Matt Irvine drove down the streets of Tamur early in the morning. He was driving a sturdy-looking jeep and laying back in the seat in a relaxed fashion, operating the wheel with one hand. The sun was just coming up and staring at the sight was somewhat blinding, so he tried to avoid that.

He pulled up his jeep in front of an old warehouse down by the bay and pressed a button on his rearview mirror that opened the door to the warehouse. He drove his jeep inside and parked it. He then walked over to the wall and opened up what looked like an electrical circuit box.

It was actually a keyboard with numbers on it. He entered a nine-digit password and the wall opened up, revealing a staircase. After walking for a good twenty minutes, he came down to a series of rooms that looked like an underground base of some sort. He headed for the main room and sat down in his large black chair.

"It's time to gather my children..."

- - -

"Magemon, do we have to do this now?" asked Jeska. "It's seven in the morning... I sleep until ten at least."

Jeska yawned and stretched her arms out, attempting to wake herself. Her strange-looking Digimon shook his head.

"There is no need for you to arise, Jeska. Business is between Crystalmon and myself. You can go back to sleep."

"Mmmm... good." she yawned, conking out immediately. Magemon shifted his molecules so that he looked like Jeska and headed out the dorm room door.

Thankfully it was still early, but just in case someone saw him, it was best to disguise himself. He walked down the corridor until he reached a darkened corner. Crystalmon was sitting there, whatever small light there was reflecting off her shimmering body.

(Took you long enough, Magemon.)

"I'm sorry." he replied in Jeska's form. "I accidentally woke Jeska up. Now what did you wish to see me about?"

(My partner, Amara... she's... strange. She isn't whole-hearted in our goal to kill the Hikari Chosen.)

"And why should she be? They were normal kids until we came into their lives. The Yami D-Volvers can only affect their personalities so much."

(I know, that moron Irvine should have made them stronger. growled Crystalmon. But nevertheless, there is always a plan B. Amara is mostly reluctant to fight because she has feelings for the leader of the Hikari Chosen: Lee Trainer.)

"Ah yes. I met with Trainer and Kokuwamon yesterday."

(So you know what he looks like, then?) inquired Crystalmon. Magemon nodded. Good.

- - -

Amara mumbled and turned in her bed, not wanting to wake up. Crystalmon was poking her, though, and it was getting annoying.

"Whaaat is it, Crystalmon? I'm comfy..." groaned Amara, grabbing her pillow and stuffing it on top of her head. Crystalmon swatted it off the bed.

(Get up. Lazy.)

"Buuut it's the weeeekend." whined Amara more, pulling the blankets over her face so Crystalmon couldn't see her tired brown eyes and matching hair. Crystalmon grumbled and threw her blankets off the bed.

(And I said get up.)

"You say alot of things." moaned Amara, sitting up in her bed. She wrapped some blankets around her body to cover her nudity and Crystalmon leapt backwards off the bed.

(You never told me you sleep nude.)

"I just said it's the weekend." she growled. "Where are my clothes?"

(I ate them.)

(You did not,) projected Amara back, deciding to use her telepathy for a moment. She glanced around the room and saw them laying on the floor at the foot of her bed.

"Do ya mind?" she asked. Crystalmon turned away from her as she changed.

(So what are your plans for today, Amara?)

"I keep telling you it's the weekend." hissed Amara, fastening her bra over her breasts. She grabbed a t-shirt and shoved it over her head, yanking it down to her neck. "The plan was to sleep all day. But now that you got me up, I'm going to go have breakfast."

(Yes, go break your fast.)

"Uhh... yeah." she replied, slowly, never actually hearing someone say that before. She pulled pants on and walked to the door. "Can you amuse yourself for an hour or so?"

(Yes, I can have telepathic conversations with the other Yami Digimon.)

"Well, it beats the phone..." said Amara, opening the door and leaving her room.

Amara walked over to the stairs to head down to the cafeteria, but she saw a familiar face come running up them. It was a particular blonde-haired boy named Lee. Lee stopped when he saw Amara and she glanced at him.

Oh geez... why is Lee here? I haven't combed my hair or put my make-up on or--

"Hey Amara." he said.

