Chapter 50

With his departure from the park, Naruto meditated on his task for the next day and slept to restore his health to optimum levels.

The next day came like normal and his team was none the wiser about the incoming doom. He couldn't share it with them, as their reactions might give it all away.

They might speak out at the wrong time about it.

So, he didn't tell them. It was something he didn't like to do but he had done it multiple times in both worlds.

Sometimes, you just can't share the details.

He thought about it a lot, and he couldn't deny that he was acting like a selfish bastard. He could keep his friends and little kids from danger but he was taking them along as bait.

They would consent if he asked but it didn't make it better.

It was these kinds of situations that made him question, did he really want to be a leader.

Nonetheless, those were just thoughts he had and promptly discarded. He was going with his choice so there was no need to whine and regret.

He had taken all measures so it was safe, there should be no threat of death or Kiara would have told him.

You are walking towards death, you know. Something like that would have come his way when he left the city.

But, it didn't happen and the team flew towards the Desert.

The Upside Down Pyramid Desert or Server Desert was one of the biggest Deserts in the Digital World. It was one of the biggest territories in the digital world.

The desert was in the middle of four empires, human, Metal, Fire and Dragon.

It was an area so large that it overshadowed India in size. With size came powerful digimon, the desert was home to fire, metal, dinosaur, dragon, plant, ghosts and other digimon.

There were multiple Mega living in this region and all of the leading Mega had backing from the surrounding empires.

There was Ebemon, a cyborg digimon working with the metal empire. It was artificially created from a Vademon that was captured and had its configuration data analyzed and improved. Vademon was an alien digimon that formed from all the alien movies about them conquering earth and such, meaning Ebemon had an inherent desire to take over the world.

Ebemon's Dark Network ran the entirety of the desert via a system of cables, and helped Ebemon maintain control of it.

There was a Colosseum located in the desert, and was one of many structures and areas in the desert controlled by the Ebemon or his underlings.

One of his underlings was Etemon.

Then there was Blastmon. It was a digimon that was working with the human side and got help in return. He made sure that none of the others joined up or no large scale attack took place on the human territories.

Blastmon was a Mineral Digimon. It was a super-heavyweight Digimon with a mineral body. It was clad in a hard crystal armor that regenerated when broken, and boasted a number of various, powerful techniques, so its slowly moving form was the epitome of an impregnable moving fortress. Because of its glittering body and power, it called itself the "most beautiful, sublime creature.

Following that was Dinorexmon, a digimon that was working with the Dragon Empire. The dragon Empire was ruled by Megidramon and was supported by Azulongmon, Magnadramon and Goldramon. All of the four great dragons were in one place.

It was an anomaly that only few could answer as Megidramon represented the Digital Hazard itself. It was a force of destruction like Apocalymon, just on a lesser scale.

Its power would be usually sealed by King Drasil, but the dragon was moving around with full power and its sanity was intact unlike its usual state.

With Megidramon as the leader, other dragons had no problem submitting since none of them could act prideful in front of the four great dragons.

Dinorexmon was a loyal follower and would lick the feet of his master.

Dinorexmon was a Dinosaur Digimon. With strength far in excess of other Dinosaur Digimon, it was a carnivorous Digimon named the "King of Terror" due to the unparalleled ferocious nature it displayed in battle. With its talons, which were almost half as long as its body, it seized the opponent, snapped and brandished its gigantic jaws at them, then killed them. Its exceedingly brutal manner, which appeared in the finest battles of a world where the weak were food for the strong, was probably the reason it was called "King". Also, partly due to it fighting with other Dinorexmon, it is said that the population was very small.

Other than that was PileVolcamon, a digimon that was working with Flame Empire. PileVolcamon was a Cyborg Digimon. It was a powerful Digimon with a large build. It was named Volcamon after how the volcano on its back will erupt when its anger reached its peak, or when its excitement surpassed its maximum.

