Under New Management

Renamon- "Heh... actually got some reviews this time... whatever..."

Shadow- "Um... what are you doing?"

Renamon- (does a double-take) "Wha-? How'd you-"

Shadow- "It appears that leaving a doppleganger behind to post stories was a good idea... now go away."

Renamon- (vanishes)

Shadow- (sighs) "Great, now I need a new muse... oh well... Thank you, people who are reviewing my story. Oh, and digi-writer1392? I'm not crazy! Dragonrider04, I'm going to try to not make them idiots... but I might fail... Finally, I do not own digimon. Now go read and review. I have other things to deal with now..."

digital world, separate

The digidestined ran behind a building, narrowly dodging the fireball, which impacted in the street and left a large crater. Digimon who lived in the city ran away as the large dragon digimon landed next to the crater, and looked around for the digidestined. Not seeing them, he called out "Human children! Show yourselves, or I will set this city ablaze!"

As the dragon waited, Mark asked "Well, what are going to do?"

Steve said "We should get out of here. We can't do anything against that thing."

Carrie nodded. "Yeah. If the choices are them dying, and both us and them dying, I'd rather survive."

Ryan looked at them incredulously. "Are you serious? Shouldn't we at least try?"

"What chance do we have against that thing?" Steve asked. "If we get hit by that fire, we'll just be vaporized! What good is that?"

"Well, if we're fast enough, we could dodge the fire, and outrun the dragon." said Ryan. "While we do that, the digimon who live her can run."

Erika sighed. "I hate to say it, but Ryan's right. Besides, if that thing decides to torch the city, we'll still be inside it, and we'll die anyways."

Steve shook his head. "Fine... but if we die, it's Ryan's fault."

"Fair enough." said Ryan. "Now let's go!"

The six digidestined ran from behind the building, and attacked the dragon. "Silver Flare!" "Tiger Paw!" "Super Fang!" "Auce Slash!" "3-Tailed Fire!" "Stone Gaze!"

The attacks hit the scales of the dragon, and left a scorched patch. The dragon turned, and growled at them. "You'll pay for that! Draoc Blaster!"

The digidestined fled back behind the building. The building took the brunt of the attack, but was digitized. Some of the attack got through, and knocking them backwards. They landed, not badly hurt, but still wincing.

As the dust cleared, they saw the dragon leering down at them. The dragon chuckled.

"Nice idea, kid." Steve said.

"I don't think we've lost yet." Ryan said, as their digivices began to glow.

"Inamimon... digivolve to... Lupamon!"

"Obscamon... digivolve to... Trigamon!"

"Canemon... digivolve to... Ferocanemon!"

"Aucemon... digivolve to... Magnaucemon!"

"Corrimon... digivolve to... Resocorrimon!"

"Basimon... digivolve to... Infibasimon!"

The dragon blinked in surprise at the new champions it suddenly found itself facing. The dragon started laughing.

"Champions? Really, now, is that the best you have? You will all die. Draoc Blaster!"

The attack impacted on the six digimon, but when the dust cleared, a different colored aura surrounded each digimon, protecting them.

"What?!" the dragon screeched. "How do you-"

Each of the champions attacked. "Silver Flame!" "Tiger Claw!" "Hyper Fang!" "Auce Blade!" "Smoky Inferno!" "Earth Gaze!"

The dragon screeched in agony, as the attacks hit him, and deleted him. The data hung for a moment in the air, then drifted towards the citadel.

Ryan laughed. "See? I told you we'd win!"

Steve shook his head. "Way too lucky, if you ask me..."

Erika shrugged. "Whatever."

"Do you think we should re-vote on whether to go to the citadel?" Josh asked.

"Why would we do that?" Steve asked.

"Well," said Josh, "If somebody hates us enough to try to kill us, they're not just going to let us go that easily. They'll attack us again and again. I think we should attack first, and take the hurt to them."

Ryan nodded. "Yeah. All in favor of attacking first?"

Josh's, Ryan's, Erika's, and Mark's hands went up. After a moment, Carrie reluctantly raised her hand.

Steve shook his head. "Look, if you want to get killed, you can do it by yourselves." he turned to go.

"Steve, do you think you'll do better by yourself?" Carrie asked. "If you go off alone, you'll weaken the team, and you probably won't survive the next time you're attacked... no matter how lucky you are."

Steve paused. He looked over at his friend Josh, who nodded. Steve groaned. "Fine..."

"Good, then that's settled. Let's go!" Ryan said.

"Hey, who made you the leader?" Erika asked.

"Umm... I didn't know I was..." said Ryan.

"Then I'll lead!" Erika yelled.

"Umm..." said Josh, looking like he was about to object.

"And anyone who disagrees gets punched in the gut... or lower..." Erika said.

"Never mind..." Josh said.

The group headed out of the city, towards the citadel in the distance.