This is the third chapter of the original version of the Ultimate Gathering of the DigiDestined. Again, there are only 6 of these chapters and most of the story line is the same. The only significant difference in these chapters is that the Adventure 01 cast is in it. Enjoy.
I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON ADVENTURE, 02, TAMERS, FRONTIER OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS.
Chapter 3: A Blast From the Past and Cold Feet
The Digital World Location: The Computer Cavern
Izzi woke up with a huge headache. It didn't help that Tentomon was blabbering nonstop until he was reassured that Izzi was going to be fine. Izzi was relieved that he wasn't alone and was glad to see that Davis, but quite honestly he wished that Joe were there instead. Davis was too much like Tai and was often rash. He needed someone more calm and patient. A ling time ago Joe would have been the last one to turn too, but in recent years Joe had gained confidence and very useful medical knowledge, living up to his crest of Reliability. In his current condition, Izzi would have preferred to have the soon-to-be doctor with him, but he'd just have to do with Davis.
"Where are we?" Izzi asked after he was frustratingly unable to come to a conclusion on his own. This headache of his was insane!
"I was hoping you'd have an idea," Davis sighed.
'Odd,' Izzi thought. 'Davis seems down about something.'
"All I know is that we're either underground or in some sort of cave," an unfamiliar voice said.
Izzi realized that Davis and their Digimon weren't the only company he had. Two other boys and a Guardromon were sitting not too far away. It was then he realized that their light source was coming from the forehead of the Digimon. The boy wearing the visor was the one who had spoken.
"And they are…?" Izzi inquired after no one bothered to introduce him to the other boys.
"Oh!" Davis gasped, realizing his error. "Izzi, this is Kazu and J.P. I found them while trying to turn off the power so that we could untangle you from those cables."
Izzi faintly recalled falling and seeing the cables on the wall. He had dragged them down with him and received a sudden shock when a few of them snapped. No wonder he didn't feel good.
"Oh… Thanks," Izzi mumbled as he tried to stand but his legs felt like jelly and he instantly fell back down.
"Hey!" Davis yelped as he caught his faint friend. "Easy, Izzi. You were electrocuted, you know."
Izzi moaned.
Introductions went around once again for Izzi's sake and after a few more minutes Izzi felt well enough to stand. Walking was another matter entirely. Kazu offered to have Guardromon carry him and Izzi found that it'd be idiocy to refuse.
He had Guardromon take him back to the computer's power switch and once the power was back on he hooked his laptop, which was amazingly still undamaged, to the mainframe and hacked his way into the system where he could access a map to find out their location. He fiddled with the systems settings and reset the power's surges so that there was no longer an excess of energy flowing through the cables.
Satisfied with his work, Izzi disconnected his computer and turned to his waiting companions.
"It's useless to remain here. Guardromon, could you run that life forms reading that you said you had attempted? You shouldn't have any electrical interference this time."
The robot Digimon obliged and ran the scan.
"There are abundant life form readings in a chamber not far from here."
Izzi pulled up the map he had downloaded from the network and hooked his computer up to the Digimon. With Guardromon's permission they synced their systems so that whatever Guardromon picked up on his scanners, Izzi's laptop would assess the information automatically preventing the need to continually hook it up to the Digimon. Now he had life form reading and not just Digivice signals.
Kazu wasn't sure he liked the computer geek messing with his Digimon partner and ordering him around, but he looked as if he knew what he was doing so Kazu remained silent. The weird redhead could be his key to finding his friends and getting out of this place.
Izzi suddenly cried out with joy.
"Hey guys! I'm getting eight digivice signals. Eight of the sixteen readings that are in that chamber have an overlapping yellow digivice signal! I think we found some of our friends."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Davis grinned. "Lets get going!"
The Digital World Location: Unknown Bare Cave Chamber
Young Izzi was confused. The electrical interference that had plagued his computer's readings had suddenly vanished, reappeared, and then vanished again. He'd had complete access to the maps that had been blocked before, but now he had access to their digivice readings. Eight yellow points winked brightly in the chamber they were in.
"Any luck Izzi?" Tai asked.
"Maybe," Izzi mused. "That electrical interference is gone now. Maybe our Digimon can Digivolve."
"Birdramon would be our best bet if we want to get out of here," Tai said, thinking realistically for once.
Sora nodded and held out her digivice. It flashed, but Biyomon didn't glow.
