Chapter Five: Yokohama Chaos

It was about an hour later when Yolei was pulled from her sleep by Koichi nudging her awake as the train pulled in to Yokohama Station. Around her, commuters and tourists alike had began to rise from their seats and made their way to the open doors while Yolei followed the warrior of darkness with Tai, Matt, Henry, Takuya and Blake assumably behind or ahead. She wondered how Hawkmon was doing stored him her little digi-vice as data.

Blake on the other hand was more concerned about the idea that something was following them since they left Shinjuku Park. It was little things like movement in the corner of his eye, leaves rustling when there was no wind, noises on the roof of the train like someone was trying to walk across it.

He was too focused on the concern that he ran into someone.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!" The young man about fifteen yelled.

"Sorry." Blake apologised losing his line of thought. The boy muttered something about tourists while Blake caught up with Takuya and Tai who were gathered around a map of the city while Matt stood over them. helping the google heads to divide up the city unit seven searchable areas.

"If anyone does find this stray Agumon, Call me or Takuya and we'll get everyone together and send it back with this." Tai said as he brandished the laptop. He was glad to get some better use out of it other then research for homework and keeping in contact with Izzy and Mimi. He would have to really thank his parents again for what he thought would be a useless birthday present.

"Everyone keep an ear out for a text message when someone else does find it." Takuya added. "And don't approach it if you don't have to. It might not be aggressive, but I'd rather have everyone around before we find out it is."

"Everyone pick a spot and start searching." Matt began, pushing the map towards Henry, Koichi and Yolei. "And remember, we meet back here in two hours if we don't find anything."

Yolei picked the shopping district. Henry ran with China Town. Koichi decided the industrial district was worth a look. Matt took the business district. Tai and Takuya each took a half of the foreshore and Blake was left with the residential area.

"Blake!" He heard Koichi call out. He didn't know the boy to be so forward unless it was important. He turned to see the older of the yin and yang twins standing behind him.

"You called?" Blake asked.

"Something's just been bothering me. This kid at school, Ken Itchijouji."

"What about him?"

"Loweemon just told me to get away from him. I don't know what he felt but…"

"But you get a bad feeling from him as well. Both of you." Blake thought about this for a moment. "Interesting. What else can you tell me about him?"

"He's the resident genius and none too humble about it." Koichi answered. "In fact, Koji would say he's…"

"…A total jerk about it." Takuya finished for him. "Koji at least used a few colourful words after meeting him."

"You two wouldn't happen to know where he lives?" Blake asked the two legendary warriors. "I suddenly have this urge to meet him. And slip a lit stick of dynamite in to his school bag." He added walking away. Koichi didn't much like the sound of that last part.

"Okay my dear. Let me see what's on the next section." Jamie heard Bokomon ask over Davis' Berry, the smartphone able to connect though to Izzy's Pineapple via a videophone app. The mage moved the phone to the left, a number of digi-code coming into the laptop's screen. "Hold it there please."

Jamie watched the digimon scholar draw something on a notepad while she heard the flapping of someone's large ears.

"How long is this going to take?" Patamon asked from behind her. She smiled.

"As long as it must." Jamie answered back.

"This." Bokomon showed her a symbol that was two squares with corners overlapping, the top right over the bottom left. Jamie drew the symbol in the blank space. "And rub out the one that looks like the smily face with asterisks for eyes." She found it and rubbed it out with her hand. Slowly, the obelisk began to feel… less intimidating, like the effect it's having over the general area was shifting…

"…and when I see her, I'll teach her a lesson!" She noticed Davis was yelling. She decided to ignore it for now.

"…one with the big mouth!" TK responded. This made Jamie question what made the normally level headed boy yell

"That's enough!" She then heard Kari yell. There wasn't much yelling after that.

"Jamie?" She heard Bokomon call out.

"Next section?" She asked, wanting to get the spire converted as soon as she could manage. Something was coming, and it set the sun elf mage on edge.

About an hour in, Blake checked his disposable phone for the sixth time. Not because he had too. He had the electro-magnetic emulator in his D-Pilot link to the phone's basic bluetooth, and the wrist mounted device would send the text message to the HUD that was being projected over the visual part of his brain. He had it up anyway since he would be searching for an elusive orange reptile. If he missed it, the quantum processes wouldn't. The phone buzzed in his hand, the message displayed over his vision.

Taichi Kamiya - "We've found nothing over here? How's it going on your end?"

