Those Infected by Darkness

by Flareix

Davis' first "trip" to the digital world wasn't with TK and Kari, it was years ago all by himself and alone. And it wasn't any vacation. No, it was a much, much darker and malicious digital world that awaited Daisuke Motomiya. What will Davis do when he is called upon once to save the digital realm once more? How will this more experienced Davis handle this new threat?

1. Digital Once More

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon ;/

A/N: Hello there! This is a new story I'm currently working on where Davis has been to the Digital World before. Though updates may be slow due to school so please be patient.

CREDITS: If the title of the story or some plot points seem familiar it's because this kinda like a continuation/my own version of the stories "Those Connected by Darkness" and "Those Linked by Darkness" written by Freddy Oakster right here on Fanfiction, he has some amazing stories and is an incredible writer. Seriously you should go to his page and read his stories, they're one of the best I've ever read! ;D

Summary: Davis' first "trip" to the Digital World wasn't with TK and Kari, it was years ago all by himself and alone. No, it was a much, much darker and malicious Digital World that awaited Davis Motomiya.

-TIbD-

Chapter 1: Digital Once More

"INFINITY CANNON!" yelled the twenty feet behemoth with two nuclear canons on his back as he fired his cannon at a humanoid green-armored insect. The attack hit and the insect fell from the sky. The behemoth roared in triumph while the yellowish-blue aura above him laughed manically.

"JewelBeemon!" yelled a dark-blue haired boy, who looked to be at most six years old. The boy was about to run to the insect monster before a maroon haired boy who also seemed to be six years old grabbed on to his wrist. He was about to snap at his companion for holding him back, but before he could he saw the look in his eyes. It was clear that there was nothing they could do to help their partners now, except have faith.

The behemoth known as Millenniummon was about to finish off the insect when he received a kick on his right cheek, a blue armored Human-Like Dragonoid flew back after landing his kick. He released his right neon blue energy sword from his right bracelet and was ready to fly straight ahead to stab the beast but was only swatted by one of the said monster's claws like a fly. Right before the dragon-man hit the ground however, a figure that could only be described as a futuristic superhero with a red scarf caught him midair.

"Thanks, Justimon," thanked the blue dragon, before refocusing his attention on the matter at hand.

"Heh, no prob man." replied the superhero-like figure as they dodged yet another one of the cannon blasts. Both were trying to stop the monster from finishing off their friend.

"Hah! You missed!" yelled the being known as Justimon as he dodged what seemed to be a poorly aimed shot when...

"Wait isn't that where…" said the blue dragon before understanding and fear was filled in his eyes. Time seemed to slow down as the two digital monsters realized where the blast was heading, and both futilely tried to rescue the two boys who were screaming as the cannon blast was heading towards them…

Twelve-year-old Daisuke "Davis" Motomiya woke up in a start. He was visibly shaking, his breathing was heavy, sweat was flooding down his body and his heart was beating so fast he feared that it might rip his own out of his chest, from his nightmare.

After some deep breathes, he finally took in his surroundings, he was in his bedroom Motomiya residence, not at the Dead Desert of the Digital World, he wasn't about to blow out of existence by a dimension-shredding blast. He reminded himself he was twelve years old, not six. It was hard to believe that those events had unfolded a little over six years ago now.

"Just a dream, just a dream. Nothing more, nothing less. Millenniummon isn't going to come and blast me, it was just a dream, just a dream" Davis repeated trying to calm himself down.

Five minutes after calming himself, Davis sat up and checked his clock and saw it read 5:30. He groaned in at his misfortune. He could have gotten at least another hour of sleep before the first day of school, but not anymore because of that stupid blast from the past nightmare.

Davis forced himself to get up so he could ready for school, he found the light switch and turned on the light for his room. As he opened his wardrobe looking for clothes to wear, his eyes unconsciously went over to the digital device at the corner. It was a small device, somewhat rectangular in shape with a small grey screen with an antenna on the top-right corner. He instinctively took it out and put it in his pocket. He didn't know why he did it, after all, it had been years since he even touched the device, but he felt as something was calling him through the device.

After brushing his teeth and taking his morning shower, Davis went to the living room hoping to make himself breakfast. Just as he was about to sit down to eat his bowl of cereal, a gust of wind blew past him, stopping him in his tracks. It should be impossible, he was inside, there should be no wind, he didn't open the windows. Davis looked around, then at the window and saw a bird flying by, except it wasn't. It was completely still like it was flying in a movie and someone hit the pause button. He subconsciously let the spoon drop and that's when he saw that it didn't fall, it stayed midair. Apparently, time had been frozen.

"It is time, child of miracles. Your worlds are intertwined once more."

Davis spun around like a bullet and saw an ominous looking humanoid figure standing behind him. The figure was around the height of an average adult human male. It was wearing a large black cloak and a black hood that hid the figure's face. "Who are you and what are you doing here?!" Davis instantly asked angrily.

The figure ignored his question and went off to state, "The darkness is gathering, so much that it threatens the strings of reality itself. It has already tied itself to the digital realm. Only you can stop it."

"What do you mean, what darkne-" Davis was replied before being cut off.

"Only you know your enemy's true power. Be cautious, do not take this lightly. Heed my warning well, Daisuke Motomiya." Those words, where had Davis heard those before? They kept repeating in his head, he remembered, he had heard them before, in his nightmares and in the past.

"You can't even fathom the power that your enemy holds, children. We have no leads as to where this abomination has come from but one thing, we do know is that he is pure evil. You may strong, chosen children but this monstrosity is in a league of its own. He can bend time and space itself to his will. If you wish to save all of reality itself, you need to match the power of a god. Be cautious young ones.

Those were the last words the sovereign of the east, the blue dragon had said to Davis and his friends before their first encounter with Millenniummon. His warning was not unfounded though if anything it was underestimating the behemoth.

Davis shivered as he understood the implications of those words, but in a last dish effort of denial, he yelled, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN!? Millenniummon was destroyed over six years ago! Veemon and I made sure of it!"

