Sorry for delay, but...

You know what? Never mind. This chapter is over 3000 words long. I think that makes up for it.

Seth was irritated at the small girl who was constantly following him and calling him her brother. He stayed calm, but it was getting on his nerves. Iris was oblivious to this irritation and continued what she was doing.

"How much longer until we find this outlaw or whatever?" Seth said to break the silence and get his mind off the girl.

"I don't think it's much further," Agumon X said while sniffing the air, "I can smell them."

"Well, that's reliable."

After a while of walking, there came a sound of wings from ahead. The group ran forward only to see peculiar black and blue feathers. The team searched the area, but found nothing. Seth tapped his foot impatiently.

"He's not here, let's bail." He stuck his thumb over his shoulder for emphasis. Agumon X sighed and walked away from the scene.

Beelzemon X and Cloud held their breaths in the cave. When the walking subsided, the duo walked out.

"Good thinking, for a human. I'm surprised you didn't collapse in fear." Beelzemon X said coldly.

"Hey, I was prepared for you to fall over in sheer awe of it working." Cloud snapped back. There was a pause while Beelzemon X looked at the direction the unknown group went.

"Heh. I like you. I've got a place I need to show you." The tall humanoid flapped his wings out defiantly. He looked expectantly backwards at Cloud.

"You get airsick easily?"

"All the time."

"Very funny, climb on."

Jay Williams looked out towards the seemingly endless forest in all directions. He had barely gotten his bearings and had decided to be serious. Though his curiosity burned, he thought that it would be much safer to stay in the clearing until help, or the opposite, arrived. There was a snap from behind him, then a thump. He rushed impulsively towards it.

"Oh, geez, I've got a nasty thorn from stepping on a stick. Could you help?"

Jay backed up a step from the odd creature. It looked like a yellow dog with a marking on its stomach. It seemed to be wearing a blue wolf pelt. Its claws were long, and it had a long horn perturbing from its forehead. It was cradling a foot which had a giant splinter stuck in the middle of the foot.

He kneeled down and looked at it closer. Seeing no secret answer, he grabbed it with both hands and pulled hard.

"OH, OWOWOWOWOW! DID YOU THINK I HADN'T TRIED THAT!" The blue monster yelled. Jay recoiled and apologized. He tried again from a different angle, but found no painless way of doing it.

"Who the hell is making all this noise?" Said a distinctly female voice. The bushes nearby parted and revealed a thirteen-year-old girl. She had brown hair tied up in a ponytail, and dark blue eyes.

Behind her came another peculiar monster that looked very similar to his, except it had a pink body with a green marking and its 'pelt' had dark purple stripes.

"Well?" The girl repeated her question. The beast next to her readied its claws for an attack.

"Er," Jay cleared his throat, "I'm Jay Williams, fifteen years old. I appeared in this random forest with no idea of how I got here. While waiting around for something to happen, I found this… thing." Jay gestured to the monster, which was still cradling its foot.

"My name is Gabumon X, and I'm a Digimon thank you very much." The beast said with a touch of coldness.

"You're welcome. As I was saying, I found him and he had gotten a BIG splinter in his foot. I tried pulling it out, and was unsuccessful. It turns out he is a big wuss, and cried out. Thus you found me and we're good, right?" He put his hands up in mercy.

The girl snorted. "I'm Tori Vance, you idiot. You're doing it wrong, FYI, you have to do THIS!" She shouted and pulled the splinter out. Gabumon X flinched, but felt no pain.

"How did you-"

"Magic. C'mon, Psychemon X, we got bigger things to think about." The pink dog nodded and the two turned to walk away. Jay jumped to his feet.

"Wait! What bigger things?" He said, not sure what to expect.

Tori stopped midstep. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a strange device.

"I'm being hunted down for this thing."

Maya Fisher sat silently on a rock. She was in a forest, in some odd parallel world, with no memory or her arrival. She shook her head heavily.

"Maya, what's wrong?"

Ah, she forgot the talking plant.

"Nothing, Palmon X, just listening for help." Like that would happen, Maya thought bitterly. She pushed the thought out as she thought of being home. She missed her family… Especially her cat…

"Maya! Somebody's coming!" Palmon X stood up from her disguise as a flower. Instead of parting, the bushes were flattened by a giant humanoid lion with robotic legs and a long red cape. He glared down at the girl and Palmon, sword gleaming in the sunlight found in the clearing. Palmon X flinched in fear, and backed up behind Maya.

