[[Author's note: Wow, I cannot believe it's been so long since I last updated the story. Sorry about that. It's just been hectic with a new job and all the new experiences I've been trying out lately. Anyway, the next chapter is here, and it is the action for the story, and I hope you'll enjoy it.]]

"What... they were supposed to come to the Digital world! Your intelligence..."

"Our intelligence stated that they come to the Digital World from the human world on this day each week without fail. Something must have happened that has caused them to do otherwise." Rosemon stopped Witchmon's rant regarding the change of plans with a stern tone of voice, and an icy stare through her helm at the champion level Digimon. With every passing moment, the level of annoyance that came from Witchmon was growing, and Rosemon found herself close to crossing the line between silently scalding the other Digimon, to launching an all out attack and destroying the nuisance once and for all. It would certainly do the group some good. They'd be rid of her and that infernal prattling on about her experiences and her challenges over the past few years. Witchmon was a pest in every sense of the word. "Venusmon, how would you like us to proceed?" Rosemon asked as she stepped away from the mirror that looked upon the Digi-destined as they left the building one by one, and moved in numerous directions away. One of the targets left the building, the human girl and her Gatomon partner, and a few moments later the human male left the building with another human walking at his side.

Venusmon was watching from the back of the room, if it could be called a room. The space the Digimon occupied was dark, only the light coming from the mirror gave away the fives' location. Rosemon and Witchmon before the mirror, ready to strike the other. Venusmon stood a short distance away opposite the mirror. Dianemon and Lotusmon stood away from the group, choosing to remain silent rather than to speak up and risk the other two Digimon from growing mad at what they might see as being an insult. It would be the smarter option that they could do in their minds, and it was something that Venusmon agreed with. Although she didn't say it, the constant bickering between Rosemon and Witchmon could drive anyone mad.

"The plan must continue no matter what. Rosemon, I want you and Witchmon to travel to the human world." shouts and cries of objection came from the two Digimon, but they were swiftly countered as Venusmon clicked her fingers and from the shadows, Olive the dove flew at the two argumentative Digimon and pecked them one after another on the head. While the pecking did no lasting harm to either of them or leave any marks, it did calm to the two rather quickly, and they both let out long sighs of relaxation before nodding their heads. Peace Fantasia was the name of what had just happened, and Rosemon and Witchmon were, for the moment, calm and peaceful. They looked towards Venusmon, and beckoned her to continue.

"Travel to the human world and find the boy. Once he is part of us, then we will be one step closer to our goals." Venusmon instructed the two before pointing to the mirror, and with her powers she reached out and touched on the image, turning it into a portal to the other world.

"Consider it done, Venusmon." Rosemon said simply before bowing to the other Digimon and taking a running start.

Witchmon remained silent for a moment before making her way towards the portal. She did not bow like Rosemon did, for she was not truly one of them. She was more of a mercenary than a subject, owing no allegiance to the other Digimon save for what will get her the power she seeks to control. It was the typical arrogance of the mercenary lifestyle. No honour, just a single minded goal and a willingness to achieve that goal. When she was gone, Venusmon let herself relax, removing her powers of transportation from the mirror and she shook her head, letting out a small sigh. "If there was another way of completing the prophecy then I would have considered it, but Witchmon is the only Digimon that can be controlled who can do such an act. The other two are long gone, both in a state where only the darkest and strongest powers can reawaken them."

"Piedmon and Puppetmon." Lotusmon breathed the words, shaking her head at the thought.

Two of the four Dark Masters, the most vile and despicable Digimon that had ever stepped foot upon the Digital World, corrupting all that they saw and turning it evil. Every Digimon owed the Digi-destined of the time a debt of gratitude and so much more when they were all destroyed along with Apocalymon. It was said that if any of the Dark Masters return to the Digital World, then a tidal wave of chaos would follow them, and wash all known worlds in a flood of destruction and suffering.

"What happens if Witchmon cannot complete the task set?" Lotusmon asked, though part of her feared the answer. They needed this to work, the prophecy itself needed the bearers of light and hope to be of one form and to be unified with the four Digimon of the Nature Spirits. There was no unity in being different.

"If Witchmon fails, then we must do what is necessary. We would have to resurrect either Piedmon or Puppetmon." replied Venusmon, though even she did not like speaking those words. Some of the most powerful beings who sought to destroy the Digital World would never consider joining the group. They would never agree to change those who helped destroy them. "Let us hope it does not come to that, let us hope that Witchmon succeeds."