The mere thought a such a beast coming back made Davis' blood boil in rage and at the same go cold with fear, they barely destroyed him the first time but then they had access to sources that weren't available anymore. Time and space itself were distorted by Millenniummon's mere presence to the point where after he was destroyed, the power that kept the gate between the real world and Digital World open was completely annihilated and thus separating the two dimensions seemingly forever. And truth be told, Davis hoped that it would stay that way.

"I've accomplished what I have been sent here to do, again Child of Miracles heed my warning!" Those were the last words the figure spoke to Davis before he was engulfed in 0's and 1's. There was another gust of wind and time returned to normal, a clang could be heard in the background as the metal spoon hit the table but all of it went unnoticed by Davis. He was still frozen in shock

'What does this mean? Am I going to have to go back again?' Davis thought. He shook his head. 'No use worrying about it now, I still need to get ready for school.' With that final thought Davis went up to his room to change into his school uniform, leaving his cereal untouched.

-TIbD-

Davis was standing outside the apartment that the Kamiyas lived, he was about to leave when he heard a girl yelling "Bye mom, I got to go! The first day of school and gah I still have to pick up Dav-" she stopped when she saw Davis standing outside seemingly waiting for someone. The girl was Hikari "Kari" Kamiya, she had short brown hair and was Davis' best friend.

"Davis? Is that you?" she asked astonished. "Wow, it is you, your waiting for me, that's a first." She said playfully.

Davis groaned at the implied insult, it was no secret that he was a heavy sleeper and was almost always late to school. "Yeah, well I woke early today, okay? Sheesh, you make it sound as if you always have to wait for me to go to school." Davis replied dully.

"Wait, you woke up early? The world is going to end! Everyone run for your lives!" countered Kari dramatically while throwing her arms up for extra effect but stopped suddenly and asked worriedly "Does this have anything to do with the nightmares, Davis?" Kari was growing concerned, for the past few weeks Davis hasn't been his cheery self, most of the time ignoring everyone, being a downer and sometimes even snapping at people – excluding Kari of course.

"No… okay maybe… Look it's nothing to worry about, come we'll be late for school!" said Davis anxiously. Though he was happy that his friend was concerned, he couldn't explain it to her, how could he? He was having nightmares from his past when he traveled to a parallel digital universe and saved it from a monster trying to destroy reality itself, not something you would say to a normal person without having them think you're crazy. Besides, if the warning the stranger was correct and he had to go back, he didn't want Kari to become a target for associating with him, he would keep her safe at all costs.

"Okay fine..." replied Kari, though that look in her eyes definitely said that they weren't finished with this conversation.

The walked the rest of the way to school in unusual silence, each lost in their own thoughts. One thinking of another world, the other worried about the former.

-TIbD-

The class waited for the teacher to come in to start the day's lesson. Well in some people's cases, they waited for class to go by and finish already. Finally, the door opened, and the teacher came in. "Good morning class. Today we have a new student joining us for the school year," Said the teacher in the usual monotone voice all algebra professors have. She motioned a blond-haired boy to come up front.

"Hello everyone, my name is Takeru Takaishi, but please call me TK. I hope I can get to know all well and have a pleasant time in this school, thank you," said the boy known as Takeru before bowing to the class. The teacher nodded at the boy and said, "Thank you, Mr. Takaishi, please take a seat at an empty desk." The blond boy nodded back at the teacher and proceeded to take an empty seat next to Kari. Davis mentally groaned at the new student's introduction, he seemed like one of those "well mannered" kids, those that good grades because they actually seemed like they were paying attention. He was already starting to dislike this new student.

"Together again huh?" whispered Kari as the blond sat at the desk. "Yeah, just like old times" grinned TK after making sure the teacher was looking the other way.

Davis raised an eyebrow; it wasn't like Kari to converse with strangers with such familiarity. So why would she talk to a seemingly stranger like that in class of all times? 'Whatever, it's not important right now.' thought Davis before he laid his head on his desk and closed his eyes, catching up on some much-needed rest. He really didn't care that he was missing the lesson, it's not like it's something he doesn't already know or understand.

To bad though, as if he even stayed awake for just a couple seconds longer, he would have heard TK whisper, "Our teacher looks like an Ogremon."

-TIbD-

Chaos, that was the state the digital realm known as the "Digital World" was in. Everything went downhill when the dark blue haired human had shown up in the world. He called himself the "Digimon Emperor" and used jet-black rings to enslave Digimon and to force them to do his bidding.

These rings were one of the cruelest and foul devices to ever exist. They completely bent the will of the unfortunate wearer and causes them to go wild. What's worse is that it amplifies the strength of the Digimon also, making it hard to free those under the control of the rings.

Currently, the infamous Emperor was showing himself in public, hoping to spread some fear to the digital inhabitants of the world. He raised his hands up to the sky as his dark rings floated around him then he thrust his hands forward and the rings propelled forward as well, looking to capture and enslave Digimon.

"Run for your lives, it's the Digimon Emperor!" yelled a Gazimon that was running away from the rings. More Digimon could be seen running away as well, among them was a small orange t-rex-like Digimon. Unfortunately, he tripped on a rock and hit terra firma, hard. The dinosaur was really missing his human partner right now. If only he could digivolve… The last words uttered by said dinosaur before unconsciousness claimed him was "Tai, help me…"

Unknown to the tiny t-rex, his partner heard his plea for help via digivice and was already heading to help him.

-TIbD-

Davis was all but dragged himself to his locker after his last period. The first day of school could have gone better, he was caught sleeping in class twice by his teachers, though thankfully he didn't earn himself detention. As if that wasn't enough, he got the scolding of a lifetime from his childhood friend, Kari, at lunch, after that she all but interrogated him about his nightmares and asked if she could help. Davis, with extreme difficulty, patiently told her that it was most likely just stress about starting the new school year and it wasn't anything to worry about. It didn't take a genius to tell that she didn't believe him for a second.

It's not that he mad at her with her constant pestering, he was actually flattered that she was so worried about him; but he couldn't tell her. How could he tell her that he was having nightmare-flashbacks about his time in a parallel digital dimension that he traveled to when he was six. He subconsciously gripped the digivice latched on to his belt, he brought it to school after the cryptic warning he received this morning just in case something happened. Davis sighed and shut his locker and was about to leave when…

"Hey, Davis!" Davis turned around and saw Kari and that new blond kid, TE was his name? Walking towards him.

