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Jin felt Labramon's paw shake her awake. The first thing she saw was his happy face staring down at her, his paws now resting on her stomach, and she rose up, glancing around. Tentomon was enjoying a ripe piece of digifruit, and immediately Jin grinned. She felt hunger in the pit of her stomach, so she reached for a piece, only to hear her father stop her. "Don't bother," He said, and he sighed, looking over to her. "Humans aren't able to consume digifruit, because we technically aren't data, so we can't digest data," He explained, and he rubbed his eyes, looking back over to her disappointed face. "And I still haven't figured out a way to get back home." This part was mumbled, and he hung his head in shame.

Jin felt helpless. She was hungry, and she was tired, and she wanted to go home. But they still couldn't get back there. How long was this supposed to go on, anyway? She wasn't sure they could go very much longer—thankfully, they had brought water, but they barely had any of that. While it was great the digimon was munching away and getting nutrition, where did that leave them? Didn't they need to be strong, too, to help with digivolving? She just had never been in this situation, so she literally had no idea what was going on. "I think I'm going to go for a walk, to get some air and stretch my legs. Labramon, you wanna come?"

"No, I don't want you leaving, Jin," Izzy said, and he looked up to her, only to meet with her somewhat challenging gaze. This was going to be fun, certainly.

"Why?" Jin demanded, wanting to know exactly why she couldn't breath some fresh air, and walk while she still had the strength. Maybe she was being melodramatic, and maybe this would all work itself out quicker than she expected, but then again, maybe not. None of this was in their control, after all.

Izzy bit his lip. He wasn't sure how exactly to deal with this. She seldom defied him, and even when she did, it was hardly a life-or-death situation like it was now. Whoever did this obviously did it for a reason, and if the reason was to keep them there, then the both of them were in mortal danger. He hesitated, wondering if he shouldn't just come right out and say how concerned he was for their safety, Especially hers. He just didn't know if he could really and honestly stand losing his only kid, too. He began to speak, only to see Jin start walking off anyway, Labramon following hesitantly. Tentomon looked over to Izzy, and he shook his head. "She's just a teenager…it was only a matter of time before she started rebelling," He said simply, and he continued to chomp on all the digifruit he could get his claws on.

Izzy glanced down to the computer. It was going to take him days to just get past the security that was placed around the digital code, if that were really the problem. He had to personally upgrade his software to get the passwords for the digital world, and that would take him another few more days. If it didn't fix it by itself, Izzy just wasn't sure if he could even live long enough to figure it all out. Or worse, that Jin wouldn't live long enough. He stopped typing at the thought, hating himself for thinking of that. It was at that moment that he heard a scream, and he pushed aside his laptop, immediately rising up and going to the sound of the scream. "Jin!" He yelled, and he heard her yell from another direction.

He pushed past trees and bushes, Tentomon flying right ahead of him. Finally he saw Jin and Labramon fighting off a huge tiger-like digimon. All at once Izzy froze. This was so backwards…Baihumon was supposed to be a Sovereign, and protect the digital world. He was attacked them! He figured he would have time to think about it later, but now was certainly the time to act. "Tentomon!" He yelled, and his digimon partner instantly digivolved into his champion form, and then finally into Megakabutarimon. As Megakabutarimon went to attack, Izzy ran over to Jin, grabbing her shoulders. "Why did you leave like that, you could have been hurt!" He yelled, and he shook his head, turning back to see the large Baihumon growl, almost stalking Megakabutarimon.

"Labramon!" She yelled, and he instantly began to digivolve into Dobermon. Jin pulled away from her father. "I only left because all you wanted to do is sit, and work! Obviously whatever is happening is happening for a reason, and we just need to face this reason head on!" Jin yelled, and she watched Dobermon go straight to attacking Baihumon, only to be shot down almost immediately. She tensed, clutching her digivice in her hand as she almost felt the hit from Baihumon. "Dobermon, be more careful!" She yelled, and she looked back up to Megakabutarimon as he attacked, and hit right on.

Izzy glanced back to see Baihumon fall back slightly, and stay down for only a moment before he rose back up, coming back strong with his attack. "Kongou!" Yelled Baihumon, letting out a sheet of blue power come from his mouth, and completely immerse Megakabutarimon. He fell right from the sky, causing a huge shake in the land, and Baihumon let out a roar. "Do not defy the power of the new Sovereign!" He yelled, and his tail flicked behind him. "You cannot win, no matter how hard you try!" He continued.

Megakabutarimon rose up, followed by Dobermon, and the two of them attacked full on. A ball of dark electricity came flying from Dobermon's mouth, following his attack cry, and Megakabutarimon let out his own electric attack. The two surges hit Baihumon full on, a cloud of dust and leaves surrounding him. Izzy and Jin seemed to both sigh a sigh of relief, as well as their digimon, but Baihumon stirred with a loud roar. He circled around the two digimon, his tail twitching behind him more than ever, now. Suddenly, Dobermon attacked Baihumon, only to be bitten clear in the center of his body, and thrown back. "Dobermon, no!" Jin yelled, and she went to go and get him, but was quickly stopped by Izzy. "Let me go, let me go!" She yelled, but her father held strong, for fear of losing her, too.