Blake mentaly wrote a message. "Nothing yet. I'll remain vigila…"

"Attention. A Gas leak has been detected in the area. Authorities are now attempting to remove it. Please return to your homes or seek shelter indoors." Came a voice from a near by police car. Or at least it looked like a police car. He caught the sight of a strange logo on the side, with the letters DATS on the side. He brought up the phone's web browsing feature, goggling the four letters. The first webpage that came up, lead to a site that claimed the United Nations was covering up aliens with the organisation known as DATS. He erased what he was about to send to Tai.

"I think I have something." Blake sent. The message vanished from his vision and was on it's way and Blake ran after the car. He made it to a yellow police line where a red haired young woman was talking to a police officer. He drew his smartphone and started typing madly.

Yoshi heard a loud noise. A fire alarm? It came from one of the shop fronts as people ran out soaking wet. Another fire alarm went off, and another, and another… in a few minutes, the streets were flooded with soaking wet people. The boy in the leather duster waltz past them unnoticed, hood up, gloves on.

"Yoshi!"

"Damn." Blake muttered, not sure where the voice came from, but very sure it's owner had spotted him. He didn't look over his shoulder, he just ran, not noticing the number of young men who were on the ground of a circular plaza, moaning and in obvious pain. He made a note to ask about it later. He found himself stopping at the top of the steps… he found it.

'Call Taichi Kamiya.' He ordered mentally, the psychic link carried the order and in a moment, he heard Tai's voice echo in his head.

"You found him?"

'Yep.'

"I'll get everyone. Where are you?"

'Just look for the supposed gas leak. And one more thing. No hurry.' Blake informed him. 'I have a feeling this will be entertaining.' He heard the girl call out something from behind. Something about the Agumon being spotted and about to engage with another human, a brown haired fourteen year old that stuck Blake as yet another google head, just without the googles, and picking a fight with an orange lizard didn't strake him as intelligent.

"Never stopped me." Blake muttered to himself, trying to get closer to the action. He could hear both of them talking.

"…Fans all over will chant my name! They'll say Marcus Damon is the best!" The boy yelled. Marcus Damon huh.

"Dry up! Boy, you're really full of yourself!" The orange reptile, said. He's not wrong there. Blake though as he noticed the lizard looked more like Agumon. "You're just like all the other humans! All talk and no action!"

"Keep it up and I'll knock you out like I did these guys!" Blake then knew it was the young boy beat up those young men he passed earlier. They probably deserved it.

"What'd ya do!? Talk them all to sleep!"

"Hey you!" Blake was startled by the sudden yell. "Stop right there! You can't fight that creature! He's too dangerous!" Blake heard the woman call out from behind. What was her name, Yoshi something.

"Look toots! I'm the dangerous fighter here! And I don't need any baby sitter to hold my hand!" Marcus called out.

"He's right! This is between him and me!" The Agumon backed up.

"This is a fight between men. So stay out of it!"

"Fine then!" The Yoshi girl retorted.

"Yoshi! Don't back down from him!" The voice from earlier, Blake noticed that it was coming from the device in her hand. Yoshi's stepped forward.

"This is your last warning!" She yelled.

"I don't know what you are, but your going down." Marcus said to the reptile as they rushed each other. Claw meet face. Fist meet muzzle. Both combatants flew across the battle field from the resulting blows.

"Hey! I wasn't ready!" The reptile said recovering from the flight. "I was expiating you to say '1,2,3,Go.' Like this. 1,2,3,Go!" The reptile went at him again, only for Marcus to kick him to the Agumon's surprise.

"What's your excuse this time?!" Marcus demanded just before a claw hit him in the face.

"No more talk!"

"Fine! Let's do some real fighting!"

The two combatants began to fight, matching each other blow for blow, while Yoshi stood shocked, Blake wished he had popcorn.

Takuya let out a frustrated huff. This was Koji's strong point, patience, though he admittedly better then when he entered the digital world. Walking down the main street of a Yokohama neighbourhood that reminded him of Jiyugoka, just the smell of salt air from being so close to the ocean reminded him he wasn't in Jiyugoka. He looked at the cherry blossoms in bloom on the street side, reminded of the neighbourhood's Cherry Blossom Festival and somehow asked himself if Kari wouldn't mind joining the festivities this friday…

His thoughts was interrupted by someone bumping into him, someone wearing a yellow jacket. He felt the man step on his foot.