"Hey, Leo, calm. Calm." Said a kind, but loud voice. Out from behind him came a boy with bright blue hair and eyes. He was wearing odd blue goggles, which didn't make sense since he wasn't using them. He smiled warmly.

"Heya there, the name's Jake. Jake Kontan." He held out his hand, and Maya shook it shakily.

"Where are we?" She blurted out, hoping somebody had answers.

"The Digital World." Said the lion. "Think of it as a world parallel to your own. Palmon X and I are Digimon, the local residents. " Leo's voice was also warm, Maya thought, they should be trustable. For now.

Jake nodded. He looked at Palmon X. "Oh, you have a partner too?" He said curiously. He stepped up to Palmon X and studied her. "Weird." Palmon X, who still seemed to be in shock from Leo, did not respond.

"How is yours so… Big?" Maya asked. Jake reached down into his pocket. He showed off an odd device that was blue with a gold cover and grip.

"We got attacked by a giant bug. I used this and Leo got really big. He stayed like it for some reason." Maya picked it up from his hand, but dropped it almost immediately.

"Ah! It shocked me!" Maya squealed and rubbed her hand. Jake picked the device up.

"Huh. It never did that to me." He stuck it back into his pocket. "Weird little thing."

Maya nodded and absentmindedly reached into her pocket. She felt an oddly shaped device in there. She wanted to take it out, but decided that it was not a good idea. When the time presented itself, she would take it out.

Maya looked at Jake, who seemed to be staring into nothingness. She snapped her fingers. "Hey, what's up?" She asked as he recovered from his sudden space-out.

"We should go that way." He said in an oddly commanding voice for a suggestion. He pointed towards what seemed to be a random direction. He started walking in the direction, despite her not saying anything.

She sighed and started running after him. The Digimon followed, but Leo stopped for a moment.

"Are there more?" He thought out loud.

Seth, Agumon X, Iris, and Gotsumon X wandered aimlessly in the forest. Iris tugged on Seth's pant leg again.

"I'm hungry, big brother. Can we have a snack?" She asked innocently.

"Fine. Agumon X, any food in this place?" Seth asked impatiently. Agumon X shrugged and pointed to Gotsumon X.

"We're not eating him, Agum-" Seth was interrupted by Gotsumon X punching a tree. The tree dropped a bundle of bananas on Seth's head.

"Oh hah hah. Let's stop to eat."

The quartet sat on the ground eating when a snap came from the trees. They heard talking right after.

"Salamon! What did I tell you about wandering?" Said a female voice.

"Absolutely nothing." Another, higher-pitched female voice responded.

"Well, I should have." The first voice responded.

There was a squeal and a girl tripped into the clearing in which Seth and the others were eating. She had peach skin with brown eyes and dark brown hair that had recently been in a ponytail.

"Oh, are you okay?" Seth said as he stood up and helped the girl to do the same. She got up with little difficulty and picked up Salamon X, who had sprinted over to help her.

"Hi there, I'm Seth. This is Agumon X." He pointed to the yellow dinosaur behind him, who waved and resumed eating.

"These two are Iris and Gotsumon X." Gotsumon X grunted a hello while Iris just stared at the girl and Digimon.

"Oh, well, I'm Fuji Kotetsu! And this little puppy is Salamon X!" She said warmly. Seth grinned back, except more mischievously. He led her to their circle of food and offered her and Salamon some food.

"But Seth, we already split-" Seth cut him off "She can just have the rest of my share." Fuji thanked him, and gave some to Salamon. After a while of talking, Agumon X decided to keep moving. Seth pulled Fuji aside while the others kept going.

"Hey, I just wanted to tell you something." Seth said flirtingly. Fuji looked confused.

"You know, I haven't seen a girl like you in a long time, and I think that you should really start looking for someone to, oh I don't know, to settle down with. You never know when the end will come, and you never want to be alone for it." Seth smiled a sincere smile, and waited for a response. There was a long pause.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Fuji said, and walked away. Seth sighed and slapped his forehead.

"Fuji Kotetsu. Out. Oh, well. Probably more where that came from." Seth said in a heavy voice. He sprinted to catch up with the others.

