This story was written on www.sonicfoundation.org 's message board along with Aaron Max. Along with help from Charles RB and Broken Tusk. I forget, are illistraitions allowed here?

Wasn't it soppose to be dark and stormy at night? It was Friday afternoon, and the thunder storm was a natural light show, quite the beauty. Unless of course you happened to be outside and was near anything tall. Davis suddered at the thought. Ken was late. Though he had now joined the group, Ken was still reluctant around the others Chosen Children.
Davis parents were impressed that he gotten so many friends so quicky, and had stop emulating Tai so much. If only they knew how much like Tai Davis had become.
"You should get going." Said Izzy sitting at the computer monitor. "That storm is getting pretty rough. The power could go out and we would be left without a gateway between worlds."
"What about your Pinapple?" Asked Yolei.
"It's battery is low, I wanna save it for an emergency."
"We can't go, Ken isn't here yet." Said Davis.
"He's backed off." Said Cody flatly.
"Arn't you ever going to let it go?" Asked Davis to his face.
"I don't remember anyone voting you leader. And I think you let what he did go WAY too easy. He was the devil and now you think he's change completly. That there's not a spark of that monster left in him."
"I never said that. All I'm saying is that we should give him the benifit of the doubt. Isn't that the honorable thing to do Cody?" Said Davis using the kid's weak spot. Cody silenced up.
With the control spires off line and now just eye scors the first genertation digi-destine could at last help out with their partners as well. Tai and the other first gen's were there waiting, it had been a while since they had all been together.
"Look guys. I hate to rush this but we sould either use the gate now or leave. We've never used a gate before during an eletric storm and I don't want to experiment how it effect things." Said Izzy.
"Com'on Davis." Said Demi-veemon hoping onto Davis shoulder. "Ken can catch up later. He won't mind I'm sure."
Daivs breathed. "Ok, fine, whatever, let's open the gate and get moving. You wanna do the honor Cody?"
Cody didn't reply and only pointed his device at the computer screen.
"Digi-port open." There were two flashes of light that moment, one from the computer and the other from outside as a lighting bolt hit an outside power cable, the school was going to regret not investing in mantaining it's circut breakers.
Izzy had voleenteered to remain behind to monitor so was outside of the reach of the gate when Cody opened it but he was knocked off his feet as the room sparked wild as the lighting went though the computers just the other chosen kids, minus Izzy and of course Ken, entered the gateway.

Ken was stunned when he saw the light bolt hit the pole outside. Damn stupid road construction and pour rain. It had taken him longer than he had thought to get from his home to the school. (being missing for three months, and having suffered a tempory chase of amesia when he returned and then getting his memory back claiming not to know where he had been since running away had given him a few days off to catch up, even 'genious'' needed to do make up work.)
"Hope everything's alright in there." Muttered Ken as he rushed inside.

" Back in the Digiwolrd at last!" Veemon shouted now back in rookie form.

" I think my feathers are now static." Hawkomon groused.

" Well let's get going Co...eh Cody..where'd ya go?" Armadillomon asked.

" Where's Kari while we're at it?" Gatomon said.

" Seems Yolei also flew the coop." Hawkmon noticed.

" TK?" Patamon called out.

" HEY WHERE'D YA ALL GO?" Veemon shouted.

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Tai was tapping his foot, Davis and them were late. They said to meet at Primary village and nothing.

" They're taking their sweet time." Matt groused.

Ken entered the computer room to find the lights out and Izzy trying to remember which way was up.
"Izzy you ok?" Asked Ken helping the computer geek to his feet.
"I think so, but I'm not sure about the others."
"What do you mean? Where are they?"
"Since you were late everyone voted to go on ahead without you. Lighting struck just as they used the gate."
"I saw it from the outside . . ." Ken turned pale. "Do you think they're . . ."
"I don't know, give me a minute to boot up my lab top, it's battery is low but it should give us enough time to see if they're all right." He didn't dare say 'still alive.'
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That was a new experince. Thought Davis painfully, he felt like he had been scattared into a million pieces and then put back together with crazy glue. He wanted nothing more than never to have to go though that again.
His senses were disoritented, and to top it all off he felt like he was burried in something thick, soft, and had the worest stench he could of imagined. He struggled to breath, fighting his way to what he hoped was the top of whatever this was. A bright light, a gasp of relativly freash air, as Davis' eyes ajusted to the new light source he finnaly saw what he had been burried in. It looked like. His cloths? Davis reached out a hand and frooze solid, instead of his hand, there was a small blue one with useless claws. It looked like Vee-mon's.

"Huh!? Wha..." Davis took another look at his hand. Sure enough it was a scaly blue, clawed hand. "What's going on... am I... " He gasped! The voice that came out of his mouth wasn't his- it was- nah. Couldn't be! He was afraid to look at the rest of his body. Finally he opened one eye long enough to peek at the ground in front of him. And slowly, he brought his view down to his stomach. He saw a scaly white belly and clawed feet. "Ahhhh!!!!" He leaped out of his clothes in disbelief. He landed painfully on his tail. "Huh? My.. TAIL! Ahhhhhh!" Davis looked around. No one else was there. Suddenly, the bushes rustled and out popped... "Veemon!! Oh am I ever glad to see you!!" Davis ran up and hugged Veemon, who replied, "Umm... do I know you?" "Of course! It's me!! Davis!!" Veemon looked at him, then started laughing. "Heh. Good one. My friend's name is Davis. Do you know him?" Davis didn't know what to say. Veemon helped him up and motioned for him to follow him back through the shrubs.