"Hey Kari, TY," Davis replied trying his best to sound lively, though it was obvious he was under a lot of strain and stress.

"It's TK," said Kari a little reprimanding. Davis just merely nodded. To be honest he could care less what this new kid's name was, it not like the blond was anything important to Davis; he was just another random kid that was in his class. Anyhow, why did he insist on being called "TK," where did the "K" come from? Takeru? The K's not even the last letter in the name, so why was it a K?! At least go for initials so it would be "TT," not "TK."

Trying to get his attention, Kari said, "I don't think you two have been properly introduced before…" It worked, the goggle-headed boy shook from his thoughts and looked and Kari and nodded.

"Okay, Davis, this is TK, a friend my brother made at summer camp around four years ago. TK, this is Daisuke "Davis" Motomiya, one of my oldest and closest friends." she introduced with a smile.

TK sprang up when he heard Kari refer Davis as "one of my oldest and closest" friends. "Really? How long have you two known each other?" he questioned

Davis quirked an eyebrow before giving a slight smirk as the realization hit him, 'Seems like someone is a little… interested in Kari' he thought smugly.

Kari, who was completely oblivious to the hidden meaning in the question nonchalantly replied "I believe eight, nine years now, right Davis? We just met one day, and everything snowballed from there." She was smiling now as if recalling a pleasant memory.

TK was about to reply when a purple haired girl came running towards them with a paper in her hand. Davis recognized her as Yolei Inoue, from the school's computer club.

"Excuse me, your Kari Kamiya, right?" she asked Kari.

Kari was taken back by that, she wasn't usually being searched for from other students, that was Davis' job; like that one time when he climbed on the school's roof during recess and sent the entire class in a panic attack trying to look for him. Davis was having a bad feeling about this, there was no way this was going to end well. Kari hesitantly nodded at the girl.

"Well, are you related to Taichi Kamiya? Because I got this e-mail and I think it's for you," she said before showing the paper to Kari. From what Davis could see from his angle, it was a message though he couldn't make out what it said. Whatever it was however made Kari worry as right after reading it she replied, "My brother needs our help!" before making a break for it, towards the computer lab.

Davis groaned before running after her. 'I swear, that girl has too much energy' Taking the hint, TK and Yolei ran after Davis.

On their way to the computer lab, they met Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi, a friend of Tai's who also got the e-mail. When they finally reached the lab, Izzy immediately sat in a chair in front of a computer and set to work, doing goodness knows what.

"So... what's the 'Digital World,' Kari? I mean that's what Tai said, he needed help in the Digital World, is it a new video game or something?" Yolei asked, trying to pass the time.

Davis instantly tensed on hearing this and connected the dots. 'Tai is in the DIGITAL WORLD? And Kari knows about that? Do they know about the Digimon? Is that what that guy was talking about this morning?' thought Davis, once again thinking about the warning he had received earlier today.

Izzy, Kari, and TK all paled at the question. They had been so focused on helping Tai that they forgot Non-DigiDestined were present. Izzy was desperately trying to think of an excuse or lie to get them out of this, when…

"T-the Digital World?" Davis stuttered, trying to ignore all the signs that pointed to one conclusion, he would be going back to the parallel world.

Yolei looked back at Davis curiously as if wondering why he was stuttering and seemed afraid? She shook it off and replied "Yeah, that's what the e-mail said… Do you guys know what it is though?"

"Uh… um... I-it's a game that Izzy has been programming for the computer club at his school. Uh… He asked us to help him with it, Tai probably messed up the coding or something like that, he's never been good with computers." Davis inwardly cursed; he was usually a lot better at lying but the shock of the Digital World had caught him by surprise.

"Oh... Well, I can help you guys!" the purple haired girl replied enthusiastically.

"NO! I-I mean you can't, Izzy is making it a surprise and he doesn't want anyone to see it. His school's computer club is going to come and show it to us, and you don't want to ruin the surprise, do you?" Davis lied, doing a little better this time.

Yolei seemed to want to argue, but then a small brown-haired boy came in the room. His name was Cody Hida. He was panting and looked around the room until his eyes rested on Yolei.

"There you are Yolei. I've been looking all over for you! You promised to fix my computer, remember?" the boy asked

Yolei jerked in surprise and said "Oh crap! Sorry Cody, I forgot! I needed to Kari with something… Let's go, the computer isn't going to fix itself." She turned back to Kari and the others and quickly said: "See you guys tomorrow!" Before leaving the room with Cody.

Izzy, Kari, and TK all let out a breath they didn't know they had been holding. Izzy was about to go back to work but of course, Kari picked up on the thing they all missed.

"Um… Davis… How d-do you know about the Digital World?" she hesitantly asked TK and Izzy also perked up at as they realized that Davis somehow knew about their secret and looked at him cautiously.

Kari had been expecting many answers such as "I've heard about you and Tai talking about it" or "Tai told me" or something of that nature. What she didn't expect was for Davis to reach to his belt and reveal and small digital device… A digivice. The same model as theirs.

"A digivice!" Izzy exclaimed

"No way!" the blond said

Kari, again, asked the question they all wanted the answer to. "Y-you're a DigiDestined, like us?" Davis slowly nodded. 'DigiDestined? That's what they call themselves?' Davis thought.

Before any more words could be exchanged, the computer Izzy was working on suddenly flared to life and three beams of light came out of it, one blue, one yellow, and one red. The blue beam of light shot straight for Davis' digivice and hit it straight on while the red and yellow went out the door.

When the beam of light hit the small digital device, it changed right before their eyes. When it was finished, the digivice was more oval-like, it had a gray body and light blue grips on the sides. Three buttons were visible on the device and it was accompanied by a small screen and small black antenna on the top-left.

Everyone stood in shock as they watched the transformation before their eyes. Davis was especially shocked at the new development. His digivice that he had used on his first adventure to had just morphed into a new device, still a digivice, but different.

