The door slowly slid open and T.K. stepped in. The house was completely deserted except for a few toys that were laying around.

"Were's the fun?" asked Patamon.

"Dosn't look like there's any fun here to me!" replied T.K.

"Oh, no? This will be lots of fun!" came a voice.

T.K. and Patamon spun around. A small puppet stood in front of them. He was made of wood and carried a large, metal hammer.

"Puppetmon's the name and digidestined kiling is my game!"

T.K.'s reflexes went into action and kicked the nose clean off of the Digimon. Puppetmon fell onto the ground and only got madder.

"Well now! It's time for you to lose your nose!" yelled Puppetmon as he swung his hammer.

The metal caught T.K. in the forehead and it knocked his hat to the floor.

"Patamon, digivolve to...Angemon!"

"Run T.K.!"

The small boy picked himself up and hurried up the stairs. He climbed up to the roof, only to be met by a bunch of evil Digimon. They all looked like toys but quickly proved to be more. Balls of fire and ice and lightning came raining down towards T.K.
Angemon burst through the roof of the mansion. Debris and toys flew into the air and raining down on T.K.
The angel digimon saw the other creatures atacking T.K. and knew he had to quickly defeat them and continue fighting Puppetmon.

"Hand of Fate!"

One side of the roof was blown off and the Digimon fell onto the ground below.
Puppetmon jumped through the roof and swung his hammer at Angemon. Bright balls of energy burst from it and slammed into Angemon's chest.
He lifted his staff to attack but Puppetmon quickly jumped into the air and snapped it like a twig.

"You can't win angel!" yelled Puppetmon.

"I can if I only...have...hope!"
And with that, Angemon fell to the roof. Puppetmon could only laugh.
T.K. ran to his fallen friend and crawled up onto his wings.

"Don't give up Angemon. All we need is hope!" said T.K.
A bright light shot from his digivice and surrounded Puppetmon. He screamed in pain and dropped his hammer.

"...hope!" said Angemon.

T.K. smiled.

"Angemon, digivolve to...MagnaAngemon!"

Puppetmon broke out of the light and charged towards the shining digimon.

"Heaven's Gate!" yelled MagnaAngemon as he lifted his hands into the air. A circular portal swung open and bright energy in the shape of angels and lightning bolts shot from it like a burst of song. It slammed into Puppetmon and wood chips flew into the air. The wooden creature screamed as the energy was absorbed into him. It exploded, and another Dark Master was defeated.


Motimon climbed the stairs up to the roof of the barrel. He needed some fresh air and hoped he would be permitted to go up the roof. He could hear voices so he figured someone was up there. He pushed the door open and saw a table sitting on the roof. Around it sat a few Digimon. He could almost see right through them...as if they were fog. They sipped their drinks and talked and clapped and, from what Motimon could see, they were having fun. He could see big Digimon looking at him from the forest, drinking large mugs of some beverage. They were ahving fun, but yet they all seemed sad. One suddenly turned around.

"Come now, sit and drink with the Ancients."




Piedmon sat down. The digidestined figured he didn't know where they were. He could only laugh. Through one view screen at his right he could see two figures sitting on the beach. On the next, a group of people and creatures walking beside a waterfall. Next to that were three people starting to walk out of a field, one holding its head. In the next one he could see an angel and another person on top of a roof. He could see the forest dissapearing. Obviously his plan had failed.

"Poor little T.K." was all he said.

He stared at the magnificant angel with the boy and wanted to scream out his joy.

"The boy thinks his digimon has actually digivolved. He thinks he did it. That little shrimp couldn't create that warrior. Neither could his pitiful digimon. But mine can. And it has."


"Piedmon! Shall I go to the city? Surely the digidestined will be heading there soon," came a voice.

Piedmon held his fingers in the air.

"No! Wait. We'll either be down a few digidestined or have some play time. DarkAndromon shall decide which," replied the clown.

MachineDramon smiled.




Izzy stood up. Sora was alseep. He walked over to her pack and pulled out some new bandages. His leg was hurting badly. He pulled off the old one and winced. His injury was still bad and growning greener by the minute. Izzy was amazed by this but for once in his life, he didn't want to investigate. The old bandage was wet and slimy and the new one felt great. He decided to walk down to the lake. The conversation he and Sora had had was driving him nuts. Had he been drunk or something? Hard to belive since he had never touched it in his life, but he was so tired he decided that must have been it. He looked at his reflection. His face was cut and dirty, his clothes ragged and torn. This would never end. He quickly grabbed a stone and hurled it straight behind him. Just then he heard a loud "clink". He turned around.

"Ouch," a large voice boomed in an emotionless tone.

Izzy tourned around.

"Andromon," he said beneath his breath.

The large digimon, now with black weapons and armor covering his body, walked up to him.

"You hit me, now I get to hit you."

Izzy's heart immediately jumped a few dozen times. The monster's large hand raised into the air. Izzy scrambled to get to his feet. He finally made it and just as he took his first step, six hammers violently hit his head. At least that's what it felt like.
He lay in the sand, unable to move. He gathered all of his energy but could only move his fingers. This was it. He knew he was about to die. His vision was blured and he badly wanted to sleep.

"It's the end," he whispered.

Sora quickly jumped to her feet. The monstrous robot looked at her.

"I was taught never to hit a lady, but my arms are known to spasm."

His arms began to twirl and small peices of metal were thrown in all directions. He quickly swung, hitting Sora's feet.