"Ya know... I didn't know there were anymore Veemons out there. I thought I was the last of my kind. Wait 'till the guys see you!!" "But..." Veemon shhh'd him. "Look! There's one of my friends!" He pointed to Hawkmon, sitting on the floor dazed. "Hawkmon!! Have you seen Davis. And where's Yolei?" Hawkmon scrunched up angrily, "I AM Yolei!! Something weird is going on though. I... I'm a Digimon!!" Davis ran up to her. "Oh, you too? Man! There is some seriously strange things going on here!" "For once, I agree with you... Davis, right?" He nodded his head. "Maybe Arukenimon is behind this!" Veemon stared at them both, thinking 'These Digimon are acting weirder than Davis when he sees Kari.'

TK groaned he wished the Digiport wasn't so..violent sending them back and forth. He rubbed his eyes with his wings....WINGS?

TK looked and noticed he had two brown wings comming out of the side of his head. ' WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?" he squeaked....wait a second his voice didn't squeak.

" Hey you okay?" Patamon asked landing by him.

" Patamon ya gotta help me, soemthing's turned me intoa Digimon!"

"...Oh my..TK is that you?" Patamon gasped.

" YES!' TK exclaimed.

" TK, PATAMON, GATOMON, ANYONE?"

TK, and Patamon looked over as a Gatomon witha tail ring came out of the brushes.

" Hey Gatomn you found your tail ring." Patamon exclaimed.

" I'm not Gatomon's t's me Kari!" Kari exclaimed.

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" Okay they're late what the hell's happening?" Tai muttered.

Matt assured, "Don't sweet it Tai. So they're late so what? It's not like we haven't been late to some things bofore. It's not like it's the end of the world. They'll show up I'm sure."
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After booting his Pineapple up Izzy clicked up his commucator system, true the two way radio on the D3's and Digi-vices hadn't been tested yet, but now was as good a time as any.
The red head computer nerd plug in the microphone on the low powered computer and clicked on Davis. A flashing light showed the digi-vice was ringing on the other side.
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Yolei suddenly reddened and pushed Davis away.
"Can you try not to look at me?"
"Huh?"
"Are you as thick as that kid on Poke'mon? I . . . really don't have any . . ." Yolei studdered.
Veemon didn't get what the heck was going on.
Davis blinked and then laughed.
"Yolei I don't think you need to worry about modesty right now."
"That's easy for a neanderthal like you to say!"
"Take that back!"
"No way!" Yolei's voice, unlike his, still contained some of her orginal self, enough to tell she was a girl at least.
"Why you!" Before they could break out into a beak and claw brawl they both heard a beeping noise in the otherwise quite forest.
Both stopped mid-pose.
"A beeper?" Yolei asked confused.
Davis ran towards the sound of the noise and realized it was coming from his cloths pile he duge in and found his D3, holding it like a life preserving he press the flashing button, (had it been there before?).
"H-hello?"
"Veemon is that you?" Came Izzy's voice static at the other end.
"Izzy! It's me Davis! You gotta help me! I'm a Digi-mon."
"Veemon tell Davis this isn't the time for jokes!" Came Izzy's voice sternly.
"This isn't a joke!" Shouted Yolei into the device having followed Davis with Veemon close behind. "You have to figure something out boy genius! None of my cloths are going to fit like this!!"
Now it was Ken's voice whispering though the gizmo. "Yolei . . . .? Is that you?"
"Ken!" Said the girl turned digi-mon renching the device from Davis' clawed hands.
"I'm so glade to hear your voice, are you ok?"
"I'm fine. I was worried when I saw that lighting hit the telephone poll outside the school." Replied the boy at the other end.
"Lighting . . .?" Said Davis with a veemon's voice.
"A lighting hit just as you used the digi-port. Ok, you tell me your really digi-mon now?" Asked Izzy toltally serious now, there was no way Yolei would resort to a prank, Davis yes but not Yolei.
"Isn't that what we've been saying?~!!" The two of them shouted together.
"So you really are . . . . " Veemon's voice trailed off.
"Sorry, it just not something to happens to people everyday." Apoligized Izzy before going toltally in nerd mode. "What does it feel like? What was the experince? Where you conious of the change? Was it instananious or causual? Have you been able to digi-vole? Have you been able to use any of the attacks yet? Where're the others?"
"IZZY!!!" Screamed Yolei into the D3.
"Yolei calm down." Said Ken.
"I am calm! No I take it back! I'm turned into a digi-mon, naked, and my only company is the ******* of the century and his digi-partner!! Who knows what the pervert will do."
"Yolei!" Said Davis turning red, she always insulted him when she got stressed out. The more stressed out she was, the worse the slander, and Yolei was more stressed out than she had ever been in her life.
"Ok . . . take slow deep breaths, don't freak out anymore than you already have. Tell me what happened." Said Ken his voice snapping Yolei out of her freak out mode.
Yolei complied with the former incarnation of evil's request and talked in a forced calm voice.
"We figured that after you didn't show that it would be better to go on ahead and let you catch up. Then the digi-port went crazy as we went though the 'in-between' and I blanked out. When I came to I felt like I was wrapped up like a mummy, I pulled myself out and realized I was buired in my digi outfit, I took a few paces and was hit by a dizzy spell, then when I came to Vee-mon and Davis found me . . ."
"Then she started insulting me for no good reason."
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Just stop." Said Ken flatly. "Davis what about you?"
"Pretty much same thing, except I the world didn't go topsey turpey for me."
"Wonder why it did for Yolei then." Said Ken.
"I have a therory." Said Izzy in his science voice.
"You always do." Said Davis no humor in his voice.
"I think you died when you got went though the portal."
"WHAT?!?!"
"I know this sound crazy but hear me out. Our digi-mon were all created using our data right?"
"Riiight."
"And in the digi-world we exist AS data. So maybe, you digi-bits got scattared when the lighting hit, and were reassembled when you existed. Only you form was rebooted in the representation of what your data natural is in the digi-world. Your digi-mon."
"But why did we then come out at rookie level?" Asked Yolei having calmed down a bit.
"Don't know, maybe you had enough engery to get there automaticly I don't know everything."
"Can we just go though the gate and turn back to normal?" Asked Davis in hope.
"I don't think so. At least not the normal way-oh darn it!"
"What do you mean, 'oh darn it' and not the normal way?"
"I don't have much longer to talk since I'm using my lap top and it battery is low and the school power and computers arn't back up yet and I have only a minute left on power. When your digi-mon come though the gate they don't change into humans so I doubt that would work. And I don't really want to find out what will happen if we try another lighting show. Hitting someone on the head DOESN"T restore memory from another hit like they show on the TV. Twenty seconds left. I have to go home to get some freash batteries, stay tight are the other there with yo- . . . ." Izzy's voice broke up and all was static.
Davis sat slowly on the grass being carful this time not to hit his tail, how did Vee-mon handle this thing?
Davis' face brightened for one second, and then entered depression. Maybe being a digi-mon wouldn't be so bad, he was now immortal and would just reincarnate every time he died, no more teachers no more books, no more Jun's love throbe. Then he thought of Kari, he doubted she like to have a digi-mon for a body friend, TK was a shoe in now! Rats! There had to be a way to fix this. Right?
"Is that really you Davis?" Asked Veemon now a little scared.
Davis only nodded, he realized he was two steps away from crying.
Veemon huged his partner the way any friend would.
His voice started to crack. "Y-You better g-go get your D3 and D-termenial Y-Yolei." Said Davis deciding to comply with her wish at not looking at anything but her face though she had nothing to hide. There had to be way to fix this. There was always a way to fix this kind of thing on TV. Right? Right?!