"A new digivice, neat. Wonder if it has free Wi-Fi?" Davis commented nonchalantly. Though he seemed calm at this new development, Davis inwardly swore he saw this digivice somewhere before. He just couldn't put his finger on it.

"Prodigious!" replied Izzy looking at the new device in wonder. "A new digivice! I can examine it and-" Izzy was cut off by Kari.

"No time! My brother needs our help, I'm going!" she said before pointing her digivice at the screen, TK followed suit. Davis however, hesitated. How long has it been since he went into that cruel place? Could he really do it again, was he ready? No was the answer to both questions, but then his thoughts drifted to Kari and her older brother who was stuck in the Digital World. What kind of friend would he be if he didn't try and help him and instead just cowered away? A horrible one, heck if he did, then he didn't even deserve to be called their friend. His thoughts then shifted to a certain blue wise dragon and a piece certain advice he gave to Davis specifically oh so long ago.

"When hardships and difficult times confront us, we are all faced with a choice. A choice between doing what is right, and what is easy. It is that choice that defines who we are."

Back then when he was faced with those words as a naïve six-year-old, he couldn't make heads or tails out of it, but now, now was a different story. Without a second of hesitation, Davis pulled his new digivice towards the screen, ready to face whatever lies beyond.

Just then Yolei and Cody came back into the lab - with similar looking digital devices as the one Davis was holding, except it was red and yellow respectively – just in time to see TK, Kari, and Davis yelling "Digi-Port OPEN!" towards a computer and disappearing in a flash of blue light. Izzy was about to follow when he heard Yolei stutter "W-What just HAPPENED?!"

Izzy cursed himself for being so foolish to let normal kids see them go to the Digital World, but then he noticed the two devices they were holding. He connected the dots and sighed; this was going to be one long explanation.

-TIbD-

Davis opened his eyes to see a beautiful forest, filled with fruitful tropical trees, just like the first time he came here. It was all so familiar and so peaceful. Like Millenniummon's rampage never happened. But Davis wasn't fooled by the beauty, he knew that any one of these plants or leaves could be a deadly Digimon looking for its next meal.

Another thing he realized was that his clothes changed, he was now wearing a jacket, the left of the said jacket had a red and orange flaming design and a blue background. The right side of the jacket; however, was completely different. It still had the flame design, but instead of red and orange flames, it was black and dark grey flames with a light grey background. The weird flame colors went around the jacket too, the red flames going all the way to the back of the jacket and stopping the middle where it met the black flames.

He was also now khaki shorts and a white t-shirt under the jacket. The final touch to his new look was the dark grey gloves on his hands. Of course, his ever-trusty square lens goggles were still present.

He just shrugged it off, now was not the time to dwell on new clothes. He spotted TK and Kari a little ahead of him in a clearing in the forest. Kari was messing with her digivice, probably trying to find Tai's signal while TK was looking around, he spotted Davis walking up towards them and waved.

Davis walked up to them and saw that Kari was still pushing what seemed like random buttons on her digivice, but Davis knew that button combination, it was the locator combination.

TK saw Davis' new look and commented "Cool outfit, Davis" Kari looked up when TK said that and also saw Davis' new look, "Nice clothes, Davis, they look cute on you. And they definitely fit your personality," the brunette said cheekily.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" asked Davis but Kari was already looking back at her digivice. TK shrugged off the sudden feeling in his chest and looked towards Davis and with innocent curiosity asked "So Davis, you've been here before? How was your first time in the Digital World?"

Davis inwardly winced as flashbacks of his first time in this digital dimension surfaced up in his mind, and crossly stated "None of your concern, TJ."

Before TK could retort, Kari suddenly jumped up and pointed northeast and stated, "Tai's this way" and headed towards that way. TK and Davis followed suit. They kept walking towards the direction where the signal was coming from, hoping to reach their fellow DigiDestined soon. Davis could feel TK's gaze on his back, but he ignored it. He just wanted to help Tai and get the heck out of here.

They didn't have to wait long to find out as minutes later a white cat with purple ears and yellow gloves, an orange hamster with a white belly and matching orange bat-like wings, ran towards them. The cat towards Kari and the hamster towards TK. Davis recognized them as Gatomon and Patamon, a rookie and a champion Digimon respectively. Judging by the looks of pure joy on the faces of TK and Kari, Davis guessed that they were their partners.

Ignoring the pang of jealousy in his chest he looked back ahead to see a small orange dinosaur, an Agumon, and a brown-haired boy with goggles walking towards them, though unlike Davis' goggles, the lens was circular instead of square and the headband was both blue and black instead of just black.

"Hey Tai" Davis greeted the older boy casually.

"Hey Dav- wait DAVIS? What are you doing here?" Tai asked surprised to see his friend in the Digital World.

"Long story short, Davis here apparently is a DigiDestined like us," TK answered, joining in the conversation with Patamon resting on his head. Davis just ignored them both, he just wanted to go back to the real world and fast, though he had a feeling that wasn't going to be happening anytime soon, at least not easily.

Instead of going back home like how Davis desperately wanted, the orange dinosaur that was known as Agumon and was Tai's partner led them to a cave where Tai said he and the orange dinosaur found a weird looking digi-egg.

As they were walking Tai was filling them in on everything happening in the Digital World so far. Digimon Emperor, Dark Rings, Control Spirals and how they were controlling Digimon. Though Davis was half-heartedly paying attention. Finally, they reached the cave, and they entered.

In roughly the middle of the cave, there was an elevation in the stone, forming a small pillar with a strange looking egg on it. The egg was fiery and orange and had a metal spike coming out of the top and a symbol of the sun on the front.

"There it is, that's the egg we were talking about. Look it has the Crest of Courage on it." 'Oh, so that's what it is. Wait crest, like the ones Ryo, Ken, and I had? Well, Azulongmon did say there were eleven, so I guess it makes sense.' Davis thought. TK was the first of them to try and pick up the egg… and fail miserably falling on his bottom when he tried to pick up the unusual egg. Davis snickered lightly causing Kari to slightly glare at him.

