A/N: This story takes place a month after Diaboromon strikes back. There are destined that have digimon, but they are the minority. I don't want the entire world to have digital monsters. One of the reasons why I didn't like Zero 2 that much.

Digimon: Silent Storm

A lone girl ran down the streets of an abandoned city she was once called home. Now the city was in ruin. There was no living being in the ruined city. The streets were littered with all sorts of debris and it didn't help that the pavement was up heaved from the ground and craters occupied the street. It also didn't help the facilities and buildings that made this city a home to its inhabitants were broken down. The young girl was frightened of her being alone and not knowing where all her close friends and family were.

"H-how did this happen?"

She stopped running to catch her breath. It was Hikari Kamiya, known as Kari by her friends. She looked around the area feeling scared and alone.

"Where is everyone?" She wondered.

"I am here... my bride."

Kari froze, that voice was unfamiliar to her, but calling her its bride brought back memories of the world filled with darkness known as the Dark Ocean. She did not want to go back, she was no one's bride, and she did not want to be used by those creatures just because she once held the crest of light.

"No."

She proceeded to run, run, she didn't care where. She wanted out of here. She washoping to escape from the being that called her. She tripped over a crack in the ground and fell over. She sat up and rubbed her ankle.

"Ow, I think I twisted it."

"KARI!"

That voice. It was familiar and filled her with security. She turned around to find her older brother Taichi Kamiya approaching her.

"Tai."

She cried with joy in her voice. Sadly the joy on her face vanished when she saw the skin on his body melting away.

"No, TAI!"

She cried, but the boy walking towards her slowly and calm like it was normal day. She backed away skin made way for a skeleton figure. But the figure was someone she would like to forget.

"You, you're?"

"Skullsatamon."

It was the late dark digimon that was once a member of the Demon Corps before he was defeated by Imperialdramon.

"But I'm not who you think I am."

"What?"

"You see the world you are seeing now is the future of this city young Hikari."

"No, that can't be. That won't happen."

"Oh, but it will. Our presence will be known to you and your friends soon. You saw what happened to that replica of your brother. Think about if he was screaming for mercy. Oh and what about the rest of your friends? Can you imagine the torture?"

Kari quivered with fear.

"I guess not, but hear this. The inhabitants of the Dark Ocean are coming for you, we are aware of them coming to you, so we decided to make haste in our plans. Our leader will make sure Dagomon will pay dearly in blood."

A dark portal materialized under Kari and started pulling her in.

"Ahh!"

"The take over of both worlds is at hand. We'll see each other again Kari, but in my original form. Take care child of light."

Skullsatamon disappeared in black smoke leaving the girl helplessly being devoured by darkness. Soon everything turned black.

"AHH!"

"Holy Crap!"

A body fell off the top bunk and painfully collided with the floor. An orange dinosaur poked his head from the top and sleepily looked around the room.

"Is it morning?"

A white cat hopped out from the bottom bunk and scanned the room while keeping her guard up. She sighed in relief.

"No danger." She turned around to find Tai sprawled out on the floor. "Although I still can't understand why humans have bunk beds. An accident like that was bound to happen."

Tai groaned. "Shut up Gatomon."

The white cat smiled and turned to her human partner who looked like she had just experience a near death itself. "Kari, are you all right?"

Kari didn't say anything. She continued to stare in space with fear in her eyes.

Tai got up from the floor and rubbed his head. "Man, Kari what kind of nightmare did have?" He stared at the frightened girl. Kari turned her head slightly to him.

"T-Tai?"

The kamiya teen reached out to her. "Wanna raid the kitchen?"

"That's it."

Kari said as she stared at her glass of milk on the kitchen table. Gatomon narrowed her eyes. It would seem that the battle with dark forces still wasn't over. Tai took a sip of glass of juice and set it down on the table.

"Nothing else?"

"That's all I remember and that's all he told me."

"Not only do we have a new enemy to worry about, Dagomon is coming. We should've taken care of him when we had access to the Dark Ocean." said the yellow reptile.

