Izzy's fingers ran across the keyboard. WarGreymon punched MetalSeadramon in the head and flew into the air. The Dark Masters surrounded the digidestined and faught like they'd never faught before. It wasn't safe there.
"Everyone, run into that pipe over there!" yelled Izzy as he ran into a large sewer pipe.
It was very familiar to him and knew why. This was the sewer where the Numemon had attacked, this was the sewer that led away from the old factory where Tentomon digivolved. There should many places to hide there. The digidestined sprinted through the sewers. Izzy was in the lead and jumped from the pipe and onto the metal floor of the factory grounds.
"I hope we're safe here, Izzy," yelled Kari.
"Me too!" shouted Mimi, " all this excitement is really ruining my hair!"
"I wonder if Andromon still lives here," said Izzy.
Suddenly, Zudomon crashed through the north wall of the factory. Piedmon flew in and blew Zudomon against another wall.
"We need to run!" shouted Tai!
The digidestined sprinted over to an elevator. Suddenly, Puppetmon flew into the factory and waved his hands around.
"He is trying to control someone!" yelled Matt.
Joe slammed a button down and the elevator shot upward.
MegaKabuterimon crashed through the wall, followed by MachineDramon.
"This isn't good," said Izzy as the elevator stopped.
Andromon stood in front of the kids, badly damaged and torn apart. SkullMeramon stood in front of him.
SkullMeramon attacked and Mimi jumped, accidentaly throwing her purse onto the catwalk in front of them. She ran out to grab it. Suddenly, Andromon's eyes turned red and Puppetmon smiled.
"Lightning blast! And...fire!"
The blast flew straight towards Mimi. Everyone watched as Joe jumped forward and dove in front of Mimi. The blade of sizzling energy sank into his shoulder and slammed into the back of the elevator, breaking the cords. Joe yelled and fell onto the catwalk, unconcious.
"The cable is going to break!" shouted Tai, "jump out of the elevator!"
Izzy stood in the back of the elevator and watched as his friends jumped onto the catwalk, but there was no time for him to jump. The cables snapped and the elevator plunged towards the ground.
"Help me!" shouted Izzy.
MegaKabuterimon flew throgh the air and slammed his horn into the elevator shaft.
"Grab hold!" yelled MehaKabuterimon.
Izzy jumped onto his horn and rode his digimon to the ground.
Suddenly Sora started to climb over the catwalk railing.
"Puppetmon is controling me! Tai, Garudamon, anyone! Help me! I don't want to die!" shouted Sora, starting to cry.
"I've got you!" shouted Tai as he ran towards Sora.
She screamed and blackflipped off.
"No!" screamed Tai.
Sora's stomach caved in at the speed of the drop and the wind left her body. She tried to yell, but couldn't. Izzy looked up at Sora and tried to get up. He couldn't move. Puppetmon was controling him.
"Wing Blade!" shouted Garudamon as she attacked Puppetmon, making him loose his concentration.
Izzy jumped up form the ground and sprinted to where he figured Sora would land. He held his arms out and remembered a magazine article that talked about super strength was a person was saving another from something deadly. Sora fell into Izzy's arms and she hoped they were both ok. Izzy held her up but quickly lost his strength and felt his arms and knees fall to the ground. Sora bounced on the dirt and skid on the loose gravel. Izzy ignored the blood on his hands and knees and ran over the Sora.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Thanks to you," said Sora weakly.
Tai looked down off the catwalk and would have felt jealous if Joe hadn't been laying on the catwalk with a shoulder full of burnt and caked blood. Andromon fired his Lightning Blast and SkullMeramon and knocked his out of the factory walls. He turned and fired down the catwalk, and jumped off. He slammed into the ground and his chest dropped open. He was damaged but still very operational. Izzy could see into Andromon's missile filled chest but notcied one side was spurting sparks and oil.
"Bring missiles to position and...fire!" one missle shot from his chest and rocketed towards Sora and Izzy.
"Oh-no!" shouted Izzy.
"MegaKabuterimon, digivolve to...HerculesKabuterimon!"
The giant beetle's twenty foot long claw swatted the missle away. It slammed into the elevator shaft and fire sparks and debris where throw everywhere. The power of the explosion blew Izzy's hair in all directions. HerculesKabuterimon looked so powerful with the smoke and flames surrounding his body. Suddenly Andromon's chest plate blew off and sliced through him. His chest exploded and a the trapped missile blew out from him. The rocket blew up as it flew. It spun in deadly circles, throwing sharp debris and poisonous fumes in all directions. Sharp chunks of metal rained into HerculesKabuterimon. The missile opened its mouth and fired its lasers. The spinning piece of metal spew firey strands of energy is every direction. Seventy feet from Izzy, it exploded. Shrapnel flew in all directions, Izzy jumped on top of Sora and shielded her from the blast. However, he wouldn't have done so if he knew what would happen next. Small chunks of metal cut his shirt and pants. He felt one sink through his shoe and into his foot. His back was going numb with the metal slamming against it. He rolled over, still on top of Sora and felt the debris slam into his other side.