"Still no Digivolving for us," Sora sighed.
"Hey! Did you guys here that?" Joe's voice called out, breaking twice in the middle of his sentence.
"No," Mimi said flatly. "Maybe your just hearing things Joe."
"I am NOT hearing things!" Joe protested. "Listen!"
Everyone got quiet, straining to hear what Joe had. At first nothing happened. Then they distinctively heard voices talking, but they were too low and too far away to discern the actual words.
"Maybe it's a ghost," T.K. whispered.
"Or maybe someone's out there!" Matt exclaimed.
"Or something!" Joe cried.
"Get a grip Joe," Mimi sighed.
Suddenly the voices stopped. Everyone froze. Then Izzi's computer beeped and they all gasped, startled. Izzi stared at the screen. There were four new lights on his screen. One was yellow like theirs, one was red, one was blue and the other was orange. The dots were located just outside the chamber they were in. The orange moved towards the wall that separated its group from Izzi's and back again like it was pacing.
Izzi was about to tell Tai when the voices resumed. This time they could be pick up a few words from one voice (Izzi assumed that it was whoever the orange signature belonged to) and the others were too muffled to understand or pick out individuals. The only thing they were sure of was that all the voices were male.
"There are four of them," Izzi murmured.
"How do you know that?" Tai asked.
"I'm getting a reading on four new digivice signals. One of them has one like ours, but the other three have completely different readings," Izzi replied.
"If they have digivices then their DigiDestined like we are, right?" Matt asked.
"Most likely," Izzi nodded. "But the different readings on the other three has me baffled."
"...we get to them?" one of the voices was saying.
Another voice answered, but they still couldn't hear the actual words.
Izzi was intently watching the orange light signature. It was now stopped right by the wall just outside of the opening Tentomon had found. Izzi figured that he had to be just out of sight and that was why they could hear him.
Suddenly it wobbled.
"Whoa!"
A boy in a blue shirt and vest came tumbling backwards down the steep incline with a blue Digimon they'd never seen before. Everyone rushed to his side to make sure he was all right.
"Oww!" the boy complained. "I hit my head again."
When he opened his eyes he quickly shut them again.
"I musta gotten hit real hard! I'm seeing things," he gasped.
"How rude," Mimi huffed.
Tai chuckled at Mimi's sudden offense.
"Are you alright?" he asked stretching his hand out to help the stranger to his feet.
The boy blinked then nodded.
"I'm fine Tai," the boy said, still rubbing the back of his head.
Tai gaped. "How'd you know my name?"
"I know all your names," he said distractedly, pointing each person as he named them. "Tai, Matt, Izzi, Joe, Mimi, Sora, Kari, and T.K."
"How do you know us?" Matt asked. "Have we met before?"
"Ah…" the boy hesitated, seemingly coming to his senses. "Yeah, sort of."
"You're making things worse Davis," the boy's Digimon said. "And I don't think you hit your head enough to imagine all this cause I'm seeing it too."
"You're name's Davis?" Tai asked.
"Yeah," Davis nodded. "I guess you don't know who I am huh?"
They all shook their heads.
Davis sighed. "I'm not good at explaining this kind of thing. Heck, I don't even know what's going on."
He suddenly spotted something on the ground and moved to pick it up. It was a pair of goggles identical to the ones that Tai was wearing.
"Ah geeze," he said as he cleaned them off and snapped them on over his head like Tai always did.
"Where did you get those?" Tai gasped, not overseeing the significance.
"Huh?" Davis blinked. "Ah, well… You kinda gave them to me."
"Davis!" a voice called out.
They all looked up. Another boy, this one wearing a blue visor, was peering over at them from above with a Guardromon.
"Are you alright?" he called down to Davis.
Izzi looked at his laptop and found that this boy belonged to the blue digivice reading. The other two were just out of sight.
"I'm fine Kazu!" Davis called back. "Just getting a blast from the past!"
His words confused everyone, even the boy Kazu didn't seem to understand.
"What?" Kazu asked, waiting for the punch line of a joke of some kind.
"Never mind, just help us out of here!"
"Roger," chirped the android Digimon, sending down a cable from each arm.
Once everyone was up out of the chamber with the help of Kazu and another boy, J.P, they were startled to hear a familiar voice.
"Goodness! Now I see what you meant by a blast from the past, Davis."
