The New Digimon Return

Writers Note: This story takes place just after the digi-destined tried to free Agumon from the Digimon Emperor. Only in my version, the digi-destined were forced to retreat back tot he real world to regroup after Ken made Agumon dark digivolve to Metalgreymon.

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The New Digimon Return

Chapter 1: Old Meets New

"Greetings, I am Gennai. Many years ago, I was a part of a group that created the digimon that helped the digi-destined to save the digital world. After Piedmon broke into our lab, and tried to steal the digi-eggs, tags, and crests we figured that it would be wise for us to create a second group of digimon that would help the digi-destined in their times of greatest need. With this thought, we found six new digi-eggs, and began the work of making them into a new group. After they all hatched, we sent them out into the Digital World, with the hope that they would never be needed, but we were wrong when the evil digimon Rexmon challenged the digi-destined, and captured six of their digimon partners. With the aid of the new digimon, the digi-destined rescued their friends, and stopped Rexmons evil forever. After the final battle all six of the digimon went off to help fight the evil digimon in their own way, and after the defeat of Appocallymon, they all fell into a deep hibernation sleep, until the time that they were needed again. Now the Digital World is in the danger once again, but not from a digimon this time, but from a human calling himself the Digimon Emperor. With his dark rings, and dark digivice, he has enslaved any digimon that has dared to stand in his way. The only hope to stop this new evil, is a new group of digi-destined, and their digimon partners. Now it is only a matter of time before the six rise up again to battle this new threat."

He through back his cape, and let out a loud laugh, obviously very pleased with himself at what he had done. Ken, the Digimon Emperor, had succeeded in capturing and controlling not only Agumon, but also his other two forms of Greymon and Metalgreymon with the help of his dark spiral, and had forced the so called digi-destined back to the real world. He took a seat in the center of a large control area, and watched as the many screens in front of him lit up. "My master plan is now going to come true." He let out another laugh as Wormmon, his own digimon partner came into the room, closely followed by the enslaved Agumon.

"What is the next step in your plan master?" The small digimon asked as he moved up behind Ken's chair.

Ken turned around, and looked down at him, "Now that we know that the dark spiral works taking control of a fully evolved digimon, we will strike a massive blow to the so called digi-destined, by taking control of their digimon partners."

"At least the ones that are still in this world Master." Agumon put in, as he moved up next to Ken, "The three new digimon that came to existence when the digi-eggs of Courage, Knowledge, and Love were removed by the new digi-destined, as well as Gatomon and Patamon are all in the real world with their human partners."

Ken thought this information over, "Then we will strike out at the ones that are still in this world." He then let out another laugh.

******

Tai could not believe what had happened. After Kari had told him that Ken had taken control of Agumon, Tai had immediately lead the new digi-destined to the Digital World, in order to try and get him back from the Emperor, before he made the mistake of digivolving him to Skullgreymon again. They had found Agumon, but to their surprise, he had somehow gotten rid of the dark ring that controlled him. But that was when Ken showed up, and used his new dark spiral to retake control of Agumon and then digivolved him not only into Greymon, but also an evil Metalgreymon. Luckily they were able to escape, but not by very much. He slammed his fist into his other hand, and then slammed them down on top of a computer table, shaking the table and almost knocking the computer off of it. "I can't believe that Ken has control of Agumon." He said with obvious anger in his voice.

Kari walked up to her brother, and laid a reassuring hand in his shoulder, "It will be ok Tai, we called the others, and they are on their way here, even Mimi."

"Mimi?" Tai asked, a little confused since Mimi's family had moved to New York.

"Yeah," Kari said with a smile spreading across her face, "she is visiting her grandparents, and was over at Sora's when we called her."

Tai smiled at that, especially since a long time ago, he remembered Gennai told him and the other original members of the digi-destined team that only when the eight of them were together could they overcome any obstacle. Just then, TK and Matt came into the computer room, and immediately walked up to Tai, "Tai, TK told me what that creep Ken did to Agumon." Matt paused, "As soon as the others get here, we will go tot he Digital World, and kick Ken's butt straight into next week." Matt then smiled down at his friend, "Besides, the rest of us still have our digimon, and even though they can't digivolve when a control spire is near by, they can still help the armor digimon if they need it." Tai smiled at this thought. With Gaururumon and the others, they would have no trouble fighting Ken and rescuing Agumon from him.

******

Garurumon ran as fast as he could over the land, as he dodged another fireball that barley missed him. He could not believe that the Digimon Emperor had captured and then sent Greymon after him. He knew that sooner or later he had to stand and fight his friend, even though he did not want to, he had to try to free Greymon of the Emperors control.