"Izzy, no!" shouted HerculesKabuterimon, "I've failed!"
"Izzy" yelled Sora, crying.
He looked down at Sora and winced as debris hit him.
HerculesKabuterimon jumped in front of the two as the last of the debris stopped flying. It slammed into his arms and cut his wings.
"I'm...sorry, Izzy."
Sora looked up and saw the giant bug shrink back down the Motimon.
"I couldn't protect you!' yelled Motimon as he shrunk down to Pabumon.
Izzy slowly stood up but fell back down to his knees.
"Oh, Izzy. You could have been killed!' said Sora.
Izzy fell onto the ground, unable to hold himself up.
"Help! Garudamon!"
The giant bird flew to Izzy and Sora and picked them both up.
MachineDramon attacked the catwalk. Joe and Mimi screamed as half of the catwalk broke in half. There was a huge tub full of green stuff under them, at least it was liquid. The two splashed into the goo. Mimi grabbed Joe and tried to help him to the surface. The green liquid pulled them down.
"Lillymon!" shouted Mimi.
The flying flower flew to their rescue and pulled them free.
Piedmon fired at the remaining kids.
T.K. slipped off the catwalk and was happy that Angemon had grabbed him feet above the ground.
Piedmon fired again. Tai jumped out of the way as the blast slammed into a gas tank behind them.
"Uh-oh. Help!"
Sora and Garudamon looked back as the center of the factory blew up. Small explosions rocked the rest of the factory and soon, all of it was in flames. They saw a pack of Digimon escape and realized it was their friends.
"How about that pond, over there Sora!" said Garudamon.
"Looks good," said Sora, not even glancing at the pond.
Garudamon blew the trees around as she landed and set the kids down. She shrank back to Yokomom and wadled over the side of the pond. Sora helped Izzy to the beach.
"Thank's for recuing me," said Sora.
"It was nothing. A strange feeling came over me, I just couldn't stop protecting you," replied Izzy. Sora smiled. She carefully grabbed Izzy's sleeves and pulled his shirt off. It was full of cuts and so was his skin. Sora sigh. She carefully helped him into the water and he sat down with water up to his neck. Izzy had never been this close to a girl and felt very uncomfortable. He knew Sora felt this was her duty since he protected her so he went along with it. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her medkit. She grabbed a tweasers and carefully pulled a small piece of metal from Izzy's shoulder.
"Ouch," Izzy couldn't hold it in.
"I'm sorry."
"It's ok."
She rubbed his cuts with water and Izzy was wondering where this was going. She was rubbing his shoulders and he wished she would stop. He used to like Sora, alot. He liked Sora up until he and Mimi where trapped in the Temple Of The Digivice together. Besides, Sora liked Tai and they were ment for each other. Either Matt or Joe were ment for Mimi and T.K. and Kari were somewhat of an item. What should he do? He leaned in, not knowing why. He wasn't going to kiss her. She leaned in too. Her chest touched his. Options were racing through Izzy's mind and he wanted to scream. Sora too had the same problem.
"I'll just give her a little kiss."
"I'll just quickly kiss him, after all, he did save me."
They both moved in and their noses bumped.
"Nice going."
"Smooth."
They tried again and managed to work it out. Their lips were first flat but molded into a fish mouth. Izzy put her top lip in between his and felt as though he were about to throw up. She pulled his lip in and felt as though she was not honoring Tai. They both pulled away and sat there.
"This is akward," said Izzy.
"Yeah, I know," said Sora. She paused, "how was it?"
Izzy smiled and flatly said ," Prodigious."
"Joe, Joe wake up!" said Mimi as she pulled at his shirt.
She stood up and saw that none of her friends were with her except Joe. She walked down to a nearby river and filled her hat with water. Suprisingly, it didn't leak out.
"Hm, must be all the hairspray," said Mimi, joking to herself.
She set the water next to Joe and poured a small amount on his forehead. HE slowly opened his eyes. He moaned.
"Ouch, is my arm still attached?" he asked.
"Yes, but barely," said Mimi. She ment it to be a joke but it was partially true.
She reached in her large supply bag and pulled out some bandages. She was more worried about Izzy than Joe. She thought Izzy was so smart and cute, but Matt was hot and popular. She liked Joe a little and figured he did save her life so she should be nice. Tanemon jumped over.
"Will he be ok?"
"I think so, but we can only wait."
Matt walked along the edge of the field.
"T.K.!"
Tai and Kari walked around the corner, carrying firewood.
"He's looking for us to, Matt. We'll find him tommorrow," said Tai.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just that he's so little, he can't take care of himself alone," said Matt.