Izzi nearly fell back down into the chamber below. They'd been standing out of sight behind the Guardromon when they were being brought up, but now they came into clear view. It was another Tentomon with an older boy, somewhere around the age of sixteen, who looked remarkably like him.
"Who are you," Izzi asked, bewildered.
The older boy chuckled.
"I suppose the simplest answer is to say that I am you."
"No riddles today please Izzi?" Davis sighed.
"It's not a riddle Davis," older Izzi said. "It's fact. He is from my past and I am from his possible future. This confirms my theory."
"Theory?" Davis sighed. "Can't that wait until we find the others?"
"It could," older Izzi admitted, "But it wouldn't harm revealing a part of it so that our friends here can have some peace of mind."
When no one tried to stop him he continued.
"…I've come to the conclusion that we have all come from different realities."
"What?" everyone asked, confused.
Older Izzi looked at his younger self as he pulled out his own laptop.
"Tell me what kind of readings you're picking up on your computer."
Izzi did as he was asked and showed him the screen with the four different digivice readings. Older Izzi then revealed the same readings on his laptop. Everyone else leaned in to get a look at one of the computers.
"You see these four different kinds of readings?" he asked.
They nodded.
"Pull out you digivices," he said, revealing his own digivice. It was identical to his younger self's digivice and that of his friends.
"Digivices?" Kazu and J.P. repeated as they rustled through their pockets and pulling out their own version of a digivice.
Younger Izzi realized that Davis, Kazu and J.P. had distinctly different models.
Davis's Digivice was white and oval shaped with a square screen in the top half of the device. The bottom half had a round button that looked like the toggle button on some video game systems that were used to scroll over to select something or move characters around. Next to the screen on the right there were two black buttons forming an oval shape together. One yellow button was between them and the toggle button. Its sides had blue grips and an antenna was positioned on the top left of the device.
Kazu's digivice was like a rounded T. It had a square screen in the center of the orange circle. On the top of the T, there was an orange strap that looked like it could go to a keychain. Below the screen in the bottom of the T there was a toggle button like on Davis's only this one had one orange button on the left and right side of the circle. One other button was located near the bottom left corner of the mini-screen. There was a slit in the bottom half of the device where it looked like you swiped or scanned something though it.
J.P.'s digivice was blue and had a shape similar to Davis's but it was larger and more angular. It had a mini-screen in the top third of the device inside a yellow hexagon with pronounced points. The bottom half had a yellow grip. There were two white buttons side by side above one little yellow one, and one white button on the left side of the device.
"Wow," Davis whistled looking from his device to Kazu's and J.P.'s. "I've never seen digivices like that."
"What, this thing?" Kazu asked. "This is a D-Power. All Digimon Tamers have this."
"Well ours are called D-Tectors," J.P. frowned looking at his device. He had thought that all of the D-Tector's had turned back into cell phones once they had left the digital world that last time. When had it made the change back?
"You see my point?" older Izzi prompted. "These digivices are merely one form of proof that there are different realities. Different realities and therefore separate Digital Worlds that had similar problems and needed their own DigiDestined to help solve them. You called yourself a Digimon Tamer right, Kazu?"
"Yeah…" the visor boy said slowly as if he was unsure of older Izzi's mental state.
"What does your group call themselves?" Older Izzi suddenly asked J.P.
"Huh?" the big boy gaped. "Uh… DigiDestined. Or at least that's what we were called when we were in the… uh our Digital world."
Older Izzi nodded.
"Do you guys not have Digimon partners?" he asked when he recalled that no Digimon was accompanying J.P.
"Well we had Neemon and Bokumon," J.P. mused, "but I wouldn't call them our partners. Friend's sure, but they were next to useless in a fight."
Both Izzi's looked thoughtfully at J.P. and that made him uncomfortable. He wasn't sure what he'd do when they finally asked him about how his friends were of any use without a Digimon partner to their version of the Digital World, assuming the older Izzi was right about them being from different realities with different Digital worlds.
Before either Izzi had the chance, however, both their laptops went off.
"Looks like we're getting new digivice readings," the younger one said.
Guardromon ran a scan and the older Izzi's found more life form readings too, but this time it was strange. There were four life form readings, but there were five digivice readings separate from them. Before each digivice reading overlapped one life form reading. He glanced at their current location to find that that was still true.
"Are you getting this Guardromon?" older Izzi asked.