Gatomon hissed. "We used the last of the digi cores to use Imperialdramon Paladin mode. We need to ask the four guardians to help us out again. Whatever is coming we need everybody for this.

"We have to take in consideration that we have to ask Azulongmon to help us." said Tai. "I doubt the digi cores will be enough. I think we need to look for a new Deus ex Machina."

The three of them turned to the brown haired boy with confusing looks on their faces.

Tai frowned. "Don't tell me you have no idea what that is?"

"Not a clue." said Agumon as he scratched his head.

"Anyway, I'll have a talk with Izzy to see if he can contact Gennai. I might as well talk this over with Yamato and Sora."

Tai had long since gotten over his crush with Sora and moved on.

"Oh and don't inform the others about this yet. I want to see if we can be sure to have the necessary equipment to fight whatever is coming before telling them."

"Don't you think I should?"

"If you want to, but we're not going to let them worry about it yet unless it is absolutely true. Until then let's drop this fearfulness and go to bed."

The young Kamiya girl nodded, but she was still a bit worried the new enemy and Dagomon. She shouldn't be worried about it, but yet remain on alert in case of an attack. She and Tai left the kitchen leaving Gatomon and Agumon alone.

"Agumon, I have bad feeling about this."

"Yeah, let's stay at our partners' side. Even if we're weak we have to still fight."

Gatomon nodded. "Mm hmm."

-unknown area-

Two figures walked down a metal plated hallway while communicating with one another. The creatures had silver skin and purple eyes. One of f the silver creatures had gold hair that was spiked up and donned a red robe that royalty would wear. The other had green hair and donned on silver plated armor that went from head to toe. On his chest was a picture of a crimson skull. Their body structure was a medium build as average as normal human, but looks can be deceiving. They are far from average. Their ears were pointed and their skull structure was more oval shaped. The creature wearing the robe turned to his loyal operative.

"So the child of light received our little invitation?"

"All thanks to me. You should have seen the look on her face when she saw me, but in the form of a Skullsatamon. All thanks to our technology to infiltrate the subconscious."

"Our troops?"

"All present and accounted for."

"Good, but don't send them out yet. I want to have a little game with the child and her allies." "Your majesty, what about Dagomon?"

"He will soon be dealt with soon enough. Our spies are still within his territory monitoring his moves. Our projects are still in construction."

"One of our projects is almost finished. We'll test it our as soon as we can so there won't be any errors."

"How about Project Omega?"

"We have yet to begin it sir, but we'll start it immediately."

"Good, tomorrow would be the perfect time to strike our foes. We'll toy with them a little and then begin our campaign."

"All words shall embrace our return."

"And no Sovereign of Life shall get in our way again."

The two creatures approached a door at the end of the hallway. The door led them to a balcony that was outside of their stronghold. The leader gazed at the land which had his army preparing and waiting for orders. Each one was training themselves to be in top physical and mental condition. They checked their gear, such as Spear, swords, plasma rifles, and air vehicles to make sure they were functional for combat and they waited for the orders to be called for combat as well. This might be a tough battle for the children

Kari opened her eyes to a bright Thursday morning. She groaned, sadly it was a school, but on the bright side, the weekend was close so she would be enjoying herself tomorrow. Also, she would be entering a new grade with her two friends Takeru Takaishi, otherwise known as T.K. for short, and Daisuke Motomiya. But her other friend Miyako Inoue was entering Odaiba Junior High with Tai and the others. Life is continuing to move with no way of stopping.

She got of bed and stretched her arms and legs. She looked at the top bunk and noticed her brother was still sleeping along with Agumon. She glanced at her bed and saw Gatomon sleeping as well. She smiled and then remembered she had school today.

BEEP! BEEP!

Tai sat up with his eyes barely open, Kari walked up to their dresser and stopped the alarm from beeping. Tai yawned and looked at his sister.

"Had a good sleep?"

"Yeah."

"Are you still worried?"