"Don't worry, Angemon is with him," said Kari, setting the logs down.
"He's Patamon by now," added Tai.
"No, he is probably Tokomon, he can't do a very good job of prtecting T.K.," said Matt as he sat down.
"Don't worry," said Tai, "he'll be ok."
T.K. and Tokomon trotted through the woods.
"Matt! Tai, anybody! Izzy! Sora!" he shouted.
Tokomon joined in.
Matt quickly stood up.
"Hey, you guys hear that?" he asked.
Tai and Kari listened, "Nope, I don't hear anything. Come on, we need some rest."
Izzy hled his shirt in his hands. It was so ripped and frayed, he could roll it up into a tiny ball. The shirt was much thinner now. He set it beside him and looked at Sora.
"I have to put some of that cut creme on my legs now so..." started Izzy.
"Turn around?" smiled Sora.
"Yeah," said Izzy as he walked behind a tree.
He pulled his shorts off. They were thick cargo shorts so lots of hunks of metal stuck to them. It felt so good to get them off. He leaned back against a tree and let the wind blow over him. He rubbed the healing creme on his cuts and scrapes and picked most of the metal pieces from his shorts. He pulled them back on and grabbed his shirt.
"You can turn around now," he said as he pulled on his shirt.
He felt as though he had just gotten a hair cut. He was itchy and his clothes felt like they had little annoying hairs all over them. He walked up to Sora and sat down.
"Listen, about earlier...I," started Izzy.
"You're nice and care about others, I do have a thing for Tai but he would never have saved me. I think this is a good relationship to be in," said Sora.
That certainly wasn't was Izzy was going to say but when he thought about it, Sora was a very nice person. He just never thought about a relationship with her because he figured he could never get her.
"Izzy..." she said.
"Wha?"
"What do you think?"
"Oh, yeah! Definetaly!"
"Great," said Soras she kissed him on the cheek.
"As I look at you sitting there, I see caring, I see concern for others," said Sora.
"As I sit here, and look at you, I see love and concideration," said Izzy.
She was easy to love, but did he love her? They had had this kind of relationship for what? Half a day? No, he didn't love her, not yet, anyway. She layed down in the sand and he moved up next to her. He put one arm around her and started to fall asleep.
"You didn't destroy them!" shouted Piedmon.
"Why would I? They are my friends! If you want to punsih someone, punish Puppetmon! He was controling me!" shouted Andromon.
He was almost cut in half and his chest and lower half of his head were a mess. His legs were torn and so were his arms. "Tell me something, Andromon, do you value your life?" asked Piedmon.
"I used to, until my world was taken away from me by Digimon like you!" shouted Andromon.
"We can destroy you her, and now...or you can join us, or you can be taken over by a Black Gear, or-" started Piedmon.
"Black Gear? I thought those were all destroyed!" said Andromon.
"Isn't it amazing what you can conjure up with a few spells?" said Piedmon as a Black Gear poped into his hand.
"So, anyway...If we destroy you, then we will reprogram you to be bad until you die. I know you won't willingly join us so the Black Gear is your best option. Oh, we will repair you too, so it is a real bargain. And I can work with the Black Gear to make sure that nobody ever rips it out of you, alright?"
Andromon sigh. He was far too damaged to attack. He didn't want to fight for evil. If he was destroyed, then rebuilt with new programming, the old Andromon wouldn't have to do anything but...die. It would just be like a bad Digimon using his old body. He paused.
"Destroy me," said Andromon coldly.
The Dark Masters looked suprised.
"Destroy you? Oh, well. I guess anyway you look at it, it's win/lose. I win, you lose!" yelled Piedmon.
"Wrong, I don't have to work your evil ways! Andromon, disable current programming chip and do not allow access to any form of new programming!' shouted Andromon.
His chip sent itself off line and Andromon's power left him. His head rested on his chest and he had finally escaped the evil.
"No! Fool!" shouted Piedmon. He attacked.
Andromon's body blew away from his arms and legs. He fell into pieces of metal and clanked to the floor. Sparks flew and gases spew. A small ball of fire erupted as Andrmon flew into ever corner of the room.
Izzy suddenly sat up. Something was wrong.
"Izzy, what is it?" asked Sora with a yawn.
"I don't know-" started Izzy but was interupted as the bursh across the pond moved around.
"I'm going to go check it out," said Izzy.
"Be careful! Take Motimon," said Sora.
"Good idea. Motimon! Motimon! Hm, Motimon?"
"This isn't good, Yokom and I will come with you," said Sora.
They stood up and ran into the woods.
"Motimon? Where are you?" called Izzy.
Sora looked around.
"Hey, Izzy. Did you hear that?" "What?
"It sounds like crying...a baby crying," answered Sora.
