THE DIGI-FORCE This is the sequal to Dark Garudamon: The Crest of Hate. As that story was based on the Dark Phoenix Saga, this one is based on early issues of X-Factor.

Part 1

Over the island of Japan, a private jet flew in the night sky. Its only two passengers were Taichi Kamiya and his faithful digimon, Agumon. As he piloted the aircraft, his mind thought back to the events leading up to this part of his life.

After the kids beat Apoclymon, they returned to the real world, minus Sora Takenouchi, of course. After they said goodbye to their Digimon, things pretty much got back to normal. When Tai was in eight grade, trouble started to brew in the Digiworld again, but Tai, Matt, Izzy, Mimi, and Joe were too old, and couldn't return. Instead, Kari and T.K. returned with Daisuke Motimiya, Miyako Inoue, and Iori Hida, the new Digidestined. Tai gave up his leader status to Daisuke, but not reluctantly. He was tired of being in charge of a group that had to save the world, or at least, he thought so.

His sister and the rest returned from the Digiworld six years later with a surprise, the original Digidestined Digimon! By this time, Tai had found a girl named Miya Kunjo, and to his surprise, she looked excatly like Sora! He and her were married five months after they met. She wasn't too happy when Agumon returned, but started to treat him like one of the family. A year later, Miya gave birth to a healty baby boy, but Tai wasn't there.

The barrier between the Digiworld and earth had weakened so much, that Digimon were crossing over and actually living on earth! The public wasn't happy with them because what they don't know, they fear! Not only that, more and more 'digi-humans' were popping up, kids who could control a digimon, like the Digidestined did, and not all of them were good.

An evil digi-human had siezed control of an island near were Tai and Miya lived. Tai and Agumon went to investigate and caughted up with the Digidestined. Together they fought and defeated the evil digi-human, and Tai had begun to feel the familar flame of leadership. He challenged Daisuke to a duel, who ever won would lead the Digidestined. Tai lost. Now he's returning home to try and patch up his marrige.

Meanwhile in the Digiworld, a group of Digimon were walking across the desert of Server. Saberleomon, Meramon, who had just digivolved to Skull Meramon, Centarumon, and Frigimon had been called by the Koromons that lived near hear about a strange explosion and power near Etemon's old pyramid. "So, what exactly happend here?" Saberleomon asked.

"The Koromons said that a few days ago, they were scouting for food here when some of them wandered into the pyramid." Centarumon said," One of them fell down into the hole where the core of Etemon's Dark Network was, but before the others were able to get him, there was a giant explosion that shot up a colom of fire up the hole. After the explosion, they tried to get him, but there was another explosion! The Koromon that fell down there is still trapped, but they can't get him because of the explosions!"

"So we have to get him?" Frigimon asked. "Fine by me!"

They entered the ruin of the pyramid. "So this is were it first happend!" Skull Meramon said, looking around Datamon's old lab.

"What do you mean?" Frigimon asked.

"It was here that Tai's crest glowed!" he said in amazment,"It was near here that Greymon first became Metalgreymon!"

Saberleomon had reached the hole. "Hey guys!" he yelled over his shoulder,"Down here!"

They walked over and stared down the hole to a black room. "There's nothing down there!" Frigimon said.

"Easy,"Centarumon said,"Just because you can't see anything, doesn't mean nothing's there!"

"Never the less, we need to see what's down there!" Saberleomon said,"Skull Meramon, can you help us out?"

Skull Meramon held up his hand and a beam of light appeared there. He used the light as a flash light and lit up the room below. They found the Koromon lying uncousious on the right side, but on the left side were two cocoon like coffens.

"What is that?" Centarumon asked.

"I don't know!" Saberleomon said,"But we need to find out! Let's get down there!"

One by one they landed on the floor beneath them. "Frigimon, see if you can wake up that Koromon, the rest of you come with me!"

They walked up to the cocoons. Both were silver color, but one was larger than the other. "What is this?" Centarumon asked again.

Suddenly, a giant spiral of energy shot from the smaller cocoon, shooting the three digimon back. "Keep away!" a voice yelled from the larger cocoon.

"What just happend?" Frigimon asked, walking over with the Koromon in his arms. He couldn't wake him, so he thought he would help out the others.

"Something attacked us!" Centarumon said. "It hurt, but not that much! It felt like a Rookie attacking me!"

"Yes," Saberleomon said,"Its trying to attack us, but its not doing the job!"

He walked forward again. The spiral attack shot forward a slammed against him. "This isn't working!" he said.

"Keep away!" the voice said again.

"It sounds like its..scared!" Skull Meramon said.

"Yes!" Saberleomon said,"Almost like its acting on self defense!"

He started to walk to it again. As he did he said,"We don't mean you any harm! We want to help you!"

"Help us?" the voice asked. Suddenly, the two cocoons began to shatter.

"They're...hatching!" Frigimon said.

It a burst of light, the two pods flew apart, revealing their contents. "Its a human girl!" Skull meramon said.

"And a Digimon!" Centarumon said,"That's the one that was attacking us!"

Saberleomon rushed up to the two froms sprawled out on the floor. "They're unconsious!"

"Who are they?" Frigimon asked.

"Look at them! Don't you recognize them?"

"Yeah! They're.."

"We have to get them out of here!" he said as he jumped back up through the hole to get a rope to through down.

On the floor, the girl's eyes opened for a moment, but none of the Digimon saw it. "Tai?" she asked, in a low wisper. Then the girl the world knew as Sora Takenouchi, returned to unconcousness.

to be continued...