"Only a little."

"No worries, we'll have a talk with the others as soon as school ends. Now come we can't be late for school." Kari nodded.

Ring! The bell rang for the second time, signaling the students of Odaiba elementary that school was about to begin. Kari walked down the hallway to search for her assigned homeroom. She found it, 6-D.

"Kari."

She turned around to find Takeru Takaishi walking up to her.

The young girl smiled. "T.K. looks like we're in the same class again this year."

"Yeah, same as last year, except Daisuke will be in a different homeroom than us."

"Huh? Too bad, but he'll be okay without us."

The blonde boy frowned.

"Maybe."

"What do you mean maybe?"

"It seemed not everyone forgot about his mishap on Valentine's day. Namely Nomura and his gang."

"So they brought it back up again."

T.K. shook his head. "No, they're actually still teasing him about it. I ran into them in the hallway and Daisuke wasn't very happy with it. I told him not worry about and ignore him, but you know Dai. He's too hotheaded."

"He wouldn't get in a fight would he?"

"I hope not, Daisuke's going to have to remain his cool all this year. Surely it'll die down."

"Maybe. Come on T.K. let's get to class."

"Kari, are you feeling okay?"

The brown haired girl looked at her friend and formed a smile. "Everything is all right. No worries."

She walked into the class room. The child of hope shrugged his shoulders before entering the class room.

Within the class of 6-B, Daisuke Motomiya sat at his desk with his head covered. He didn't want to be bothered today. He wondered if fate decided to be cruel to him and stick him in a room with his most hated foe. Nomura Urameshi. He wished T.K. and Kari were here just so he can have someone to talk to. Unfortunately, neither of them was here and he was all alone. To make the situation worse, they picked on him about the Valentine's Day incident which they somehow found out and he wished that event to be a distant memory.

He felt something soft, yet sticky object hit his head. He lifted his head up and picked the object out of his hair. He grimed, it was spitwad. He glared the shooter himself. It was a boy with smooth black hair and black eyes. His name, was Nomura Yagami and at the moment the boy showed him a picture of a broken heart and in the middle was a Daisuke sad and with a dunce hat on it. That got the goggle head steaming. He was ticked, but he didn't want to start a fight. Not in here at least where they most likely give detention to them both.

He sighed. "Just don't let him intimidate you. I can survive until school was over right?"

The door to the class room opened and in walked a man in his mid 40's and a mustache. Right behind him was girl with short black hair and violet eyes. She wore sleeveless purple shirt along with black pants. She also donned a pair of purple and black shoes. The man turned toward and spoke.

"Class I am Mister Kimura and I'll be your home room teacher. This is a new student who just transferred from Osaka, Mizuki Daigo. Mizuki there is a seat in the back will you please be seated."

She nodded and walked to the back of the room to take her seat. Daisuke didn't bother to look at her, he was too busy to wait for this day to end or wait till lunch to join T.K. and Kari.

The gray skinned knight of the Brotherhood. The same creature that walking side by side the leader of this military power was watching a brown skinned creature with a muscular physical form standing over a pile of droids. The face of the creature had yellow eyes and a horn sticking out of its head. His long teeth made up for the oval shape of his head. The creature had on a pale white tunic that had a bronze medal in front of it. He swung a chain with a metal ball attached to it. The creature let the ball dropped to the ground after realizing he was done. He turned to the knight and made a low growl sound.

"Me done training. Groc want to see blood. Not just the blood from my own brethern, but the blood of helpless."

"Patience, right now we are able to send a 5 of our soldiers into the real world, but our king wants to play a little game with some humans called the digidestined."

"I will crush them."

"Ah, but not all of them. You see there is a little girl that is a member of that group. She will be of use to us in the upcoming final stage. We want her unharmed."

"I see."

"Good, now come with me."

"So basically we have both Dagomon and a new enemy crawling down our backs."