None of the Digimon present at the time wanted to see the return of evil and malice incarnate, but sometimes desperate times called for desperate measures. Even with their combined might, there was only a slim chance that any of them could hope to control or stop the two Digimon if they went out of control. The odds wouldn't be in their favour, but it did not mean that they couldn't try. They would try no matter what, even if it cost the group their very existence.

-X-

Outside the school, T.K and Patamon were making their way towards home, and back to the apartment. He would have to break the news of the dance to his mother, and that was going to be a pain in the ass. She would insist on taking him shopping for a new suit at the first possible moment, and if there was one thing that T.K knew from experience was that shopping with his mother was always going to be difficult. He remembered when Matt had his school prom, and T.K. stayed with his dad that day. When the two returned, Matt looked like a zombie and he was dead on his feet. According to the report that Matt gave, their mum had took him around every shop until they could find the right outfit. Even then it wasn't something that Matt liked, rather something that his mother liked.

The blonde haired boy was discussing the memory with Patamon who was perched on top of his head and looked down towards T.K, focusing on every word he said. Although Patamon knew everything that had happened and what Matt had told both himself and T.K, it was still a little fun to hear it again. Of course it was cruel to make fun of Matt's misfortunes when it came to clothes shopping, but T.K's older brother did laugh when Davis sent the pictures of the first drama performance of Cinderella to everyone that knew T.K (and that included the Digi-destined from across the world) which meant that T.K had every right to laugh at Matt's expense.

"T.J!" a panting, out-of-breath voice could be heard from behind them, and T.K paused for a moment, recognising the owner of said voice for a moment before looking back. It was Davis, and it looked as if he was running for his life with Demiveemon holding on for dear life, latching to Davis' back pack with his legs kicking around in the air. It was almost comical, if not a little sad to see Demiveemon close to taking a few flying lessons. "I told you we'd catch up to him!" said Davis in a triumphant tone of voice as he looked to Demiveemon who had started to slide down Davis' trouser leg, before stumbling towards the bushes. The poor Digimon looked as if it was about to throw up like it did after the Digimon stuffed itself on sweets and fizzy drinks.

"He doesn't look too good." Patamon pointed out to the two humans before jumping off of T.K's head and gliding down to where Demiveemon sat on the edge of the bushes, holding it's stomach and sitting forward. The in-training Digimon was taking deep breaths, trying to calm itself with Patamon watching, hoping that his friend was all right.

"You seemed to be in quite a hurry to catch up." observed T.K as the blonde haired boy looked Davis up and down, taking in the sweaty, dishevelled appearance of the other, before chuckling and shaking his head, though Davis scowled before standing up straight and stretching out.

"I just needed to get something back from you." Davis said while trying to take in deep breaths, before continuing and stretching out once again. "You have my Literature book from this morning." Davis explained, which made T.K immediately reach around to his bag, and opening it up he started to fish for it.

"Are you sure you gave it to me?" T.K asked as he dug through the bag, moving books out of the way, pens, sheets of paper and note books to one side and the other in an attempt to find the book. Checking the last few, T.K's eyes looked up and he smiled before nodding, producing a copy of Frankenstein with Davis' name on it. The book was torn at the edges, and some of the corners were a little scuffed, but the pages themselves didn't show any of the discolouration that came from the usual use from constant reading. Most of T.K's books had green spots across the edges of each page when looked at with the book closed, but Davis' copy looked like it had hardly been opened. "How much have you read of this?"

"Not much." Davis stated as he shoved the book in his bag without even attempting to move things around. It showed where the scuffs on the corners of the book were coming from, that was for sure. There wasn't much of a surprise in that regard, and so T.K let the matter slide before closing up his bag and looking towards the other Digidestined. "Got anything planned for tonight?" Davis asked before picking up Demiveemon after the Digimon came back to the two of them, and Patamon flew up and settled itself down on T.K's head.

"Well, besides getting my homework finished, not a lot. I will have to give my mother the news that the Winter Formal is taking place, which means that we'll be going shopping when she has a free moment." T.K said, although he didn't sound very excited at the prospect of going suit shopping, and Davis knew exactly why, so he didn't have to ask. Though knowing Davis like T.K knew him, then the other was still going to bring it up.

