I got a serious block with the other version of this so I decided to give it another try. Some of it will be similar others completely different. If you had a chance to read the chapters I put up of the first let me know which version you like better or if I should even bother with continuing.

As you know I don't own Digimon.

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Rika Nonaka was a stubborn girl and a stubborn Tamer even now with her vision swimming she tried to focus on what Yamaki was saying.

"As of now there is nothing we can do. Removing the data would kill them since it has become an integral part of their DNA." The older man spoke through gritted teeth his frustration obvious. The original Tamers were dropping one after the other and he couldn't do anything to stop it.

It had started with Takato developing what they had thought was the flu. When he collapsed he was brought to the Hypnos doctors and after testing him they found his physical structure was destabilizing. Henry followed not long after but his decline had been faster.

"Would they stabilize if they were completely data?" Alice asked from her place beside Rika eyeing the redhead worriedly.

"It's a possibility but the Grani program hasn't cleared all of the tests yet to insure save passage there and back. On top of that the portals are still all over the grid to be able to pinpoint one as point of entry."

If they didn't figure something out fast they would lose the Tamers that could Bio-merge and it was the very program that allowed them to achieve such a feat in the real world that was killing them.

"We have to keep a cool head if we're going to – Nonaka!" Similar cries of alarm rang out as Rika slid of her chair in a faint.

"Get a doctor in here now!" Yamaki roared at his staff picking Rika off the floor. She was lighter than he expected reminding him that she was a lot more fragile then he or the others ever thought of her. Fragile wasn't even a word he thought he'd use in direct correlation with the fox Tamer.

None of the Tamers were fragile which made this whole ordeal more gut wrenching. They were tough so tough he often forgot they were still high school kids. Looking at them now the fear etched on their face at the sight of yet another fallen friend cemented his resolve. He would find a way to save them no matter what.

The doctors rushed in with a stretcher moving so Yamaki could place Rika on the bed without jolting her. They had found that sudden movements strained the sick teen's bodies causing them to flick like a TV show with bad reception. Before he moved away Rika's hand shot out grabbing his wrist paying for the movement instantly by blurring at the edges.

"Yama- Yamato." She said voice weak and hoarse not in the least concerned with the consequence she rolled her head to look up at him eyes a shade from being glassy. "Find… Yamato…Ishida." She breathed before passing out and the doctors rushed her to join the others in what had become the sick ward.

"Do you think she knew what she was talking about or just babbling?" Kazu asked having taken his hat off to rub a hand tiredly over his messy hair. It was the most serious Yamaki had ever seen the boy making him feel guilty at his utter failure in looking out for their well being.

Renamon had appeared when Rika had fainted but was smart enough not to touch her Tamer having learned that the illness would transfer like it had to Guilmon and Terriermon when they had rushed to aid their Tamers. She met Yamaki's gaze in grim understanding when pain suddenly marred the fox's face and she took her in training form. Just like the others, Yamaki thought grimly the weaker the Tamer becomes the more the digimon loses its strength.

"At this point I'll take anything even a shot in the dark." Giving orders was like breathing and it grounded him. "Run a search on Yamato Ishida, find whatever you can however you can. If there is a chance he can help I want him here last week!"

T.K. Takaishi was considered a very sweet boy but what he was seeing now made his blood boil. Since summer had started his friends had decided to have a picnic and thinking it would only be the new digidestined he had invited his older brother Matt, who had been having a rough couple months. To get there and see all the Digidestined, new and old, made his furious since not only had they not invited Matt the reason for Matt's bad time were cuddling on the picnic blanket.

"Hey guys!" Tai greeted before they had the chance to put their unanimous and unspoken decision of leaving into action. Reluctantly they responded in kind and joined their so called friends. Some of which had the decency to look apologetic.

"I made cookies." Sora offered the container with a tentative smile. "I made them myself." Silence seemed to fall on the group as they waited to see what happened.