"Ahh!" she screamed.

Izzy's strength quickly came back. He faught to his feet and quickly kicked at the robot.
Sensing a foot coming towards him, DarkAndromon spun on his heal, and seized the ankle between his teeth.
Izzy screamed.

"Ahh! Let go! Let go!"

The robot's head started to glow and electrical shocks went through his teeth and into Izzy's foot.

"Biyomon! Digivolve to...Birdramon!"

Sora jumped to her feet.

"Izzy!"

"Birdramon! Digivlove to...Garudamon!"


The giant bird kicked the robot into Izzy's leg. The green liquid from his cut quickly started to melt through DarkAndromon's chest. His chest missiles were quickly exposed. Izzy spotted a peice of driftwood near him. He dove on the ground and hurled the wood into DarnkAndromon's missiles.
The robot's chest exploded in a shower of sparks and flames. Garudamon braught her foot down into the machine's back and sparks flew as his jetpack was crushed. The robot quickly jumped into the air and with a few blasts of smoke, got his jetpack to work.



"Idiot!" yelled Piedmon.

"You know that acid from his missiles burns him. Know that his chest missiles exploded, that stuff is probably eating through every bit of him," said MachineDramon.

In one quick motion, Piedmon ripped a sword from his back and through it into the center of the viewing screen.

"I put that stuff in his missiles because it hurts those little brats alot and just like our friend Izzy will soon find out, it slowly kills them unless they get the syrum which only I have of course!" yelled the clown.

"Shall I teach that hunk of junk a lesson?" asked MachineDramon.


"Do what you wish! We're all as evil as the next, I don't rule you!" yelled Piedmon.

MachineDramon nodded and left the room.

Piedmon reached into his holster and quickly through his sword at the door.

"Just remember, I can kill you at anytime."

He spun in his chair and looked at the cracked view screen.

"The digidestined are mine. They think we are all that is left. There are higher forms of evil I must obey...and I aim to please."



MachineDramon stepped through a large door into a stadium. He could see Piedmon looking out the window at him. Suddenly, the skylight above him shattered and DarkAndromon hit the floor. His chest was half blown off and his back was on fire.

"You failed again," said MachineDramon as he fired his cannons at the robot.

DarkAndromon fell to one knee and winced as blow after blow hit his already damaged body. Another blow came and hit him in the head. He back flipped and landed on his stomach. A blast hit his chest and sparks poured out onto the floor. The dust was flying into the air and he could hardly hold himself up.

"Mega Lightning Blade!"

He jumped into the air and all of the sand flew into his arm. Doors and table crashed into him. Lightning flashed above him and he flung his arm forward. The blast smashed into MachineDramon's face and created a very visible dent. He crashed out the back wall of the stadium and lay momentarily paralyzed. Piedmon jumped in through the door and DarkAndromon struck again.
The clown fell onto his behind.

"Ha!Ha!Ha! Bravo!"

DarkAndromon forced a smile. Piedmon reached for another sword and hurled it into the robot's chest.

"Just because you are now a Mega digimon does not mean you are stronger than me. If you ever try to hurt me again, I promise I will kill you."

Suddenly, another sword went into the robot's leg and he fell to the ground. Throughout the stadium, the sound of laughing could be heard.








"Izzy! Are okay?" asked Sora.

"Just..my....b-body," replied Izzy.

"I'll be alright, we need to get out of here quickly or else he'll be back...I only wish..."

Sora put her arm around Izzy.

"...That Tentomon was here," she said.

"Yeah.."

"You always have me...and Biyomon," said Sora.

"I need to talk to you about that-"

"Me too."

Izzy scratched his bleeding head and looked up at Sora. She decided to break the silence.

"Listen, we're both 14 and I am exactly three fourths of a year older than you."

"Right," said Izzy.

"So there's nothing to do with age...right?"asked Sora.

"Right," replied Izzy.



"Ok, so...let's forget what we said a few hours ago, ok? But... do you think we could still make this work?" asked Sora.

"Of course!"




The ice in Piedmon's glass rattled back and forth. He stared at the screen, seeing Izzy and Sora still alive.

"He already got his punishment. He needs to be stronger!"

MachineDramon was obviously weaker than he thought. DarkAndromon was obviously stronger than he thought. He had been completely astounded when his creation's attack knocked him to his feet. He knew he couldn't show pain.

"I proved I was tougher than him," Piedmon reasured himself.

By this time the rattling of the ice had gotten on his nerves. He scooped them out with his hands and thrust them against the window with such force, he broke the glass.

"DarkMagnaAngemon, wow, that was a mouthful, " Piedmon shoke his head and got back to business, "kill that shrimp, now!"

"No!" came a voice.

Piedmon quickly got up from his chair and swatted the small digimon across the room.

"Now Patamon, you know you are next, but if you want to die now I can help you!"

Patamon pulled on the chain around his neck and tried to claw at Piedmon.

"T.K. thinks he made you digivolve. All I had to do was make Puppetmon throw a rabit in front of you two. T.K. chased it, Puppetmon grabbed you then placed the fake Patamon in your place, and brought you here. All before returning to his house and being destroyed," said Piedmon.

"You are evil!"

"Guilty as charged," said Piedmon with a smile.




"MagnaAngemon...why are you still in Ultimate form? I mean I like you in this form but the other kid's Digimon can't stay digivolved for this long!" said T.K.



Patamon stared at the viewscreen.



"Well, T.K. I'm just alot stronger than they are. Want to arm wrestle?"