"I bet if this happened to you, it happened to all the others too." said Patamon. TK and Kari nodded. Suddenly, there was a loud roar. And out of the sky fell a huge ball of fire. "Run!!!" The ball hit the forest behind them as the shockwave knocked them off their feet. They slowly got up. "What was that?" Kari cried out. Out of the crater came an evil, choked growl. Something was emerging! A Digimon! And it was on fire! TK looked it over, "What... is that thing!!??"

FlareLizamon
He's a flame dragon-type Digimon. He loves to burn everything around him, but he's great for barbecues!

FlareLizamon saw them. He roared out "Dinner is served! Come here, little ones!" "No way," shouted out Patamon, "Boom Bubble!" The bubble hit FlareLizamon, but only made the flames bigger. "Fuel to the fire! My turn! Flame Hit!" He shot out a massive fireball at Patamon, but missed. TK looked at Kari "Oh man, FlareLizamon is a Champion and Patamon is only a Rookie. We gotta help him. But how!?" "We're Digimon. Do you think we can attack?" Patamon was getting beaten up now. He shouted to them, "Try it! Just suck in air and blast it out and..." BOOM! He was hit with FlareLizamon's attack. He laughed maniacally. TK glared at him "Nooo!! Patamon! You just made the biggest mistake ever! You hurt my friend! Now take this! Boom Bubble!" He sucked in air like Patamon told him. He could feel himself expanding. PAH! Instead of just one bubble, several came out. They hit FlareLizamon, but he only got bigger. "Is that the best you can do, weakling?" "TK, Gatomon is a Champion! I can stand up to him. Watch out! Lightning Claw!!" Kari leaped at the enemy. Her claws instinctively sharpened and her arms moved faster than she had ever seen. There were after-images of her arm! "Look! I'm doing it!" Her Lightning Claw was slicing through FlareLizamon and he was screaming in pain. "Aaaarrrgh! Get off me!!" he backhanded Gatomon off him. "Flare Tower!!" he raised his arm up and a tornado of fire dropped out of the sky. Kari glared at him for no apparent reason. "Cat Eye Hypnotism" she whispered. FlareLizamon looked into her eyes. He was feeling a bit drowsy. Then fell asleep. He wasn't minding his Flare Tower attack, so it turned around and hit him. He was caught in the updraft. FlareLizamon's outer layer fell apart, revealing a black Control Spire Digimon exoskeleton. He evaporated.

"Yay! You did it Kari!!!" Kari looked relieved, then fell to the ground exhausted. "Yeah I guess I did. But now I'm hungry. And I feel... weird." A light glow surrounded her and she DeDigivolved to Salamon. "Huh?" TK looked at her in amazement, "You said Gatomon was a Champion, and Champion require a lot of energy. I guess... you need to eat something." "Did someone say eat something?" a voice came from the distance. Two Armadillomons came running over the horizon, a makeshift bag of berries on their backs. "You too, huh?" Said Cody.
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"I don't care! They may need my help in there!!" Ken yelled. Izzy had been, for the past 15 minutes, trying to convince him not to go."You don't know what could happen!! You might end up as Wormmon!" Leafmon looked up from Ken's arms, "And what's wrong with being Wormmon?" "I'm not taking another minute of this! Digi-port open!" The computer beeped, but the port didn't open. "Digi-Port open I said!" Izzy looked at the monitor "The Gate is still broken. Let me try to fix it." Ken sighed and stepped aside.