"After what happened to Matt, I can't say I blame you. I'm fortunate my parents are out of town. It's just Jun, me and Demiveemon in the house." Davis claimed with a grin, clearly thinking about all the ways that he could torture his sister Jun with. Everyone knew that Jun would have a surprise up her sleeve for the other, and T.K couldn't wait to hear from the others about what happened, it was a shame that he couldn't be there to see it.

Davis paused for a moment, he was thinking about the Winter Formal and turned to T.K, a small curious look on the former leader of the Digi-destined. "You and Kari are good friends, do you know if she's attending the Formal with anyone?" he asked, and T.K paused for a moment, trying to think of an answer to that question. It was common knowledge that Davis had a crush on Kari, the whole world and his mother knew that fact. The problem was whether or not Davis would take the fact that Kari had asked T.K himself to the formal.

"Well..."

"T.C?" Davis pressured him, and not wanting to draw it out any longer and actually risk Davis continuously sending message after message asking him who it was, T.K answered.

"She asked me to the Formal at lunch earlier today, and I said yes." the blonde responded with a small sigh, wondering what would happen next. Fortunately though, it didn't go as bad as T.K was expecting.

"Well that's good." Davis responded, and T.K was stunned, half expecting Davis to start moaning and groaning his head off at that point. He had certainly grown up since the early days when the two first met. "As long as you make Kari happy then we're fine."

T.K looked to Davis, visibly stunned and gob smacked that Davis, the very same Davis that got annoyed and fuming when Kari teased him in the past was actually being civil about the entire matter. Patamon and Demiveemon both walked to their respective partners and yet T.K didn't notice. "Uh... thanks... and don't worry. I will." he responded, letting out a slight chuckle and he nodded his head before the two of them started to walk home.

-X-

Since starting college, and working on new projects that would be both beneficial to the human and Digital world, Koushiro Izumi, better known as Izzy to his friends and family continued to be the one person who probably spent most of his time on his laptop, rather than working on another medium such as pen or paper. The red haired college student preferred to use the power of his laptop, though being more cautious than anyone else. Each piece of work that Izzy focused on was saved on his laptop, backed up onto a portable hard drive with a terrabyte of space, and then sent on and stored on an online server that he used when he needed to gather his work, and had neither his laptop or his hard drive.

At the time, he was looking into tracking any stray Digimon that were roaming around the human world. With the increase in humans gaining Digimon partners, then it was inevitable that some may slip through the net and find themselves wandering the real world. If that happened then the Digi-destined needed a way of tracking each and every one of them, while finding alerting the nearest digi-destined to deal with the situation before it developed. Many public officials, police chiefs and politicians welcomed the Digimon, but at the same time they saw the guests as powder kegs that could go off at any time. Izzy felt the same way. He wanted to make sure the worlds were in peace, and if that meant sitting at his laptop for most of the day then so be it.

"Izzy, I'm about to cook dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs?" Yoshi, his mother called out from outside of his bedroom, and stretching out slightly, Izzy turned his head towards the door with a smile. Sliding himself from the chair, he stepped up and walked towards the door. He didn't like shouting through a closed door, sometimes words got lost and it sounded as if Izzy had said the wrong thing. It brought him back to a particular Christmas the previous year when asking for a new Ink Jet printer sounded like a pink dress for winter to his mother. If it wasn't for Tentomon being by his side and backing him up, then there would have been an awkward conversation between himself and his parents.

Opening the door, the red haired boy walked out. He was wearing a pair of black trousers, a green sweater and a purple shirt underneath, with a pair of slippers covering his feet. Yoshi was standing near the kitchen getting everything ready.

"Spaghetti and meatballs sound good to me, thank you. How long will dinner be?" Izzy asked as he stepped into the kitchen area and took a glass from the cabinet, before filling it with water. His father was still out for another ten minutes before he returned from work, so it was just Izzy and his mother at that point.

"I'll start cooking in ten minutes, so it will give your father some time to come in and have a wash." Yoshi responded with a smile before Izzy nodded and picked up his glass of water, stepping away from the kitchen before he heard his mother speaking again. "Will Tentomon be joining us?"

"I'm not too sure mum, he's not here at the moment, but I'm sure he'll be back soon." Izzy replied before bowing and taking his leave of the kitchen, glass of water in hand and he had a smile on his face.

Walking back into his bedroom and closing the door behind him; Izzy was a little surprised to see the red insect Digimon flying through the window and landing down onto the floor next to his bed. He let out a small chuckle and looked towards Tentomon. "Speak of the devil and he shall come."