T.K. looked at his "digimon" funny and finally shoke his head. MagnaAngemon kneeled down and grabbed T.K.'s arm.

"Ow! Too tight!"

"Am I hurting you? I better let go!"

The angel stood up and tossed T.K. down the path.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

The angel did not respond. Suddenly, Leomon jumped from the bushes.

"Stand back, T.K.!"

The lion pulled his sword from its holster and flung it at MagnaAngemon.

"Here, have your sword back," said the angel as he tossed it back towards Leomon.

"No! Keep it!" yelled Leomon as he jumped into the air.

"Leomon! Digivolve to...SaberLeomon!"

The lion flung it's feet at MagnaAngemon and kicked him back against a tree.



"How did he know my MagnaAngemon was bad?" said Piedmon, "maybe he's just acting strange!"


"And maybe he's not!" came a voice.


Piedmon turned around to see Ogremon standing in the shadows.

"A spy!?"

Ogremon tossed his club at Patamon's neck chain and it broke in half.

"Thanks Ogremon!"

"You're welcome but get out of here! You can't digivolve!"

"T.K. sometimes drops his digivice and since we were going through the woods, I decided to carry it!" said Patamon as he pulled a digivice from his fur, "Even though he's far away from here, I can still digivolve!"





"You're not the real MagnaAngemon are you!?" screamed T.K, " Patamon, help us!"




"Patamon! Digivolve to...Angemon!"


Piedmon reached for his swords.

"Trump Sword!"


Orgemon nodded towards the window.

"Alright! Make sure to stay away from the swords!" yelled Angemon.


MachineDramon walked back into the stadium and saw the battle through the window above him.

"Giga Cannon!"


Piedmon looked out the window at the stadium below.


"Idiot!"


The control burst into flames and pieces of monitors and chairs flew everywhere. Ogremon and Angemon turned towards the window and dove out. The glass shattered and flames flew everywhere. They both slamed into the ground.

"Ah! What room is this?" asked Angemon.

"I've been spying here. Leomon and I have decided to work together. We'll never defeat each other."

"Is this leading up to the room?" asked Angemon.

"Yeah! This is the missile storage room. It also contains acid for DarkAndromon's chest missiles."

"DarkAndromon?"

"Yeah."

"Missile room...flames...trouble!"

The two digimon got to their feet and sprinted through the rows and rows of missiles. Ogremon looked back.

"The missiles are catching on fire," he said in a flat tone.

"Anything else?" asked Angemon.

"The acid has spilled and it's flowing quickly towards us."

"Wonderful."

The two digimon turned down another corner and saw four large windows.

"Jump into my arms, we're flying out of here!" yelled Angemon.

Ogremon gave him a funny look but jumped onto Angemon's back. The angel bent over and crashed through the window with his helmet. Acid brust through the broken glass after them and poured down the side of the building just like a waterfall. The room exploded and missiles went off, crashing into walls and starting more fires.

"Glad we escaped that!" yelled Ogremon as he looked back at burning building, " think we got Piedmon and MachineDramon?"

"They're injured, but far from dead. Well, MachineDramon may be dead soon!" said Angemon.





Piedmon pushed a table out of his way and jumped down into the burning stadium where MachineDramon was stomping out fires.

"You idiot! You cost me those two stupid digimon, and my headquarters!"

"You said it yourself, it's our headquarters!"said MachineDramon.

"Not anymore! Crown Trick!"

"Wha? What! So you want to fight for this? It was an accident!"

"Fight!" yelled Piedmon.

MachineDramon jumped into the air.

"Giga Cannon!"



The two Digimon both jumped out of each other's way.

"Don't we want to destroy the digdestined? I will fight but I thought we were all trying for that goal!" said MachineDramon.

"Shutup! This isn't a time for speeches!"

Piedmon jumped into the air and flung two swords into MachineDramon's eyes. He swatted them off as best he could. Luckily they hadn't gone too far back and taken out his sight. He could still see through the cracked lenses. He probably had a better chance to win if he simply shut his eyes and wrecked havoc on the entire stadium and tower. Piedmon was much smaller than him. He could do it.

"Giga Cannon!"

Piedmon ducked as the blast flew over his head and smashed into the burning ground behind him. MachineDramon spun as best he could and sprayed fire blasts across the stadium. The windows and walls collapsed and spilled onto the ground. Piedmon jumped onto the rafters and sprinted across the ceiling over to MachineDramon. His enemy had to be blind. Piedmon flung two more swords into the giant machine's eyes and he knew he could no longer see.

"Piedmon! You will die tonight!"

The clown only smiled and sprinted across the rafters. He took out one, long sword which he seldom used, lifted it into the air, and jumped off the rafters. The clown slammed into the machine's head and drove the sword through the other Digimon. He screamed and his blast backpack blew.
Piedmon flew off anf smashed into the ground as pieces of the backpack and stadium rained around him.
What was left of the machine digimon pointed towards the ceiling and blew hole after hole through it. Piece after large peice hit the dirt on the floor of the stadium and blew sharp pieces of metal into all directions. Piedmon could her a few pieces scream over his head and hit the wall like bullets behind him. Suddenly everything stopped.
Piedmon stood up and looked at MachineDramon. His large, massive body simply stood there as the rain poured over it. He could hear the switches and gears inside the digimon loud and clear since half of them were exposed.
The clown slwoly walked closer to the giant.

"Well, looks like I win," he said flatly.