T.K. smiled brightly. "Oh that reminds me." The blonde boy swung his bag a little faster than necessary knocking it into the tin Sora was holding. The silence was deafening as the cookies hit the ground.

"Oops." T.K. said trying for sheepish but not sure he pulled it off with how gleeful the downtrodden look on Sora's face made him.

"Why did you do that T.K.?" Kari asked the furious look on her face caused him to blink.

"It was an accident." He deadpanned.

Matt snickered next to him. "Easy little brother you have to ease them into it. I think Izzy and Cody are the only ones who figured out you're not made of sugar."

Tai sighed. "Look I know you're mad at what went down between Matt and-"

"Why cause two of his best friends betrayed him?" He glared at his former leader before turning his glare at Sora. "Digidestined of Love my ass you couldn't even stay faithful."

He only had time to see the gutted look on Sora's face before Tai lunged at him only to be pulled back after landing one punch. It felt like the temperature had dropped even though the sun was shining brightly above them. Matt had Tai pinned to the tree they sat under pressing down roughly on the brunette's throat.

"I have let you get away with a lot in the past couple of months Taichi. I have even put up with your stupid attempts to keep this farce of a friendship going but you should know better than anyone what you just did is crossing the line. So let me make things very clear if you ever touch my brother again I will break every bone in your body before tossing you in the fucking river. Understand?"

Tai nodded as best he could and was instantly released. Sora and Kari immediately rushed to his side while Matt gently grabbed T.K.'s face to examine the bruise that would no doubt be forming. After insuring her brother was fine Kari stalked up to the Ishida brothers but was cut off by the younger brother before she could start her rant.

"Don't waste our time. You know what they did was wrong but if you want to choose sides you know which one I'm on."He glared at her the anger not only coming from the slight to his brother. "It's not like it's a great loss you're just like her and I want nothing to do with you." He hissed the words dipping with venom.

Kari recoiled looking near tears but before things got more heated the squeal of tires distracted everyone. They were in a public park though the driver didn't seem to care driving through the lawns like they were a race track. The van came to a stop near them a boy wearing a baseball hat stumbled out the side door staring at their group immediately zeroing in on their digimon. He seemed to sag with relief.

"Which one of you is Yamato Ishida?" He asked franticly.

"Who wants to know?" Matt asked warily the anger he still felt must have shown causing the kid to step back nervously.

"You definitely seem like you would be friends with Rika. You both share that I will kill you vibe."

"Rika?" T.K. asks confusion clear on his face. "As in Rika Nonaka?"

The guy brightens immediately. "Yeah man! I'm a friend of hers she's kinda in trouble and she told us to find a Yamato Ishida. It took us a week to find out who he was and where to find you and let me tell you it-"

"Where is she?" Matt demanded. If Rika was in trouble this kid was wasting time with his ramblings, time that could be used in helping his childhood friend.

"In a medical facility in Shinjuku." A blonde girl in Gothic clothing stepped out of the passenger's side of the van. "If you come with us we can explain more on the way we're wasting time."

Without hesitation Matt and T.K. made their way towards the van only to be stopped by Izzy and Joe.

"You have no idea who these people are Matt! What if they're just trying to lure you away for nefarious purposes?" Joe said putting himself in the path to the van.

Matt raised a disbelieving brow and went to move around Responsible Joe but his arm was grabbed by Izzy.

"Whoever this person is she's obviously very important to you but Joe is right this could be dangerous. If you don't care about your own safety think of T.K.'s he's not going to leave you and you know it. Are you willing to risk you're brother?" Both brothers visibly bristled at the tactic used but the verbal lashing they would have given was interrupted by the girl making a noise of impatience.

"Since this matter involves digimon your team is welcome to come as long as they move quickly!" She snapped.

Luckily the van was bigger than it looked because despite Matt's protests all the digidestined crammed into the van for the ride along. With one last look at his disgruntled brother who was stuck sitting next to Kari Matt focused on the problem at hand.

"So you got a name?" He asked the blonde girl.