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FlareLizamon

" Hey Kari where is Gatomon anyway?" Patamon asked.

" I sent her ahead to find Tai, and the others to let them know we had a problem." Kari answered.

" Berries anyone?' Aramdillomon answered.

" YEAH!" Everyone answere dincluding the human turned Digi's..they were Digimon now and had their appitates.

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" TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!" Screamed Gatomon as she ran from the buses into the Primary Village square.

" Huh, Gatomon what's wrong?!" Tai asked concerned Gatomon never screamed or acted all freaked out unless something BAD had happened.

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" Izzy we have to find a way into the Digital world and help them!" Ken said.

They were at Izzy's recharging his laptop batteries.

" I know, I know just hang tight." Izzy said.

Gatomon landed at Tai's feet panting for breath.
"Kari's a digi-mon!" Everyone fell over.
Gabumon sweet dropped. "You've been over doseing on the cat nip again haven't you?"
"This isn't a joke! When we all came though the gate and it went hay wire! Me and Kari found ourselves alone, except instead of Kari, it was a another Gatomon burried in Kari's cloths! She asked me go get you while she looked for the others."
Pattamon whispered to Gomamon. "Ok, you distract her and I'll use my posien ivy until we can find a rubber litter box." The cat's senivtive ears overheard them.
"I'm not crazy!" She shouted in anger. "If you don't believe me then just wait and see. And if I was making this up don't you think I would of thought of something more believable?!"
"Unless that's what you want us to think." Said the Seal flatly.
"Shut up! The others wern't around where we landed we don't know where they are or if they're in danger."
Matt siged. First gen digi-vices didn't have a commucation system. He wish they did, because then they might learn what was going on from Izzy if they had followed the game plan and he had stayed on the other side of the gate.
"And now that Kari's gone off looking for them, IF that's what happened, now we have no idea where she IS either!!" Replied Tai venom on his voice.
"Opss." Whispered the cat.
"'Opess' doesn't cut it! And how do we know your not just a control spire immatation of Gatomon making up this crazy story just to lure us into a trap?" The first bearer of the chrest of courage hissed.
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"How much longer?" Asked Ken getting fustrated.
"A battery can recharge only so fast, it'll take at least two hours for the thing to recharge to full."
"Two hours!"
"What happened to that cool, calm, pateint kid who got top marks in whatever he tried at?"
"He wasn't me that's for sure." Replied Ken flatly. The black hair boy slowly caressed leafmon trying to calm himself down.
"Well, at least the storm is over, so we don't need to worry about lighting striking twice when we DO use the gate. But I still don't believe it will change the others back when they use it to get back here, if anything it will revert them to the in-training forms of their digi-mon, just like what happened to them when they enter the real world."
"Are you saying you can't think of a way to help Davis and Yolei?" He asked for concern over the only two humans in the world he could consider friends of any sort. But they wern't really human now were they?
"Not right now."
"You'll think of somthing, you always do."
"Nothing is for certain Ken. I think we all learned that a while ago."
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After ten minutes of stuffing their faces, TK remembered his digi-vice. His cloths had to be around her somewhere along with his digi-gear. But what about the others?
"Kari, what happened to your digi-vice?" Tk injuired between chews.
"I had to leave it with my cloths so I left it in some tree hallow," She showed her paws. "Back when these were claws I was afraid I was going to trash it if I tried to carry it."
"I couldn't really carry mine." Said Cody showing his forepaws.
"You could of used another sack for Armdillion's neck for it." Said TK a little matter of fact.
"Oh well . . . my mind was kinda on food at the time." That didn't sound like normal Cody behavior to Kari.
"I hope we don't start lossing what makes us human on the inside the longer we stay like this. What's happened to each of us?" Said Kari in geniune fear for the first time since the Black Ocean had tried to take her.
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When Yolei turned around and was no longer looking at him. Davis dropped his resraint. He cried. Veemon was shocked. He had never once seen Davis cry, ever.

Gatomon growled but smirked and had Tai bend over. ' If I was a control spire I wouldn't know this." She then whispered into his ear.

Tai turned red and stood up. ' Okay your Gatomon for sure! Gah anyway we'd better find Kari, and the others."

" Um Tai..if Gatomon is right and Kari did turn into a Digimon..what about the rest?" Joe inquired.

Matt thought about this...then..that'd mean TK turned into a Patamon.....

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Yolei turned around. " Davis...oh..my...why're you crying?" Now she was worried Davis never cried!

" I..*hic* just....don't get why all the bad stuff happens to us?" Davis sobbed.

Veemon bit his lip he had no idea of what to do to help his partner.

" HEY VEEMON!"

Veemon turned around. " Patamon?"

" No its TK that's Patamon." He gestured to Patamon who flew up to them with Salamon,Cody, and Armadillomon. The two Armadilomon had packs on their backs with the kids clothing and D3's.