One of MachineDramon's cannons fell off and rolled across the floor.

"Yup. Now here you are...all alone. All you have is yourself to beat the Digidestined."

"Looks like it," said Piedmon, suddenly realizing that it was true.

What was left of the roof slowly started to creak. One large, last piece fell and hit MachineDramon's next. He fell to the ground as small shards of metal sprinkled around around.
Piedmon walked up to him just in time to hear the last gear stop turning. Suddenly, the last cannon on him exploded. Piedmon's legs buckled as a piece hit him in the back of the knee. He fell to the ground and looked back. The third Dark Master's body was dissapearing.

Piedmon slowly got up and walked out of the building just as another wall collapsed and chest missile acid spilled onto the floor.

"There goes a tower, a base..."

He couldn't feel discouraged. He was only more angry. Filled with anger that would fuel his hate and let him destroy the digidestined.




Mimi, Joe, Palmon, and Gomamon walked through the woods. Joe managed to get wacked by a branch every few steps and Mimi was tired of walking.

"Come on you guys! We're long overdo to find another memeber of the group! They've probably all met and are looking for us right now!" said Gomamon.

Joe fixed his glasses from the last branch attack.

"I doubt it," he said with a sigh.

"Joe, you worry too much," said Mimi.

Joe opened his mouth.

"You do you know," said Palmon.

Joe looked at her, then closed his mouth again.




"T.K! Where are you!?" yelled Tai.

Matt rubbed the bruses on his head.

"This stinks. We can't find my brother and I can't even think about what I want to!"

Tai looked around.

"We'll find T.K....what do you want to think about?"

Matt sigh.

"I'm almost fifteen. I think about the same stuff everyday," he answered.

"Girls, huh?" asked Tai.

Matt nodded as Tai sat down next to him.

"Me too. Sora...every single day. She just has to like me too. I mean..we're such good friends and all but I just...I really like her."

"Yup," said Matt, "same thing here. Except I like Mimi."

Tai nodded.

"She's hot. Kind of whiny though," said Tai.

"Hey, I don't talk about your girl do I? Nah, I'm just kidding. I think after all we've been through...we should just tell them our feelings. Just yell it out. We've survived so much we might as well."

"I know. I've been meaning to tell Sora for so long. I just feel like she'll be scared...I think I-"

"Love her," said Matt.

Tai nodded.

"You have to be careful though...she's been with Izzy..alone..for a while now. They might have become an item," said Matt jokingly.

"Izzy? No way. He'd never be any competition. You're the one you has to worry!"

"Why?" asked Matt.

"Because Mimi likes Izzy and Joe. And she is lost with Joe right now!" said Tai.

"Izzy and Joe..yeah. I don't know why girls like them. Why can't we get a date?"

"They can't either. Izzy and Joe are probably sort of a thing if you knwo what I mean," said Tai.

"Izzy and Joe aren't...that way. Don't talk about our friends like that!" said Matt.

"I was only joking...but I say we run up to Sora and Mimi when we find them again, give them a big hug and tell them how we feel!"

"That's kind of corny," said Matt.

"You're only saying that because of your parents divorce or something," said Tai.

"What did you say?" asked Matt.

"Yeah, because they divorced, now you refrain from people. You can't really love anyone."

Matt sat there and looked at him for a while.

"Dang you Tai! Where did you hear that? You couldn't have figured that out since you're so thick!"

"Matt..hang on a sec here-"

"No Tai! You hang on a sec. You're so uncarring. Do you ever hink about other people? I love my mom, my dad, T.K...!"

"...Mimi?"

"Shutup!" and with that, Matt turned around and sprinted across the field. He violently whipped tears from his eyes and accidently punched himself in the face. Tai hadn't really said much but it was a sensitive area that he should've stayed away from. Matt tore into the woods and jumped out onto a small beach next a river. It was shallow and small so he knew he could cross it. He jumped in, slipped, and fell onto his back.
Suddenly, he could see four figures emerging from the woods a ways down the river. It was Joe, Gomamon, Palmon and...Mimi.
He fought to get up.

"Mimi! I love you!" he said, coughing. He knew she didn't hear but she did see him. They started to race down the river towards him. Suddenly, his head started to hurt again. He fell into the river. It was painful to look around. Something felt as though it were squeezing his body. Just like back at the waterfall. He looked up to see creatures staring at him from the woods across the river. Suddenly, the pain dissapeared, the creatures vanished, and he fainted in the water.



"How can I be up here? Last time I tried to get out of here, I couldn't!"


"Sit and drink!"

Obviously Motimon was getting nowhere. He sigh and climbed up the side of chair.

"Who are you guys exactly?" he asked.

"We told you already! The Ancients!"

Motimon covered his ears.

"Stop talking! That hurts!"

One of the Ancients stood up. He looked like a big pirate. He was big and fat, about 7 feet tall, had a peg leg, and a hook on his hand.

"If we speak over a whisper, our voices can hurt Digimon below the Ultra level," he said in a German accent.

"Ultra level! No such thing exists!" said Motimon.

"Of course it does! Well...not anymore...really..." said one.

"We didn't last for long. We were too much of threat to everything..." added another.

"How did you guys get like this...?" asked Motimon with fear in his voice.

A toad like Digimon stood up. He knew Motimon was scared. He focused his eyes on the smaller Digimon. Motimon grabbed his head in pain once again.

"Stop it! Don't hurt him yet!" yelled the pirate.