"Beg your pardon?"

"Oh, it's nothing Tentomon, just a saying here in the human world." Izzy commented before putting his water on the desk and sitting down on the swivel chair and turning to face his partner Digimon. "My mother and I were just talking about you. She wanted to know if you were joining us for dinner."

"What are we having?"

"Spaghetti and meatballs." Izzy said, and watched as Tentomon nodded his head in agreement, and Izzy chuckled before looking to his laptop and typing in a few commands. It brought up the map of the city, showing off the number of Digimon and human partners that were moving through the city. It seemed that there were a few on the streets, though most of them were at home. "Where did you get off to?"

"I went for a trip around the city. According to what I was told by Armadillomon, some of the insect type Digimon have been mistaken for giant bugs from the older members of the communities which has meant that sprays from insect repellent and attacks with fly swatters have become commonplace. At the moment, it's only Roachmon that have been targeted the most." Tentomon began while looking towards the map. "I've also noticed it's not just stray Digimon that have been attacked. Digimon with human partners have also been targeted."

"I wonder if this might escalate." said Izzy who turned from the monitor and looked towards Tentomon. The human leant forward, resting his chin in one hand while considering the situation. There was a moment of silence; Tentomon knew not to disturb Izzy or speak until his partner had come up with a theory or a solution. "Maybe it's just a random series of events. I don't think we should concern ourselves with it until something major happens."

"I'll keep an eye on it and see what happens." Izzy was about to respond to Tentomon's comments. He had a smile on his face, but it quickly turned to alarm when his laptop started beeping, and a warning flashed up on screen, revealing that there was a Digimon that had entered the human world. Turning himself around, he looked on at the screen as the information flashed up. Izzy started to type, with Tentomon hovering close behind him, looking over his shoulder.

"This is new." he breathed before reading the information as it came on the screen. "Two Digimon, the first is a champion level Digimon, though no information is given on the nature or identity. The second is a..."

"What is it Izzy?"

The red haired Digi-destined didn't know how to respond. It was the first time they had ever had a Digimon of that level enter the human world since Diaboromon returned and tried to take his revenge on the Digi-destined three years previously. "The second is a mega level Digimon. It's near the school." Izzy finished his sentence, shaking his head and looking on the screen before pulling up the map and finding out where it was and if anyone was near by to deal with the two Digimon. He was in luck; T.K and Davis' digivices were showing to be within a stone's throw away and quickly sent them an email.

"If only we could get out there and help." Tentomon spoke out, and if he was honest; Izzy was having the exact same thoughts while sending the email to T.K's device and looking at the screen.

"Both T.K and Davis are strong enough to handle the two Digimon, though I know they would appreciate the back up if things do turn upside down." Izzy replied while sending the email and looking at the screen. The two should hopefully be able to reason with the Digimon, but they were warned to be careful, just in case.

-X-

Despite Izzy's best intentions for peaceful first meetings; T.K and Davis had been attacked from the get go, barely walking ten feet away from the area, and the two Digimon weren't pulling any punches. The strange thing was though, that the Mega level digimon was holding herself back after the initial first hits were placed. The road was covered in rose bushes but those weren't harming anyone (though they were harming cars when the sharp thorns scratched the paint work of near by cars) and so were just an odd sight to see in a road in which there was no dirt.

Angemon was in the air taking on Witchmon, his staff crashing against her broom and both were in a furious duel of Champion level Digimon. The angel was resplendent in the slowly fading sunlight. His white clothes were tinted orange as the sun set behind him.

Flamedramon was launching himself into the air, trying to get at Rosemon, but she did not try to fight him. Instead the Digimon simply rose higher and higher into the air. The action infuriated both Digimon and partner, the two hot heads throwing curses at the Digimon.

"Come down here and fight like a mon!" Flamedramon shouted to the Digimon before landing back on the ground, on both feet, and he looked up at Rosemon, ready to take another jump and try to bring her down to earth. It would probably end the same though with the Digimon rising higher and higher.

"Stay on the ground Flamedramon, help Angemon out!" Davis instructed. He and T.K were standing on the pavement, watching the fight from the safety of the school wall in front of them. Davis had both fists clenched, trying to figure out something they could do, though T.K had his nose in the emails he was sent and Davis noticed it. "Keep your head in the game T.J! The fight is out there."