Izzy pulled away a piece of brush.
"Moti-Pabumon?" said Izzy.
The small little blob sat on the ground, hands on his face, and crying.
"Why are you crying?" asked Izzy, picking him up.
"I couldn't save you! I've failed my main purpose! I guess I just wasn't cut out to be your Digimon," said Pabumon.
"You don't have to worry about that, in a few days, I'll be better and back to normal. We can't succed all the time, some times we just have to accept our failures. You protected us from another very deadly missile, you saved our lives!' said Izzy.
"No! No, No, No! I can't stay with you. You deserve better!"
"But, your my friend!' said Izzy.
Pubumon smiled and started to glow. With a "pop!" he turned back into Motimon.
"See, you are just as good a Digimon as any! You can't leave!" said Izzy.
"No! You just made me feel better for a second! I can't stay with you anymore! GEt a new friend!" yelled Motimon as he turned and bounced away.
Izzy ran after him and grabbed him.
"No! You can't go!"
"Let me go! I have to leave now!"
"No! We're friends!" yelled Izzy.
"I'm no friend, I'm a loser! Now go!" said Motimon.
"No!' said Izzy in a whiny voice.
"Ahhh! Bubble Blow!" screamed Motimon.
Izzy ducked and looked back as Sora was knocked backwards into a tree. She held her arm and looked hurt, emotionally and physically.
"Sora! Motimon, maybe you aren't my friend anymore! Go! Go away now!" said Izzy, half crying.
Motimon looked hurt and happy. He turned, and marched through the woods.
Matt kicked some dirt into the fire.
"We need to search for the others, Tai! Breakfast can wait!"
"Be quiet! You'll wake Kari," said Tai.
"Tai, I'm going off and looking for him myself. I'll be back in an hour or so," said Matt as he stood up.
"Fine, we'll wait for you," said Tai.
Matt walked towards the edge of the field.
"Tai has his sister but I don't have my brother," said Matt as he threw the brush away his face.
He stepped through a patch of small trees, and found himself at a waterfall. He was quite thirsty so he walked to the water's edge and took a drink. It tasted fresh and clean. He was suprised at how the landscape around the waterfall was so nice. Suddenly, he noticed a reflection in the water.
"Who's there?" he asked.
No answer. He realized how dumb it was to leave without Tsunomon. He usually felt brave, but this place sent a chill up his spine. He looked around. Everything was peaceful and quiet. Suddenly, he felt a burst of pain in his forehead. He fell to the ground and felt the peacefulness leave him. He felt angry and evil. He could barely see but he faught to keep with eyes open. Instead of a clean river, he saw a dark, dried up riverbed. He saw burnt plants and demolished buildings, ruins and darkness. He saw evil looking creatures run about. He looked behind the waterfall and saw dark heiroglyphics. Monsters jumped from them and soared into the air. An explosion of pain burst in his head and he fell to the ground, blind. He rubbed his eyes and his vision slowly came back to him. Everything was peaceful and wonderful as before. He was scared out of his mind. He wanted to run away, far away, but his feet carried him to the waterfall. He saw a narrow ledge leading behind it, and he followed it. The cave was dark and water dripped around him. It stunk badly. He held his nose and felt the wall. It was the heiroglyphics. He pulled out his lighter and ignited it. He looked at the wall. It was covered with pictures of Digimon. They looked farmiliar, but somehow...more powerful.
"WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, HerculesKabuterimon, MagnaDramon. Who's MagnaDramon?" asked Matt.
His lighter flickered, and died. Suddenly, something jumped through the waterfall. Matt fell into the wall in front of him. He looked around. A starnge Digimon stood in front of him. It looked like a miniature SkullGreymon. It was very ugly.
"Hello, friend," it said.
"Who are you?" asked Matt, wondering why he was refered to as a "friend".
"I am Myocromon. I am type Data and I have a few different type attacks."
"Why am I your friend?"
"Nobody ever comes here. When other monsters do, they allways run away. I spend my time here, alone," said Myocromon.
"Have you ever...have you ever had a vision about this place? A dark one?" asked Matt.
"Why, of course! This place is The Falls of the Mega. It's a very scary place, but I can't leave here," answered Myocromon.
"The Falls of the Mega?" asked Matt.
"This is the place of the prehistoric Digimon. This world used to be a wonderful place, but as most good things do...it all came to an end. This place was taken over by a band of Digimon called the "Ancients." They destroyed our villages and violently deleted my friends. When we all joined together to defeat them, they unleashed all of their life energy and all of our spirits, including theirs, are trapped here. Some of us were weak and injured, we were enprisoned behind a waterfall in a deep canyon, a few miles from our village. The blast of energy as the Ancients died was so powerful, it froze us in time and mutated us into terrible creatures. Some of my friends decided to look and see if anyone else survived. They never came back. One day I walked to the village edge about ten miles from here, they all started acting weird and said I was evil they tired to kill me but fought each other. Some of them walked to the edge of the village and just disapeared. Sometimes I could swear I see them watching me from the woods. I go out to gather food and I see them talking to each other. They aren't all there...I can sort of see through them. I used to be a cute furry Digimon, but..."