Motimon glady took his hands off his head and stared at the toad. They must hate fear...a sign of weakness. He decided to rephrase his first question.

"Tell me about it," he said in a very declarative tone.

The pirate smiled. He slowly walked up to the small Digimon and hit him in the head with his claw.

"Save us..."



Motimon quickly sat up.

"What did you do that for?"

"Oh sorry, Pitratomon. These water bowls are hard to carry!"

Motimon looked up. Another digimon that looked like an aligator walked away, carrying two large bowls of water.

'Wha-?" asked Motimon.

His voice was different and so were his surroundings. He was sitting on a stump in a grassy meadow, the wind blowing around him. A few huts and cooking fires was scattered around him. He looked towards the woods across the meadow and saw even more huts, with Digimon scattered all about, carrying food and water. He could hear the distant rumble of a waterfall in the background.

"Where am I?" asked Motimon as he grabbed the tail of a passing Digimon.

"Why son, this is Primary-"

"Village? Primary Village?" asked Motimon.

The other Digimon laughed.

"No, this is Primaryox Village."

Motimon sigh and looked around.

"Thanks..."

The other Digimon nodded and walked off.

"This is just weird..."

Motimon watched the other Digimon walk off into the middle of the field.

"Hey Phylomon! I brought the food for dinner!"

Suddenly, a black shape appeared in front of the Digimon and he was immediately tossed backwards into a tree which snapped as he hit it.
A piece of fruit from the previous owner's basket rolled to Motimon's feet.
Other village Digimon ran to the meadow and started to simultaneously attack the black mass.
Motimon could see that as they attacked, small pieces of the black object flew from the main mass and started to take shape and attack the villagers.

"This is bad," he whispered.

Motimon sprinted toward the other fighting Digimon. He could hear swords and metal objects clanking. He looked down. They were hi swords! He had taken over the body of the pirate!

"Bubble Blow!" Motimon was suprised himself when the words came out "Sword Sythe!"

He reached down and pulled the swords from his belt. They immediately charged with energy and flung them at one of the smaller black forms, just as it reached for another Digimon.
Suddenly, Motimon heard a voice. It seemed to come from the black object but he could hear it only in his head...in his mind. It was cold, without a certain gender sounding voice, it wasn't one thing or another...it just was..it exsisted.

"Fear Form," came the voice.

All the Digimon, including Motimon grabbed their heads with pain. All they could see was red and black images of the village being detroyed, the blace shapes taking forms...taking forms of Digimon. And the large mass in the center slwoly morphed into a large monster. It was at least 10 feet tall, with sharp armor covering every piece of it, it was muscular and held a sword in one hand, and a staff in the other. Suddenly Motimon couldn't take it any longer, and passed out.

"Pitratomon! Wake up!"

Motimon slowly opened his eyes. A bird like Digimon stood over him.

"Can you fight?"

"I guess so," said Motimon as he looked at the burning village. The battle was raging and it didn't look pretty. How long had he been out?

The bird Digimon charged one of her feathers in her hand. Motimon drew his sword.
They rushed off into the meadow to see that the dark creatures had taken shape, each with a black spear head symbol somewhere on their body.

"Watch out!" yelled Motimon as a dark fighter came up behind a fire Digimon.

His warning was too late, the dark creature fired an arrow through the fire Digimon. He grasped his chest and held the arrow which slowly dissapeared. The fire Digimon's flames suddenly dissapeared and darkness covered his body. He slowly mutated into a skelaton like, rock Digimon. He somehow seemed less real than he had before...now more transparent.

"Come on! We've captured the dark leader at the waterfall! He seems to be weakened!" yelled a furry Digimon as he ran across the flamming meadow.

Motimon looked at the bird Digimon and they ran towards the waterfall.

"How is he weakened?" yelled Motimon as they sprinted through the woods.

"He seemes to not be able to leave the place! Are attacks are coming through! At first, our attacks wouldn't even reach him...like he had a sheild!"

The three Digimon found themselves heading towards a steep hill.

"We can jump, there's a garden on the other side! It should have soft plants!" yelled the furry Digimon.

They sprinted to the hill and jumped as far as they could. Suddenly, a dark Digimon jumped out from one of the huts and flung his sword at Motimon.
The furry Digimon grabbed Motimon and pulled him out of the way as they fell. The sword flew through the furry creature and he too started to mutate.
Motimon and the bird Digimon landed in the garden and took off towards the waterfall across the village.

"What about him?" asked Motimon.

"We can't help him!" yelled the bird as they jumped into the river.

They could see the fireworks at the end of the river, at the waterfall. The explosions didn't stop. Transparent Digimon were gropping all around the river. They could see the leader black Digimon pushed up against the waterfall.

"Beep!Beep!Beep!"

A beeping sound suddenly rang throughout the whole area. Motimon quickly looked over as the black leader through a ball of energy out of his hand, which hit a parrot Digimon.
Light shown throughout the riverbed and the parrot quickly grew to a 20 foot tall, monster bird. With a loud boom, a portal opened up behind the group and a familiar sound echoed through the crowd.

"Agumon! Digivolve to....Greymon!"

A ball of fire shot through the portal and hit the bird in the chest. It quickly recovered and dove through the portal.

"This is getting really creepy," said Motimon as a ball of light shot through the portal and into the back of the waterfall.