"Move it, this is a women's job!" Kari said before pushing TK aside to try and pick up the egg, only to fail. Kari then asked Davis if he wanted to try and pick up the and as he was about to respond, Davis' blood went cold with an all too familiar sick feeling. That aura, he felt it before, it shouldn't be possible, he was dead, but sure enough, it was his aura. The others couldn't feel that dark aura, but Davis could. He looked over to see a dark ring hovering in the open, radiating with the aura Davis felt/

-TIbD-

"No, it can't be! He can't be here! This can ruin everything, everything I've worked so hard for! Damn you Motomiya!" cursed the Digimon Emperor. He was currently spying on the DigiDestined through holographic video images that are recorded from god knows where. His eyes were currently focused on a certain maroon haired goggle-headed boy.

He had to do something before this got out of hand, opening his menu on all nearby Digimon he checked it over. Damn it! None of his strongest are near, where's Andromon when you need him? He'll just have to make this work for now.

After pressing a couple of red holographic buttons, one of the screens showed a black and grey triceratops being released from a cage and running wild. Another screen showed a similar cage, although this one was definitely bigger and showed more of those triceratopses being released.

"Attack Monochromon!" the obvious psychopathic blue-haired boy yelled. After programming their target in their dark rings, the Emperor stood up and left the room. He had to re-evaluate his plans due to this new development.

-TIbD-

But when the black ring left the chamber, Davis was able to feel another presence in this cave. He was so focused on his hate for his aura that he didn't even realize it until now. But how could it be? His friend died right before his very own eyes; he saw it! Even Elecmon said that his partner couldn't be reborn, and he was a master on digi-eggs! So why was he feeling his presence, his aura after six whole years, in a cave of all places? 'Wait, could it be? Could it be coming from there? It is! I know it, it's coming from the egg,' thought Davis before refocusing his attention on the fiery egg, the only thing special in this seemingly normal cave.

"Hey, let me give it a try," Davis said, getting a nod from Tai and Kari. Though as he was about to bend over and try to pick up the ground started shaking vigorously, throwing them off balance.

"W-what's going on, TK?" asked the orange bat-winged hamster

Davis mentally cursed, he knew this type of quake, it wasn't natural. One of the last times he felt it… he had less than a pleasant experience.

A dark blue haired boy and a maroon haired boy were talking and laughing as they traveled in the forest accompanied by a green foot-long caterpillar and a blue dinosaur. The boys seemed to be around the age of five or six.

Kari leaned against a wall for support, while TK and Tai were waving their arms around trying to steady themselves. 'A dumb move, while you're moving like that, someone could easily blast you into next week. I guess these guys are more inexperienced than I first thought,' analyzed Davis as he instinctively bent down on one knee and put his hands firmly against the ground.

This stance was one of the best for situations like these, not only does it steady the body, but you could easily roll away from an oncoming attack effortlessly, and it was easy to get back up from this stance if the user needed to make a quick getaway. After a few seconds, the earthquake ended and everyone made it out mostly unscathed, sans the bit of dust on them.

"Everyone alright?" yelled Tai as the ground returned to normal. He received a collective nod from the rest of the group.

While TK and Kari were trying to dig out their partners from the rubble Davis suddenly got a feeling of dread in his chest, he just knew something bad was going to happen.

'Pull yourself together Motomiya! You survived this godforsaken world the first time when you were six, surely you can do it at age twelve!' Davis reprimanded himself as he shook his head, ignoring the feeling in his chest.

"Davis, aren't you going to try and pick up the egg?" reminded Kari

"Huh? Oh yeah, alright, I'll try" replied Davis as he walked closer to the egg. As he got closer, the aura and presence he felt earlier were getting stronger. There was no mistaking it, it was his old friend's aura.

Davis took a deep breath and slowly picked up the egg. Surprisingly it was very light, completely contradicting what it showed before. Just as he picked up the egg a beam up sky blue light erupted from where the egg was seconds ago, and a dark silhouette could be seen forming.

Normally, Davis would be looking for a weapon to use against the new potential enemy, but not this time. He felt oddly at peace as the silhouette grew and the beam of light went straight up to the ceiling of the cave like he was inviting an old friend who had just come from a long adventure.

Then it struck Davis as the beam of light descended until it just above the figure, he recognized that silhouette, but it should be impossible. But it isn't, he was right here, right before him. The light disintegrated and the figure was visible. It was a small blue dragon with a white belly, red eyes, and a yellow "V" was visible on his forehead, it also had a small blue tail.

The small blue dragon's eyes surveyed the cave, looking for the human who picked up the Digi-Egg of Courage. His eyes kept traveling. His previously weary and calculating eyes instantly shifted to pure joy when they rested on Davis, who wore an expression of disbelief, joy, sadness, and hope.

"Davish! It's you!" said the blue dragon in a childish voice before he proceeded to tackle the maroon goggle-headed boy.

It took a moment for Davis' mind to process what was happening. Veemon was here, he was not an illusion, and this was not a dream. It should be impossible after what Veemon did, firing off an attack literally ripped a hole in reality. But that didn't matter now, all that did was that Veemon was here, with him, where he belonged.

"V-Veemon, I-I can't believe it's a-actually you, you're here!" Davis managed to croak out before floods of tears shed from his eyes, he pocketed the digi-egg and returned the hug that the blue dragon was giving him.

Kari watched the tearful reunion of two best friends with a warm smile. She didn't know who that blue dragon was, but it was obvious that he was important to Davis and that Davis was happy to see him, he was crying after all. Wait crying? Davis was crying? Kari suddenly felt something tighten in her chest and she connected the dots. Davis wasn't really an emotional person except for his happy and cheerful personality; besides that, he never showed his emotions to anyone, especially negative ones. She was sure that besides his family, she was the only one to ever see Davis without his emotional barriers in place. For him to cry in public, in a place like this, it meant that something was wrong. Very wrong.

The group was pulled out of their respective thoughts by the beeping of Davis' digivice, as if trying to warn them of something. Davis reluctantly pulled away from Veemon just as a roar was heard from outside the cave.

"Let's move, if we stay, we'll be sitting ducks!" declared Davis before motioning towards the exit. The sudden change in tone made Kari do a doubletake on her best friend, instead of reluctance and hesitant tone she heard when the first came here, it was full of confidence. That's when she saw the look in his eyes, something she hadn't seen in a long time. Eyes filled with determination and confidence; it was a newly lit fire.