-Odaiba Junior High, Schoolhallway-

Tai explained the situations to his friends, Yamato Ishida, Sora Takenouchi, and Koushirou Izumi, due to his last name every calls him Izzy for short. It was lunch time so the group decided to have lunch near the stairwell where they could discuss the situation in private.

The blonde teen frowned. "Are you sure you two aren't overreacting? I mean she probably ate something before she went to bed. What did she eat?"

Tai crossed his arms, thought about it. "Well, we had chicken with my mom's special gravy along with rice and steamed broccoli. HEY! Why am I telling you this!"

Yamato grinned. "So, it must be the special sauce."

"Yama!" scolded Sora. "Honestly."

The child of friendship chuckled. "Sorry, but why is this guy telling us he's coming?"

"There are many possibilities." stated Izzy. "My guess, he knew about our digimon not accessing the Ultimate and Mega levels. The power of the digicores in our digimon are practically gone and since Gatomon has her tail ring again, DNA digivolving is out of the question. Even then we were lucky to have Veemon and Wormmon use the last of their energy to become Imperialdramon."

"I understand, he's going to attack us when our digimon are at their weakest." said the blonde teen.

Izzy nodded. "He figured we would be apprehensive of his coming and not knowing how to make our digimon stronger. Guys we need to contact Gennai and fast."

Tai nodded. "We can't fight while we're unprepared. Why not show this guy we're not helpless as he thinks we are."

Sora nodded. "Of course."

"Everyone!"

The group saw a purple haired girl running towards them. "There you guys are, lunch is almost over and I wanted to find you guys before I head back to class."

Izzy smiled. "How does it feel being in Junior High so far?"

Miyako sighed. "I feel out of place right now and some friends of mine are in a different homeroom than mine. Who knew it would be tough to meet new people. You guys know how it feels right?"

"Of course." agreed Sora. "The first day can be the worst day, but through the rest of the year things start picking up."

"I figured as much, my older brother and sisters told me what their days were like so I was little bit scared, but I shouldn't let that bother me."

She turned to Izzy. "Izzy you look like you're in deep thought. What's wrong?"

The intellectual teen frowned. "A problem that I want you to hear."

During that time, Daisuke found T.K. and Kari in their class room and three of them picked a bench that was near a window. "Then the freaken idiot showed a picture of me in a broken heart. I don't know if he was trying to crawl under my skin or what, but he did a pretty good job."

"You shouldn't let him." said Kari. "Guys like him want to drive you insane. So you shouldn't worry about it."

T.K. looked around the room and opened up the window. An orange and white blur came zooming in and sat down on the T.K.'s head.

Daisuke blinked. "Patamon? T.K. did you bring him here?"

"Nah, I just flew in and boy my wings are tired."

Kari chuckled. "That's something Gomamon would say."

Patamon smiled. "Yeah, corny and unoriginal. Are Gatomon and Veemon with you?"

Both Daisuke and Kari nodded no.

"Gatomon wanted to go to the digital world to research something. She didn't tell me." Kari lied, Gatomon wanted to find something about the new enemy in the digital archives.

"Veemon said something about a big game today and grabbed a bag of donuts and a can of soda and begged me to go the digital world. So I let him. I don't know he's freaken hyper."

"Poker." spoke Patamon.

Daisuke blinked. "Poker?"

"Yeah, you didn't know? Veemon, Gomamon, and Gabumon are in the digital poker tournament today.

"WHAT! He never told me he gambled. Gomamon must've put him up to it."

"I'd be worried about what he's bidding." said T.K.

"It better not be my PS2."

"Excuse me." said a voice with accent behind it.

The group turned around to find Mizuki approaching them.

Daisuke raised a brow, remembering who she was. "You're Mizuki Daigo right? Nice to me you."

"Likewise." She said. "Aren't you a little old to be playing with stuffed animals?"

T.K. blushed. "Um, this is hers."

He gave Patamon to Kari. The child of light smiled.

"No sweat. I don't care if you do."

"Your accent, where are you from?"

"Osaka."