"Ow!" Takuya yelled. It didn't so much hurt, it was just the shock. He turn to the man in the yellow coat. "Hey! Watch where your go…" He's foot meet something. Looking down, he found the sole of his foot was atop of a white and gold metal egg… A digi-metal. The warrior of flame picked up the metal to get a closer look at it. His class touched on Ancient Egypt last year, one of the few things Takuya paid any attention to in class. The egg reminded him of an artefact found, lost for centuries and left to the mercy of unforgiving time, sealed in a tomb with an ancient mummified king who might of needed the artefact in the afterlife. That and he remembered seeing this colour theme, on a digimon. Nefertimon. He found a symbol on it, one of the crests? He'd have to ask Tai or Matt about it.

Next to it, now under his shoe was a digimon card. He picked it up finding a picture of the digi-metal on it. The card declared it as the 'Digi-metal of light.' He slipped the metal into his jacket pocket, just as his phone vibrated. It was a text from Tai.

"Blake found the rouge Agumon. Said he wasn't hostile. Said he'd meet us at a hamburger stand in Marine Park."

Two combatants lied on the ground panting, the sunset dying the area a bright orange. The display of combat had ensnared the attention of the girl long enough for Blake to lift something from the girl's pocket but had yet to examine what it was he picked up. He was just watching the two combatants make up. What ever caused their conflict was long forgotten now as the digital reptile and human sat up and began to introduce themselves to each other.

"…the only guy who matched me blow for blow in a fight before. That makes you the boss." The Agumon said. "From now on, you give the orders, and I'll faithfully follow." As Blake got closer, he could see that he was a darker shade of orange then the other Agumon. He then wondered if Digimon went by individual names, or were like some clans of metaphysical societies and they would know who each other were without names.

Blake then wondered something about what this Agumon said. Was he looking for a human partner? Was that why he came here?

"I'm your boss huh." The kid said, Marcus wasn't it. Marcus Damon? "I never thought that one day I'd have an employee as funny looking as you are."

"Freeze Right There!" Blake froze before remembering the officer that ran after him. He turned, so far, Marcus, Agumon or the officer had noted him standing to the side. She was holding something, a rectangle shaped deceive. "Lalamon! Realise!"

A flash of light later, a pink and green digimon floated between the officer and the two, much to the shock of Marcus. The Agumon wasn't so much shocked, but he was on the defensive.

"So, are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use force?" The officer demanded. Blake charged his weapon, a low pitched wine signalled that the plasma cell was warming up.

"Who is she talking to? You or me?" Blake heard Marcus ask.

"Don't let them take me back boss. Please." He then heard Agumon plead. "If they get me this time, they'll destroy me for sure."

That dismissed what ever doubts Blake had in his head. He aimed the weapon at the officer and made his presence know. "Hold your position and remain calm!

"What's going on here?" Marcus demanded.

"What are you doing kid?" Yoshi demanded.

"Better question is, why aren't you running?" Blake responded, turning to Marcus. "The smart move would be to run while she's distracted." The brown haired kid lifted Agumon over his shoulders.

"I've never had an employee before, and I'm not turning my only one over to you!" He told the girl as he began to run.

"Tell her boss!"

"Hey! Wait up!" Yoshi yelled as Lalamon began to attack. Two by two, shots of seeds pelted the ground at Marcus' feet, causing him to fall. Blake fired his weapon, hitting Lalamon first, then Yoshi.

Yoshi wasn't sure what happened after she blacked out, when she came too, one of the men that was knocked out was asking of she was alright. He had her DATS badge, saying it was left by the stairs. They also noticed Lalamon, but when she looked for her memory eraser, it was gone. This is the worst.

"Curious." Izzy said to himself, inspecting the digi-metal of knowledge again. He placed it on the table along with the metals of courage and love, Tentomon looking up at his partner with interest. "These metals have the same consistency as the crests but there's something missing to them. I wonder if they're like ores and need to be refined before they can be used."

Joey wasn't paying much attention. He had accessed the city wide Wi-Fi to hack in to various government databases and give him, Jamie and Blake identities. We was sure that J.P was looking over his shoulder once in a while. And he wasn't the only one of the remaining group that remained behind that wasn't paying attention. Tommy was on the phone with his mom, Joe was studying for his oral exam, Zoe and Takato walked over to the Matsuki Bakery for dinner and Guilmon was playing with Gomamon.

