The Fake Card

Shadow- "Three reviews! My life has meaning!"

Renamon- "Um... okay... by the way, what was up with the explosion earlier?"

Shadow- (laughs) "yeah... that was Dragonrider04 again. He nuked the wrong city. Oh, and for future reference: I won't die that easily. I've survived worse stuff than you can possibly imagine..."

Renamon- "Like what?"

Shadow- "Um... you know how Earth's axis is tilted?"

Renamon- "...yeah..."

Shadow- "Put it this way: it wasn't always like that..."

Renamon- "...sometimes, you scare me... fortunately, you don't own digimon."

Shadow- "Yet. Oh, and please review. And Dragonrider04? Keep on trying to kill me. We'll see where it gets you..."


real world

Izzy ran to the nearby apartment complex. He ran up several stories, before finally knocking on a door.

Tai answered it. He looked Izzy over. The computer nerd was drentched with sweat. Tai smirked. "What, another egg hatched?"

Izzy groaned, and pushed past Tai. "Tai, that's not funny. This is serious!"

"So was I." Tai said, shutting the door. "You want a soda or something?"

Izzy shook his head. "No... I found something on my computer..."

"A virus?"

"No, it's-"

"'Good' pictures?"

"Tai!"

"Sorry..."

Izzy sighed. "No, it's something else... it looks like something left us a clue..."

Izzy hurried over to Tai's computer, and flipped it on.

Tai looked over. "You sure about the soda?"

Izzy nodded, and Tai left the room.

The computer finished booting up, and Izzy stuck the memory stick into the computer, pulling up the image. Tai walked back in, soda in hand. "...that's it?"

Izzy groaned. "Will you actually look at it?!"

Tai looked. The message was:

Darkness and Shadows may be gone

But that is not eternal

Revive the four, regain the two

And the world is back to normal

A clue, the diviner of the way

GomamonElecmonGazimon

UnimonDrimogemonAgumon

AndromonDigitamamonShogungekomon

Tai shrugged. "So? It looks like a poem and the list of a party."

Izzy shook his head. "Don't those names remind you of something?"

Tai shook his head.

Izzy looked around the room for a moment, then dived for a collection of drawers in the corner.

"Hey!" Tai yelled. "That's mine!"

Izzy flipped open the first drawer. "It's got to be here somewh-" he stopped. "Tai, are all these pictures of Sora?"

Tai blushed. "I... well... what about you and Trish?!"

"I didn't stalk her..." Izzy said, opening the next drawer. "Prodigious!"

"What?"

Izzy held up a card with a picture of Agumon on it. "Remember this?"

After a moment, Tai nodded. "Yeah! It's from when we were trying to get back to find the eighth child, and we had to pass through that door, and I-" comprehension dawned on his face.

Izzy nodded. "Yeah! I checked the cards that were used, and they're all there... except the Agumon card is in place of a different one."

"That's great!" Tai said. "... but who left us that message?"

"I think the sword did." Izzy said. "Sacrosamon was long gone by the time the message showed up."

"Why would a sword tell us that?"

Izzy shrugged. "I have no idea... but when we were using it, it was really reluctant to do what we said... maybe this is it trying to fix things."

"Umm... why-"

Izzy sighed. "Just look at the first lines, the poem! It says that although our friends are gone, that- oh, by the way, that reminds me, how's Kari doing?"

Tai sighed, and lowered his head. "She still has no memory of anything... Mom took her to the hospital to have her fed... but they can't really do anything..."

"Oh..." Izzy said. "Well, if the poem's right, we might be able to get her back to normal."

"Really?" Tai said.

Izzy shrugged. "That's what it says..."

Tai cheered. "All right! I'll go get the others in this world! You call the ones in the other worlds up! We'll meet in the digital world!"

Tai ran out of the house, and shut the door.

Izzy sighed. "...we don't even know where the castle is anymore..."