Matt was scared.
"Have you ever looked at those heirogyliphyics?" asked Matt.
"Yes, the Ancients are not dead. My friends are not dead. There are a bunch of pictures of monsters on that wall, Mega level Digimon. A battle is to be fought, those creatures will destroy the Ancients and free my friends, dead or alive," said Myocromon.
Matt looked over at the heiroglyphyics again and ran his finger over the picture of MetalGarurumon.
"Ouch!"
"What happened?" asked Myocromon.
A strand of energy flew down Matt's body and he turned around. His eyes were a dark red and he had a small grin on his face.
Tai looked away from the fire and felt quite lonely without anyone to talk to, even if Matt was kind of stupid. Tsunomon suddenly stood up and his eyes glowed red.
"Tsunomon, digivolve to...Gabumon!"
Tai stood up! "Great! You digivolved back to Gabumon!"
Gabumon glared at him.
"Blue Blaster!"
Tai felt the powerful stream of ice slam into his chest and toss him backwards. Matt stepped out of the woods. He looked down at his crest and it glowed an evil black. He shined it froma cross the field and Tai was blinded by it's light.
"Good morning, Tai," said Matt coldly.
"Gabumon, warp digivolve to...MetalGarurumon! Mega Wolf Claw!"
Agumon jumped into the air.
"Agumon, warp digivolve to...WarGreymon!"
"Matt, stop this!' yelled Kari.
Matt snapped his fingers and his Digimon jumped in front of him.
"Go, WarGreymon!" said Tai.
"I don't want to fight you, MetalGarurumon," said WarGreymon.
The metal wolf's legs and back opened up and missiles shot from them.
"Tera Force!" yelled WarGreymon.
The ball of energy was frozen by the missiles. It fell into the field and exploded. Dirt and grass flew everywhere.
"River of Power!" came a voice.
It was MetalSeadramon.
"Mega Wolf Claw!"
WarGreymon turned around and jumped onto MetalSeadramon. He dug his Dramon destroyer claws into his back and hung on.
"Tera Force!"
The ball of power slammed into MetalSeadramon's head and he spun in a circle, throwing WarGreymon off. The giant sea dragon flew into the woods. Tai heard a splash.
Gatomon jumped into the air.
"Lightning Claw!"
MetalGarurumon was too slow. The attack slammed into Matt's face and he was blown backwards into a tree.
The red left MetalGarurumon's eyes and he turned back into Gabumon. Matt's eyes too, turned back to their normal color.
WarGreymon turned back into Agumon and ran over to Matt with the others.
"Hey! Matt, talk to me," said Tai.
Matt's forehead was badly cut and he could barely stay awake. "Come on, you can't fall asleep!" said Kari.
"Why did you attack us?" asked Agumon.
"The, waterfall...Myocromon," said Matt. His head fell to his chest and he fainted.
"Hey, T.K.! Look over there," said Patamon.
It was a sign, painted in bright pastel colors.
"Fun, this way," said T.K. ,"Hey! Let's follow the signs and see where they lead!"
Patamon senced that something was wrong. He hesitated, and followed T.K. down the path.
Joe sat in the sand and pretended he couldn't move his arm. Mimi sat down next to him and dropped a hand full of barries in the sand. Palmon and Gomamon walked over and started eating.
"Hey, Joe. Thanks for protecting me," said Mimi.
"Don't mention it. Mimi, I've liked you for...awhile now and I guess I finally figured I'd just show you my feelings." Gomamon and Palmon walked away.
"Oh, Joe. I've liked you too, but you know I like lots of guys."
Joe sigh.
"But none of them would have been brave enough to do what you did," said Mimi with a smile.
Joe looked up and smiled. Mimi slowly leaned in. Joe hesitated and just let Mimi come closer. He was nervous and trying his best to keep his pants dry. Their lips met and they started the kiss. Joe pulled away and looked up.
"What is it?" asked Mimi.
"Trouble," said Palmon.
Kuwagamon crashed through the trees and flew inches over everyone's head.
"We should run," said Joe.
Mimi nodded. Thet both stood up. It would be too hard to run through the woods. They both looked at the river. It was only about a foot deep. They took off.
"Poison Ivy!" shouted Palmon. The vines wraped around Kuwagamon's arm and he flung them off. Palmon flew into the river with a splash. Gomamon jumped into the river and run to catch up with Mimi and Joe. The spashed through the water. Joe lifted his legs high and brought them down. Water spalshed on his glasses. Mimi's foot caught on a log and she fell into the water. Joe grabbed her and they kept running. Kuwagamon was only feet from Palmon and Gomamon. They ducked as he flew over their heads.
