Primary Disaster

Shadow- "To readers who were impatient for this chapter... sorry... I've been sick with a fever for the past week... not fun..."

Guilmon- "But he's better now!"

Shadow- "...sort of... look, here's the chapter... now I'm going back to bed..."

Renamon- "Shadow does not own digimon."

Shadow- "Please R&R..."

Guilmon- "And don't forget the Guilmon bread!"

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n. digital world

The portal glowed momentarily, then spit out the digidestined onto the ground in a heap. As they rose to their feet, they had a funny feeling that something was out of place. Suddenly, they realized what it was. "Where are all the digimon?" Kari asked.

Tai looked around. "I dunno. Elsewhere, I guess."

Yolee looked to her left. "Hey, what's that over there?"

Everyone turned, and saw a cloud of black smoke rising from over a nearby hill. Matt shrugged. "Good a place to start as any, I guess."

real world, tamers

"Well, it seems to be finished." said Janyu.

"Can we go yet?" asked Lisa. "I wanna see what it looks like!"

Henry sighed. "First, we need to find a gate..."

"Perhaps we can be of assistance." came a voice from nearby. Everyone turned, and saw Zhuqiamon. "We have the ability to open up portals to and from the real world and the digital world. That's how we sent the Devas."

"No kidding..." said Takato.

"We're on our way back there right now to return the digimon, so we might as well take a few humans along as well."

"I just hope the other kids have the same idea we do..." said Henry as they were sucked into the digital world.

real world, frontier

"Hey guys, we're back!" called out Luke.

"Oh, good..." Kouji said sarcastically, as the others sat down at the park bench he and Takuya were sitting at.

"Why don't you play arcade games, Kouji?" asked Hedeki. "I'm sure you'd be good at them!"

Kouji sighed. "Whatever..."

"What about those other kids?" asked Zoe. "How are we going to get back to the digital world?"

Takuya shrugged. "Wait for Ophanimon or Seraphimon to help us, I guess."

"What about what that old guy, what's-his-name..."

"Wasn't it Genai?"

"Something like that..." Zoe continued. "Anyways, he said that the worlds were going to collapse on each other, right?"

"Yeah, so?" said Takuya.

"So..." Zoe said. "We might not have a digital world to go back to, and even if we do, Ophanimon and Seraphimon might not exist anymore."

"That's right..." Candice said. "But if the digital world was gone, why would our digivices still work?"

Kouji nodded. "She has a point. Also, if Ophanimon and Seraphimon were still around, they probably would have contacted us by now to let us know what happened."

"Okay..." said Zoe. "So, how do we get back to the digital world?"

"Why do we want to go back?" asked Scott. "Who cares?"

"What about those other kids!" Candice shouted. "Don't you want to see them again!"

Kouji shrugged. "Doesn't matter to me. I would like to see the spirit of light again, though."

"...which brings us back to our original problem." finished Zoe. "How do we get back?"

"Didn't they hold their digivices to those portals to activate them?" asked Hedeki.

"That's right..." said Tommy. "So, if we can find a portal..."

"One problem, shorty," said Luke, "How do we find a portal?"

"Well," said Tommy, "Since digimon are data, then we need to find someway of accessing the data. But how?"

"Well, think for a second, what do we use to access data?" asked Hedeki. When nobody answered, he sighed. "A computer! What do you think the internet is?"

"Bellisimo!" shouted Zoe. "Who has a computer?"

Hedeki pulled a computer out of his backpack. "I always carry one."

"Well then," said J.P., "Let's figure out this digiport thingy!"

n. digital world

As the digimon tamers were thrown out of the portal, Ryo said "I think I like the data streams more than that."

"Sorry," said Azulongmon, "I should've warned you about the turbulence."

"Whatever..." said Rika. "Let's just find those other kids already..."

"Umm..." said David, "Does anyone else see that smoke over there?"

Azulongmon frowned. "That's odd... there shouldn't be any digimon strong enough to do that much damage yet..."

"Well then," said Takato, "Let's go check it out!"

n. digital world

Nearby, the digidestined continued to climb the hill.

"This walk... is farther... than it looked..." said Tim.

"Oh, be quiet." said Willis. "In Colorado, this is nothing!"

"Look kid," said Tim, "In case you haven't noticed, this ain't Colorado."

"Would you two be quiet?" asked Tai. "We're almost at the top."

As the digidestined finished climbing the hill, they halted, horrified at what they saw. Below them was the Primary Village, but something was obviously very wrong. Many eggs were smashed, the trees were on fire, and a wicked laughter echoed through the valley. Below, in the center of the village, chasing the few digimon who had managed to hatch, was the ghostly form of Lucemon.