"AHH--hello Lee." she replied, startled. "What are you doing here so early?"

"I came to say hello to my girlfriend." he replied. Amara frowned.

"Oh. You did."

"Yeah, how are you doing?" he asked her.

"I've been better." she replied, crossing her arms and looking away from him. "Why don't you go see Alison and leave me alone?"

"Yeah, I suppose I will. Better than wasting my time talking to you."

"Wh-what?" she stammered. "The nerve!"

"Like, come on Amara. You're too weak to even fight me properly without getting all crushy and crap on me! I've got a girlfriend already, so why don't you toughen up and fight me, so I can destroy your D-Volver and get rid of you?!"

Amara was at a loss for words after that speech. Lee had never spoke so harshly to her before, he always tried to help her.

"You know what, Lee?! The next time we cross paths, I'm going to relocate that tongue of yours myself!" she screamed. Then she ran down the stairs in a huff. Lee grinned and morphed back into his original form of Magemon.

"Worked like a charm..." he said, grinning.

(As I knew it would,) added Crystalmon.

- - -

"Good morning students of Richard Trainer College." spoke the intercom. Amara was standing in line at the cafeteria and glanced at the intercom. The college radio show played every morning, weekend or not.

"Unfortunately, Alison Williams has asked not to sing at all this week, so we won't be getting our national anthem from her. Instead, here's a tape from the soundtrack of--"

"Thank god." said Tori, who was standing in line behind Amara. "That girl really bugs me."

"You too?" asked Amara. (Wow, I actually have something in common with someone.)

"Yeah. So how are you this morning?"

"I've been better. Much better." growled Amara, still fuming about her incident with 'Lee' earlier.

She took her plate of food and went to sit down at a table, but suddenly heard a light beeping noise from her jeans pocket. She reached inside and pulled out her D-Volver, and the LCD screen on it was flashing and had an arrow that was pointing southwest.

"What the hell is this?" she asked herself, trying to keep her D-Volver concealed to herself.

Behind her, Tori was getting the exact same sign on her Yami D-Volver. Balancing her food tray on one hand, she gave it a glance.

(It wants me to follow it?) guessed Tori, although she wouldn't really get an answer unless she followed it. Which is exactly what Irvine wanted his children to do.

- - -

Later, after consulting Crystalmon, Amara took to the street following the mysterious arrow on her D-Volver. She figured that if it led to some sort of trouble, she could always summon Crystalmon to aid her.

(This is unusual...) thought Amara. (The D-Volver has never done something like this before...)

She wrapped her arms around her chest to protect herself from the air and looked down at her D-Volver, walking down the sidewalk in the direction it was pointing. She glanced behind her and saw Tori was following her.

(What the-- what is Tori doing?)

(Why is Amara going the same way as me?) thought Tori at the same time. (Oh well, I'll probly lose her when this arrow thingy tells me to go a different way.)

Amara did a quick scan of Tori's mind and gasped in realization. It had been right in front of them all along.

"Hey Tori!" shouted Amara, happily. "Look!"

Amara held up her Yami D-Volver and Tori's eyes widened. She held up hers as well and ran to catch up with Amara.

"Ohmigod! Amara! You have one too?"

"Well obviously." groaned Amara. "And I'm guessing yours is telling you to go this way."

"Uh-huh."

"Well, let's go together." said Amara. "You must have a partner too, so if there's trouble... we can handle it better."

"Alright." replied Tori. "So what's your partner like?"

Tori and Amara began to engage in mindless conversation as one person looked down on the two of them from a neighboring rooftop. Hieshi stood there with his arms crossed, watching Amara and Tori. The black haired boy was clothed in a black leather jacket to keep himself warm.

"Why are we still following that Amara girl?" asked Levelermon, whom was in Hieshi's right hand. "She's of no use to us."

"She and that other girl are being led somewhere by their Yami D-Volvers. They might be finding the way to Trinity Server."

"Big deal. Why do you want to go there?"

"Have you ever been there?"

"No."

"Me either. And I wanna see it. So let's keep following them."

"Well..." began Levelermon. "You have those two things called legs. Use them."

"I don't recall asking for any witty comments." growled Hieshi, going to find his way back to ground level.