"Watch out!' yelled Gomamon.
Joe turned around.
"Wha-ahhh!"
He kept running. For some reason the water looked darker up ahead. Joe didn't think. He and Mimi continued to run. They stepped into the dark area and water rushed passed their heads. Kuwagamon knicked the top of the water and truend around to chase them again. Joe and Mimi climbed out of the water. Mimi's boots filled with water and they slipped off. A fallen tree lay up ahead and there was a small opening in the leaves where they could jump through.
"Think you can jumped through?" asked Joe.
"What's on the other side?" asked Mimi.
"How am I supposed to know?"
They jumped through. Joe screamed like a girl when he saw how bad of a choice it was to jump through the tree. The waterfall was about sixty feet high. Rocks jutted out from the sides and waited for them at the bottom. Water squirted in his face and he tried to look over at Mimi. There was too much water. He heard Gomamon and Palmon scream as they fell over. Joe noticed a small ledge running along the whole side of the waterfall. He grabbed the edge and kicked around, trying to pull himself up. He saw Mimi hanging on next to him. They pulled themselves onto the ledge and grabbed Gomamon and Palmon under the armpits as they passed by.
"Everyone ok?" asked Joe.
He realized he couldn't even hear himself.
"Is everyone ok?!" he screamed.
Mimi walked out from behind him.
"You don't need to yell," she said.
Joe stepped back into the ledge and found that they were in a small cave. He walked towards the back of it and looked at the moss on the wet rock.
"Great! We're in a small cave, behind a waterfall, 20 feet in the air, with sharp rocks right below us! We're trapped!" yelled Joe.
"No we're not," said Palmon.
"Poison Ivy!"
Vines shot from her hands and attached themselves to a tree on the shore. Gomamon grabbed one of the vines, and slid down.
"Great, Palmon!" said Mimi, "Joe! Come on, let's go!"
Joe hesitated but grabbed a vine and slid down with Mimi. Palmon rode her own vines down and landed on the beach with the others.
Sora, Izzy, and Yokomon sprinted down the rocky trail. Pebbles fell form under them and they slid around. The sharp bushes and trees surrounded them. They could ehar Kuwagamon's yell and trees crashing behind them. Yokomon looked back.
"He's right behind us!" she yelled.
Sora stopped and looked around.
"This way!" she yelled.
They turned and ran down a brush filled path. Kuwagamon was flying 3 feet off the ground, fifty feet behind them.
"When Garudamon was carrying us awayf rom the factory, I thought I saw a lake around here somewhere. We can try to fight him there or find a good place to hide," said Sora.
A patch of brush was browing on a large, rocky ledge ahead. Izzy could hear waves crashing around.
"Just through that patch of brush!' said Izzy.
They three crashed through the brush and ran off the rocky ledge. Kuwagamon burst through, only seconds after they ran off the ledge.
"Well, at least we found the lake!" yelled Yokomon.
What the three had not realized was that they were running along the edge of a tall cliff with the lake below it and that ledge that they had just jumped from was the end of it. Sticks and grass flew into the air as Kuwagamon smashed through the ledge. He flew out over the lake and searched for the kids.
"I know- this isn't really a time for bad news,- but, we're about one hundred feet in the air- and there is a pretty good chance we- are going- to die," said Izzy between gasps of breath.
"Yokomon, digivolve to...Biyomon!"
"You still can't save us! Digivolve again!" yelled Sora.
"Biyomon, digivolve to...Birdramon!"
The giant red bird flew under Izzy and Sora. They landed on her back and grabbed ahold of her feathers.
Kuwagamon turned towards them.
"Power Guillutine!"
"Meteor Wing!"
Birdramon was thrown backwards. Sora grabbed at Birdramon's feathers. They started to slip from her hand. Izzy grabbed onto her arm and expected to her the sounds of Tentomon digivolving, but none came. Kuwagamon flew over the two and slashed at Birdramon's back. A thin red line appeared on Sora's arm from the claw and she flinched. Her arm slipped from Izzy's grasp and she started to fall towards the lake. Birdramon flew over the shore. Izzy was frozen. His hands were dug into Birdramon's back and he watched Sora fall, helplessly. He looked towards ther beach. Something stepped out out of the trees.
"Lightning Blade!"
A bolt of energy shot from the creatures arm.
"Andromon?" said Izzy.
The robot Digimon's chest opened up and he fired two missiles.
"He is totally repaired!" said Izzy, "how?"