The black leader stepped backwards as the river canyon shook and the water from the waterfall parted down the middle and a large Digimon emerged. It quickly simply looked like a cross between WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, HerculesKabuterimon, and MagnaDramon. The new creature and the dark leader quickly locked in combat. It all went by so fast, every Digimon in the river watched the fierce battle. But Motimon's time all came down to one moment.
The combo fighter quickly jumped and kicked the drak leader in the arm, his sword slowly spun in the air and headed straight towards Motimno and the bird Digimon. His reflexes kicked in and he grabbed the bird and flung her and himself out of the way, just as the sword hit the ground. Motimon hit his head hard on a rock and quickly passed out.



"Finally! Someone has saved a few of us!"

Motimon quickly opened his eyes. He back on the roof of the barrel bar. The pirate with the swords was slowly dissapearing along with a bird Digimon at a table in the corner.

"Thank you for changing the past. Now we can fianlly be deleted," whispered the bird as the pirate smiled.
Motimon figured it out! He had taken over the pirate Digimon's body! He and the bird were supposed to die that day and be lost forever, but he had changed the passed.

"Why do you refere to yourselves as the Ancients? Weren't they the ones who did this?" asked Motimon.

The large, transparent monster in the woods spoke up. "The Ancient Dark Leader was somehow created out of the darkness, he did the same to other Digimon as he did to us, only years earlier. The bacl fighters who attacked us were once good Digimon who had been attacked and turned into these transparent lost creatures like us. But, eventually, their souls became corrupted and they were changed into dark fighters..the army of The Ancient Dark Leader. They are called the Ancients. We wil become them one day soon so we choose to call ourselves the Ancients now...there's no use of hoping. Any stary Digimno that enters this bar cannot leave until he has tried to save a few of us, most die in the past and are tunred into Ancients also. You have been the first to suscessfully rescuse some of us. You are free to leave here..I sense that you miss someone..and he misses you. Return to him and you may someday free us."

Motimon said nothing more. He nodded, and headed out of the bar.


"Motimon! Digivolve to....Tentomon!"

Tentomon took one last look up at the creatures on the roof, and flew away.




SaberLeomon pinned DarkMagnaAngemon to the ground and slashed at his chest with his claws. They were both looking pretty ragged. For a fight that had gone on a whole day, they were both fairly exausted.

"Watch out SaberLeomon!" yelled T.K.

DarkMagnaAngemon kciked the lion in the face and walked on top of him. He spun his blades and lifted them above his head.

"Time to die, cat!"

"I think not!" came a voice as the pole swipped the weapons from DarkMagnaAngemon's hands.

"Hand of Fate!" yelled Angemon.

MagnaAngemon flew backwards into a tree.

"You can't defeat a Mega!"

'What?" asked Angemon.

"When Piedmon creates, he makes sure to be safe and go up one level!"

SaberLeomon took the oppertunity to pounce on the evil Digimon and attack with his claws.

"You can't defeat me!"

"Yes-"

SaberLeomon smashed DarkMagnaAngemon in the face, and cracked his helmet.

"I can!"

The dark Digimon fell backwards and was quickly deleted.

"Ah! Leomon! My sworn enemy! I will get you!" yelled Ogremon as he swung his club and rushed at SaberLeomon as he dedigivolved.

Angemon chuckled and held out his staff as Ogremon approached.

"Crack!"

Ogremon moaned and fell backwards into the dirt.

"He'll be ok!"




"Matt! Are you ok?" asked Joe as he helped Matt up.

"I'm f-fine!"

"Are you with Tai and Kari?" asked Mimi.

"Yeah! Stupid Tai!" said Matt.

"What did he do now?" asked Mimi as she put her arm around Matt.

Matt started to explain but Joe kept an eye on Mimi's hand.




Izzy pushed another branch out of the way as he made his way up a tree.

"Is this such a good idea? Just to see if we can spot our friends? I meen, I don't even like climbing!"

Sora smiled and rubbed the poison ivy on her leg. She had decided to cut her pants apart and simply make shorts.

"I don't like heights! Sorry, Izzy," she said.

"I could have just flown up there," said Biyomon.

Sora could hear Izzy slap himself. She giggled.

"See anything?"

Izzy scanned the area.

"Nope, all I see is so buzzing thing down there....Tentomon!"

"Really?" yelled Sora and Biyomon.

"Yeah! He's coming this way! Hey, Tentomon!"

Tentomon immediately picked up his pace and in seconds, he was at the tree.

"Izzy!"

"Tentomon! You're back!"

"Where have you been?" asked Sora.

"I'll explain later, I just flew over a field on the way here and saw the others!"

"Lets go! said Sora.

"Biyomon! Digivolve to...Birdramon!"

"Tentomon! Digivolve to...Kabuterimon!"

Sora climbed on Birdramon and, after Izzy made it down the tree, climbed on Kabuterimon.




"Have you guys seen T.K." asked Matt as they all sat down by the fire. It was getting dark.

"Nope," said Joe, " We havn't seen much."

Matt glared at Tai.

"Hm..Mimi, can you come here for a second?"

"Um, sure," said Mimi as she followed Matt towards the woods.

"I've been meaning to tell you something."

"Oh?"

"Yeah," said Matt as he grabbed Mimi's shoulders and spun her around to face him.
Mimi knew what he was going to say.

"Ah, Matt...there's something I have to tell you too."

"I hope its the same as what I have to say. Mimi, I love you."

Mimi let out a very sad sigh.

"Matt, the thing is...Joe and I are already..."

Matt put his hands up to his face.