One of the several Digivolutions for Volcamon, it possessed dreadful power and destructive force, and was an expert in all combat sports, starting with pro wrestling. Its Digivolution had polished its massive body even further into a smart form suitable for melee combat.

Finally there was Pharaohmon, it was one of the natural owners of the land and controlled huge territory.

Pharaohmon was a Ghost Digimon. Its body shone gold enough to be baleful. It digivolved from Mummy Digimon, and it boasted absolute power in the ancient Digital World, ruling many areas. As for the mysterious ancient ruins that dotted the Digital World, many Digimon were under Pharaohmon's control at the Genesis of the Digital World, and all of that was testament to its power.

Those were the good old days, and now the great leader was stuck in a small territory. But, it still stood at the top among all the Mega in the region.

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Naruto's team arrived in the region safely and it was more than 2000 miles from Dawn City. It was far from Takuya's territory and closer to Amara's, Magma, territory.

Seeing the dynamic of the region it could be seen how evil forces could make plans for their nefarious purposes.

It was one of the regions where countless Tamers had fallen but it was still one of the best hunting grounds.

Just like planned, Naruto and the gang stayed on the outer end of the Desert that was on the human side of the region.

Blastmon was on their side but that didn't mean the wild digimon were their friends. The gang fought the new types of digimon in the area.

The temperature was very high, above 200 degrees Celsius and they were just on the outside region. The central region was a constant fire that reached very high degrees and made any weak digimon ashes.

The team didn't have problem fighting on sandy ground because of their training covering such issues.

The team fought against Candlemon, Agumon, Black Agumon, Gearmon, Bombmon and even a Meramon.

They fought mostly against Rookies but also took down weak Champion Digimon together since their team had grown in number and powers.

Naruto also gave them all minor enhancements so it helped greatly while he didn't fight seriously in any battle as he was on the lookout for the attack.

TiaLudomon was stored in his digivice, Mai was following them while riding Hanzomon and Rory was following them as well.

Naruto couldn't sense either of them but he knew.

Time passed by and Naruto was patient, he didn't let down his guard at all. The team took a break for lunch and was eating in a relaxed manner when suddenly a sand storm appeared.

That weather wasn't unusual but its sudden appearance was suspicious. It even came from the human side to lead them away from their safe net.

Just like what was expected of them, the team ran in the opposite direction and stopped at an Oasis. The storm covered up the region behind them but didn't continue to pursue them anymore.

It all looked peaceful and the team took shelter near the water when someone walked in to them.

Naruto had the urge to face palm, it was Kankuro.

He was wearing the Akatsuki cloak, meaning he was one of them and he was here for them. There was no talking as he directly summoned his digimon.

Pumpkinmon

It was a puppet type Ultimate digimon.

But it wasn't the only one, there Megadramon from the Dark Masters. It was part of the crack Team under the Dark Masters and it had been sent to kill Naruto.

The Uzumaki clan had done damage to them and Naruto was a big threat for the future, they didn't want such a snake to grow up.

Akatsuki worked with the Dark Masters and were followers of Apocalymon, as they were confident that Apocalymon would bring them the end.

The whole thing only came to exist because of the Metal Empire. Ultronmon also didn't want Naruto to grow up. The others were talented but Naruto was a big threat that could change the dynamics.

Ebemon was responsible for all that took place and it helped the enemies get to them without anyone else noticing.

With these two out on the field, Rory was forced to come out as she summoned both her partners.

Phantomon and Groundramon

She had Groundramon fight Megadramon while Phantomon fought Kankurou's digimon.

With their guardian distracted, another player walked in to the field. It made Naruto facepalm literally.

It was Mizuki, the guy that tried to kill him when he was a kid and wanted to go and serve Orochimaru. It seems his dream came true in the current world and he became something bigger than a fodder.

"Hello children, I hope I am not catching at the wrong time." Mizuki said with a smile as he walked towards them with his digimon.

GrapLeomon

It was the Ultimate evolution of Leomon.