"Affirmative," the robot beeped. "Most unusual."
"What is?" Tai asked.
"I'm hooked into Guardromon's life form scanner and we've picked up four life forms, but there are five digivice signals. Two yellow, one orange, one red and one blue. We can assume that the yellow signals belong to those of us with the original digivice, the orange belongs to those who have Davis's model, the blue belongs to those with Kazu's model, and the red signals belong to those with J.P.'s model. They're not too far away."
"I'm assuming that we're going to run into other older versions of us," the young Izzi stated.
"Most definitely," older Izzi agreed. "Now lets go find them."
The Digital World Location: The Ice Cavern
Joe inwardly sighed heavily since he could not externally. He, Cody, Michael, and two others were frozen solid inside a block of ice. Outside he could see Gomamon with three other Digimon pacing back and forth trying to figure out how to unfreeze them.
How did he get into these kinds of fixes? One moment the three of them were falling and the next they crash land with two strangers in a freezing icy cavern. One of they was a boy a few years younger then Cody with a large orange hat that introduced himself as Tommy. The other, a boy named Kenta, reminded Joe a little bit of himself, or maybe it was just the glasses. The point was there were all clueless as to how they got there or how to leave. Shortly after exploring the place they found their Digimon companions.
Cody's Digimon, Armadillomon, looked just as his name depicted: a yellow armadillo with a golden shell, red markings on his forehead, a purple underbelly and bright green eyes. He spoke with a southern accent the reminded Joe of old western movies.
Joe had never actually met Michael's Digimon, Betamon. He looked like a green tadpole with blue wavy stripes on his back, red eyes, four pronged legs, white underbelly and an orange fin that stuck straight up out of his back, doubling his height.
Kenta had a tiny pink Digimon that reminded Joe of a mini-Gomamon. It had green eyes, wings, gold collar, a red heart on its tiny chest, and it no legs, but two hand less arms (or at least Joe assumed they were arms). It had squealed with delight and zoomed around Kenta's head.
Joe noticed that Tommy alone had no Digimon partner to reunite with but he didn't seem to be missing one. He had merely looked at the others curiously.
After the short reunion the ground shook and suddenly a cold blast of air separated Digimon from DigiDestined and then next thing anyone knew the five humans we frozen alive, yet were somehow able to breath and see what was going on outside their block of ice. Joe prayed that the others were here too and would find them soon.
The Digital World Location: An Icy Tunnel Outside the Ice Cavern
Davis was following the two Izzi's next to Kazu and J.P. Guardromon was bringing up the rear. The younger version of Tai came up next to him and matched his pace.
"So Davis," he said, "you know us in the future, right? How do we meet?"
"Izzi did say that we're from a … possible reality for you guys so you may meet me a different way then I met the Tai from my world, if I even exist in your world at all and we even meet. Man all this alternate reality stuff is confusing," Davis sighed. "Anyway I met you by playing soccer. You were my team captain."
"Really?" Tai asked. "…You said I gave you my goggles. Why did I?"
Davis grinned. "The first time I went to the Digital world mine broke after a fight with a possessed Monochromon. You gave me yours because you believed that the leader of the DigiDestined wouldn't look right without them."
Tai mulled that over for a moment and Matt to the opportunity to ask the boy from the (possible) future some questions.
"What about the rest of us? How'd you meet us?"
"Well I've been in the same class as Kari ever since the third grade."
"Really?" Tai asked looking at his little sister. "She's just finished the second grade."
Davis nodded. "Yeah. We became good friends."
Kari smiled.
"I only knew you two until the day I became the DigiDestined. T.K. had just transferred to our school and I was all worked up because he already knew Kari and was a close friend of hers," he grinned at the memory. How stupid he had been.
"I only knew Izzi by reputation as the former computer club president and I only knew that because of Yolei, another of us new DigiDestined. Kari had mentioned him a few times as well and all I knew was that he was a friend of Tai's. Everyone else I met when we began our adventures in the Digital world."
"Why were new DigiDestined needed?" Matt asked. "Why couldn't we handle it?"
Izzi decided to intervene then.
"I'll take over from here Davis," he said.
His younger self watched him with great interest.
"Three and a half years after we defeated the Dark Masters and returned to our world Tai got an urgent message for help from Agumon via his digivice. He was somehow able to return to Digi-world and found him. He found out that another human had entered Digi-world calling himself the Digimon Emperor. He enslaved hundreds of Digimon and used his black digivice and the control spires to prevent Digimon from Digimon."