The missiles swerved around. Birdramon ducked under a missile and it went flying into Kuwagamon. He started on fire and dove into the lake. The other missile's nouth opened up and fired lasers. Izzy lay down on top of Birdramon, hoping the lasers would miss. The laser flew at all angles around him. It was like a sci-fi movie he ahd seen with a dogfight and lasers coming at the cockpit. His leg suddenly felt like it had been stung by a bee. He looked down and saw a small burnt hole in his leg. It suddenlu hurt worse. Birdramon dodged the lasers and Izzy had fogotten to hold on. He was thrown of Birdramon and he began his journey down the lake.
"Meteor Wing!'
The missile hit Birdramon in the side and she immediately turned back into Biyomon. She fell towards the lake as Kuwagamon burst out of it and flew away. Birdramon's attack slammed into Andromon. He fell onto the beach and suddenly jets sprouted from his back. He lifted into the air, and flew away. Izzy tightened up all his muscles as he neared the lake surface. He smashed into the water with a loud "slap!". Half of his body went numb from hitting the surface. Biyomon stretched out her wings and floated into the water. Izzy was about twenty feet under. He fought and kicked but hardly moved. He was running out of air, he felt hot and like he had a terrible headache. He opened his mouth and water poured in. He spit it out but more came in. He screamed and furiously fought to the surface. Biyomon was right beside him. He saw Sora's bucket hat floating in the water. She had fallen alot farther than he had. He dove under and found Sora sinking to the bottom. He pushed his way down and grabbed her under the arm. Biyomon wasn't that great of a swimmer, being a bird and all, but she helped pull her friend to the surface.
"Sora! Sora!' said Izzy.
He felt her pulse.
"Biyomon, help me get her to shore."
Biyomon nodded and lifted Sora out of the water. Izzy was in the middle of the lake, alone. He had a long way to swim across. He could see the shore very clearly, he wasn't very far away, he could see the sand and the trees clearly, it would be easy to swim back. Somehow, he felt very tired. He had just swum half to the bottom of a lake and the preasure was forcing the air out of him. No, it was something else. He noticed that his orange shirt was reder than before. He looked at the water around him. It was reder than before too! He looked at his leg. He was badly bleeding. He paniced and started to swim to shore. The water stung the wound badly. For some reason, he got very angry and splashed hard at the water and fought his way to shore. He could see Biyomon setting Sora on the beach. She needed help from him. He swam faster.
"Sora! Sora, wake up!" yelled Biyomon.
Izzy climbed onto the shore and ran over to Sora, limping with every step and blood running down his leg.
"Sora! Come on!" said Izzy.
She slowly opened her eyes but quickly closed them again. Biyomon noticed that Sora' chest wasn't going up and down.
"Izzy! She's not breathing!"
Izzy kneeled down in front of her and plugged her nose. He placed his lips on hers and blew.
"This is no time to be kissing!" shouted Biyomon.
Izzy ignored the bird and kept pumping air into Sora's lungs. He plugged her nose again and she started to cough. Water ran down her chin. Izzy had given her all of his energy. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around. The sand felt wet. Izzy looked down at it and notcied it was red. He got out of his kneeling postition and stetched his leg out. The burnt hole was turning green inside. Somehow, Andromon's bullets must have been filled with poison. He suddenly felt like he wanted to go to sleep. He really did not want to but his body did. He fought to keep his eyes open but they closed anyway. He didn't want to pass out...but he did anyway.
T.K. walked over a small bridge and into the yard of a small masnion.
"This way for fun," he read.
He skipped up to the door, and rang the bell.
"Matt! Matt!" yelled Kari.
He looked around and saw his friends standing over him.
"Wha-What happened?" he asked.
"You tried to kill us! WarGreymon beat the tar out of MetalSeadramon too! I doubt he'll be bugging us much longer!" said Tai.
Suddenly, a strange cry rang through the woods. Matt looked into the trees. Two little Digimon were standing there, eating berries. MetalSeadramon was snoring away on the ground next to them. He could clearly see right through them.
"No, Tai. I doubt we'll be seeing him ever again," said Matt.
Motimon walked along the winding trail. He was in a marsh area and had been for hours. He just couldn't find a way out. He was terribly scared but didn't want to go back to Izzy. He suddenly saw a boardwalk a little ways down the trail. He bounced along and hoped onto the dry, wooden walkway. He was all wet and he made a squishing sound as he moved. Suddenly, he saw a house up ahead. It was was a twenty foot tall barrel with windows on the sides. It had a little balcony at the top and a warm light surrounded it. He knew he was far away from where he should be and he had never heard of a place like this. The boardwalk led right up to the door, then branched out into small docks where little boats sat. He opened the door. A warm blast of air and the wonderful aroma of food filled the air. He walked across the wooden floor and saw an old fireplace. He walked up to it and let it fill him with warmth. The place was packed with creatures. He had heard Izzy describe a bar before and thought that that place must be one. There was a bar in the middle with glasses sitting on top of it. Digimon sat on barstools surrounding it. There where circular tables with chairs around them placed all around the room. Diigmon were running all over the large barrel bar, talking and swinging drinks around. He saw an empty bar stool and climbed on top of it. The bartender was a strange creature. He had four arms and one leg which he hoped around on. His face looked like Gabumon's, but he wore a helmet that looked exactly like Kabuterimon's head. He immediately slammed a drink in front of Motimon. It was in a medium sized wooden glass, and full of a redish colored beverage. Little bubbles shot from it and burst in Motimon's face. He found himself chuckling. Suddenly, every Diigmon in the bar chuckled too and held up their glasses. Motimon lifted the cup up to his mouth and took a drink. It tasted so good, he felt happy. He had had pop at Izzy's house and this had the same amount of carbonation. It tastes of strawberries mixed with blueberries, mixed with cream, mixed with sugar. He almost melted in his seat.