"I know I know," the blonde returned before looking up. "It's an email from Izzy."

"Well what does it say?" Davis asked as he felt the temperature around them rise. Flamedramon just launched his fire rockets at the Witchmon when he had a clear shot and all three of them hit the Digimon square in the chest, causing her to scream out before flying back and shaking her head.

"Just what we already know, and to be careful." T.K said, and he was calm despite the chaos that was taking place above them. The blonde haired digi-destined was used to this after all. He had been through it a number of times already in his life alongside Matt and the others. "I'm getting him to send us some back up." T.K added before sending the email, and flicking it shut and sliding it in his bag before going back to the fight.

It was amazing that nothing had been destroyed... yet. Unfortunately with the nature of Digimon, there was no telling what might happen when a group of them started fighting and tearing one another to pieces. It was just the nature of their actions. The two Digi-destined watched from the ground, watching Witchmon dodge the three fire balls that came from Flamedramon's fist, only to be smashed into the air by Angemon who had gripped his staff fiercely, using it as a club, and a very effective way of buying the two of them some time to regroup and refocus their attacks on the two Digimon.

"Way to go guys!" Davis shouted up to the two Digimon and looked to T.K with a smirk on his face, seemingly confident in the fact that the two Digimon were able to take on the other without breaking a sweat. "See, what did I tell you? Our two Digimon can take care of two insignificant Digimon."

-X-

Witchmon was reeling from the staff being smashed against her stomach, and was floating up in the air, though lower than Rosemon who had remained silent and passive throughout the entire first engagement between the three Digimon. Her only actions were to grow the rose bushes across the street. Her plan for dealing with the situation, and if necessary strike out, but Witchmon had been clear in her instructions. She wanted to do this on her own to prove herself. Witchmon had so much more to prove and would have to do a lot more than simply capture the target to prove her worth to Rosemon. She wanted to see loyalty from Witchmon. Loyalty to the cause, to the sisterhood of the Digimon, and then Witchmon will have proven herself to the mega level.

The champion Digimon was panting, out of breath and she continued to rub her stomach from where the staff had hit. She scolded both the humans, and then turned her attention to the fact that she was fighting without help. It was annoying, and to Witchmon it looked as if Rosemon was enjoying the sight of Witchmon being beaten back.

"If you wish to assist in the battle then please do so!" Witchmon shouted as she clenched her broom before looking back to the humans who were waiting. She figured that while near Rosemon, the other Digimon were powerless to attack without risking the more powerful Digimon from getting involved. "I'm getting beaten back, and I cannot take a shot at the boy like this!"

"Your exact instructions were that you wished to take on the boy and complete the mission. I'm simply doing as you requested." Rosemon answered in a neutral tone of voice, but it took the Digimon a tremendous amount of willpower to gloat and comment on how she said it would not work, that team-work would be the better option. "If you need my help, then you simply need to ask." Rosemon added, but this time her voice was not neutral. It almost sounded as if she was gloating to the other Digimon.

Witchmon remained silent for a moment, trying to think of something to say to the other Digimon that didn't rise to the bait that Rosemon had set out. In an unusual moment of calmness that came from the Digimon, Witchmon looked down and took a deep breath. "We need to keep the two Digimon and the brown haired boy out of the way so I can get in close and use my special ability. Your vines can do the trick to stop the others." Witchmon explained, and she turned to face the other Digimon.

Rosemon remained quiet for a moment, before she smiled and nodded her head. It was the first move she started to make since coming to the human world other than to avoid the attacks of Flamedramon. The Digimon wasn't going to get involved directly, instead she started to speak under her breath and she looked at the rose bushes that had grown when they first arrived. Little did the others know, that while they stood up there trying to figure out an attack, the rose bushes started to move, though the noises made were muffled and masked when a gust of cold wind passed through the streets, a spell brought on by Witchmon.

-X-

"I wonder what those two are talking about." Flamedramon quipped as he stood near Davis, while Angemon floated above T.K with both hands gripping his staff. The four of them had taken an interest in what was going on, but the four of them were ready just in case something did happen and caused a few problems to take place. Thankfully though, it seems that they could take a breather, if only for a few moments. "You would have thought that for a mega level Digimon, Rosemon would have come for us." the dragon Digimon added before turning to the others.