"I don't know what's gotten into him mom but…" Tommy stated as the conversation took on a sudden hostility. "You know how crazy that sounds? Where is he now?" Tommy bit his lip as he got what sounded like a sigh and depressed expiation that all his bother said was that he was going out. "No. That's alright mom. I'm sure to run into him. Yes, I know it's a school night. I'll be home before eight. Love you too."

The orange hat youngster hung up and leaned back on a near by tree with a look of mild terror.

"Big brother?" Joey asked, not looking up from his screen as a message appeared on his laptop, and a photo.

"Worse. He may have found Neemon in my room and now he's coming to find me." Tommy answered.

"That's mildly concerning." Izzy mentioned.

"What's DATS?" Joey asked catching everyone's attention. JP was the first to speak up.

"Some special police devision based out of Yokohama. They were all over the Shibuya Incident." He explained. "They called themselves the Digital Accident Tactics Squad."

"That might mean…" Joe started. "The government knows about digimon?"

"Looks like it." Izzy answered. "This is odd."

"What?" JP asked.

"There's a lot of network traffic being routed though Shinjuku. I'm just having trouble understanding why." The young computer geek looked up to the building looming over them, as it the building itself had something to do with it.

"Come on damn it." Blake cursed under his breath. He was concerned that Joey had forgotten to update the smartphone's apps until the door clicked and unlocked. He pushed it open and let Marcus and Agumon into the tower.

"I gotta hand it to ya boss. That was a great escape." Agumon complimented as they made it to the observation deck.

"Thanks Agumon. But there's been one thing that's been bothering me. Who are we running away from!?" Marcus demanded. "And what kind of thing are you anyway? Where did you come from?"

"Gee. I don't know." Agumon said, looking over the city. "I guess I come from the institution."

"The institution?" Blake asked.

"Please don't let them take me back there." Agumon pleaded.

"What am I getting myself into this time?" Marcus asked no one in particular as Blake started texting Tai, giving him the details of what happened. He gave him a moment to digest and text back while watching what was taking place. "I don't know what kind of trouble your in, but I'll help you out."

"Oh thank you boss. I'll never ask for another thing again." There was a loud growl that told the two humans otherwise. "Except food. I'm starved."

Blake laughed as his phone ran. He let the two talk it out as he picked up.

"I'm guessing you couldn't wait for a text." Blake said to the bushy haired boy on the other end.

"Yeah. What do you mean there's a government agency hunting digimon in Yokohama?" Tai demanded.

"I don't know. But that's not even the start of it. The officer had a digi-vice, or at least it looked like a digi-vice. It didn't look like the one you had originally. Or one of the new ones either." Blake answered. "I'd go as far to say that this one seemed… wrong."

"Like the emperor's?"

"Since I've never seen the emperor's to begin with, I wouldn't know. But it seemed more like a cheap knock off rather then an actuarial digi…"

"Back off!" Blake heard Marcus yell.

"Where are you?" Blake asked.

"Marine Park. With everyone else. We're about to order." Tai answered.

"Make it take away. And bring a few extra burgers. We're on the observation deck of Marine Tower."

"With the other Agumon and the new Digidestine right."

"Yep. You might want to hurry." Blake hung up and rejoined the two. "I've got a friend bringing food. Hope you like hamburgers."

"A hamburger sounds pretty good right about now."

"A friend?" Marcus asked with some skepticism.

"He has more experience in this sort of thing. Plus he's a likeable fellow. Little hard headed but you two will get along. Agumon." Blake turned his attention to the digital reptile. "What is the institution?"

"And done." Jamie cheered. She allowed herself in enjoy the moment before reminding herself that she has yet to test the spire's new 'configuration' and observe the results. If Bokomon's substations were correct then the control spire's energy will stop powering the black rings, and start repelling them, along with freeing any digimon in the area.

She was just stuck on how to force the spire to use the configuration laid out before it. She was certain that the symbols on the spire dictated…

"Come on Davis. Ask me who's there." She heard Veemon's voice, it was hard to miss that lisp. She figured if anyone loved a knock knock joke, it would be that google head. Once her carpet made it to the ground, she walked over to the boy and his blue reptile partner.

"Who kicked your puppy?" Jamie asked, half expecting her attempt at humour to fail.

"She hates me." Davis moaned.

"Who? Kari? I highly doubt that."

"She said she couldn't stand me."

"What did you do to make her feel that way?" Davis stayed silent. "You neglected to digest the entire conversation." Jamie sighed. Typical.