"My name is Alice." She pointed at the boy franticly checking his phone. "That is Kazu and that's Riley." The drive lifted a hand when her name was mentioned.

"Ok Alice what's wrong with Rika?" He could feel everyone's attention zeroing in.

"What do you know about the incident in Shinjuku a few years ago?" She asked and it was Izzy who answered.

"The city was evacuated because a giant red blob was decimating the city they said it was a chemical mutation or something."

"That blob was known as the D-Reaper a deleted program made by the Monster Makers, the team that expanded on the digital monster programming. The program stayed dormant under the Digital World until it gained enough power to try and take ours. You know that Rika is a Tamer right? That she has a Digimon?" Matt and T.K. nodded leaving their team dumbfounded that they would keep such a thing a secret.

"Well Rika along with Takato Matsuki and Henry Wong were the original three to fight the digimon that came through the portals that lead to our world. When they went to the digital world with some other Tamers they found Ryo Akiyama who had been in the Digital World for as long as they had been fighting. In the Digital World the four of them developed the ability to Bio-merge. Bio-merging is when the Tamer and Digimon digivole together to reach ultimate." She let them have a moment to process before she continued.

"This was possible then because they were completely data but when the D-Reaper broke through to our world it wasn't possible for them to reach that level anymore. My grandfather was one of the Monster Makers and he realized in order to beat the D-Reaper they would have to Bio-merge so he created a program. One he placed inside my own partner Dobermon who in turn sacrificed himself so the others could absorb his data." Alice took advantage of the gasps that broke her story to breathe deeply. Kazu watched her carefully he knew just because her voice was cold it didn't mean she didn't still hurt at her lost partner.

"The program let them Bio-Merge in the real world and the data evolved and became a part of their DNA as the years have passed. Until recently in wasn't a problem but something has gone wrong, maybe a glitch in the program we're not sure what but it's made them sick. It's killing them."

"What can I do? Tell me what to do because letting her die is not something I'm willing to do." Alice looked at the slightly older boy behind her in surprise. His voice was hard and face determined but like Rika all you had to do was look in his eyes to see what was really going on. He was terrified.

"We have a theory that if we can get them to the digital world they will stabilize but we have no way of getting there and no way of getting back."

Kazu snorted "Or a way of knowing that Zhuqiaomon won't rip us apart like he tried to do last time."

"Zhuquiamon?" Davis asked.

Kazu nodded. "Yeah you know the sovereign."

Davis looked at him like he was stupid. "I think you mean Azulongmon."

Kazu rolled his eyes. "No Azulongmon is in charge of some other area or something nice mon though stopped Zhuquiamon from deep frying us and let us ride on his beard."

It took a moment before everyone started talking at once.

"SHUT UP!" Matt yelled. "It doesn't matter what's important is that we have a way to get in and out of the Digital World. If you guys are right we can save them."

"We can take them to Primary Village." T.K. said. "It's supposed to be were data goes to become new maybe it can fix whatever is wrong with the program."

A string of curses from Kazu startled everyone.

"Kenta says Ryo is down and Chumley's is in critical state if he destabilizes any further he's dust."

"I can't believe I'm saying this but step on it Riley!"

Thanks to Riley's crazy driving they reached Hypnos HQ just as the alarms are sounded in the medical ward. The doctors were running around checking machines as Takato's form flicked between solid and static. Matt bypassed them to take his place at Rika's side, she was breathing hard and the line of her silhouette was blurring at the edges.

"Izzy pull the portal up, T.K., Kazu grab the kid who's phasing and open the portal he goes through first. Someone else has to go through with the other two I've got Rika."

While the other Chosen scrambled to help the Tamers with their friends Matt gently lifted his best friend since early childhood. After his parents' divorce Matt and his dad had moved to Shinjuku to put some distance between his two parents. The young boy had been angry to be separated from his younger brother and had taken to terrorizing a local park until he came across a little girl who hit back. That little girl had been Rika an equally angry child since her dad had walked out and after a few rocky run-ins they had started a tentative friendship. If it hadn't been for the girl who had tried to bring Rika down for not being as girly and Matt telling her to shove it they wouldn't have become as great a friends as they had. Even after they moved back to Odiba they stayed in contact, they told each other everything even telling each other about their Digital World adventures.

