramon's the name, fire is my game!" the Digimon grinned. "And you two have just stumbled into my territory... but that doesn't matter, really... after all, in a couple of days, all of Japan will be bathed in lava."
"All of..."
"Japan?" the Drimogemon gulped.
"That's right!" SkullMeramon laughed. "I've been using my powers to cause all of this lava to rise from deep below the earth, and when it finally reaches the surface, I will let my magma erupt right where Tokyo Tower is standing... to teach all these humans that all their military and cultural power means nothing when faced with the wrath of fire! Hahahahahahah!"
The Drimogemon squeaked in fear, jumped back to their feet and quickly vanished back into the smaller tunnel they had dug themselves.
"W-we've got to tell the commander..." one of them stuttered.
"Y-yes, and Belphemon as well... you think he can protect us?"
"Depends on whether he's magma-proof..."
SkullMeramon laughed. "Yes! Yes, run, you fools! But you will never escape my... MAGMA OF DOOM!"
A tiny fireball with a face jumped out of the lava and hovered next to its master. "Um... boss?" the DemiMeramon asked. "Why did you just announce your plans to those Digimon?"
SkullMeramon pulled a pamphlet out of his pocket. "Villain's Today, Gold Edition, page 764... 'Every good villain proudly reveals his plans to an innocent bystander, accompanied by evil laughter... only to smite them shortly afterwards with his or her respective superpower.' Really, don't they teach you anything at school today?"
"Um... sorry, boss, I must have been sick when we had that subject..."
"That's all right, little minion," SkullMeramon smiled as he patted the Fire Rookie's head. "Now, why don't you and your friends go and flood that tunnel those two have come from? Maybe we can use it to our advantage..."
DemiMeramon saluted. "You got it, boss!" He then whistled, and at least two dozens of other DemiMeramons came jumping out of the lava.
"C'mon, boys, you heard the boss, let them feel the heat!"
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