- - -

After about an hour of walking, a freezing Amara and Tori arrived at a warehouse near the bay. They looked at the frozen mass of water and then at the big warehouse when their D-Volvers stopped beeping altogether. The two girls with contrasting shades of brown hair looked at each other confusedly.

"Uhh... this looks pleasant and all... but it's a dump." observed Tori, looking at the warehouse.

"Well, go inside."

"You go inside."

The two girls looked at each other, nodded and both headed for the small door next to the huge storage door that led into the warehouse. It was already open.

"Someone's inside." whispered Tori. "Do that mind scanning thing you do."

"Alright." replied Amara. She concentrated for a second and shut her eyes. This was taking some practice, but she was getting used to it. First she shut out Tori's thoughts, so she couldn't be distracted by them. She picked up two thought waves from inside the warehouse.

"Well?" asked Tori, poking Amara in the arm after she'd been silent for a minute.

"They're... like us." said Amara, walking in the warehouse door.

Jeska and Ray were inside. Ray was sitting on a crate and Jeska was pacing back and forth in the middle of the large building. Ray and Jeska both glanced at them, surprised.

"Who the hell are you?" asked Jeska.

"Amara... and Tori? From my PE class? You've got D-Volvers too!" exclaimed Ray. Amara and Tori held out their Yami D-Volvers in agreement. Jeska was not amused.

"Greeeaaaat. I'm stuck with the happy crew."

"The happy crew. Right." scoffed Tori. "What I'm wondering is why we've all been brought here. To meet each other?"

Ray kicked his legs in the air from the crate he was sitting on in excitement.

"This is awesome!" he exclaimed. "Now that you've all got D-Volvers too, I might actually have some friends!"

"You're getting ahead of yourself, buddy." replied Jeska, rolling her eyes. The red-haired girl glanced over at a steel door on the other side of the warehouse. "Ray and I were wondering what that was for and we were arguing about who was gonna go in first when you bimbos showed up."

Amara walked over to the door and tried to turn the handle on it. It didn't budge an inch. She looked next to the door and saw what looked like a hand scanner.

"It's palm print activated." Amara told her three companions, who gathered behind her. "I don't think we can get in."

"Sucks to that! I walked all the frickin way here and I want in that door!" shouted Jeska. She raised her hand in anger and her D-Volver was still in it. When it crossed paths with the scanner, the door clicked and unlocked.

"Wah!" exclaimed Jeska, leaping back. Then she re-composed herself quickly after. "Hey, what do you know? I opened it..."

"And now I'll be heading in there!" shouted a voice from behind the four of them. They all turned to see Hieshi standing there, tossing Levelermon up and down in his right hand like a ball.

"Who are you?" asked Ray. "Are you another one of us?"

"He is. His name is Hieshi, I've met him before." said Amara. "Did you get called here too?"

Hieshi smirked and pointed at the four of them.

"No, I followed you brainless fools. And I've observed all of you fighting and I'll have you know my partner could waste all of yours in an instant. So don't get in my way! I will get into Trinity Server!"

Hieshi ran for the door but Amara was closer and dashed down the stairs first. Hieshi glared and dashed through after her.

"Hey, wait for us!" shouted Tori, as she, Jeska and Ray ran through after the two of them.

- - -

"Get back here, Amara!" growled Hieshi. "I'm going to rip you apart if you get to Trinity Server before I do!"

"You know, for someone who wants my alliance, you sure have a funny way of asking!" she shouted back, maintaining her distance ahead of him.

Suddenly, Amara ran right into a huge empty room that looked like it was made of metal. The walls, floor, ceiling, everything. And all over each of those surfaces were hundreds of little red circles. She gasped and stopped in her tracks, that room not looking too friendly to her.

"Holy crap..." she gasped, putting her hand over her mouth. Suddenly, Hieshi grabbed her by the arm and jerked her back. "Aah!"

"Now I've got-- huh?" he gasped, as Amara flipped him over her shoulder and hurled him into the room. She giggled and brushed her arm off.

"Sorry. That was a reflex." she said. "I am in karate, you know."

