21: I'm back!! And starting a whole new section of my saga!! isn't it exciting? (Please read "D0:The Satanmon Saga" before reading this story, since this is its sequel)

Sponsor: Yeah, yeah, enough talk I've waited for too long to find out what's happened to George--

21: Impatient aren't we...

Sponsor: yes. the21stMartian doesn't own digimon...now can we begin??

21: Only after you sing the entire 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 bottles of soda on the wall song

Sponsor: uhhh... I think you mean 99 bottles of soda

21: nope, start singing!

Sponsor (sigh): 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 bottles of soda on the wall 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 bottles of soda...

21: (whispering) That should keep him distracted for a few episodes! Now without further ado I proudly present...

Episode 14: There and Back Again

(Hannah): Things had not been looking too good during our battle against Satanmon, or the battles that our allied digimon were fighting, but then MetalCrocmon digivolved into Dragonmon to tip the balance of power in our favor. Dragonmon turned Satanmon's Terror Tornado into a powerful destructive force that annihilated Satanmon's minions. Dragonmon then destroyed Satanmon, but at the last second he launched an attack at me, but George ran in the way, and now he and Dragonmon are gone!

"George! Wake up!!" DemiCrocmon shouted

"...Huh? Where Am I?" George said groggily.

"I don't know, but it's a very strange place..." DemiCrocmon exclaimed nervously.

George takes a look around.

"Hey! It's my room!!" George exclaimed.

"You know where we are?!" DemiCrocmon asked confused at this latest development.

"Sure do," George declared.

"Great! Let's go find the others!" DemiCrocmon squeaked happily.

"...It's not that easy. They're in a different dimension then we are..." George sighed.

"What's a dimension?" DemiCrocmon inquired.

"It's hard to explain..." George said frustrated.

George goes over and looks at the clock. He is surprised to find that it is midnight on the same date that he and his friends had been transported to the Digital World.

"No Way!!" George exclaimed.

"What is it?" DemiCrocmon asked, alarmed at George's outburst.

"We've been gone for weeks, but the clock only registers that we've been gone for a few minutes," George said confused.

As George moves his right arm out to examine the clock, he notices that his arm is shimmering and rather blurry, as though it was made out of data, and it had bad graphics, but that was impossible...wasn't it?

Curious, George runs to a full length mirror in his room and looks at his reflection. Not only is his right arm blurry, but so is his right leg, and a good bit of his torso too. George barely refrains from screaming of surprise and terror.

"I wonder if being in the digital world has distorted my flesh-and-blood body, or if I just wasn't downloaded properly on the way home," George thought.

"Don't you think we should go find the others?" DemiCrocmon interjected.

"If they had been transported back into this dimension they'd most likely be here, since this was the last place they were before we were transported to the digital world," George stated logically.

--

Back in the Digital World, Azulongmon and Falconmon had been watching the whole episode.

"This is terrible! Now they'll find out!" Falconmon exclaimed worried.

"I guess it is a sign that we should have already told them before now," Azulongmon sighed.

"Well, let's go. The others must be worried about the condition of George. We can set their minds at ease," Falconmon stated.

Azulongmon and Falconmon race toward Upload Island and find the other Digidestined still at the foot of Gargantuan Mountain stunned at George's disappearance.

"Where could he be?" Rachel asked nervously.

"Rachel...I don't know how to say this...but you have to consider the possibility that George is dead," Dan said sympathetically.

"How can you say such a thing?! And you call yourself his friend?! You can't just give up on him that easily!" Hannah yelled.

"Hannah, Dan has a point, what do you think you'd have looked like if that attack had connected with you instead?" Jimmy pointed out.

This comment reminded Hannah that she was the reason George was gone...and possibly dead. Hannah and Rachel both broke into sobs.

"Fear not Digidestined, George is alive and well," Azulongmon stated as he and Falconmon appeared.

"Where?!" Rachel demanded.

"In the aftermath of that blast, he and Crocmon got transported back into the world of the humans," Falconmon explained

"So there are more humans huh?" Starpimon said genuinely surprised.