A wave of anger and self-loathing suddenly hit him hard. She had called him earlier in the month but he had ignored the call since he was having a bad day because of Tai and Sora. If he hadn't been so wrapped up in something as stupid as his relationship drama he could have saved her this pain and saved her the worry she felt for her friends.

"Digi-port open!" He looked up in time to see T.K. take the quickly fading boy through the gate. Seeing a flash of yellow he looked down to see Tsunomon nudging a sick looking in-training fox digimon. Realizing that it was probably Rika's digimon he lowered Rika for both of their Digimon to move onto the unconscious girl's stomach. Viximon as Tsunomon called her needed some extra help moving. Soon enough he made it through the portal moving quickly so the others can come through.

When he stepped into the village the newly born digimon swarmed them out of curiosity making it hard for him to get through without stepping on any eggs. Deciding it would be better to just sit down and wait for the digital world to work its magic he made room for himself amongst his swarm of baby digimon. Everyone else seemed to follow his example and setting down the sick charges but Matt held on to Rika wanting to make sure she was alright even as T.K. sat with him and waited.

A scream startled him and everyone else, quickly finding the source he saw it came from one of the younger Tamers. From what he had heard the girl's older brother was one of the sick and from her screams he had stopped breathing. Ice settled in his veins when he saw the other Tamers rush to check the others garnering similar results. Looking down at the girl in his arms his heart clenched, she wasn't breathing.

Checking her heart beat wasn't any help either there was no pulse.

"No, no Rika don't do this. Please don't do this stay with me please, please stay." He begged while he felt T.K.'s tear soak the back of his shirt. "Joe! Joe do something! She's not breathing Joe. Please."

Joe stared at his friend's pleading face and felt his heart break for him. He wasn't a doctor yet and even if he was he didn't think there was anything he could do for the teens. Matt seemed to realize there was nothing his friend could do the blonde's body sagged shifting so he could wrap an arm around his brother. The younger of the two was openly weeping clutching his brother and Patamon tightly the brothers curled around the young woman like they didn't want to let go.

The Chosen children were hovering around the village not knowing what to do. They clearly wanted to comfort their friends but both had been slowly pulling away since the relationship between Tai, Matt and Sora became strained. After the events of this morning Joe doubted any attempts of comfort would be accepted.

"Chumley you asshole wake up!" Kazu yelled at the brown haired boy with the red digimon. "This isn't how you're meant to go out! Not like this man…not like this." Tears streamed down his face as he let himself fall against his Guardromon.

"You can't leave me Henry you're my big brother you can't go. Who's going to watch out for me and yell at me for messing with his stuff? Please don't leave me." The girl was quickly hugged by another brunette girl was crying just as hard.

The other two youngest were still trying to wake the last of the Tamers.

"Come on Ryo don't be a jerk get up." The boy said wiping at his tears.

"Yeah we still have to see who the better teacher is, you or Rika." The girl said through sobs. "Rika teaches me and you teach Mako then we play against each other to see who wins.

"You have to get up so we can show Ai and Rika that we're better than them come on Ryo."

Everyone fell silent after that there was no more begging the only thing heard were sniffling and chocked sobs. The Digidestined were crying too even if they didn't know these people they were obviously loved and it was always sad to lose someone you love.

A bright light dragged everyone's attention to the red digimon he seemed to be glowing and like a chain reaction each of the four's digimon start emitting a bright light and soon their Tamers joined them. The light soon became blinding causing everyone to close their eyes.

Seconds after the light died down Matt's eyes shot open when he felt a hand on his cheek. He looked down to meet the deep violet eyes that he knew so well.

"Hey you came."

There you have it. Which story would you like me to continue? Be sure to let me know.