They all made a break for the exit. Waiting for them was the black and grey triceratops that was on the Emperor's screen before, it was a Monochromon, fully equipped with a dark ring, ready to pounce on its prey.

While Tai, Kari, TK, and their partners looked fearful, Davis only cracked a smile. He took off his goggles and handed them to Kari and said, "Hold on to these for me, will yeah?" Kari looked bemusedly at the goggles in her hand before deciding to put them around her neck and watching her friend do his work.

He ran straight towards the dinosaur with his digivice in hand, though he only made it a couple of feet before Tai yelled "Davis wait! You can't take on a champion with a rookie and digivolution is impossible with the dark digivice in play!"

Davis stopped running along with Veemon, with the former turning back to face Tai. Tai expected to see a couple things on Davis' expression when he turned to face him, fear, disbelief, and surprise were some of them. What he didn't expect though was for Davis to give him a confident smirk. "Well, that just means-" Davis started as he slowly faced the dinosaur Digimon once more. Veemon continued off where Davis left off "we'll have to do-" and then they both yelled at the same time, "do this the old fashion way!" before they both continued running off towards the champion dragon Digimon, with the human picking up alone stick on the ground that was about two feet long.

Tai was about to go and run after Davis and Veemon when Kari grabbed his hand. She shook her head, signaling that he shouldn't interfere and to leave this to Davis. Tai was about to argue when he saw her eyes, they were filled with confidence, confidence in Davis. He reluctantly stopped and watched has Davis and Veemon made it to Monochromon.

Monochromon roared as if accepting the challenge and charged at the miracle duo. Just as they reached Monochromon, the duo of miracles split, Veemon going left and Davis going right. Monochromon, as ordered, went after Davis and just as it was about to tackle Davis, he felt something hit his left cheek. It was Veemon, who used his V-Headbutt attack, knocking him off balance, growling in irritation, the gray dinosaur decided to take out the blue dragon first.

Monochromon was preparing to unleash his Volcanic Strike to finish off Veemon, Davis came out of nowhere and slammed the wooden stick against the right side of Monochromon's face this time. After successfully annoying the triceratops, Veemon and Davis turned tail and ran straight ahead. After they were about 10 feet ahead of the dragon Digimon, Davis looked over his shoulder and smirked before looking back ahead and jumping seemingly for no reason other than to make himself an easy target. Monochromon, seeing an easy way to complete his mission took the bait and unleashed his special attack.

"Volcanic Strike!" yelled Monochromon as he opened his mouth and unleashed three red-orange fireballs straight at the still airborne Davis.

Everyone screamed as the fireballs closed on Davis thinking he was done for, only to stop when the saw Veemon grab Davis' right arm which he held out, and roughly push down the maroon haired boy back to terra firma, avoiding the dangerous fireballs. Davis and Veemon shared a small smirk before Veemon went northeast from where originally were running and Davis continued running forward, but not before yelling "Come and get me you stupid dino-face juristic reject!" at Monochromon.

Roaring in frustration at missing his kill and being insulted, the "juristic reject" charged straight at Davis, who was running straight headfirst in a tree. Time seemed to slow down as Monochromon was mere inches from tackling Davis, who was still running straight for a tree, Davis jumped at the last possible second and grabbed a lone branch, pulling him up and out of harm's way. Monochromon tried to stop himself from ramming into the tree and would have succeeded if Veemon, who again came out of nowhere, used his V-Headbutt, pushing the moving Monochromon right at the tree's trunk and knocking him out cold.

Davis let go of the branch and hi-fived Veemon after he made quick work of the dark ring around Monochromon's belly, courtesy of a couple V-Headbutts.

The other chosen children and chosen Digimon just watched in awe and disbelief at what they just witnessed. "They took out a champion with only a rookie!" explained Tai.

"What just happened?" asked the flying hamster in disbelief.

Kari, the first one to regain her composure said with a smirk "Well, that's Davis for yeah!" Unknown to the Kamiya siblings, TK frowned when Kari said that.

Davis and Veemon walked up to the group. Tai was the first to greet them, by giving the maroon haired boy a brotherly slap on the back while commenting "That was awesome Davis!" the boy in question just gave him a smile and modestly said "It was nothing, besides I couldn't have done it without Veemon" while turning to his blue friend who was currently getting pestered by the orange t-rex and hamster and the white cat. Before anymore celebration could be done though, a group reptilian roar got the Digimons' and humans' attention alike.

Charing out of the forest was a herd of ten Monochromon, all with a dark ring and boy did they look mad.

"Crap, we can't take them all on, everyone run!" Davis commanded before taking Kari's hand running in the opposite direction from where the Monochromon were at. They all ran for it and Davis risked a look over his shoulder and saw that the Monochromon were all preparing to fry them.

"Everyone DUCK!" Davis commanded again as he pulled Kari to the ground. TK, Tai, and the Digimon took the hint and also threw themselves on the ground, just in time to see thirty fireballs shoot over their heads. Tai and TK pulled themselves off the ground and started running again and soon so did Davis, but they all stopped when they heard Kari shriek "Davis help me!"

They all turned around to see Kari still on the ground, her hands on her right ankle, with a rock under it. 'Curse it all! She must've hit the rock when we fell. Damn it, I should have seen the rock!' Davis cursed mentally. The DigiDestined of Hope and Courage were frozen in fear, unable to help their friend. All of this was too familiar, Davis remembered what happened last time all too clearly.

The blue and maroon haired boys stopped laughing and walking when they heard a reptilian roar. There, behind them was a black and grey triceratops-like Digimon, looking hungry.

Time seemed to slow down as the Monochromon started charging straight at them, at Kari.

The boys and their monster friends started running away from the triceratops.

The Monochromon were fifteen feet from Kari

They seemed to be in the clear as they were at least fifteen feet ahead of the black and grey dinosaur Digimon.

Ten feet away

But then the blue-haired boy tripped on a rock, spraining his right foot and making himself an easy target.

