Ok this is another one of those where there's nine digidestined instead of eight and it's been ten years since the defeat of MaloMyotismon instead of twenty-five, oh and I don't own Digimon

Well Mary was in trouble, digimon had been seen a lot lately and it was up to her as the permanent digidestined to keep things calm between the two worlds, and she had been captured by someone who used to work for Myotismon and she didn't know how long she had been their captive or even if there were new digidestined protecting both the real world and the digital world. Real world

"sir let's face it Mary is dead, she hasn't been seen or heard from in three months"

"now than she could still be alive John you never know"

"sir, why are you so optimistic when there's no information on her?"

"I can't tell you that"

"than declare her dead and give up her spot in the office because we don't know what's happened to her"

"she's not dead, she can't be"

"boss, everyone here but you knows she's dead after all she would've called us by now if she could if she was alive, even if it was from the hospital remember three years ago when she went missing for two weeks along with a few others at the camping trip?"

three years ago

well everyone was ready to give up hope on any of the missing campers being alive because nobody had found anything for three weeks when suddenly the phone in the boss's office rings

"hello?...Mary is that you?...where are you?...the hospital why?...I see…no I understand…ok I'll tell the others…bye" (hangs up) "hey guys Mary just called she and the other's are alive, bruised, battered, going to be in the hospital for a few days but alive"

everyone there celebrates at hearing the news and three days later Mary was back at her job with her arm in a sling and a boot on her left leg but alive and pretty well

"Mary what happened?"

"nothing really, just dislocated my shoulder and broke my left ankle, the shoulder doesn't necessarily have to be immobilized any more but it was hurting this morning so I put it in the sling"

present

"yes I remember and that was a very tense time for everyone but I'm not giving up on her yet"

he thinks back four months earlier to when he got a huge surprise

"hey boss you know how I'm a digidestined?"

"yes, you told me the day I hired you in case of an attack why?"

"well something's come up"

"what is it?"

"well you don't know this yet but um lately there have been a lot of digimon attacks in this area"

"why are you telling me this?"

"because for now unless there's an attack I want you to have this"

and she puts her digivice on the desk

"Mary what's going on, why are you giving me your digivice?"

"I can't really explain why because I'm not sure either but lately I've been getting a feeling that something might happen soon, I don't know if it'll happen to me or to the city but something is going to happen"

"what if an attack happens at night?"

"fortunately that won't be the case because they never have but if it DOES happen the other semi-retired digidestined will take care of it"

"and do you know when this something will happen?"

"no but it'll be soon I can tell you that"

"if you go missing how long should I wait until I give you up for dead?"

"due to the fact that the digivice is linked to both mine and my digimons life signs if the screen lights up blue for a moment and then it breaks consider me dead and give up my spot in the job, if it glows red than it's my digimon, and if it glows green it's both of us and you'd better hope that there's a new generation of digidestined either in the real world or in the digital world because otherwise we're all pretty much doomed because the evil digimon will DESTROY earth at any chance they get and anyone and everyone who stands in their way will be destroyed first and then those that don't resist will be taken alive and enslaved"

"I understand Mary and I accept the responsibility of keeping the digivice safe, but why give it away?"

"easy because if I don't have it maybe it'll keep me alive a little longer until they decide to get bored with me or somehow find out I'm a digidestined"

"I understand"

and so he picks up the digivice and makes sure it's in a safe place and then a month later Mary disappears and he knows that it has something to do with the digital world so he quickly checks it and fortunately it's intact and he decides to keep it in a place that many won't see it except him so that he knows exactly when it's destroyed and who's gone even though a few days later she tells him that it won't destroy itself until he takes it out and sees who exactly is gone due to Genai telling her that he wants someone to know if she's been killed or not

present day

"look until I say so we don't give up her chair to someone even temporarily and we especially don't declare her dead"

and with that he goes back to his office and hopes that she's still alive which she is so then he hopes that she'll be rescued soon. In the digital world that was exactly what was going to happen because there was indeed a new generation of digidestined and they were currently in the digital world for one reason and one reason only, Genai had recently called them and told them that a senior member of the team was still missing and had actually been taken captive by one of Myotismon's servants