"I've never seen Davis this upset." Veemon told Jamie.

"He will get over it eventually. Time heals all…"

"Incoming!"

They were interrupted by a sudden flood of Gazimon. Jamie was able to hide behind the spire itself. But the others weren't so lucky. The grey rabbit like digimon subdued the four humans and three digimon quickly. One was still fighting. Veemon. But three on one was not a fair fight. She needed to even the odds.

She picked a phone that was, thankfully left near by. Unfortunately,, she was unable to send a message because of her inexperience with the 'infernal' and 'unfriendly' input method. She pushed back the urge to throw the device in frustration. She couldn't risk a brute force attack. For one, there where more of them then there are of her, even a summoned elemental or two wouldn't even those odds much. Two, there was a risk of harm to the children, and the digimon. And three, they were innocent digimon. She needed something that would give her rapid dominance over the field.

Yeah, the reconfigured spire would do it. But it needed to use the new configuration.

It wasn't hard for Matt to imagine the smile on his partner's face as he scuffed down the burgers and fries he passed under the table, given they both were staving. He caught up with Tai who was ordering for two digimon and was scarfing down a burger himself. Takuya got there before them both, already ordered and ate. He left with Tai to meet this new Agumon, and because he wanted to talk to him about something. Matt was going to wait for the others to arrive, and give them the full run down.

"Uh... Matt right?"

Matt looked up from his meal to find Koichi standing over the table with his own meal, as if he was about to ask if the seat was free.

"Hey. Take a seat. Just mind Gabumon under the table." Matt told the older twin who placed the tray on the table and took the seat across from him. He noticed how uncomfortable the boy looked. He wanted to ask something but he wasn't sure about how to ask and not offend him. Given how conflicted the boy look, and how shy he seemed to be, Matt would have to be the one to ask first. "What's on your mind?"

At first, Koichi looked hesitant to say, but it seemed like something gave the boy a push. "It's about T.K."

"Yeah? What about him?"

"Ever since Duskmon attacked, he's been… cautious, and the odd look he gives me. Sometimes I can't tell wether he thinks I'm going to lash out at him or disappear into a cloud of smoke." Koichi explained. "Then there's the words Duskmon said to me. 'Doubt is a funny thing. How it can corrupt hope and twist it.' It didn't make sense at first…"

"But you figure he was referring to the crest holder rather then actuarial hope. This is starting to make a lot of sense to me."

"Did something happen?"

"Well, I'm not sure T.K would like it if I told you, but something did happen." Matt crushed his drinking cup as he recalled the event. "It was a long time ago, but T.K still carries the scars from the final battle between us and our first opponent, Devimon. Devimon used the powers of darkness because he thought it would make him invincible, but Angeamon used up all of his own energy to defeat him. Angeamon knew he would be reconfigured afterwards, but he did it anyway to save T.K. T.K was scared because it was the first time Patamon had ever digivolved, and he thought he'd never see him again. None of us knew that much about Digimon back then, so we all thought that we'd seen the last of Patamon. I guess that fear never really left T.K, or the lesson that the importance of life outweighs the power of darkness. I guess T.K has never really gotten over that. After all these years, it still has an effect."

"It's understandable." Koichi nodded knowing all too well the pain of losing someone close.

"And it only gotten worse from there with Etemon, Myotismon and the Dark Masters." Matt added, shuddering at the reminder of being turned into a key chain by Piedmon. "Everyone in our group has something against the powers of darkness. No offence. You seem to be the exception to our perceptions."

"None taken." Koichi assured him. "I still have some guilt after… after Cherubimon used me against my brother as Duskmon."

This surpassed Matt, and Gabumon who nearly chocked on his burger. "You used to be… Is that why he's after you?"

"I really don't know. I thought Duskmon and Loweemon were the same entity, just representing different aspects of darkness." Koichi shock his head in distress. "The other sprits Cherubimon had were animated but from what Loweemon told me, even they need human hosts now."

"I see." Matt nodded, still not entirely understanding the sprit partner concepts. Koichi noticed the blonde's confusion and went back to the original topic.

"I'm just concerned that T.K's prejudice towards darkness might destroy our friendship." Koichi said worriedly.

"Then you should probably talk to him about it." Matt concluded for him.

"I know. I just don't want to accidentally open old scars." Koichi explained as a third person came up and sat their tray on the table.

"What scars?" Yolei asked. Matt put on a reassuring smile to reassure himself more then anyone else.