Matt tried to hold it in, failed, and laughed.
"What's so funny?" Asked Joe frankly.
"I just got a picture of Takeru(is that the right spelling?) as a Patamon!"
"Hey don't jump to conclusions. We don't know it's happened to the others." Replied Joe.
"Yea, but, heh, it's still funny." Added Matt.
"Ok fine. Now let's find Kari." Ordered Tai. Mimi whispered to Palmon.
"I agree with Gabumon. If she makes any sudden moves. Use Posien Ivy OK?"
"You don't need to tell me twice."
Gatomon growled under her breath. She wish everyone would stop thinking she's nuts.
"Ok Gatamon, can you lead me and Matt back to where you and Kari split up?" Requested Tai not having heard Mimi.
"What about us?" ASked Joe.
"You two stay here incase Kari or the others find their way here." Replied Tai, Mimi didn't like the idea of Tai and co going off alone with a possibly loopy Gatomon.
"Gotch ya." Replied Joe before Mimi could speak up.
"Ok. Gatomon lead the way." Said Tai, still not sure weather or not Gatomon had seen what she thought she saw.
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"Y-you, you guys too?" Whispered Yolei taking a step back. So they were all now together except for Hawkmon, but thoughts of her partners' location was driven from Yolei's mind as to what had happened to them all.
"Whatever 'this' is." Said TK landing.
Davis looked up and his mouth fell open.
"K-k-Kari." He whispered.
The Salmon only nodded.
"No . . . no . . . NO!Nononono!" Davis turned he didn't want Kari to see him cry, Yolei his tormentor and Vee-mon his partner were bad enough, but not Kari!
Climbing up a tree with bare feet would of before cut Davis' soft feet to a bloody mess,
but a Vee-mon's thick hide now protected him, he climb up the tree with the speed of a spider, crying all the way, finnaly he pertched himself on a branch and just stayed there crying his heart out. Not Kari too. Anyone but Kari. She didn't deserve this. Davis pulled himself into a ball, shaking. This had to be a nightmare. Or that was what he could keep telling himself.

Kari walked over to the tree and tried to climb it. But her Salamon claws weren't sharp enough to latch on to anything. "This isn't working. Davis... what's wrong?" There was a faint sobbing noise up there, "No! Don't look at meeeee...." He fell out of the tree and hit the ground. "Ow." Kari walked up to him. "Are you ok?" He looked stayed staring at the grass, then finally looked at her. "I... I... uh... got a leaf in my eye." He snatched up a leaf and wiped the tears from his eyes. "See?" Kari giggled. "What's so funny!?" Davis thought he made a good comeback.
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"I wonder where the others went." Hawkmon asked himself. He had been wandering around the forest for awhile now. "Hmm. They're not around here, I suppose. What's this?" He picked up a paper that floated down from the air. "Look up. What in the world is that supposed to mean?" "Spider Thread!!!" Suddenly, red laces shot from nowhere and entangled Hawkmon. "Gahk!" "Snake Bandage!" Linens came from everywhere and wrapped around him. The Spider Thread weaved itself into a cocoon, completely trapping Hawkmon. He couldn't get out! "Heh ha hahahaha." Arukenimon and Mummymon jumped out of the trees, both in their Digimon form. Arukenimon anxiously looked over her prey "So, Hawkmon! How does it feel now that YOU'RE the one trapped? Huh? Well, no matter. You're no threat to our, or our masters' plan." Mummymon cocked his head sideways, "But... what IS the plan again? I forgot." Arukinemon slapped him upside the head, "Idiot! The less the hired help knows, the better! Now let's go. Those humans must be nearby. Now's the time for action." Mummymon stood up, "I wonder if she'll be like this when we are married." He picked up the encased Hawkmon and dragged him to the car.

"You." Replied Kari. Davis' mouth fell open. "No, not like that!" Corrected Kari realizing her message hadn't come across the way she thought it would. "I mean, you make me laugh, you always have something funny to say, even when your depressed. You have to like that about a person." With that the puppy huged the blue by-ped dragon. Davis blushed, he realized he and Kari were naked and she was hugging him, he told himself it didn't count because these wern't they're real bodies. But if what Izzy said was true, and they had been reconstructed because their data bits had been scattared during that lighting storm into Digi-mon, then teachnatcy these were their real bodies, they're real selves. Davis' head hurt.

"Ok, that should do it." Izzy powered up and double-clicked the button. "Try it now." Ken nodded, "Ready Leafmon? Lets go! Digi-port OPEN!" There was the flash of light and he disappeared into the computer screen. Izzy sighed, "Wish my old Digivice could do that."

Ken woke up laying on his back. 'Guess the Digi-port isn't fully operational yet.' He thought to himself, "Waitaminute! That was different from the usual ride. Did I... turn into a Wormmon!?' He lifted his hand and, to his horror, he found Wormmon's claw. "Aaaaaaarrgggh!!" There was a slight chuckle. Wormmon was sitting on his chest and that was HIS claw. Ken looked at HIS own hand. "Whew. Still human. Wormmon, don't scare me like that!" "Sorry Ken. I just thought you would appreciate the joke." They got up and started searching for the others.
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"The sun is going down!" Cody remarked. "We can't go back through the Digi-port and go home! My parents would freak out if they saw me as a Veemon!! And my sister would use me as a teddy bear!!" Everyone laughed a bit at Davis' joke. Yolei looked back at him, "Plus, Izzy said if we go back to the real world, our forms might become permanent." "Don't worry, the older kids will think of something."
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"Hello? Are you Davis' mom? Yes, well, umm... you see, he was going to sleep over at a friends house tonight. Uh-huh. Ok, I'll tell him" Izzy hung up the phone and mumbled, "The things I do for these kids."
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"Look!! Over there! A burger stand!" There was a stampede of little feet toward the building. "And they're serving my favorite! Hamburgers!" Everyone ate contently. There was only one more hamburger on the plate. Both Davis and Cody reached for it. "Mine!" "No mine!" There was a simultaneous growling at each other. TK flew over and yelled out, "Break it up!!" They kept on fighting. "Ok, that's it! Boom Bubble!" The bubble struck both of them and knocked them off the chairs. "Hey, my aim is getting better!" TK noticed. Cody bowed his head, "Sorry, I was just so hungry... and I thought of Davis as an enemy even! I don't know what came over me." Kari looked at them, "It's getting worse. Now we're becoming Digimon on the inside! We have to find a way to get back to normal! I'm starting to like being a Salamon." Davis glanced at her and thought 'Oh man! If she stays a Salamon, I'll never get a piece of the real thing!'