Cloud arrived with Beelzemon X to a large building with a many surrounding buildings. It was all part of a big city, which was called Skuld if he remembered right. Beelzemon X pushed him off his back and led him into the building.

The building seemed a lot bigger on the inside than the outside. There were many rooms in which to explore, but Beelzemon X led him directly to a specific room. It looked a lot like a broom closet.

"Listen now, and listen closely because this will save your life and I will NOT say it again." Beelzemon X's voice was dead serious, and Cloud listen with all the energy he could muster.

"This is an operation called HEX, or Human Energy eXtraction. I do not know how they do their experiments, but I know what they're working towards. They are trying to reboot Yggdrasil, except make him more powerful and controlled. Yggdrasil was-"

There was a crash and screams erupted from around the duo.

"Leave through the air duct, I'm not done here." He flapped his wings in preparation.

"Creative, aren't you?" Cloud said sarcastically as he climbed into the duct.

Jay and Tori were wandering in a random direction.

"Where are we going, anyway?" Tori asked suddenly.

"What? I thought you knew." Jay responded jokingly "You seem to be the one who seems to know everything."

"Psychemon X?" Tori asked her partner. Psychemon X just shrugged and kept walking.

"Oh, you're help-" Jay was cut off as he tumbled down a steep cliff. He lay there for a few moments before getting up.

Tori slid down after him, followed by Gabumon X and Psychemon X. She walked up to him, but he didn't respond. She waved her hand in his face, but there was still no response. She followed his gaze towards a metallic grey lump. All was silent.

"Dude, why are you freaking out over a piece of metal? It's not like it will eat you or anything" She casually walked over and studied it. She noticed it was moving up and down at a slow, constant pace. Almost like…

"Oh no. It's breathing." She backed up and took her place next to the still-frozen Jay.

"Eh? What is it?" Gabumon X said curiously. He hopped up and walked over to the metal.

"Oh, it's just a Reptiledramon." He said indifferently. "Nothing new, through it is out of place in Verdandi. Urd would be a better place for this brute." The metal stirred and suddenly shot up from its sleeping position. It was revealed to be a large yellow dragon with metal armor. Its eyes were red and bloodshot from sleeping.

"NOTHING NEW?" The lizard roared at Gabumon X "OUT OF PLACE? BRUTE? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO?" Reptiledramon straightened up in pride, showing off its obviously shined armor.

"Er, no. Elaborate?" Jay said. Psychemon X glared at him, but Jay just shrugged.

"I am the greatest Reptiledramon that there is, for there was one great feat I have made." The dragon smiled a sharp-toothed grin "Do you know what that feat is?"

Jay and Tori shrugged simultaneously, Gabumon X and Psychemon X just blinked.

"I captured two humans! Crash Charge!" Reptiledramon took off suddenly and aimed straight for the two children.

Tori, being a gymnastic, simply rolled out of the way while Jay was quick enough to only get a scratch.

"Petit Fire Hook!"

"Colorful Spark!"

The two canines shot a blue ice-flame and rainbow shock at the retreating reptile. He flinched, but turned for another attack.

"I should finish these pests off quickly. Ambush Crush!" Reptiledramon opened its mouth to reveal the gleaming teeth from before, only much more menacing now considering the circumstances.

Jay saw that those teeth were aiming straight for Gabumon X and Psychemon X's chests. Tori made the same realization, and both sprinted to help their partners.

It was too late; the teeth were mere inches from the seemingly frail Digimon bodies. Until…

"Baby Burner!"

A fireball smashed into Reptildramon's face, causing it to teeter off balance and close its mouth. It regained its footing, right before crashing into a tree. It stood up and turned around angrily, revealing a large bump where it had hit the tree.

"Alright, alright… WHO DID THAT?"

Seth, Iris, and Gotsumon X stepped out from the bushes from they were standing.

"Er, I can't really think of a cool phrase to say right now, so, um, hello." Seth said awkwardly. Agumon X charged up for another Baby Burner attack.

"Grr… More humans, the better I guess. Crash Charge!" Reptiledramon zoomed towards the new arrivals. Agumon X choked on his own fire because of the sudden attack. Gotsumon X stepped in front of Agumon X and caught the charging lizard. The two wrestled while quick introductions were made between the tamers.

"Hey, can you help us out?" Seth said hopefully. Tori and Jay looked to Psychemon X and Gabumon X, who nodded and rushed to aid the struggling rock man.