"I thought so, I knew someone who had an accent just like you and she was from Osaka too. I'm Hikari Kamiya, Everyone calls me Kari. This is Takeru Ishida. You can call him T.K."

"I'm sure you all ready met Daisuke."

"Sort of. It seemed some characters are giving you a bad name."

"What? That idiot! What's he saying now?" Daisuke jumped up

"Nothing, he was just telling me some crazy stories which I hoped weren't true. Does Valentine's Day ring a bell?"

The boy sighed. "Yeah, I was trying to impress some girls only to end up in failure. I tried to go with the bad boy image, but I performed it so well I actually I thought was who I wasn't. It actually scared a friend of mine. He successfully snapped me out of that twisted face I stuck on."

"I see." She walked closer and stared at him.

"Um, why are you staring at me like that?"

"Hmm, hotheaded and stubborn."

"Huh?"

"Listen Dai, try not let people toy with you all right? It will just give them more fuel to feed on."

He nodded. "I understand, but it's just that."

"Let's be friends."

"Huh?" blinked the goggle head.

The Osakan girl grinned. "I said let's be friends, you'll need someone to talk to and I'm just that girl."

"Well, sure I guess. You know what they say the more the merrier."

"Yeah, um mind you not saying that again?"

Daisuke rubbed the back of his head. "Uh heh, sorry. It sounded corny didn't it?"

"Yep, oh, lunch time is almost over. We better head back to class."

She looked at T.K. and Kari. "It was nice meeting you two. Later."

The two students walked back to their class room. "Mizuki, after school, I know where the local arcade is. You wanna check it out?"

"That'll be fun."

T.K. and Kari chuckled. "All ready friends."

"Where does she get off calling me a stuffed animal?" said the flying hamster like digimon.

"Easy Patamon." T.K. said. "You have to go. I'll see you after school."

"Okie dokey."

The digimon flew out of the window before T.K. closed back the window. They two walked back to their class room.

School had ended for today and the students went home for the day. Daisuke took Mizuki to the arcade to play Dance, Dance Revolution. It was Mizuki who challenged the goggle boy seeing if she could beat him. Daisuke being who he is couldn't refuse a challeng so he got his game on. T.K., Iori and Kari walked home. The blonde boy noticed the girla cting strangely as soon as he met her at school and wondered what she was worried about. If he wanted to know why then he might as well talk to her.

"Iori, mind going on ahead, I want to talk to Kari for a bit."

The young boy nodded. "I understand, I'll see you two tomorrow."

Iori walked on a head leaving the two in the middle of sidewalk.

"What is it T.K.?"

"Is something wrong?"

"No."

"Don't lie to me. I don't know what's wrong, but you're hiding something. I can see it on your face."

"T.K there is nothing wrong."

"Kari."

"I TOLD YOU THERE IS NOTHING WRONG!"

Her loud outburst had drawn attention from the people passing by. She gasped and lowered her head.

"I- I gotta go."

She ran off.

"Kari wait!" He sighed. "Damn, I wonder what's wrong?"

He glanced up in the air and spotted Patamon flying in circles above him. The little guy saw the whole thing. He looked forward to where Kari ran off. He glanced back up at Patamon and motioned for him to follow her. He did and flew off with T.K. running after him.

Kari ran into an empty parking lot, near an old department store, where she stopped to catch her breath. "I didn't mean to yell at him. I didn't."

She looked around to find herself alone. She felt uncomfortable and figured she better get out of here.

"I better go back and apologize."

Before she could make another move, something grabbed her by the arm. She felt the muscular grip crushing her arm.

"Ah, what the?"

She turned around to face a creature with a strong muscular form. This was Groc, the same digital creature that was with the knight from before. He stared deep into the girl's eyes.

"Hmm, you're the human we want, but I was told not to kill you."

Kari gasped in fear. Could this be the being from her dream?

"They didn't say I could have some fun with you."

He pushed her, hard onto the ground. The monster seemed disappointed.