Davis suddenly felt better though his previous break down still weighted on him. If he could still think THAT thought, then he was most diffently still human somewhere in him.
Cody did his best for forget his breach of self control and changed the topic.
"Isn't it weird a deserted burger stand should be here in the middle of nowhere with a full compliment of food?" The sameri in training asked.
"Not really." Squiked TK. "Back when me and the others first arrived in the digi-world on file island we once found an entire frigerator full of freash eggs in the middle of the forest near a hot springs. As Izzy would say. The laws of our reality don't always apply to this reality."
"That DOES sound like something Izzy would say." Davis replied.
Yolei had left the group for a moment and had gone behind the burger stand, when she came back she had a towel made from paper nakens on.
Davis took one look and groand.
"Take that off."
"But-"
"I Said take it off, you look toltaly baka/stupid with it on and your making a septical of yourself."
"At least I'm-!"
Davis didn't even wait to hear her retort and he ripped the nakins off her.
"Stop making such a stupid deal out of it. You've never seen Hawkmon blush have you? Now just get over yourself and you can finnish off the last burger." Davis said flatly throwning the ripped paper into a waste basket.
Yolei wanted to strangle Davis, but she was hungery and ate the last burger making ugly looks at him.
Cody decided to ask another question.
"Kari, what did you mean when you said you were starting to like being a Salmon?"
"I . . . can't really discripe it, maybe, the same way birds like having feathers, or humans like having five fingers, just feels natural."
"Don't worry. It's not like we're going to be like this forever, or even a long while, Izzy always thinks up something." Said Davis. His deniel was begining to get to the point where even he could see though it.
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"Ok Leaf- your Wormmon again!" Said Ken in realization.
"Well, since all the other kids digi-mon digi-vole to rookie when they go though the gate, maybe that was all I needed."
"Maybe . . ."
Ok, Ken though, to Primary Village or go off search on my own? Davis and Yolei could be anywhere! That was when he saw a familar jeep speed by with all the skill and experince as a drunk student driver.
The scum driving it continued to drive on, not having seen they're former puppet on the road's edge.

A beeping came from Ken's beld and the former boy genius realized it was his digi-vice. 'That button wasn't there before.' He mentally commented and push the new add-on and Izzy's voice came out of the machine.
"Ken are you ok?"
"Yea I'm fine, and still human."
"That's good news. Too bad this thing doesn't work with the old digi-vices or I could contact Tai. I wanted to check in with you before got Davis and Yolei and wherever the others are."
"I just saw a pair of weirdos in a jeep ripe by. Sound familiar to you?"
"Sounds like a normal day there. Want me to call you back when I contact the others?"
"Yes please." With that they disconnected.
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"It's getting late!! WHERE IS HAWKMON!!" Yolei raged. Everyone looked at her, stunned. Davis stood up, "Umm... I don't know. We'll look for him some more tomorrow. Now let's get to sleep." She grabbed him by his neck and shook him, "Oh be quiet, lizard lips! We have to find him! What if he's hurt!?" She let Davis go and he walked around drunkly, "Maybe... he'll... find... us? Oof" He fell to the floor, still dazed. "No, he won't. What if there's something out there that's trying to kill him and he's running for his life!?" Kari looked at Yolei, "Then he can attack. Or Digivolve. He can take care of himself. Now calm down." She glared at Kari, then lightened up. "Ok, ok." She laid down and closed her eyes. 'Where could he be?'
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"Hahahahahahahaha! Tremble in fear!" Kimeramon roared out. All the others were KO'ed, laying on the floor. 'It's up to me' Davis thought. "V Headbutt!" he charged into Kimeramon with as much force as he could summon up and smashed him in the chest. Kimeramon flew almost a mile away! "You'll pay for that, you pathetic little reptile! Heat Viper!" Davis dodged every single beam Kimeramon shot. "Ok, tha.. tha.. ahh!" He lighted up and turned into Flamedramon. "Cool! Fire Rocket!" He rushed Kimeramon and body slammed him. The monster hissed, then digitally evaporated. "Yosh!"
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*yawn* Davis opened his eyes and looked over his hand. 'Still Veemon. But what a great dream! I wish I beat Kimeramon like that! He got up and walked over to wake the others.
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"Ken, can you hear me?" He picked up the communicator, "Yes, but I haven't found them yet. Izzy, are you there?"

Izzy looked over his monitor. "I tried to contact them via their D-3s, but they didn't answer. I think they must still be asleep." Ken replied, "How is that possible? It's afternoon here." After a bit of static, Izzy's voice came out, "In your area. The area where the others are at is about morning." 'Oh.' Ken thought. "I'll send you the co-ordinates now." He picked up his D-3 and saw a blocky-looking map. Waayyy on the other side was a white block, representing the other kids. "Come on, Wormmon. We've got a long walk ahead of us."