A glowing purple light surrounded Dobermon, and came from Jin's digivice. After a moment of waiting, the light faded, and a growling Cerberumon emerged from it. His teeth bore wildly at Baihumon, and the hair on the back of all three of his necks stood straight up. He dug into the ground, and the two stared wildly at each other, all six of Cerberumon's eyes staring straight into the deep blue eyes of Baihumon. After what seemed like years, Baihumon leapt, clawing at Cerberumon as much as he could. They got into a horrible bustle, an attack or two coming out of it, until they both broke apart. Megakabutarimon shot out his Horn Buster, and Cerberumon added to that his Emerald Blaze. The two attacks combined collided with Baihumon, forcing him to fly off into a bushel of trees. The two digimon both stood touch, waiting for Baihumon to get back up. He tried to, weakly, and finally, the huge digimon stumbled back into the bushel. He let out a low growl, and began to chuckle lightly. "This is only the first fight in a series of so many. Just because you've beaten me…it doesn't mean anything. You will both fail, and die," He said, before his data disappeared into the air.

A small green blob, Montimon, made his way to Izzy, who quickly picked him up and smirked. "You were great," Izzy breathed, and he shook his head at the proud-looking digimon. He turned back to Jin, who looked a little white in her face. At least, more than usual. Izzy set Montimon down, and he walked over to her. "I think I may have figured out what's going on," He said, and he sighed. "I got a message yesterday from Gennai. He said something about how the Sovereign were possessed, or…or something like that. I think the very digimon who are meant to protect and watched over the digital world are actually trying to take complete control of it, but they're being used. I'm not sure—."

"Shaomon!" Jin yelled, and she looked apologetically up to her father for interrupting before going to her digimon, now in the in-training form, Shaomon. The small puppy-like creature, whose colors were identical to the black and gray colors of Labramon, looked weakly up to Jin. She held the small digimon, shaking her head. "I can't believe you digivolved to the ultimate level, finally, I'm so proud of you," She mumbled, and she rose up, petting Shaomon's hair a little bit before she returned to her father. "Do you mean that the Sovereign are possessed by some sort of…some sort of evil being?" She asked, looking up to the man with a small sigh. "No doubt the same being that's trapped us here."

"Exactly," He said, and he sighed. "I didn't mean to yell at you, Jin. You know, before…I just don't want you walking out like that, without me knowing where you're going. I know you had Labramon with you, but there was no way he could have beat Baihumon," He explained, and he ruffled her hair a little bit. "Now come on, Jin, we need to go back to the cave so I can work on getting to the digicode," He said, and he nodded; he only assumed she would follow right after him, but he didn't hear any of her footsteps. He turned back around, and he frowned. "Jin, come on, before someone else comes after us," He said.

"No," Jin said, and she let Shaomon jump from her arms and go on to sniff around, pawing at Montimon. "You know that will take weeks. Getting through the passwords, the firewalls, and even just making the programs to do that is going to take too long," She grumbled, and she looked up to him with a tiny sigh. She looked down for a moment. "Wouldn't it be…be more logical, if we just stayed at fought?" She asked him, looking at him. "I know we're not that strong, but with our lack of food…dad, if we sit around and wait for you to get through all of that…" She frowned, and looked back down at her feet. "We'll die."

Izzy frowned. Occasionally he forgot that he did instill most of his knowledge onto her. Unfortunately, he didn't remember this time how quickly she was bound to find out. He sighed. "We're not strong enough," He said, and he glanced up to her, barely making any eye contact with her. "We barely beat Baihumon—do you think we could honestly stand up to someone like Azulongmon? We're bound to face him some time, and you and I both know that we couldn't face someone like him," He said to her, and he walked over to her, wanting to hug her. But he just couldn't bring himself to—contact with her had never really been easy. "We'd have at least a better chance at trying to find a way out of here."

"So it's die quickly or die slowly?" Jin said. It wasn't a very loud voice, but it surely caught everyone's attention immediately. She shook her head, and she pushed past her father. She wished he could understand that she didn't want to just sit around, and hope for the best. Surely there was some way they could fight and beat them. But then, there are only two of us. The Dark Masters were a lot weaker than the Sovereign, and that took seven digidestined to beat them. Maybe dad's right…there's a much better chance of anything happening to get us a step further if we just sit down and figure it out on the computer. But I'm a digidestined…shouldn't I be doing everything I can to fix this?

Izzy finally joined up with Jin back at their makeshift home. He saw her curled up in the corner with Shaomon, though she was certainly not yet asleep. He took his laptop, and he continued to work on a program to try and crack through the many layers of security. He hadn't gotten sleep in nearly a day, though. Sure, he slept a few hours while Tentomon was awake to keep guard. Not to mention he was starving. He wiped the reddish stubble on his chin, shaking his head. He just couldn't believe this was actually happening to them.