"What do you suggest we do, Mr. Hero?" Jay asked Seth. Seth closed his eyes and thought about it. Tori did the same, while Jay just looked around aimlessly.

"I've got it!" They both said at the same time.

"We should do a team attack so we can finish him off using all our combined powers."

"We should attack him separately to distract him from any one target, and wear him down."

Tori and Seth stared at each other. They had completely different ideas.

"Er, I don't think yours will work. What if he targets one person anyway?" Seth said calmly.

"Well, if we do your idea, what will happen if we don't immediately take him out?" Tori argued. They both looked at each other with determination.

"What do you think, Jay?" They both said. Jay, who wasn't paying any attention to their conversation, was taken aback by the sudden attention.

"Well, er, I think… And uh… Yeah, we should… Er… Um…" He stuttered desperately. He looked around, but found no way out of this.

"How about… A different plan?" Jay suggested. Seth and Tori slapped their foreheads and returned to arguing instead.

Meanwhile, Gotsumon X was still struggling to keep back the much larger and stronger Reptiledramon. Gabumon X and Psychemon X were trying to aim for his weak spots, but they were still deflected by the seeming indestructible armor. Agumon X stayed back, his throat still burning from the failed Baby Burner.

"Enough playing, I've got a job to do!" Reptiledramon effortlessly threw Gotsumon X aside and turned to the still arguing humans. "Ambush Crush!"

Seth, Tori, and Jay quickly looked towards the oncoming brute. Time slowed down. Tori and Jay were quick enough to get out of the way, but Seth stood there, not sure what to do. Agumon X jumped in-between Seth and the charging dragon.

"No!" Seth cried out. He looked around desperately, and then saw a kid with peculiar blue hair appear from the bushes.

"Use the Digivice!" He shouted. He flashed a strange device that must have been what he was talking about. He instinctively reached into his pocket and pulled out a similar looking one, only it was yellow with an orange colored case and was shaped a bit differently. He pointed to Agumon X, and suddenly a bright light emitted from it. Involuntarily, he heard himself shout.

"X-Evolution!"

"Agumon X, Evolve to… GREYMON X!"

The small orange dinosaur was replaced with a giant orange T. Rex with blue stripes and a large brown helmet with three long horns. He grabbed Reptiledramon and threw him aside.

All the other humans and Digimon were awestruck. Even the blue-haired boy was surprised by such a large improvement. Seth was the most surprised; an orange dinosaur was protecting him.

"Nova Blast!"

That dinosaur also shot fire.

Greymon X fired a large blast of flame at Reptiledramon. The dragon shook it off, and prepared for another attack.

"I will not lose! NEVER! Crash Charge!" The lizard put all effort and energy into this one attack and charged at blinding speed. Greymon X lowered its head…

"Great Antler!"

Reptiledramon coughed feebly. The horn had impaled its neck.

"Master… Shu… I'm sorry…" Reptiledramon looked up, and then its eyes glazed over and it dissolved into data. Greymon X glowed, and then became Agumon X once again. Seth ran over and started celebrating with Jay and Tori with their victory. Maya followed Jake out into the opening, and introduced themselves. Thanks went around everywhere.

Iris, however, followed the deceased Reptiledramon's final gaze. She noted that it led to a mountaintop, where a lone boy stared down. They locked eyes, and he was whisked away by a simple gleam of armor. Iris waved at the retreating boy before reentering the social group.

"Master Shu… Are you sure that it was a good idea to be there? Somebody could have noticed you."

"Nobody noticed me, Dynasmon X. You're overreacting. Nobody can even touch us now, and think of what we can do when the plan is finished."

Dynasmon X nodded in agreement, and flew towards the distant land of Urd.

Ah, it feels good to get that up. Thanks to all the users who entered OCs. Still looking for them, but ONLY BY PM. I need more antagonist-like characters, but any character will do. A non-posted character with a Guilmon X is going to show up within the next few chapters, and let's just say he won't have a good time... Keep on reviewing and reading, and see you next time!

Speaking of next time...

Next time, on X-Antidote!

The mysterious boy with the Dynasmon X returns, but not in good will. What will happen when more attacks come, and not enough power to counter? Is Iris the only hope? Can Jake and Leo explain the Digivices? Speaking of which, maybe we'll find out why his hair is blue.

Next chapter: Done for? Battle two, begin!