"Nothing you need to worry about Yolei." Matt assured her. "I need to get to Marine Tower before something bad happens. I trust Tai, and I guess Takuya too, I just have a bad feeling about all this."

"That's okay Matt. I feel the same way." Gabumon assured him. "It's probably the mustard on those burgers."

"Anyway." Matt pointed his digi-vice at his partner and discretely let him get pulled into the device. "If you see Henry and Terriormon, tell them we're meeting at Marine Tower."

"No problem Matt." Yolei smiled as the older digidestine walked off. She turned to the warrior of darkness with concern. "He was joking about the mustard right."

"I think so. Because it feels like something's coming." Koichi answered. "Something evil."

It wasn't took long before Marcus heard the elevator ding and open, letting out two brown haired google wearing boys. The older one, wore a green blazer, a school uniform he thought. The other, wore something more casual.

"Tai. Takuya." Blake greeted.

"Something smells good." The darker Agumon commented.

"Sure does." Marcus backed up as the older boy handed Agumon a paper bag.

"Dig in then. I'm Tai by the way." He offered his hand to Marcus.

"Marcus Damon." Marcus accepted greatly. "Nice to meet you both."

"Same here. I'm Takuya." The younger one introduced.

"Tai. Aren't you going to let me out?" Marcus heard, coming from Tai's pocket. The boy in question produced his digi-vice from his pocket and let Agumon out. "Thanks Tai. Something smells good."

Marcus was surprised to find another Agumon appearing out of nowhere as Tai sat down and handed him a burger from the other paper bag he had.

"Where…" Marcus asked.

"The digital world." Blake answered.

"They're called Digimon. Digital monsters." Takuya explained.

"They come from this world created from the communication systems of this world until… well… we don't know what happened." Tai took over. "It just sort of separated and became it's own world, still connected to ours. They can enter our world and we can enter theirs. And there are times when it needs a group of humans to help keep it safe."

"The digidestine." Takuya added. "Some work with digimon partners, others take on digimon forms."

"So there are more of you?" Marcus asked.

"Matt, Koichi, Yolei and Henry should be here soon." Tai explained. "And there are more of us back in Tokyo."

"Anywhere near West Shinjuku?" Marcus asked.

"Henry is." Takuya answered.

"I live there with my mom and sister. My mom wanted to move to Yokohama a few years ago but, something stopped us."

"And yet, you were still in Yokohama at the same time we were to find a stray digimon." Blake said. "And you didn't receive a phone call?"

"No. Just these punks claimed to be ultimate fighters in my regular chatroom." Marcus shrugged. "They challenged me and guess what."

"You won. Or were those fifteen teenage guys just pass out for no apparent reason." Blake bated as the elevator opened again. This time, it was a blond teenager wearing the same uniform as Tai, followed by reptile wearing blue fur. "You didn't start singing did you?" Blake asked the new comer.

"Why?" The blond asked.

"I just making sure a horde of rabid fans didn't run over fifteen poor boys."

"Right. Who…"

"Matt. Meet Marcus." Tai introduced.

"Hey." He turned back to Tai. "You heard from Kari yet?"

"Not yet." Tai answered.

"Then there's the fact that you and the Agumon you just meet were meeting each other's punches." Blake pointed out. "Even a rookie digimon has strength and speed superior to any human. It takes either an augmented or well trained human to match a digimon in battle."

"Meaning?" Marcus asked.

"I don't know yet."

"Do you have a digi-vice?" Matt asked.

"A what?" To answer Marcus' question, Matt showed his digi-vice to him. "No. Never seen one until today."

Matt turned to Blake. "You sure he's a digidestine?"

"I said it was likely." Blake shot back as the elevator opened again.

"Terriormon." They heard someone moan.

"What? Momentai." Out stepped a red faced girl with lavander hair and a bandana, a chinese boy with a dog eared rabbit hanging from his neck, and a black haired boy wearing a blue baseball cap. The girl noticed Marcus right away.

"Hi." She said walking up to him. "I'm Yolei."

"Marcus."

"Hey." The chinese boy nodded. "I'm Henry."

"Koichi." The black haired boy said simply.

"Good. Now we're all here. Let's get down to business." Blake said quickly.

"You said you lived in Tokyo right?" Tai asked. Marcus nodded. "So somehow, we need to get his Agumon on a train without being noticed."

"Or seen by security cameras. If they see him, they'll start looking in Tokyo for him." Yolei put forward.