"Hmm? They say you're supposed to hold great power, but I see only weak human." Kari started to scoot away.

Groc frowned. "Waste of time for Groc. I guess I'll feast on a human in this city and see what they taste like."

"GET AWAY FROM HER!"

Groc looked ahead and saw T.K. and Patamon running up to them. The monster smiled viciously.

"Hmm, an appetizer?"

Kari gasped and turned toward her friend. "T.K.! RUN HE'S GOING TO KILL YOU!"

T.K. frowned. "Sorry, I won't abandon my friends."

"You should." said the monster. "I hope I get to feast on your organs." The monster leapt towards the blonde boy."

T.K. held his D3. "Patamon, show him who he's messing with."

Patamon digivolve to… Angemon.

The winged angel unleashed a spinning back to the face of the digital being and sent him flying across the pavement.

"Yeah angemon!" cheered T.K.

Groc got up off the ground and stared at the holy digimon.

"Hmm, so an Angemon? So they have sent you?"

Angemon twirled his staff. "I don't know who 'they' are. What I do know is that you're threatening to eat my partner and his friend. That I can't allow."

"Face it you're messing with an Orcmon. There is no way you can beat me."

"Wanna bet?"

"Go ahead."

The monster unleashed his weapon on the champion digimon. Angemon managed to avoid the metallic ball and flew in to throw a punch at the creature. Groc dodged the attack and kicked Angemon from behind. Angemon stumbled forward and turned around to face the creature. Groc swung his ball n chain at Angemon once again, but Angemon grabbed the ball n chain and jerked it hard to bring the beast to him. Angemon once again punched him in the face causing the beast to be thrown back. The champion digimon tossed the weapon away and formed his Angel staff in his hand.

"It is such a shame that I used my skills against him."

The monster got up after he heard what he said. "What's that suppose to mean?"

"You are not at that level. You're strong, but I have much more experience on my side. You lack experience."

"I was just promoted to the army recently."

"Whoever sent you obviously put you on for a suicide mission. That I assume."

"YOU KNOW NOTHING!"

The monster ran towards him as he wanted to rip the angel apart. The champion digimon sighed.

"I'm sorry I have to end it like this."

He gathered holy energy in his fist. Groc closed in.

"HAND OF FATE!"

He released a beam of holy energy at the Orcmon sending it straight through its torso. The orcmon gasped as he felt his body decomposing into date.

He smiled. "I see, I did it in honor of the brotherhood. You will be facing the rest soon, but most of them are a lot strong than me. You have no chance."

"That maybe true, but I'm not alone."

"Even if you a have team how will you prevail?"

"We'll find a way."

"Heh, good luck you need it." With that the monster vanished into data.

Angemon breathed a sigh of relief, but he felt something wrong about the whole fight.

"That was too easy. He was not much of challenge. I fear this is only the first stage of a plan conducted by this Brotherhood. Sending him was suicide on his part. Is this enemy playing games?" He reverted back to his rookie form.

T.K. helped up Kari. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, what was that?"

"Probably a new enemy. He said something about the Brotherhood."

Kari went silent. T.K. narrowed his eyes.

"Kari? What's wrong?"

"Okay, I'll tell you. It looks like we have to get everyone together for this. It's going to be a tough battle."

"I know, but tell me."

"I had dream about this creature telling me about his army coming after me. I believe the brotherhood it mentioned is the same army."

"Hmm, is that all?"

"No, it also said the Dark Ocean inhabitants are after me again."

"WHAT! No that can't be." said the apprehensive blonde boy.

He hated the fact that creatures of the Dark Ocean are coming for her again. He didn't like this one bit.

"I'm a little scared about this. We have two opposing forces to fight and I don't know if we're ready."

"We will be. You guarantee it. All of us are with you and we'll find away to beat them. Right Patamon?"

"You bet."

Kari felt her confidence lifted again. "Thanks T.K."

"Come on let's get you home."

T.K. and Patamon walked along side Kairi toward her apartment. What happened today may just be the beginning of the first act.