Say Hello to Thoda

Shadow- "New part of the story, so here's the by now-routine intro:

Welcome to the start of part nine! To new readers, welcome! And to old readers, welcome back! If you haven't read part one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight of my story (The Coming Sunset, Nightfall, Through the Darkness, Road to Dawn, Mainframe, Dark Worlds, Hidden World, and Reverse/Rebirth), please go to my profile page, and read those first. Or else this part won't make any sense to you whatsoever.

And to long-time readers: Thank you for reading this far! The story contiues exactly where it left off, so long you'll feel right at home. Enjoy this chapter!"

Renamon- "Shadow does not own digimon."

Shadow- "And please review. You're doing so well! Keep it up!"

digital world, separate, city: thoda

At the outskirts of the city of Thoda, only a few digimon lived. The weak, the destitute, those waiting to be deleted. Here, a small digimon waits for the end. Sitting alone, he wishes his house had not been destroyed in the fighting a few days ago. But at least its been quiet since then...

A sudden light forces him to shield his eyes. After it dissipates, he looks over. He does a double take.

Not only are the six digidestined there, but so are a lot of others. Oh shit... not again...

The digimon gets up, turns, and walks away from the town. Oh well... it was good while it lasted...

digital world, separate, city: thoda

"Here we are!" Erika shouted. "Thoda!"

"Wow!" said Yolee. "It's like a water park here!"

"Well, there is a reason they call it 'The City of Water'..." Aucemon muttered.

Steve sighed. "Whatever... look, let's just get going to the citadel, so we can kill this Sac-whatever, and get home."

"Umm..." Ryan said. "Shouldn't we go see that old guy first? That... Gen... thingy..."

"You mean Genai?" Carrie asked.

"Genai?!?!" Izzy shouted. "He's here?!"

Carrie winced. "Yeah... and can you not scream in my ear?"

"We have to go see him!" Tai yelled. "Where is he?!"

Erika and the other four looked at Carrie. "...what?"she asked.

"...well, if you remembered his name..."

Carrie sighed. "Fine... let's get going..."

digital world, separate

Carrie led the others to the side of the main water temple. She found the spot Genai had opened, and knocked a few times.

No response.

Carrie sighed. "Well, that's that."

"Are you sure you didn't get the spot wrong?" Josh asked.

Carrie nodded. "I'm sure."

"But we can't just leave!" Tai protested. "We have to find Genai!"

A door slide open a few feet down the wall. "Did someone say my name?"

"Genai!"

Genai's extremely bushy eyebrows raised. "Children? What... oh, never mind... Get in here."

Josh elbowed Carrie in the ribs. "See? I told'ya you got the spot wrong."

"Actually, I like to move my house from time to time." Genai said as the digidestined filed in. "Keeps the enemy guessing."

"Yeah... five feet..." Carrie muttered. "That's gonna help..."

Once the last of the digidestined and their digimon filed in, Genai moved around to the stove. "I'm afraid I can't get some muffins on such short notice, but are biscuits okay?"

Tai shook his head. "Later. What are you doing here?"

Genai smiled. "You didn't think I'd stick around to get deleted when the worlds collided, did you?"

"Well, how'd you escape?" Izzy asked.

"Well, how did you get here?"

"Our digivices." Izzy said showing the new design the Huanglongmon had made to Genai.

Genai looked closely at it. He nodded. "It's basically like that."

"But if you could leave, why didn't leave earlier?"

Genai laughed. "What, and miss the opportunity to fix muffins for more than myself? Speaking of which..." Genai reached over to the oven, and pulled out some muffins. "Who wants some?"

A large explosion drowned out anyone's reply. The muffins, and quite a few digidestined, were knocked to the ground.

Tai stood up. "Maybe later, Genai. It sounds like we have work to do."

The digidestined ran out of Genai's house, their digivices glowing.

Genai picked up one of the muffins, brushed it off, and bit into it. He shrugged. "Needs anchovies."

digital world, separate, city: thoda

Smoke poured out of a nearby building as the digidestined ran out to face the new threat.

A giant winged horse stood nearby, blasting fire at the city. One wing spread back gracefully, covered in snow-white feathers. The other was pitch black and bony, and didn't look like it was still alive, let alone able to lift the digimon into the air.

The horse turned to face them. If it was at all surprised to see so may digidestined, it didn't show it. Instead, it grinned. "Excellent, a chance to prove my power to the master!" it whinnied before sending a fireball flying right at the digidestined.