"Stay focused Flamedramon." T.K began before looking at his emails, finding that Malise and Ken were close by and on their way to assist. It was some good news, especially if things heated up and Rosemon finally did join the fight. He flicked his personal computer closed before sticking it back in his bag. It was getting stressful, and at that point he wished something would happen. At least then they could act. It felt that to T.K, some of Tai's and Davis' personalities have rubbed off on him. The lack of action was making him anxious, and that was not a good state to be in. "I don't like this."

"What? The fact that they've retreated or the fact that they're still up there?" Davis asked in response, turning to face the blonde.

"Both." T.K simply answered before letting out a deep breath. He was about to say more when the gust of wind came through, and the chill bit into them all and caused T.K to pull his blazer tighter around his body, trying to keep out the cold. "Where did the wind come..." T.K was stopped from speaking when he felt something grasp against his body and looking down, thorny vines were crawling their way up his body and entrapping him in an iron like grip, squeezing tightly to stop him from moving.

T.K was about to shout a warning when he saw that Davis was in a similar position. Encased in vines from head to toe while Angemon and Flamedramon were both being squeezed tightly and held in place. Both tried to struggle within the vines, but it was futile to resist. They were just wasting energy. "I knew this was too good to be true." he muttered while he moved his hands around, though at some points he found himself pricking his hands on the sharp thorns. It was difficult to tell if they drew blood, but at that point he didn't care.

"Wow, I can't believe that actually worked!" Witchmon shouted as she descended from the sky, stopping a few metres above T.K and the others, sitting on her broom and looking down at the encased Digi-destined and their partner Digimon. "I had doubts, but they quickly faded."

"What do you want?" T.K shouted to the Digimon who simply cackled and shook her head before leaping and using her arms, she lifted herself up so that her feet were on her broomstick, and she stood upright. Witchmon clapped her hands in joy as she walked along the length of the stick and she looked back down towards T.K.

"Simply put, I want the power to defeat my rival Wizardmon, but to achieve that, then I need to bring you to some associates of mine."

T.K looked to the Digimon, and listened to what she had to say regarding the matter and the blonde shook his head defiantly. "I won't go with you!" he shouted back in defiance, trying to struggle from his thorny bonds and break free so he could try and help the others from their bindings. "Let us go!"

"Never going to happen!" Witchmon cackled in an act of triumph before raising her hands high in the air, her fingers pointing to one another as if she were making a cage. Between her hands, and remaining within the confines of her fingers dark energy started to crackle and manifest itself. The air became charged as Witchmon prepared her spell. It was one that she had been tasked to do by the Sisterhood and as she had the target in her sights, the time was right to strike. "Conversion Ray!"

"Spiking Strike!" the shout came quickly, and two metallic spikes made contact with Witchmon before she could fire, causing the Digimon to float to the side in pain, though her attack was successful, it hit the wrong target. It hit Davis square in the chest, though only lasted a few seconds. The goggle head didn't scream out in pain, in fact he was uninjured through the ordeal. Simply confused. Looking around, he saw that help had arrived. Stingmon was taking Witchmon on and driving her away, while the eight winged form of Angewoman kept Rosemon at bay. There was a blur that passed the four of them, which quickly appeared, revealing itself to be the armoured form of Tigressmon. Blacksalamon's armour form.

Tigressmon stood at six feet tall, covered in black armour that had purple stripes running across her body mimicking that of a tiger. It stood as a human, much like Flamedramon and each hand contained three claws that were sharp enough to cut through steel like a hot knife through butter.

"Tigressmon, get T.K and the others free of those vines!" Malise shouted from the distance as she, Kari and Ken came running down the road towards them. She was panting heavily, her black hair flowing behind her. Tigressmon got to work quickly, and in the space of a few moments she had moved around the four bound Digi-destined and Digimon and cut loose their bindings, allowing them to be free. Malise ran for T.K first, but he waved her away and pointed to Davis.

"He was hit, make sure he's all right first." T.K instructed as he fell to his knees, though held himself up with shaking arms. The blood from his cut hands had started to pool on the ground and he shook his head.

Malise took the instructions with a nod, and Ken followed her. Only Kari stopped with T.K.

"I'll be fine Kari, don't worry about me." he said to the brunette, looking up and he managed to get up slightly, still shaking from what had happened and how close he had been to taking what Davis took. The other Digi-destined was shaking, and both Angemon and Flamedramon had reverted back to their rookie forms.