Garurumon soon saw his chance to try and free Greymon just up ahead. Just ahead of them was a canyon, which Garurumon knew that he could jump over. He had done so several times before to evade the Emperors goons. As he neared the canyon, Garurumon prepared to jump it, when he was stopped in his tracks by two digimon that stood before him, Birdramon and Togemon. He was glad to see his friends, until he noticed the same spiral shape that he had seen on Greymon when this chase had begun, was on both of them. He then saw Tentomon and Gomamon next to them and realized that they were all under the control of the Digimon Emperor. It was then that he decided that the Emperor would not get him without a fight, and turned to face the approaching Greymon, "Bring it on!" Garurumon shouted as he ran straight at his fallen friend.

******

After Matt and TK had arrived, it had not taken long for the rest of the digi-destined to arrive. First Izzy had arrived with Yolie, Mimi, and Sora, then Joe had arrived with Davis and Cody, as well as their digimon partners, Demiveemon, Opumon, Porumon, Gatomon, and Patamon were all there. Izzy had taken a seat in front of the computer as soon as he had entered the room, and had brought up the map of the Digital World. "Inconceivable!" Izzy said when everyone had arrived.

"What is it?" Joe asked with concern in his voice.

Izzy turned to face the other digi-destined, a solemn look on his face, "All of the areas that our digimon were guarding have turned black."

"What does that mean?" Mimi asked.

Izzy took a deep breath, and let it all out, "After Agumon was captured by the Digimon Emperor, the area that he guarded turned black. Now that all the areas that our digimon were guarding have turned black, I can only assume one thing, Ken has somehow captured all of our digimon and are now controlling them with his new dark spirals."

"That's not good." Cody said, "It means that our digimon are alone in this fight with Ken."

"Not necessarily," Came a voice from out of nowhere, "There is always hope, even in the darkest of hours."

"Were did that come from?" Asked Yolie, as see along with everyone else began looking around the room for someone that they had not notice when they came in.

"Wait a minute," Izzy said, "That voice sounds familiar." He then looked back at the computer, and instead of the picture of the digiport, a picture of an old man came on the screen.

"Gennai!" All of the original digi-destined said at once.

"Were have you been Gennai?" Tai asked.

Gennai did not look away from straight in front of him, "Now is not the time for questions like that, come to my place, and I will tell you how you can help to save your friends. I have marked the area on your computer so that you know were you need to go, see you soon." Gennai looked to his side, "Oh good, the pizza is here." His image then blinked out, and the image of the digiport appeared once again.

"Who was that guy?" Davis asked

"That guy is someone that has put his life on the line to make sure that our digimon were safe so that they could unite with us at a later date." Matt told Davis bluntly.

"If Gennai wants us to come then that means that he knows what we can do about the Digimon Emperor's control over Agumon and the others." Tai said.

"Then what are we waiting around here for," TK said as he pulled out his D-3, and pointed it at the computer screen, "Digiport open." Everyone else quickly followed suit, and pointed their own digivices and D-3's at the computer. A light filled the room, as all 11 of the digi-destined were transported to the Digital World.

******

Ken walked in front of his newly recruited digimon warriors, and smiled. "Excellent," he said as a smile broke his face, "now that I have these 6 digimon at the ready to serve me, nothing can stop me, not even those kids that call themselves digi-destined." Long ago Ken had come up with the idea that only perfect people could become digi-destined. He had therefore also come to the conciliation that he and only he was worthy of this title, and that all others were just pretenders to the title of digi-destined.

Wormmon moved up beside of Ken, "Master, those other kids are here."

"Excellent," Ken said, and turned to his new army, "You will all now attack your former masters, and destroy them, is that understood?" All of the digimon nodded obediently, and a smile once again spread across Ken's face. "Good, then let the battle begin."

******

The digi-destined all appeared though a TV that was set up near to a lake. As with every other time they had come through the portal, the new digimon had all digivolved to their Rookie forms of Veemon, Armadillomon, and Hawkmon. The original digi-destined immediately recognized it as the same lake that they came to the first time they came to Gennai's home. And sure enough, just like the first time, a small section of the lake opened up to reveal a stair case, that lead down under the water. Tai lead the way, followed closely by the rest of the original team. The three new members and their digimon shrugged, and followed them down the stairs.

They were greeted by an older man at the bottom of the stairs, "It is good to see you all again." Gennai said, "Now quickly everyone get inside of the house before one of the Emperors slaves find this place and attacks us."

Everyone quickly filed inside of the house, and water once again submerged the entire outside of the building. Everyone took a seat around a table in Gennai's dinning room, "So Gennai what can we do to get Agumon and the others back?" Tai asked a bit eagerly.

Gennai cleared his throat, and faced the group, "The same thing that you did the last time this happened." He said bluntly.