"Let's not give them that reason just yet." Koichi added.

"Why don't we use Tai's laptop and get Agumon to Tokyo though the digital world?" Takuya put forward.

"Because, Marcus doesn't have a digi-vice, and someone needs to take him back though the digital gate in to Tokyo." Henry rejected. "And even if he did, we all need go back to Tokyo via train to avoid supposition. We all bought return tickets. It would raise flags if we didn't use them."

"What if someone did wait for him there?" Tai asked. "I haven't heard anything from Kari or Izzy yet. I think they might still be in the digital world. If they are, I'll take both Agumon with me into the digital world, have them take Marcus' Agumon to Shinjuku and wait for us to get there."

Matt's phone rang.

"It's TK. I think." Matt said showing them what was on screen, a jumble of numbers and letters.

"No. It's Jamie. The woman couldn't text with a keypad even if her life depended on it." Blake assured him. "And I think she's trying to get some help."

"You sure?" Tai asked.

"Unless you can think of any other reason Matt would receive a text from TK that could only come from an autistic monkey on crack."

"Right. Blake, Takuya, Koichi, Matt, Yolei. We're going to back them up." Tai ordered as he set up the laptop. "Henry, Marcus, wait here. We'll be back soon."

Marcus wasn't going to take orders, but he wasn't in any position to argue. Tai aimed his digi-vice at the computer screen, as did everyone else going with him.

"Digi-Port open!"

Stalking wasn't the term Koji was using at the current moment. But the fact was, he didn't like the idea that there was this suck up girl wondering around sicking a fox on any digimon that comes ten miles near her. He was concerned for Koichi, since this was where he and his, until recently, estranged twin meet almost daily since their biological mother worked at the local hospital. He was also concerned about Tommy, Takato, Guilmon, Neemon and probably any other digidestine and their digimon partner who would turn out to be living in Shinjuku like Henry.

And he was worried about the girl, as much as it pained him to say it. If it was anyone else with their version of their lone wolf act, he would have left them to sort it out for themselves. But this was a digidestine, and the digital world was already in fear of one tyrant.

He had to keep his distance. Lobomon was well aware of Renamon's presence, watching over her like a guardian. He began to wonder if Renamon was only trying to please Rika by attacking digimon and getting stronger.

The red haired girl continued to walk though the crowd, like she's the only one there.

"So then I said to him, I said 'One card man and your back to rookie.' Hey! That's really strange. It's her, I mean, It's you isn't it." Koji noticed a group of boys, not much older then him, stop and pay attention to Rika. One was pointing at her, the lead boy with a white and blue shirt.

"You're incompressible."

"Comprehend this. That's the Digimon Queen. I mean it's synchronistically dude." Koji had to wonder if this kid even knew what synchronistically meant.

"Come on. That's a girl man." Rika turned and Koji thought that she would attack them at any moment, but she just gave them her best death stare.

"Yeah. I noticed, and she's kinda cute too. Sorta like Minami with a punk, you know sorta edge."

Growing board of them, Rika turned and walked away, much to Koji's thanks. He continued to follow the red head until they got to a crosswalk. The world around Koji began to fade, he was caught in Rika's daydream.

"Renamon." He heard her voice echo. The fox digimon in question appeared behind her.

"Rika."

"If I'm so good, then why haven't you digivolved?"

"I don't know."

"I think it's your fault. You should try harder."

"What are you trying to say to me Rika."

Rika turned. Koji took a step back, but knew it was futile to hide. There was nothing to hide in or behind.

"It's not my fault, I'm the best Tamer there is."

"So you are. I never said you weren't."

"Well see that you don't. I'm the best, and I won't settle for less then that out of you. Do you understand me."

"Always."

"Then you know I'm not kidding around here."

"I know."

With that, the world faded back into place. Koji shocked his head clear as his senses were suddenly assaulted by the loud noises, bright lights and foul smells of city life. He almost missed Rika mutter something under her breath.

"She will be the best. Like me." She pulled off her headphones when the someone's angered yell didn't fail to get her attention.

"What the hell did you get my brother in to Minamoto!"

"No matter what you do. I'll never give up." Jamie heard Veemon moan weakly. She looked briefly at the control ring in her hand. She hoped that that her ancestors were watching over her undertaking, and this foolish act will not be her undoing. She pushed the ring around her head…

Even the digimon emperor, and the digidestine coming from Yokohama heard her scream.