The sun was sure hot, and Davis' 'everything was going to be alright' talk was making things worse. Kari fell into a cat-nao, the Salmon thinking how maybe some sleep might do her good.
Kari dreamed, in her human form, that she was being chased in a game of cat and mouse with a Gatomon, Kari awoke only five minutes into her dream with a start just as the Gatomon in her dreams closed it jaws around her. That had been one nasty dream. She wonder what it meant.
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Before waking Kari up, Davis realized his sleep had left him hungery, Davis didn't know weather this was digi-mon instint or just his normal self. He saw a fruit on a tree.
"V-headbutt." His thick skull hit the tree hard and the fruit landed in his hand. "Whao, I didn't even need to think about how to do that it was almost--instint."

"Here it is." Gatomon panted.
"So where's Kari's stuff?" Tai said skepticly.
"Over here." She said hoping to the spot where Kari had stored here D3. Except it wasn't there.
"But it was right here I remember."
"Yea right now-"
"Hold on." Gabumon interupted. He looked low at the ground. "It looked like a large something was dragged from here."
"Kari?"
"Too small to be a human. It's about the size of . . . one set of cloths and digi-gear." Gabumon also noticed the Armadiliomon foot prints. "These tracks are about a day old." He commented.

Davis soon learnt the error of hitting trees with his head when the REST of the fruit fell on him.
" AHHH! "
Meanwhile, back at camp, Yolei and Cody had woken up.
" Gimme those leaves back! "
" Yolei, stop covering yourself! Digimon don't have any private bits to cover! "
" Well, EXCUSE ME for maintaining standards! "
" That's it, I'm going back to sleep... "

"Hmm... there are tracks here. They look like some sort of small reptile." Ken told Wormmon. "Maybe it's Veemon. Huh? What's this?" Ken picked up a piece of paper before them and read it out load, "Look up? What does that mean?" Suddenly, red strings shot from nowhere and formed a thin red fence. "..." Just as suddenly, a ball of bandages shot out from the other bush. "DUCK!!" Ken screamed out and hit the floor. Wormmon looked around, "Duck? Where? I've never seen one." The ball missed and continued on its trajectory, right into the other bush. A femine 'Ooof' came out and they ran over to take a look. "Huh?" There, on the ground, laid some kind of human. She was wearing red, but covered with the cloth bandages they had evaded. Her face and most of her body were hidden. "Hmm... we better go. Come on, Wormmon!" They ran off.

A few seconds later, Mummymon rushed out of they bushes, "Arukinemon!! Are you ok!?" Furiously, she ripped the bandages off her body. She got up and screamed at him, "You IDIOT!! We had him!! The master would have loved it! Ken Ichiijoiji all caught up in our scheme again! But no... YOU HAD TO RUIN IT!!" Mummymon stepped back, "I have bad aim. Sorry." "Sorry doesn't get the boy back!" she slapped him so hard, he went flying. "Well, I suppose now he'll try to warn them. Hmph. Maybe next time." Arukinemon brushed her hair aside and walked off. Right behind her, Mummymon was stuck through the middle of the tree. "Umm.. a wittle helf here? Sweetie? Hullo? Oh... my first luv tap. An it even dislocated my jaw!"

I can stand Yuri relationships but Yaoi is something I really have trouble shallowing, so I agree with the no same gender rule.

Ken, and Wormmon stopped and panted, whatever tried to nab them failed miserably, but luck didn't always hold out the second time so they ran none-stop.

" What...*pant* was that?" Wormmon gasped for breath.

" I dunno but.....damn at this rate we'll never find the others!" Ken cursed.

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" Gaaah this wild goose chase isn't getting us anywhere Gatomon!" Tai groused.

" So sue me, lets just hope nothing attack us, without Kari I can't digivolve, and Agumon, and Gabumon can only go to Champion." Gatomon retorted.

" Man I wish I still could become MetalGreymon or WarGreymon I mean regular Greymon is nice but...it doesn't help when fighting Ultimates or Megas." Agumon complained.

" I feel the same but it was sacrifice the powers of the kids Crests or goodbye Digiworld restoration." Gabumon said.

"Enough back story." Replied Yomato. "Gabumon what does your nose tell you?"
"A Gatomon went in this derection then a Salmon back tracked and went the same way along with an Armadilomon."
Tai didn't say anything though the proof of Gatomon story was building.
"Did it smell any different from Gatomon in that state?"
"No . . . I can't tell any difference. But if this is Kari then we're on the right tracks."
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"We could go back to where we say those prints and track them." Suggested the bug.
Ken shot him a disaproving glare remember what had just happened.
"Oh yea. Not a smart move."
"Well, I hope Izzy tried to contact them soon, they have to wake up some time if that's all that's happened. Anyway, at least we have a map to where they are." Said Ken holding the digi-vice, of course, the fact they were on the other side of the map didn't help things. The gate had been fuzzy enough still that he hadn't landed where he was soppose to. He thought back to Wormamon's 'joke' when he crash landed. He had to admit. It WAS funny.
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Lucky thing Veemons had thick skulls(though Yolei would say Davis already had one). Not seeing any point in letting the fruit rot, (or whatever it did in the digi-world) Davis took the bunch of fruit, (after eating enough so he could carry the remainder) back to camp. Cody and Yolei were talking about something, Kari was the only one awake. (the fact he was up before most of the other freaked him out more than his near fight with Cody, he was infamious for sleeping in.)
"Breakfast." He said, landing the pile of fruit like a religious offering in front of the Salmon.
"I see you've already eaten." Teased Kari smiling seeming the fruit on his mouth.
Davis blushed and whiped the fruit off his face. Even as a digi-mon she was so cute.