"Amara, you alright?!" asked Tori, running up behind her. She nodded. Jeska and Tori gasped at the room they were looking into, while Ray simply leaned against the wall for air.

"Augh... so much running..." he sighed. The girls rolled their eyes.

"What the #%$ is this...?" asked Jeska, walking into the room slowly and glancing around her. The others followed and Hieshi stood up, his urge to fight them forgotten.

"It looks like some sort of torture chamber..." said Hieshi, glancing around himself. "Oh #%$... these red circles might all be lasers! Or flamethrowers!"

The others gasped and headed for the exit the second Hieshi made that revelation, but a steel door slammed shut in front of them! Ray kicked in it a vein attempt to open it.

"We're locked in!" screamed Ray.

"WHAT?!" yelled Hieshi. "No!"

Suddenly all the red dots began glowing, sending a wave of heat through the room as they activated. The five Yami Chosen winced as they covered their eyes to avoid getting their retinas destroyed.

"We're going to get fried!!!" screamed Amara.

"No!" yelled Levelermon from Hieshi's pocket. "I'm sensing Digital energy! This is a transport mechanism!"

"Like, another Digimon?!" asked Hieshi.

The bright glow faded, and the five Yami Chosen glanced up to see a large Digimon standing right in front of Hieshi. The green goliath roared out and glanced down at Hieshi, a look of insanity in his eyes.

"Oh #%$."

Hieshi back flipped out of the way as the Digimon attempted to skewer him on its enormous horn!

"What the hell is it?!" exclaimed Ray, frightened as all of the others were.

"It's Tuskmon, an Adult level Digimon!" answered Levelermon.

"Look at the size of him..." gasped Tori as Hieshi ran back to the wall to rejoin them. He chucked Levelermon directly at Tuskmon.

"Take him down, Levelermon!!!"

"Levelermon Shinka... DYACTORALMON!!!"

The large metal dragon appeared and slammed face-first into Tuskmon! Both of them were knocked to the ground, but Tuskmon still rivaled Dyactoralmon in size. Jeska looked around the room and glared at Tuskmon.

"This was a trap set up by someone!" she snarled. "Why else would this room be the size of a freaking coliseum?!"

"Who cares?!" replied Tori. "Call your partners!"

Amara, Tori, Ray and Jeska called Crystalmon, Salamon, DemiDevimon and Magemon respectively. The four Child Digimon were given instructions, but Hieshi told them all to stop.

"Stop!" he yelled. "I can handle this freak of nature by myself! You'll only get yourselves hurt!"

"I beg to differ." snapped Amara back. "You're not so sure of yourself, you're just arrogant. And don't say that's ridiculous like you're about to, cuz I can read your mind."

"You can read minds?" asked Jeska and Ray at the same time, this being news to them. Hieshi stomped his foot down in defiance.

"Just stay out of this!" he growled.

"Fine, get wasted. See if we care." agreed Jeska, crossing her arms.

The other four held their partners back for the moment while Dyactoralmon and Tuskmon pulled their hulking bodies off the floor of the transport chamber. They roared out and charged each other again.

"He's about to use a tusk attack! Take to the air!" yelled Crystalmon. Dyactoralmon did as told and Tuskmon's attack sent him tumbling to the ground. Hieshi glared at Crystalmon for helping, but decided to let it slide.

"FLAME CANNON!!!"

Dyactoralmon blasted a fireball at Tuskmon, hitting him right in the stomach before he could right himself. Tuskmon pulled himself up, looking like he barely felt the hit.

"Dude, that's some armor!" exclaimed Ray. "DemiDevimon, you jump in!"

"DemiDevimon Shinka... ICEDEVIMON!!!"

The fallen angel flew at Tuskmon before Tuskmon even knew he was there.

"FROZEN CLAW!!!" screamed IceDevimon, slashing Tuskmon across the side of the head and sending him sliding across the room. Tuskmon, being a big lizard and cold blooded, was extremely affected by the cold.

"He's weak, finish him now!" shouted Crystalmon, still scanning Tuskmon's mind. Dyactoralmon moved in for the kill.

"DRAGON BLASTER!!!"