He paused here and glanced back at Davis. No one was comfortable bringing up Ken's past as the Emperor, but it was easier when he wasn't there. Davis took it particularly hard, because the two of them were now best friends.
"What?" Matt and Tai said angrily. "Why would he do that? Didn't he know that Digimon are living feeling creatures?"
"No," Davis said coldly. "He didn't. He regrets his actions as the Digimon Emperor to this day. It still bothers him and it wasn't his fault for the most part."
This last sentence was said sadly, earning him looks from everyone.
"The point," Izzi said to resume his story, "is that Agumon couldn't Digivolve even with Tai there. Gatomon and Patamon found them and they ran for cover inside a cave where Tai messaged the rest of us for help. Inside that cave was a Digi-egg with the crest of Courage on it. Tai, being the DigiDestined of Courage tried to pick it up, but it wouldn't budge. Instead three lights shot out of it and zoomed away.
At the time I was receiving Tai's message and came to Davis's middle school to use the computers. I ran into him, T.K. and Kari and two others, Yolei and Cody. With Yolei's permission as the new computer club's president we got access to the computer lab. Yolei and Cody left the lab and I was able to open a digi-port. While T.K, Kari and I where getting ready to enter the Digital world, Davis was arguing with us to let him come with, but we pointed out that he needed a digivice. That was about the time the computer flashed and three new upgraded versions of the digivice shot out of the computer. Davis got the blue one, Yolei got the red one and Cody got the yellow one."
Davis took over. "I was excited because I remembered Tai mentioning the Digital world and T.K. had just been proven wrong about me being able to go. We weren't on the best of terms with each other when we first met. But anyways, Izzi stayed behind while I accompanied T.K. and Kari to Digi-world for the first time. When we got there I had no clue what to expect like when a bunch of Numemon ambushed me from a vending machine. We found Tai and needless to say he was a bit surprised to see me. He took us to the Digi-egg and T.K. and Kari tried to pick it up, but they couldn't. Then Tai suggested that I have a go and I picked it up no problem. Then Veemon come out of the spot the egg had been."
The blue Digimon looked up at his partner.
"I'd been waiting a long time for someone to move that egg. It felt so good to be free! We've had some pretty awesome adventures together haven't we?"
"Yup!" Davis agreed.
"Alright, I'm with you so far," Sora said, "But how did releasing Veemon help the situation? The Digimon couldn't Digivolve right?"
"Right," Izzi said picking up the story again. "The digi-egg that Davis picked up was a special egg and enabled him to use an ancient form of DigiVolution known as Armor Digivolving. With the Digi-egg of Courage Veemon is able to Digivolve with the attributes of the crest. In other words the attributes of Agumon, Greymon, Metalgreymon, and Wargreymon. When Yolei and Cody came to the Digital world for the first time Sora and I accompanied them. The same thing happened to them that Davis went through. Yolei was able to move the Digi-egg of Love and got her partner Hawkmon, and Cody was able to move the Digi-egg of Knowledge and got his partner Armadillomon. All three had the power to use the digi-eggs to Armor Digivolve when the other Digimon couldn't."
"What about the other crests like mine, Joe's, Matt's, T.K.'s, and Kari's?" Mimi asked.
"I was getting to that," Izzi said as young Izzi continued to take everything in.
"T.K. and Kari found the digi-eggs with their crests on them next. They were able to lift them, unlike Tai, Sora and I, and their digivices changed to the upgraded ones that Davis, Yolei, Cody and the- ah, Ken had. So now Gatomon and Patamon were able to Armor Digivolve as well. As for the other crests, Davis, Yolei and Cody got them and so their Digimon have two different Armor DigiVolutions. Davis has the crest of Friendship, Yolei had Sincerity, and Cody got Reliability. And speaking of Armor Digivolving, Davis I want you to try to use the digi-egg of Courage to knock down this ice wall. We need Flamedramon's fire-rocket attack to melt it."
No one had noticed till then that the older DigiDestined had lead them into a dead end of ice.
"According to these readings our friends are just on the other side of this wall," he said. "Let's hope that Armor Digivolving works where normal Digivolved doesn't. If not, then we are in for it."
"Ready Davis?" Veemon asked his partner. "Let's show these guys was Armor Digivolving is about!"