"That sure woke everyone up!" Kari exclaimed. Even the real Digimon were now brimming with energy. Suddenly, Cody's D3 beeped. "Huh?" He ran over to pick it up. That was no easy task, being that his hands were now flat paws. After fumbling with it for a few seconds he saw a red dot approaching them from the corner of the screen. "Hey guys! Look! I think the older kids are coming this way." Everyone cheered. He looked back at the screen and saw them moving quickly. A blue dot was chasing them. "How strange. There's something else behind them." Everyone picked up their own D3. "Maybe it's another Digimon?" Davis asked. There was a load roar. Suddenly, Tai and the others all rushed out of the forest and turned left. "Ruuuuuun!!" They darted past them. "What's their hurry?" The sky turned dark. Yolei glanced up, "Oh no! Look!

Yanmamon
he is at the Champion level. His powers are weak, but he's impossible to hit because of his constant stream of supersonic waves!

"Ahh!" they all ran as fast as their little feet could carry them. "Thunder Ray!!" Yanmamon screamed out. He held still and a beam of sonic waves hit the ground directly before them. Everyone screeched to a halt. "Looks like we have to fight him!" Davis called out. "But he's a real Digimon! We can't hurt him!" Cody called back. 'What a wimp' Davis thought to himself, '..But I can sure impress Kari by defeating Yanmamon. I'm a rookie, he's a Champion. I might stand a chance.' "Hey Yanmamon! Over here!" he leaped up and down, trying to get his attention. "What's Davis doing!?" Patamon said. "Fulfilling a death wish?" TK replied. "Veemon! Help me!" his partner ran to his side. "At the same time, we attack! Now!" A simultaneous shout "V Headbutt!" rang out. They both charged at Yanmamon, who simply moved out of the way. "Insect Swarm!!" hundreds of little bee-looking bombs rained from the sky and exploded, knocking both of them to the floor.

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Yanmamon

"Bzzzzzzz.... Thunder Ray!" Yanmamon called out. He knocked Cody and Armadillomon across the field. He buzzed around more. "Maybe I can attack too! What's Hawkmon's attack? Oh, yeah!" Yolei touched the feather on her head, "Beak Buzzsaw!" Yanmamon flapped his wings faster than anyone could even see! The spinning feather was blown off course and the wind carried Yolei into a tree. "Boom Bubble!" Two bubbles flew into the air and popped a few feet from Yanmamon. He turned and used his Thunder Ray, knocking TK and Patamon out of the air. Kari looked around. She didn't know Salamon's attack! She ran and hid under a bush. Davis got up, shouting, "Ok! Now you're gonna get it!" Yanmamon buzzed loudly, then charged at him, scooping him up. "Hey! Put me down!" Yanmamon bucked and he went flying... right into a pool or murky brown liquid. Yanmamon flew off. There was a loud rumbling and light burst out of the ooze. And out emerged... XVeemon!! Veemon looked at Davis, "Hey! No fair!! It took me months and I was only a Champion once! And here you are and you're already evolved!" Davis grinned, showing his sharp fangs. "It's ok, LITTLE buddy" he scratched Veemon's head. The little guy was so mad, he looked like he was about to shoot steam out his ears. "Ok, who ordered the fly soup??" Davis called out. Yanmamon gaped at him. "V Laser!" A bright burst of energy shot at Yanmamon. Too stunned to defend himself, he was struck down. He spun around and plumetted to the ground. As soon as he hit the floor, he shattered. "Allllllllllllright!" He gave a V sign with his claws. In an instant, he deDigivolved back into Veemon, still in that pose. The real Veemon walked up to him, "Welcome back." and punched him lightly on the arm. Kari came out from under the bush, "That was impressive, Davis. You saved us." He scratched the back of his head and grinned.

(The little pool of murky brown liquid... soup. The one with the Destiny Stone. But they don't know that yet. (Didn't Davis say in the show 'This place looks familiar'?) )

Cody was on top of Davis in a nano second.
"How could you do that!" He hissed. "You killed him!"
"He would of killed us!"
"That's still doesn't -doesn't you, give you the right to do that! We don't even know why he was fighting us! And you go and KILL HIM!"
"Hey he's a digi-mon! He'll just reincarnate back at Primary Village."
"Maybe I should send you there with him!" The two engaged in a tooth and nail rough and tumble.
Tai couldn't believe what he was seeing. Had Gatomon been right? Tai saw that both were dangerous close to the cliff. Tai was just in time to tackle the V-mon and stop both of them from killing each other.

"Excuss me . . . uh . . could you PLEASE let me out of here? It's getting kind of hot in here." Said Hawkmon inside the thick coccon.
"Umm . . ." Said Mummymon. "You promise not to run away?"
"Yes."
"Ok . . . " Mummymon was about to unravel the bird when Arbukennymon hit him hard on the skull.
"You are so stupid!"

"Boy, am I glad I found you." Ken called out. Everyone turned in his direction. "I've been looking for you forever. Whoa! It's true. You ARE Digimon now. What's it like?" Davis scratched his head, "Well, scales kinda itch. And your tail gets in the way a lot." Kari giggled a bit. Davis smiled and told him, "Great now we're all here." "But..." added Yolei, "We still haven't found Hawkmon!" Izzy buzzed them in, "Ok, now that you're all together, I can examine you." TK asked, "What good will that do!?" "Well," Izzy replied, "Knowledge is power. So if I figure out what happened to... -bzzzt- ..you.... -bzzzt-" The transmission started breaking up. "What? We can't hear you. Izzy? What's goin' on?" Davis looked around.

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