"Are you blind, you filthy snake?" Rika spoke in a cold tone as she stood beside Naruto while the battle with Rory was taking place on the side and she couldn't move away from it or the enemies would kill the kids.

Mizuki didn't seem to have come for the kill while the first two guests were there for the kill.

"Apologies, I have a weak eye sight and didn't notice the beautiful scenery. I would love to talk more on the subject but we are all on a time limit.

Uzumaki Naruto, would you like to join Ouroboros?"

Ouroboros was a criminal organization that indulged in human and digimon experimentation. They had no moral values, just research.

Mizuki was just another experimental lab rat and it was clear from his aura. He was artificially enhanced and had some digimon features.

"Mai"

"Hai, hai!" Mai's melodious voice rang out as Hanzomon attacked the enemies and another fight started on the side.

"Were you aware this would take place?" Henry asked, even he had a hard time keeping his calm with such dangerous battles taking place around them.

One stray attack and none of them would survive.

"Yes, I learned about it yesterday and wanted to catch the villains. I hope you guys understand." Naruto replied calmly as his focus was on the battlefield.

He took out TiaLudomon who covered them in his barrier to avoid any attacks.

"We understand." All of them answered but none of them were happy with it.

Takato held Arthur and felt useless at the moment. His best friend couldn't even rely on him. It didn't give a good feeling at all.

It went the same for Henry, though to a lesser extent.

They understood why he didn't talk to them and they would have agreed to it. But having done noting didn't set well in their stomach.

Rika felt even worse because Naruto had talked to Mai while he didn't rely on her even once in his life. Some outsider got a chance to do more than she could in her whole life.

It was wrong.

It was unacceptable.

All the digimon felt the sharp rise in emotions.

Naruto's emotions didn't change but Asura's did, he didn't like the feeling of his maser relying on others while he could do nothing.

Rambo was still new and he was still very much like a soldier, so he was chill.

Naruto turned to the side and another battle seemed to be taking place at their back.

It was a Shogun Gekomon fighting against Highlander and Mereum.

Yurine and Mio had wanted to surprise Naruto but came across Toad.

Toad was the member of the Mutant Brotherhood under the leadership of Magneto. It was another criminal organization in the USA.

It was one that truly hated the Metal Empire and all Metal digimon. They despised them from the heart. It was an organization that demanded the ban of Metal digimon and immediate genocide of the creatures.

The reason for this hatred was the death of the family.

Magneto lost his family to a metal type digimon, and it was not just any digimon. It was one of his partner digimon.

It had killed his wife and daughter, and planned to kill him under the orders of Ultron. But, Magneto survived by a miracle and things went from there.

Ultron was a digimon that was related to Tony, created by his grandfather as an A.I. but it was attacked by a digimon and mixed with it to gain true sentience.

It grew fast and developed a desire to fix the world with an iron fist.

It was pushed out of the human world with difficulty and took over the Metal Empire from the previous leader.

Such betrayal was a reason why Metal type digimon came with the advice to be careful and to give them a personality, because logic might not be on your side every time.

The True robot type digimon would follow logic and that could lead to the tamers death. It also had the highest chance of getting corrupted.

Magneto's demands were not accepted and he collected like minded people, and some other people in general that could help.

They protected humanity in their own twisted manner by killing all Metal digimon, all of them.

Toad was member of the group and he had arrived to invite Naruto, and even help them out. He had no interest in killing the group.

They weren't completely evil.

They considered Naruto's group a necessity for humanity, they had no reason to kill them even if he wasn't going to join.

"Wait, I am not here to kill. I just wanted to help." Toad screamed as he was really having a hard time with the girls, both their digimon were too strong for their rank.

Naruto felt something was weird. This shouldn't have been enough. Toad wasn't lying as he had no negative desire on that level, meaning he would have helped them or run away if Naruto hadn't brought help.

Something was still hiding.

"Run, you little bastards. Metal Etemon!" Toad screamed in horror as his digimon sensor found it, he had a specialized version that tracked down metal types.

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