Izzy thought for a moment, and then it hit him, "Of course, Pyromon, Purrmon, Torusmon, Leathermon, Noblemon, and Ivymon."

"Exactly." Gennai said.

"Who are those digimon?" Cody asked.

Each of the first digi-destined took turns telling the story about how the evil digimon Rexmon had captured Agumon, Gabumon, Biyomon, Tentomon, Gomamon, and Palmon, and how they had to go off and find 6 new digimon partners in order to stop Rexmon and save both worlds, with the help of some friends of course. "So there are 6 other digimon out there that are just like our digimon?" Davis asked.

"Yes." Matt said, "But what I don't understand, is how they are supposed to digivolve when Gabumon and the others couldn't digivolve in any area that a control spire is in."

"Then I will explain," Gennai said, "After Piedmon tried to steal the digi-eggs and crest, and we lost Gatomon's digi-egg so long ago, we decided to create some more digimon in case something were to happen to your digimon. However, we were only able to recreate the work that we did with your digimon with six others."

"The six new digimon that we had to find." Sora said.

"Correct." Gennai said, "right when you all arrived in the Digital World, they had just hatched from their digi-eggs, and were starting their lives as digi-destined digimon. However your digimon all survived long enough to find and team up with you, so we decided after much consideration that we should let the six go to see how they do in their natural habitat. All of them went their separate ways, not remembering anything about the others, and waiting for a time when their human partners would need more help than their original digimon partners could give to them."

"So now we have to find these six again?" Yolie asked.

"You have to, they are the only ones that can help get the captured digimon back." Gennai said.

"But how do we get past the digivolving thing?" Mimi asked.

Gennai smiled as if he were expecting this question, "It is quite simple, the six were given special abilities that the others were not given, one of them being the ability to digivolve when other digimon can not."

Tai thought this information over a little, "So were are they now?"

Gennai cleared his throat, "After you all defeated Appocallymon, the six reverted back to their Rookie forms, and fell into sort of a hibernation sleep, until they were needed again." Davis looked as if he was about to blurt something out, when Gennai continued his story, "But to make matters a little more difficult for any evil digimon that might try to hunt them down, they split up, and went to different locations in the Digital World to sleep. Only trusting their location to one of the others. That lone digimon is Pyromon."

"Do you know were he is?" Sora asked.

Without a word, Gennai pulled down a computer map of the Digital World, and pointed to a location that was not to far from the lake. "This is were Pyromon is currently sleeping, but only Tai can wake him up."

"Why only Tai?" Joe asked

"Because Pyromon was connected to him and his digivice, just like the rest of the six are connected to the digivice of their human partners."

Tai suddenly stood up, "Then we don't have a moment to loose, lets go and get Pyromon and the others before Ken sends our digimon after us." Everyone cheered, and Gennai followed them out of the house.

"Good luck," Gennai said as the digi-destined went off to find their old friends, "I will continue to look for information on how you can stop the Digimon Emperor." He then went back into his house, and after the digi-destined were all clear, he let the water once again flow back in to surround his home.

******

It only took them a short time to get to the cave, which to everyone's surprise, was marked with the symbol of the Crest of Courage. Tai who had been leading the group to the cave, turned to face the others, "Ok, from this point I should go alone."

"Why?" Davis asked, obviously confused by Tai's decision.

Tai looked at his young friend, "Because Gennai said that my digivice is the only thing that will wake Pyromon up. And I think that it is better if I am alone with him when he wake up anyway."

Matt waked up behind Davis, and placed a hand on his shoulder, as the younger digi-destined watched Tai go into the cave alone. "I don't understand Matt, why does Tai have to go in alone."

Matt looked down at Davis and was about to answer his question, when a fireball streaked past them. Everyone turned around to see the Digimon Emperor standing behind them, flanked on either side by Agumon, Gabumon, Biyomon, Tentomon, Gomamon, and Palmon. Ken also had a big smile on his face as he looked at the group. "Now you so called digi-destined will learn that you are not wanted here." He then held his Dark Digivice up over his head, and yelled, "Now dark digivolve." All six of the digimon suddenly began to glow.

"Agumon dark digivolve to…Greymon!"

"Gabumon dark digivolve to…Garurumon!"

"Biyomon dark digivolve to…Birdramon!"

"Tentomon dark digivolve to…Kabuterimon!"

"Palmon dark digivolve to…Togemon!"

"Gomamon dark digivolve to…Ikkakumon!"

"He made them dark digivolve to their Champion forms." Sora said

"What are we going to do now?" Mimi asked.

Davis clutched his D-3 in his hand, "I will tell you what we are going to do." He then turned to look at Yolie, Cody, TK, and Kari, "Ready?"