Dyactoralmon unloaded two large cannons from hidden compartments in his arms and pointed them right at Tuskmon's head. The black metal dragon then blew his head clean off! The rest of Tuskmon's body broke up and deleted.

"Yeah! We did it!" cheered Ray.

"You mean I did it." replied Hieshi, annoyed. "All you did was get in my way."

"Are you joking?" asked Ray. "IceDevimon and Crystalmon saved your--"

"Uh, look!" shouted Tori, pointing forward into the room. The other four looked where she was pointing, past IceDevimon and Dyactoralmon to see all the little red circles were starting to glow again.

"Ugh, what now?!" exclaimed Hieshi.

All of the Yami Chosen and Digimon were forced to cover their eyes again as the room was filled another bright red glow. They uncovered them to see an Digimon far bigger than Dyactoralmon standing there! He was red and had four arms, along with a large shell covering his back and a gigantic horn protruding from his head.

"Shit! IT'S HUGE!!!" screamed Tori, intimidated. "What the hell is it?!"

"MegaKabuterimon, a Perfect Digimon!" yelled Magemon, as to answer her question. "We're in it now!"

"What's a Perfect Digimon?" asked Jeska.

"The level after Adult." Crystalmon informed them. "None of us can reach that level yet!"

"He still won't be able to stop Dyactoralmon!" growled Hieshi in denial.

Dyactoralmon and IceDevimon stared up at MegaKabuterimon, who glanced down at them. IceDevimon and Dyactoralmon both charged up their attacks.

"DRAGON BLASTER!!!" yelled Dyactoralmon, firing the cannons upwards at the large insect.

"TUNDRA FREEZE!!!" screamed IceDevimon, blasting ice from his wings in the same direction.

The two attacks swirled together into an energy ice blast and hit MegaKabuterimon right in the chest! The bug staggered backwards, but didn't even fall!

"No way!" exclaimed IceDevimon. "That's impossible!"

"That was my most powerful attack!" added Dyactoralmon.

The two Adult Digimon recoiled as MegaKabuterimon began to charge energy in his horn. He leaned over so it was pointing at the two of them.

"My turn now, weaklings! HORN BUSTER!!!"

MegaKabuterimon hit them both dead-on with his electrical burst, knocking them through the coliseum-sized room and sending them both crashing into the wall hard. The two Adults collapsed and groaned weakly, trying to stand up. But they both collapsed shortly after

"Need our help now, Mr. Self-Confident?" asked Amara, sassily. Hieshi simply grumbled in response.

"Well he's getting it!" shouted Tori. "Because that bug is looking at US now! Evolutionize yourself, Salamon!"

"And you, Magemon." added Jeska.

"Salamon Shinka... KAZEMON!!!"

"Magemon Shinka... TAWNOSMON!!!"

Hieshi glanced at the two new Adults, and then they all looked at Amara.

"Well?" asked Jeska. "Evolve now, dork!"

"Crystalmon... can't do that yet..." sighed Amara, shamefully.

"Oh, that's REAL helpful!" shouted Jeska.

"Hey, I can still tell you what MegaKabuterimon is about to do!" snapped Crystalmon back, running onto the battlefield to get a better hold on MegaKabuterimon's mind.

"More insects for me to squash..." growled MegaKabuterimon, looking at Crystalmon, Tawnosmon and Kazemon.

"Oh, was that supposed by a joke?" asked Kazemon, mockingly.

"Yeah, LOTS of insects!" shouted Tawnosmon. "ASTRAL PROJECTION!!!"

Tawnosmon disappeared and in his place... 26 Tawnosmon appeared! They all flew about the room, surrounding MegaKabuterimon.

"Uh... I think my glasses need to be cleaned..." gasped Ray. "I'm seeing 26- tuple."

"He's an illusionist. Only one of them is real." replied Hieshi, figuring it out pretty quickly, although still amazed by the maneuver. "And that's not a word."

(Kazemon, I'm going to tell you when MegaKabuterimon is going to attack, and where he's going to attack. Make sure you get behind him WHILE he attacks!) Crystalmon projected to Kazemon.

Got it!

"Grrr... HORN BUSTER!!!"

(The Tawnosmon projections near the roof!)