"Who knew?" Ferarimon said.

"At least he's safe, but I'll miss him..." Rachel said, obviously depressed.

"Do not fret, he will find a way back soon, but soon in the human world and soon in the digital world are two very different things," Azulongmon stated.

"What do you mean?" Jimmy asked.

"There is a time difference between there and here, by human time, you've only been missing for a few minutes," Falconmon explained.

"A FEW MINUTES?!" the DigiDestined shouted.

"You gotta be joking," Dan said skeptically.

"Nope, afraid not," Azulongmon declared

"...and now the reason we are here in person, instead of via hologram," Falconmon said.

"I'm afraid we have some bad news for you Digidestined..." Azulongmon stated

--

George sat on his bed thinking and watching the seconds tick. He knew time was precious here, because for every wasted second, a half a day passed in the digital world.

"I have to find a way back into the digital world and find out why I look like I do," George declared.

DemiCrocmon is eating a cookie he found.

"mmmm! Tasty!" DemiCrocmon exclaimed

George looks around and finds that his laptop has traveled back with him to the real world.

"I got it!!" George shoted triumphantly.

George holds his digital device up to the laptop, but nothing happened.

"That didn't work...maybe there's a secret password," George said frustrated.

"Open sesame!"

"Activate all alcoves!"

"Pixi-portal open!"

"...ummm"

"Why don't you tell that digital device to work?" DemiCrocmon suggested.

"Digital device! I command you to work...function, activate, turn on...anything?" George said desperately.

"Maybe it got bored while you were saying digital device. You should shorten it," DemiCrocmon suggested.

"Okay...Digivice reveal your secrets!" George sighed.

George attached a link up cable from the newly dubbed digivice to his laptop, and two words appeared.

The screen read: "DIGI-PORT OPEN" and then went blank...but nothing further appeared.

George took the digivice and held it up to the computer.

"Digi-port open!" George exclaimed.

Instantly, the screen changed into a green portal that sucked in George and DemiCrocmon.

--

Weeks have passed and the Digidestined are beginning to doubt that they'll ever see George again, and only the reassurances of Falconmon and Azulogmon that he'll come back for answers kept the morale high. Falconmon and Azulogmon themselves stayed with the Digidestined, to prevent them from moving away from the mountain.

Suddenly, a flash lit up the sky and George and Crocmon appeared.

George did not noticing the others. "Crocmon! You digivolved!" he said happily.

"Sure did! And look! Here are the others waiting for you," Crocmon declared.

George finally notices the others. "Oh...hey guys sorry I made you wait for so long," he said.

The others are looking at him like they'd seen a ghost.

"What? Is there something on my face? Azulongmon, Falconmon...could you explain why everyone is behaving so strangely? Rachel...It's me George," George said looking around. Fear was visably forming in his features.

"We can tell you George, but you're not going to be very happy," Azulongmon said.

"Does this have anything to do with the distortions all over my body?" George inquired.

"Unfortunately, yes..." Falconmon sighed

"I gotta know," George declared nervously.

Azulongmon takes a deep breath. "Very well. I will say it bluntly. George, in your travel to the digital world you became severely injured. Only you, nobody else," he said.

"W-what a-are y-ou saying?" George stammered.

"George, you are no longer fully human," Falconmon stated.

Narrator: Whoa! Talk about a plot twister! How will George react to that bit of news? Find out on the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!

21: well well only 1 episode into the 2nd part and already a startling revelation...I'm back with a vengeance alright especially since I'm leaving you all hanging like this

Sponsor: 888,888,888,888,888,888,888,888,888 bottles of soda on the wall 888,888,888,888,888,888,888,888,888 bottles of soda...hey!! wait a minute!! you played the episode without me!!

21: umm...that was an accident?

Sponsor (reads the episode): Wait!! You can't leave it like that either!!

21: Why not? It's my story...

Sponsor: but but

21: you'll just have to wait in line like everybody else!

Sponsor: no hints?

21: (smiling) nope

Sponsor: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

21: didn't you already do that last time?

Sponsor: it was justified both times

21: Whatever (leaves room)