"Oh, Mimi...I'm really sorry. I-I never should ha-"

"Don't be sorry! You didn't do anything," said Mimi.

She gave him a quick peck on the cheek.

"I don't want to leave you completely empty handed," she said with a smile.

Matt smiled. "So how did you guys...?"

"I've like Joe since I met him, and lately, he' just been so brave and really shown what he can do and I now I know he likes me too..."

Matt smiled. "I get it," he said as he helped Mimi up and they started back to the middle of the field.

Suddenly he heard T.K.

"Matt! Matt!"

"T.K.?"

"Matt!"

T.K. ran from the woods and into Matt's arms. He was followed by Leomon and Angemon who was dragging Ogremon behind him.
Suddenly, everyone heard the beating of wings. It was Sora and Izzy.


"Sora!" said Tai as he stood up.

Izzy and Sora jumped off of their Digimon as they dedigivolved.

"Hey guys!" yelled Sora.

"We're back!" yelled Izzy.

Tai looked at Sora. She looked as beautiful as ever. With her new shorts, and her hair growing longer, the fire light hitting her face...to him, she was perfect. Tai smiled and ran up to her. He flung his arms around her and kissed her cheek.

"I'm so glad you're safe, Sora!" he said.

"Ah..yeah. Glad you're safe too," she said.

Izzy looked over.

"Wow! What are you doing Tai?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?"

"Getting mighty comfortable with my girlfriend!"

Izzy sigh. That made him feel strong. He'd never said that before.

Tai let go of Sora.

"Your girlfriend? Like Sora would pick smart, weak you over strong, athletic me?"

Matt ran up to the fire.

"Thats just you Tai! Don't you ever think about anyone else? Sora is a nice person, she does what everyone should do! She looks at the person inside!"

"Go bug off, smart butt!"

"You go bug off!" yelled Matt.

"Oh yeah? You want to fight me?" said Tai.

"Tai stop!" yelled Sora as she grabbed Tai's arm, "This isn't any big deal!"

Tai flung his arm forward and Sora fell to the ground.

"Thats it!" yelled Izzy as he punched Tai in the side of the face.

"Oh, I see mister know-it-all is getting agressive!" said Tai as he hrew a punch at Izzy.

Izzy quickly grabbed Tai's fist and flung it sideways.

"He's not as weak as you think!" yelled Matt.

"Man, what made you so dang smart? How think you knoe everything Matt! You second guess everything I say, the world goes by your rules becuase you're always right!" yelled Tai.

Matt stopped for a second. Could Tai be right? Was he as bossy as he said?

"And like I said earlier, nobody will ver like you anyway becuase you can't love back! Plus, the bossiness item will keep any woman away!"

"Stop it!" yelled Mimi.

"And what about you? Whiny brat! Oh, pretty, pretty me! I'm so special!" said Tai as he flutered his eye lashes.

Tears ran down Mimi's face. Joe stood up.

"Quit it!"

"Oh, here we have the real whiny know-it-all who is so responsible and geeky with your homework and allergies and stuff! Plus those glasses are stupid! stupid! stupid!"

Joe lunged at Tai at managed to kick him in the knee cap, but Tai went for the upper area, he hit Joe in the face and his glasses broke into pieces and flew into the fire.
Everyone's anger was building, especially Matt's.

"Tai," came a voice.

"Huh?"

It was Kari.

"Are you going to say mean things about me now too?"

Everyone stopped. Tai slowly looked down.

"What was that?" asked Sora.

"What?" asked Matt.

"That whizzing sound, I saw a little ball fly by my face," she answered.

Tai quickly turned and pucnhed Matt in the stomach. Izzy came up from behind. Tai quickly grabbed Matt's shoulders and twirled himself around, to double kick Izzy in the chest.
Joe jumped on the ground and tried to trip Tai who jumped over Joe's attack, walked up his back and backflipped onto the other side of the fire. He spotted a long, skinny log. He dughis foot under it and kciked it p into the air where he grabbed it and twirled it around his head. He spotted two more good sizzed stick poles and kicked them ot Matt and Izzy.

"What is this?" asked Izzy.

"Fight me," said Tai in a darker voice than he usaully used.

Tai lit the ends of his pole and jumped over the fire pit. He immediately kicked Matt in the forehead and backflipped over Izzy. He spun his flaming wooden pole and hit Izzy in the back with it. He immediately jumped onto the ground and rolled the fire out. Tai jumped over him as Izzy tossed his branch into the air. It struck Tai in the chin but he kept going towards Matt.
Matt and Izzy certainly didn't know how to fight like this and they were frequently taking blows to the face. Izzy ducked as Tai spun his branch and hit Matt right above the eye, in his bruse from his attack a few days earlier. Matt could fell the blood on his head and decided it was time to stop. He threw down his pole and walked away from Tai.

"Come back!" yelled Tai as he sprinted towards Matt. Izzy got up and hurled his branch at Tai's back. A small sprak shot from his back as he fell over.

"What was that?" asked Joe.

Izzy picked a small ball off of Tai's back.

"Tai certainly didn't do this."

"He didn't?" asked Sora.

"The name calling, yes. The fighting, no."




Izzy's fingers were once again on his laptop. Everyone was around the fire, Tai wondering what had happened, and Matt rubbing his wounds.

"There, I've analized the ball on Tai's back and I think it ws created by Piedmon, he must have sent one of his guys to throw it Tai so he'd eventually kill us all and then it would self destruct and kill Tai. It was supposed to enhance his fighting skills greatly so we wouldn't stand a chance," said Izzy.