The projections there were incinerated and Kazemon had flown up behind MegaKabuterimon while he did that. She charged up a cyclone in her hands.

"HURRICANE GALE!!!" screamed Kazemon, blasting MegaKabuterimon in the back of the neck. He hissed and went to turn around, but more Tawnosmon projections got in his way, confusing him.

(Holy crap! Look out!)

The warning didn't come fast enough as MegaKabuterimon outstretched all of his arms and span around in a circle, smashing through a bunch of Tawnosmon projections and hitting the real Tawnosmon! Tawnosmon was flung to the floor, unconscious.

"That's not good..." gasped Jeska.

MegaKabuterimon turned around and faced Kazemon, who shrieked.

"Uh, hi. I'll be leaving now." said Kazemon.

"HORN BUSTER!!!"

Kazemon was blasted and smashed into the wall, collapsing like those before her. MegaKabuterimon then turned to face his only remaining opponent: Crystalmon.

"You die now... puny Digimon!"

"No, Crystalmon! You have to evolve!" yelled Amara. Her D-Volver sent out a signal that made Crystalmon begin to glow and change form.

"Well that seemed to work." said Tori. "But will it help?"

"Crystalmon Shinka... RUBYMON!!!"

Crystalmon transformed into a six-foot tall humanoid female Digimon. She had shining red hair that draped down to her shoulders and although her face looked like that of a human, her body from the neck down was entirely made of ruby. Or at least it was a ruby bodysuit.

"Wow... she's... beautiful." gasped Amara. (Heh, Crystalmon evolved to protect me. I didn't think she cared...)

"HORN BUSTER!!!"

Rubymon leapt to the side of the blast, knowing where he was going to shoot it with her mind-reading ability. He attempted to stomp on her, but she leapt back out of the way. Then she hopped on top of his foot.

"RUBY BLAZE!!!" screamed Rubymon, pointing her arms right at his ankle and pouring a stream of magma right into the large insect's ankle joint. As she anticipated, the blast severed his foot, and toppled MegaKabuterimon! He screamed and snarled in pain as his severed foot deleted.

"Geez... such gratuitous violence!" gasped Amara.

"NOW DYACTORALMON!!!" screamed Hieshi.

The metal dragon was up again and took to the air. He flew in at MegaKabuterimon, but the insect fired another Horn Buster at him! Rubymon jumped in the way of the blast!

"What the--" exclaimed Hieshi. "What is she doing?!"

Rubymon held her palm out before gravity tugged her back down to the floor and absorbed MegaKabuterimon's attack! Once on the ground, she pointed her palm at MegaKabuterimon, who was still laying on the floor.

"RUBY REFLECTION!!!" she yelled, blasting MegaKabuterimon with his own attack and knocking him onto his stomach. Dyactoralmon then landed on his shell and pointed his cannons at MegaKabuterimon's head.

"So much decapitation today." said Dyactoralmon. "DRAGON BLASTER!!!"

MegaKabuterimon was deleted and all the Yami Chosen sighed with relief.

"Hoo, we really cut that one close..." gasped Tori.

"I don't remember you doing anything specific." muttered Jeska.

"Yeah, because your partner didn't last long enough to protect mine!" snapped Tori back.

"Heeey, let's not fight." said Ray, coming between the two. "If anyone deserves credit, it's Hieshi and Amara! They saved our asses!"

"See, Hieshi? You're a member of the team now." said Amara, mostly to annoy Hieshi.

"Ugh... kick me please." he sighed in defeat.

"I just might..." began Amara, but she trailed off as another door on the far wall opened. "... looks like someone wants us to keep going down."

"I say we go back up." said Ray, noticing the door behind them had opened too. "Why risk getting killed again?"

Hieshi and Amara were already walking for the new door, ignoring Ray. Ray gave them a look like they were insane.

"Tori? Jeska?"

"... I'm not backing out now." said Jeska, almost entranced by the new door.

"... me either."

Tori and Jeska followed Hieshi and Amara, and Ray reluctantly followed them. All the partners returned to their Child stages and Hieshi picked up Levelermon on the way by, as the others walked alongside their own partners.