Five feet

"Davis help me!" yelled the blue-haired boy in panic as the monster was gaining on him.

Four feet

The maroon haired boy stopped running and turned around to see his friend on the ground, unable to move. The maroon haired boy was frozen in fear, he couldn't do anything to help his friend. His companion was going to die!

Three feet

At the last possible second the green caterpillar yelled "Sticky Net!"

Two feet

It shot out sticky silk, aiming for the back of the boy's shirt. The thread stuck and the caterpillar pulled backwards with all his might, pulling the boy backwards and out of harm's way.

One foot

"Not this time" growled Davis before he moved at god-like speeds and scooped Kari in his hands and dove away from the Monochromon, Kari still in his arms, but out of danger. Right after he did that, he felt a searing pain in his neck. He, with great difficulty, ignored the pain. The digi-egg of courage suddenly glowed red and warmed up in his pocket. Davis – after setting Kari safely down on the ground – took out the glowing digi-egg and examined it, and so did the Monochromon. They stopped charging and looked in wonder at the glowing egg.

"Davish! Open the digi-egg, then I can digivolve!" yelled Veemon, to which Davis replied, "HOW?!"

"I don't kn-" Veemon started before his eyes suddenly glazed and became distant. Then in a voice filled with wisdom beyond his years, Veemon replied "Digi-Armor Energize. Hold up the digi-mental and say 'Digi-Armor Energize,' Daisuke."

Davis looked skeptical but when the Monochromon finally gained their composure and roared he just thought. 'Eh, what the heck. I've got nothing to lose.' Davis raised up the egg and yelled "DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!" The digi-egg glowed pure orange and at the same time so did Veemon.

"Veemon Armor-Digivolve to…. Flamedramon! The Fire of Courage!"

The new form of Veemon seemed to be a grown-up version of Veemon with the addition of armor on its face, chest, thighs, hands, and feet, with a spike protruding from its face, and claws for its hands. The armor was covered with flame-like designs.

"A-Armor Digivolve?" asked Tai

"Yes, I am Flamedramon. I digivolved from Veemon with the digi-egg of courage. If you think my Flame Fist attack is hot, then wait till you see my Fire Rocket attack!" said the new dragon-man Digimon defined as Flamedramon. Unlike Veemon's childish voice and personality, Flamedramon had a much more mature voice and had a serious personality. That was all Flamedramon said before charging at the lead Monochromon.

~Que "Run Around" By Jasan Radford~

"Flame Fist!" yelled Flamedramon as his right fist engulfed in fire. He slammed his claw straight for the Monochromon's dark ring. Despite he aimed the dark ring, the Monochromon was still slammed several feet, leaving a trail of dirt and howled in pain. This seemed to snap out the rest of the herd as they all charged at the dragon-man, the other humans and Digimon all forgotten. Before they could reach him, however, Flamedramon used knelt on one knee then suddenly leaped high into the sky.

"Fire Rocket!" yelled Flamedramon as his body was surrounded by an aura of fire. Then without warning, he shot straight at the closest Monochromon and instantly destroyed its dark ring before leaping back into the air - still on fire - preparing for another attack.

Davis watched in awe as his partner made quick work of another Monochromon's dark ring, he missed this. The excitement of watching his partner battle had been lost to him around the time they had achieved Veemon's ultimate form and the fate of all realities harshly dumped on his shoulders.

Three more dark rings bought the dust as Flamedramon once again took to the sky. Davis finally managed to snap out of his trance and actually analyze Veemon's new form, which he should have done from the start.

Unfortunately, he noticed that Flamedramon was around the strength of a mid to high champion, nothing compared to what he had once been at his peak. He also noticed that in raw strength, Veemon's champion form was definitely stronger, though it didn't have the agility and mobility that Flamedramon possessed. He was also smaller than Veedramon, making it easier and viable to fight in smaller areas which had always been a drawback for Veemon's champion and ultimate forms. All in all, he was going look forward to working with this new digivolution of Veemon's.

Within a matter of seconds, all ten Monochromon were unconscious and dark-ring free. After finishing the job, Flamedramon landed near the still stunned group of and glowed yellow before he reverted back into Veemon. The digi-egg appearing in front of him before it turned into a beam of light that went into Davis' pocket and turned into a new digital device, a D-Terminal

~Music End~

"So, whaddya think? Pretty cool huh?" Veemon's childish voice finally broke the group out of their trance.

Davis had to smile when he saw his partner scratch the back of his head sheepishly. It was like nothing had ever happened, like Veemon never left, left him. Next, to him, Kari had a near identical expression. That gesture that Veemon currently showed had heavily reminded her of Davis when he was embarrassed or wanted to apologize, she didn't know who picked it up from who, but the similarities were frightening.

"It was awesome, Veemon," the blue dragon's human partner replied. Said dragon returned a grateful smile. That was all the warning Veemon got before he got ambushed by the other Digimon asking a million questions at once. Words such as "where," "digivolution," "how," and others were heard over the jumble of voices of the Digimon.

"Oh yeah, here you go Davis," said Kari as she pulled off Davis' goggles over her head and handed them to Davis and giving him a warm smile.

"Thanks, Kari" replied the maroon haired boy.

-TIbD-

The Digimon emperor growled as he saw the end of the battle. He shouldn't have expected anything less from his former mentor and friend. Of course, the goggle head would be able to bypass his spirals and use a new form of digivolution, because why wouldn't he?

Thankfully, he already had planned his next move. He just needed to wait till tomorrow and add some finishing touches to the trap and wait for those brats to walk right into it.

'After all master, you always told me to always plan ahead, didn't you?' the boy with horrible fashion sense thought smugly, as a familiar looking green caterpillar watched the scene before him with his expression full of concern.

-TIbD-

After bandaging Kari's sprained ankle, the group set off to walk back towards the TV to go back to the real world. Davis and Veemon were trailing behind them to make sure nothing came up and attacked them, after all, Veemon was the only one that could digivolve and could protect them should danger arise. The armor digivolution seemed to take the energy of a champion digivolution, if not less, according to what Davis had seen from the battle and the aftermath. So, doing it again shouldn't be a problem.