"It wasn't Tai's fault for attacking us?" asked Mimi.

"But I still called you names and stuff...I'm sorry guys," said Tai.

Matt shrugged.

"You'll have to do better than that," said Matt, "I'm going to bed."

"I think we should all get a little shut eye," added Kari.

No one said much more, they just walked off.
Izzy shut his laptop off and leaned on a log next to the fire. Sora sat down beside him.

"Izzy, I'm scared about what happened," said Sora as she leaned on his shoulder.

"We'll be ready next time if they try to throw any more of those things at us," said Izzy as he put an arm around Sora.

"No, I meen about Tai. He was really mean tonight. He's not usually like that."

Izzy sigh.

"I know."

Sora coughed.

"You ok?"

"Yeah, just a little cold," answered Sora.

"A little cold can get alot worse out here," said Izzy.

"I'll be ok," said Sora as she coughed again.

Izzy sigh and let her lean against him even more. He could feel how hot she was.

"Sora, you feel really hot. We need to find some medicine or something. In my Digimon analyzer, it said that MachineDramon had a city that he controled...he controled alot of that sort of land. Maybe we can find a hospital. I know there'll be no people but there might be medicine. Tentomon!"

Tentomon walked over.

"Yeah, Izzy?"

"Fly up high and see if you can see any cities or anything like that," said Izzy.

Tetomon walked over to Izzy's backpack and pulled out a pair of binoculars. He jumped into the air and shot up,up,up. He couldn't see anything yet but luckily it was a very clear night. He put the binoculars up to his head and spotted what looked like a city along ways away. He quickly came back down to the ground and announced his findings.

"I spotted a city a ways away from here. It'll take half the night to get there!"

Izzy stood up.

"Half the night there, quickly get some medicine, half the night back. We'll be back by breakfast time!"

Tentomon nodded.

"Tentomon! Digivolve to......Kabuterimon!"

Izzy helped Sora to Kabuterimon and helped her climb on his back. He decided that it would be better is she sat in front of him, in case she passed out and lost her grip behind him.

"Sit right behind Kabuterimon's head becuase its like a big helmet and a windsheild that blocks all the bugs from hitting you in the face," said Izzy with a smile.

"I heard that!" said Kabuterimon.

"Hey, where are you guys going?" came Biyomon's voice from the ground as they lifted off.

"Sora is sick! We're going to find some medicine," said Izzy, "Hurry and fly up here!"

Biyomon flapped her wings and flew up to Kabuterimon and took a seat in front of Sora. As the giant bug lifted off, it nearly blew out the fire.

"Hang on," said Kabuterimon.

Izzy held onto Sora as they shot off over the treetops.





Piedmon stomped through the forest, heading after the digidestined. He had to act fast, his master would surely be angry if he didn't have them dead yet. The Ancient Dark Leader wasn't one to mess with, and his non Ancient life depended on his success in destroying the Digidestined. He was already long overdue for a check up by his master, so he had to find them quickly. The digiworld was simply too big and it would be near impossible to find them now that his monitors were destroyed. He had been running all night, and hadn't yet taken a break. He spotted a good log and sat down.

"If the Ancient Leader is so powerful, why dosn't he just destroy the digidestined?" Piedmon asked himself.

"Don't question my orders!" came a voice.

"D-Darkleordomon!"

"Don't call me by that name! I am only a digimon in battle!"

Piedmon stared at the black mass in front of him. It was shapeless, souless, and evil.

"Yes, Ancient Dark Leader," said Piedmon.

"Come Piedmon...your time has come!" said the black mass as it moved through the woods.

"But master!" said Piedmon as he followed, "the digidestined-"

"Are still alive!" interupted the Dark Leader, "you have failed. Now it is my time to fight, and you shall help me!"

"N-no!" said Piedmon.

The black mass stopped and started to grow. It stretched and touched the sky, it devoured the forest and covered the area in darkness. Piedmon gasped as it took the form of a huge, black dome. It had hardened quickly and Piedmon spotted a door. He walked in. Statues of odd Digimon lined the enterance walls. At least he thought they were statues. He came to a large, heavy door and opened it.
The site was a amazing. A large, shiny, white round room lay before him. Paintings were drawn into the domed ceiling, hundreds of feet above him. In the center of the room, a chair waited as the black mass slowly settled into it.

"Come Piedmon."

Piedmon started to walk across the gigantic, round, cathedral like room. It looked to be almost a mile across.

"I am here, Dark Leader," said Piedmon.

The Ancient Dark Leader stood up and quickly shot a smaller black object from itself. It struck Piedmon in the chest and he collapsed on the floor. Energy ran through the black object, out of Piedmon, and into the bigger black mass.

"I am taking shape! I am Darkleordomon! The Ancient Dark Leader!" yelled the black mass as it turned into a 10 foot tall, armored monster.

Piedmon energy flowwed from him and into the newly forming Darkleordomon.

"I was beaten before at the waterfall at Primaryox village! I lost my power but I am whole again!"

A giant energy staffed formed in Darkleordomon's hands and sent energy all through the area. Piedmon stood up and walked up to his master.

"I am here to serve you, I am Ancient Dark Fighter who will stop any and all who attempt to destroy you," said Piedmon as he slowly mutated into a skeleton like clown and became transparent.

Darkleordomon leaned back in his chair and laughed.

"Yes, digidestined....you will die!"