"Ah! This is good!" he chirped happily. The other Digmon in the bar lifted their glasses and smiled once again.
"Why do you all do that?" asked Motimon.
The once again lifted their glasses and smiled. Motimon grabbed his drink and found his way to a door in the back of the room. He opened it and found a kitchen where food was being prepared. In the back of the kitchen, he found a staircase and climbed it. There was a door on the side of the stairs so he opened it. It was full of bunk beds and had a balcony in the back of the room
"That's odd," said Motimon as he finished the staircase and ended up on the roof. He took another drink. It tasted awful! He looked down and saw that it was green and rotten. He walked back down into the bar and it immediately turned back into its creamy red color. He wanted to get out of there. The little Digmon bounced to the door and flung it open. He couldn't move out of the bar. He stepped back and ran forward. He ran out the opned door but suddenly felt as though someone had kicked him. He was quickly flung back into the bar.
"No leaving until you finsh your drink!' said the bartender. Motimon chuged his drink and started towards the door. He looked down at his cup. It was refilling itself!
The Digimon in the bar lifted their glasses and simultaneously said, "Please, do have more!"
Izzy slowly opned his eyes. Sora had his hand in hers and she was looking down at him.
"You're awake!" she said.
Izzy closed his eyes again.
"Are we still on the beach?" he asked.
"Yeah, but it's almost 10:30 at night. I had to stay awake to keep an eye on you," said Sora.
Izzy looked down at his leg. It was a sick green color and his small buller hole had turned into a ugly hole. It was burning terribly and he could hardly stand it.
"Ouch! Do you have any water to put on it?" asked Izzy. She grabbed her bucket hat which was in the sand beside her and tipped it sdieways. Water poured out and splashed on Izzy's wound. It made it hurt worse, but it didn't burn as much. He was sweating terribly.
"Izzy, we need to find the others. Biyomon and I really can't give you the help you need. You're really sick and you need some help! I'm sure you can't walk very well with that leg and Biyomon and I can't carry you so-"
"Don't worry, I'll be ok. It's just a flesh wound," interupted Izzy.
Sora knew that had to be a joke but it didn't register as funny in her mind.
"What hurts? What will make you feel better?" asked Sora.
"Well, I'm really hot so maybe I'll go sit in the lake," said Izzy.
He slowly stood up and Sora helped him to the water. He limped into the water, up to where it was about a foot deep, and he sat down. His clothes where all ready so ragged he didn't really care what he did with them.
"I'll be back," said Sora as she ran back to their little campsite.
Izzy splashed his feet in the water and just wished all of his troubles would have died with Myotismon. Now he was stuck in the digiworld once again. There was one plus, he had Sora. Most guys wanted her. He lay back in the sand and looked up at the stars mixed with Earth. He wished he was up there, looking down here. Or looking up, or whaterver it was.
"We'll defeat the Dark Masters and then I'll be home again," he said to himself.
Sora sat down in the water beside him. She had put on shorts and she was in her usaul tank top. "Thinking about home?" she asked.
"Yeah," relied Izzy.
"We'll get back."
"Yeah...I know."
"Izzy, I don't want you tot hink that you're messing up Tai and I. We are just really good friends. We'd never be anything more. Izzy...I-" Sora gave up on what she was saying and kissed Izzy on the cheek. He looked up over at her and smiled. She turned her head and kissed him on the side of the lip.
"Heck with it," whispered Izzy.
He wraped his arms around Sora and kissed her. She put his top lip on top og hers and she slipped her tounge inside. Izzy felt sick but kept going. He ran his hands down her back and moved away. She moved way too and they both decided to back again at the same time. Izzy accidentaly kissed Sora's nose and she kissed his chin. The both smiled for a few seconds.
"Izzy, I don't know if this is a real feeling but...I-I" started Sora.
"Love you," whispered Izzy.
"Yeah, I love you," whispered Sora in an even quieter voice.
Neither of them knew what to do next so they just stared at each other.