Tai and TK were currently up farther ahead, apparently talking about having a meeting between the DigiDestined. The Digimon, minus Veemon, were conversing about the emperor, dark rings, and the new armor digivolution, with Patamon making a horrible pun about "a new hope."

Kari, on the other hand, was lost in her own thoughts, which seemed to revolve around her goggle-headed friend a lot lately. Davis had acted differently from anything she'd ever seen from him. First the hesitation for going to the Digital World in the beginning, though none of the others noticed it, Kari surely did. Davis did not want to be here, it was as if it pained him to even come here, but as usual, he did, he would do practically anything to help someone in need. She had never seen that kind of hesitation in him, ever, not when she forced him to play with dolls or when she convinced him to steal Tai's old soccer ball. She smiled at the fact that at least that he still pulled through in the end. Then he did a complete one-eighty when Veemon turned up. After Veemon appeared, the little guy practically burned all hesitation from her friend and instead filled him with confidence. He seemed like a whole new person, someone she didn't know, and she did not like it.

Kari snapped out of her thoughts when they reached for the portal. The group looked back to the Digimon and addressed. Tai said, "We'll be back tomorrow, so don't get caught by any dark rings till then okay?"

To which Gatomon piped up "Don't worry, the Emperor never comes during the night. We'll be safe."

"Don't be so sure, just because the Emperor isn't here doesn't mean the rings and the Digimon are just going to lie down. No use in taking chances." Davis countered before pulling out his digivice and D-Terminal and proceeding to armor digivolve Veemon into Flamedramon.

"Flamedramon will make sure no controlled Digimon or rings come and attack you guys while we're gone," Davis said and Flamedramon nodded and lead the other Digimon away to find a safe place to stay for the night.

"What? Flamedramon is going to stay digivolved all night and day until we come back?" TK asked. Davis, who apparently missed the sarcasm in TK's voice or simply ignored it, just nodded affirmatively.

Tai, sensing that a fight might break up if he didn't do something quickly motioned to the interdimensional portal which took the form of a 90's television and said. "Come on, it's getting late. Let's go." Tai took out his digivice, and TK followed. Kari was about to also pulled out her digivice when she felt something stop her, she looked back to see Davis, with a scary glint in his eyes. He shook his head and gave her a smile. Mischief was written all over his face.

Kari hesitantly put her digivice away and gave Davis a questioning look, though she looked a bit frustrated, in actuality, she was very happy. If Davis still could cause mischief, that was a sign that even though Davis had been hiding a side of him that she had never seen, he was still Davis, her best friend.

Kari turned around just in time to see TK and Tai disappear in a flash of light. She asked Davis, "Um, Davis, why aren't we going with them?" but she was ignored. Instead, Davis was counting down, "Five… four… three… two… one…" he said.

"Okay, let's go," he said before taking his hand in hers and pointing at the digital portal and yelling "Digi-Port Open!"

-TIbD-

In the real world in the computer lab, Izzy, Cody, and Yolei were sitting in front of a certain computer while eating brownies and talking. "And that's basically the Digital World and what it means to be a DigiDestined," Izzy said, finished off his explanation. By the end, Yolei's eyes were sparkling with excitement of traveling to another world while Cody's seemed to be filled with doubt.

Before any more words could be exchanged however, the computer they were sitting in front of suddenly flared into life. In a flash of blue light, TK and Tai came through the portal, screaming bloody murder, and landed right on top of Yolei, Cody, and Izzy.

Five seconds later, the computer flashed again, and this time Davis and Kari came in, on their feet, away from the dogpile, and NOT in a tangled mess of limbs. Davis smirked when he saw the tangled mess of limbs that was Tai, TK, Izzy, Yolei, and Cody.

Regaining his composure, however, Davis checked the time and saw that nearly two hours had passed since they went to the Digital World. 'So, I was right, time in the Digital World had synchronized with the real world.'

"DAVIS!" yelled Tai, who was the first to free himself out of his prison. "You knew, didn't you?!"

"Knew what, exactly?" replied the younger goggle-headed boy cheekily.

"You knew that when we came through the portal, we would end up in a dog pile didn't you?! You didn't say anything!" yelled the brunette

"I cannot even begin to comprehend why you would even think of such a notorious thing, Tai. Are you accusing me of willingly letting you get trapped in a dogpile of bodies? How could you?" replied Davis in a perfectly done innocent voice. He must've taken lessons from DemiVeemon.

"YES!" shrieked the former leader of the DigiDestined.

Kari was just watching this entire exchange in complete amusement, trying not to fall on the floor laughing. She was suddenly glad Davis stopped her from coming through the portal immediately. This was just like when they were kids, the three of them were going to do something stupid due to Tai's horrible leading, Davis would stop her from doing it and they would both watch Tai make a fool of himself.

"You're going to pay for this Motomiya," growled the eldest Kamiya sibling.

"Uh, no he's not. In the past eight years, you two have known each other, Tai, you've NEVER been able to one-up Davis. This time is no different," said the younger Kamiya sibling, joining in the conversation.

"KARI! I'm supposed to be your older brother!" yelled Tai in disbelief and betrayal. Kari just smirked, knowing she succeeded in taking Davis' side and annoying her older brother.

The rest of the group also watched this development in amusement as well, well except one. TK watched this exchange feeling something he never felt before, envy. He hated how close Kari and Davis was and how easily Kari trusted Davis to take care of the Monochromon, how she asked Davis to help her when she was about to get trampled instead of him or at least Tai. It lit something inside of him, rage.

-TIbD-

A/N: Oh god I'm FINALLY done with this first chapter. Only took like a week *pants* Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, leave your thoughts, follow, favorite, do whatever you want!

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Edit (5/30/19) – Fixed some grammar mistakes and slightly changed Davis' Digital World clothes – Davis was now wearing a jacket; the left of the said jacket had a red and orange flaming design and a blue background. The right side of the jacket, however, was completely different. It still had the flame design, but instead of red and orange flames, it was black and dark grey flames with a light grey background. The weird flame colors went around the jacket too, the red flames going all the way to the back of the jacket and stopping the middle where it met the black flames.