The other four looked at him, and nodded. "Digiarmor Energize!" they all shouted at the same time, and Veemon, Armadillomon, Hawkmon, Gatomon, and Patamon all began to glow, as a streak of light shot out of all the D-3's, each one going to a different digimon.

"Veemon armor digivolve to…Flamedramon, The Fire of Courage!"

"Armadillomon armor digivolve to…Digmon, The Drill of Power!"

"Hawkmon armor digivolve to…Halsimon, The Wings of Love!"

"Patamon armor digivolve to…Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!"

"Gatomon armor digivolve to…Nefertimon, The Angle of Light!"

******

Tai had only been searching for a few minute when he heard the battle begin. "Now were are you Pyromon?" he asked himself out loud. When he walked through the cave, Tai had pulled out his digivice, hoping that it would get a signal of some form from Pyromon. He held the device up, and immediately it began to beep indicating that he was close to Pyromon.

Tai walked a little further into the cave, until the digivice told him that he was right on top of Pyromons location. He looked around, and then sat down on a small ledge. "Were could you be Pyromon?" He asked himself, just as his digivice went off. Suddenly the rock that he was leaning against began to glow bright, filling the entire section of the cave with a bright light.

******

"Fire Rockets!" Flamedramon shouted as he sent out several balls of fire at Greymon and Garurumon.

"Tempest Wing!" Halsimon shouted, as he shot off a blast of energy at Birdramon.

"Gold Rush!" Digmon shouted as he shot out all of his drill bits at Kabuterimon.

"Star Shower!" Pegasusmon shouted as several stars shot out at Ikkakumon.

"Rosette Stone!" Nefertimon shouted, as she shot out a giant stone tablet at Togemon.

Though all of the attacks hit their targets, none of them were able to destroy the dark spirals that were controlling the digimon. Ken, who had walked up in front of the 6 digimon looked down at the digi-destined and their 5 digimon and laughed, "Is that the best that you have?" He then turned back to the others, "Now show them what real attacks can do."

The 6 digimon lined up to use their attacks, "Stop!" came a shout from above. Everyone looked up and saw Tai and another digimon standing above the entrance to the cave. "So Ken, you want a fight, well then you got one." Tai then turned to the small dragon like digimon that stood beside him, "Are you ready Pyromon?"

"Ready and waiting Tai." The small digimon said.

Ken laughed, "It will take more than just one Rookie digimon to stop me." He then turned to Greymon, "Greymon destroy them both."

"Yes my Master." Greymon said, and moved in to attack Tai and Pyromon.

"I don't want to hurt you Greymon," Pyromon said, "but you leave me with no choice." Pyromon then began to glow as Tai's digivice went off, "Pyromon digivolve to…Dragimon!"

"Impossible!" Ken shouted

"Impossible is a word that us true digi-destined don't know the meaning of Ken." Matt shouted. He then turned to watch the fight between Greymon and Dragimon.

"Nova Blast!" Greymon shouted as he shot out a fireball at Dragimon.

Dragimon easily dodged the attack, and swung around, catching Greymon's head with his tail. Greymon fell hard to the ground, and turned to face the armor digimon, "Now everyone attack at the same time, Lava Flame!"

"Do it," Flamedramon shouted, "Fire Rockets!"

"Tempest Wing!" Halsimon followed.

"I got it, Gold Rush!" Digmon came in with.

"I am sorry my friends, Aqueous Beam!" Pegasusmon shouted

"As am I, Rosette Stone!" Nefertimon finished

All six attacks hit the digimon, and they all reverted back to their Rookie forms, except for Birdramon, who Ken and the other digimon all got onto, "You have only won a battle, not the war. We will meet again." Birdramon then flew off.

Dragimon landed, and reverted back to Pyromon, followed by all of the armor digimon, and they all watched as Birdramon flew off. "Until next time Digimon Emperor."

******

After they had all returned to the Real World, Tai told Scalmon, who like the other new digimon had reverted back to his In-Training form coming through the portal, the entire story of what had happened after they had last fought together. Scalmon had agreed to help them find the rest of the six. "We can't go back to the Digital World today, so we will have to meet up here tomorrow right after school." Tai said, as he resumed his old role as the leader of the digi-destined. "We will then we splitting up into five groups, which I will decide tomorrow as well."

"But we will have to make sure that it is one of the new digi-destined as well as one of the old ones, otherwise the portal will not open up." Izzy added.

"Right," Tai said, "So everyone go home, and try to get some sleep, because tomorrow we are going to need to be ready for action." Everyone in the room cheered at that remark.

(Narrator) "Will the digi-destined be able to find the other five new digimon, or will the Digimon Emperor stop them and conquer the Digital World. Find out in the next chapter of The New Digimon Return."

To be Continued in Chapter 2: The Power of Love