"You're hurt T.K, and you know it. Hold still." Kari returned as she reached into her bag and took out a pair of tissues. Under the light of the street lamp, she held the tissues to T.K's hands, stopping the blood from flowing and she kept them in place, before taking out some medical tape. Noticing the supplies she carried, T.K gave a small smile before looking to her.

"Since when did you carry medical supplies?" asked T.K as she wrapped his hands up and kept them tight. Kari chuckled at the question and shook her head before putting everything back in her bag. T.K was amazed. Usually it was Joe that brought medical supplies with him just in case.

"I've been taking some advice from Joe."

"Knew it."

"Knew what?" Kari looked to T.K with a small smile, enjoying the little playful nature that the two of them shared. Both knew that recently it had developed further. The dance, Christmas, the fact that the two spent more time together both in and out of school.

"That you have been listening to Joe. He gave you a few ideas, didn't he?" T.K asked, and Kari responded by nodding her head and she chuckled before the two of them started to walk towards the others. Patamon looked exhausted, the Digimon could barely keep himself in the air let alone make it towards the two of them. "Patamon, are you all right?" T.K asked as he caught the Digimon in his arms, looking at the slightly bruised rookie before letting out a small smile, knowing that Patamon was well.

"I'll be fine, though I could do with a long nap." Patamon responded as they looked to Davis and Veemon. The former of the two was being supported by Ken. Davis was shaken up and he looked pale, but apart from that there appeared to be no physical injuries to the other.

"Are you all right, Davis?" T.K asked as they walked to join one another, converging in one big group. With the two Digimon seen to, Tigressmon and Stingmon reverted to their rookie forms. Blacksalamon walked over to join Malise who picked the little Digimon up in her arms after Davis found his footing, and Ken helped Wormmon up onto his shoulder. It had been a year since Ken started attending public high school, and much to the delight of the Digi-destined (and especially Yolei), Ken was able to transition easily into his new life at the school.

"I'll be fine. Some food and a good night's sleep and I'll be right as rain tomorrow." Davis replied before looking at the bandaged hands that T.K now, and then looked to Kari knowing that it was her that had done the dressing. He looked at the two of them with a smile on his face. He was happy for the pair, and he knew something good would come out of it. "Let's get going, it's late and Jun's probably worried about me."

"Wait shouldn't you go to the hospital? You were hit with god knows what." Malise cut in before Davis could even step aside to take his leave. The British girl looked on at the boy, and although she hadn't known him for too long, Malise still cared for Davis. He was a friend, and she looked out for each and every one of her friends. "At least get it looked at."

"Relax Malise, I'm fine. Don't worry about me." Davis responded before picking up his school bag and slung it over his shoulder, though he winced slightly when the strap was placed over his chest. The pressure and weight of his school bag was pressing against his skin, and it seemed to aggravate the problem. He bared through though and managed to keep himself up right. "Just don't worry. If something goes wrong then I'll go to the hospital and get it looked at." Davis finished before waving good bye, and with Veemon at his side, the two of them made their way home. The others simply looked towards Davis, amazed that he could go through so much and still remain fine after everything that has happened.

"I'll never understand him." Malise commented, shaking her head before looking to Blacksalamon who simply shrugged her shoulders. Malise let out a sigh, before picking up her partner Digimon and starting to return the way they arrived. "Well, I'm going to head home now that everything is back to… well I can't really say normal at the moment."

"Don't worry Malise, we know what you're talking about." Ken finished, and the two shared a knowing chuckle before nodding. "I'll walk with you. I need to get to the train station." He stated before waving good bye to T.K and Kari, though while walking, Malise stopped and called out to Kari.

"Are you still up for shopping this weekend?"

"I won't miss it, let me know when and where!" Kari called back before waving good bye.

The scene around them at that point was completely different to what the street had been moments ago. The rose bushes were no more, they had vanished shortly after Rosemon had fled the real world and returned to the Digital World. Thankfully nothing was damaged. The school building and some of the cars that were parked along the streets remained untouched. Amazingly, despite the battle, no one had come to see what was going on. The street was deserted over than for the two humans and their partners.

"We should start walking home ourselves." Kari stated, and was met with a nod from T.K and Patamon. Both were quite tired from what had happened. "I'll walk you home."

"Wait, I thought it was the boy that walked the girl home. Not the other way around." T.K responded with a small chuckle as they started the journey away from the school building. After a few moments of walking; Kari leant in close and she gently took T.K's hand, holding onto it and the two huddled closely together.