Davis pulled out his D-3 and selected the right digi-egg on his D-Terminal, a small handheld messaging device that was getting popular in his world.
"Digi-Armor Energize!" He yelled and his digivice flashed and Veemon glowed golden yellow, as he should.
"Veemon Armor Digivolve to…!"
The light flashed, dissipated and a taller Veemon with chest, thigh, feet, hand and head armor with a spike sticking out of his forehead appeared. The armor had a flame design like you see on hot-rods and motorcycles.
"Flamedramon!" he announced in a deeper voice. "The Fire of Courage!"
"Whoa!" everyone but Davis and older Izzi gasped.
"Fire-rocket!" the evolved Veemon cried as he made a punching motion at the ice wall and fireballs shot from where his hands should have been.
It melted some of the ice, but there was plenty of wall left.
He growled, irked, and called out the same attack, only this time he charged at the wall with a flame-enshrouded figure. The wall melted nicely over his inflamed body, causing the air to mist.
"Nice work Flamedramon," Davis grinned.
His Digimon gave a satisfied sigh and began to smooth out the hole in the icy wall so that the newly made entrance to the next chamber was large enough for everyone, especially Guardromon, to go through.
It was freezing inside and it made Tai's and Davis's goggles frost over. It was empty for the most part and entirely made of ice. They stepped tentatively in, looking for the friends they hoped were in here.
"Davis!" a voice with a southern twang echoed through the chamber.
"Armadillomon?" Davis called out. "Where are you?"
"Right here," the armadillo Digimon cried as he suddenly popped out of the ground.
"He's not alone!" another voice cried out and Gomamon appeared with Betamon and Marineangemon.
"Now there's a familiar face," younger Joe's Gomamon laughed.
The other Gomamon stared at the younger versions of the original DigiDestined.
"Hey Izzi," he said slowly. "Am I seeing things?"
"No," older Izzi chuckled. "They are ourselves from a possible alternate reality. Our past selves."
"Oh is that all," Gomamon rolled his eyes.
"If you, Armadillomon and Betamon are here, then so are Joe, Cody, and Michael, right?" Davis asked.
"If Marineangemon is here then so is Kenta," Kazu cried and the tiny pink Digimon whirled around his head at the sound of his partner's name.
J.P. kneeled down by the new Digimon.
"Was there anyone else? Any kid without a Digimon partner?" he asked.
The four Digimon looked at each other.
"There was a little boy like Cody," Armadillomon said slowly. "He wore an orange hat."
"That's Tommy!" J.P. exclaimed.
"He looked pretty young," Gomamon said.
"He just turned nine," J.P. sighed. "Today, or at least the day it was in our world before we came here, was his birthday."
"Where are they," older Izzi asked, concerned.
The four Digimon looked at each other again.
"Frozen," came the unison reply.
They lead them to the ice chunk where their DigiDestined were frozen in.
"I see," older Izzi mused. "The reason we only picked up four life form readings and five digivice signals was because the DigiDestined were encased in ice. Guardromon's life forms scan looks for heat signatures."
"Are they alright?" J.P. asked worried as he stood in front of the small boy Armadillomon had described.
"I think so," the older Izzi said. "The Digital world isn't like our own."
"Flamedramon," Davis said, "Melt the ice. Let's get them out of there."
"You want it quick or slow?" Flamedramon asked as his armored hands burst into flame.
"Slow," Izzi said. "A major change in temperature could send them into shock."
"Got it," Flamedramon said as he put fist to ice.
It was a nerve rackingly slow process. Flamedramon worked from the top to the bottom and after twenty minutes Joe's head was free. He took a few deep lungfuls of air before he thanked the Digimon.
"Thanks," he sighed with relief. "You don't know how weird it was to be trapped in ice, but not suffocate."
Izzi caught his friend and the other four boys up to speed on their current situation after their heads were unfrozen as well.
"That makes sense I guess," Joe sighed, his entire upper half now free.
The other boys were still up to their armpits in ice, but at least they were fine, as fine as being frozen in ice goes. Flamedramon looked tired, but he kept on going with Davis cheering him on and the occasional encouragement from the boys still encased in the ice. When he finally did finish he immediately De-Digivolved back into Veemon.
"Nice work buddy," Davis said.
He picked up his collapsed Digimon and carrying him over the reunited group were introductions were being given again and more catching up on events.