- - -

Upon reaching the bottom, they had entered the laboratory mentioned earlier. They saw one man standing there, waiting for them. It was Irvine.

"Greetings." said Irvine.

"You! You're Matt Irvine!" exclaimed Jeska at once. Amara and Hieshi didn't recognize him, but he recognized them.

"Yes, I am. The one who gave... most of you your Yami D-Volvers. Hieshi's appearance was not expected. Care to explain it to me, boy?"

"I'll explain nothing." replied Hieshi. "Do you know how to get into Trinity Server?"

"Maybe. Follow me, you five."

As the five of them and their partners followed Irvine down a corridor, he began to speak again.

"After completing the test in our transport room, you all got a very special present." said Irvine.

"So you made those Digimon attack us..." gasped Ray.

"Did you upload them all?" asked DemiDevimon, who was perched on Ray's shoulder. Irvine nodded.

"Yes, Tuskmon and MegaKabuterimon took alot more time and were tougher to upload than you four Child's... and you defeated them. Alone, none of you could have done that. Not even you, Hieshi."

"Hmph." was all he got out of Hieshi.

"So that was meant to assess our skills as a team." guessed Amara, not able to read Irvine's mind for some reason. "It sure worked."

"Yes... you five will be an unstoppable force. Unstoppable enough to kill Lee and his friends."

"What about this gift you were talking about?" asked Jeska, interested in what she got.

"It's a very complicated gift but it will allow each of you --except for Hieshi, since his Yami D-Volver isn't registered under our computers-- to create one Digimon each to do your bidding. And only one."

"How?" asked Tori.

"Just hold your D-Volver up to a human of your selection. Concentrate on the Digimon you want and the human will morph into it. It's a very ingenious process. Remember, you can only do it once, so choose carefully."

Amara, Ray, Tori and Jeska all glanced at their D-Volvers, amazed.

"So what is it you want to show us?" asked Hieshi, slightly annoyed.

Irvine led them into the main console room and sat down in the comfy chair in front of the main screen. The five Yami Chosen stood behind him and looked as he turned the main screen on.

"Alright, now you know I want you to kill the Hikari Chosen, but I've never really told you why. Watch this screen."

{{{FLASHBACK}}}

We see a scene from a year ago in Desiree's grungy laboratory that was up on North Mountain. James and Desiree are laying on the floor, James having just been killed and Desiree stuck by a Shadow. Meanwhile, Arik, Ace, Lee, Earnest, Alison, Alex, Nathan and Kevin are gathered around the laptop whom was the guardian of their server at the time.

"We have to go to Desolate Server to rescue our partners!" shouted Ace.

"How? None of you can even fight." said Lee. "I'll go alone. I don't want you to get hurt.

"Screw that! Jijimon and Musyamon are there and we intend to get them back!" defied Nathan. "You're not stopping us from going."

"Yeah, come on Lee. Let us come." pleaded Alex, hanging off his arm. Ali crossed her arms and looked into the air with a huff.

"I don't even know how to get there..." sighed Lee.

"Well, the laptop does." said Kevin as he and Earnest stared into it's screen. The other six gathered around them.

{YES I DO.} said the laptop. {I'LL TRANSFER US ALL THERE WITH MY GUARDIAN POWERS.}

The laptop began to flash with a brilliant light, and the six Chosen, Kokuwamon and the laptop disappeared.

{{{END FLASHBACK}}}

"Wow... so they go to go there..." gasped Amara.

"Yes. But when the guardian transported them there, she had to give up some of her guardian code into each of them." explained Irvine. "Even James was affected, since he was revived after the Server reboot. Now that guardians cease to exist, the Hikari Chosen still do, blocking Trinity Server almost completely off from us."

"What do you mean by almost?" asked Hieshi.

"One of them: Desiree, lost her D-Volver a while later. It was destroyed somehow. The barrier was weakened, but barely. It is easy to get things out... but hard to get in. We can only send things in that would take a small amount of data. Like our spy cameras we've placed. Or small insects. Watch."

Irvine tapped a jar containing an ant next to him. He then did some code cracking on the computer and the ant disappeared.

"Where'd it go?" wondered Tori.

They all looked up at the monitor to see the ant materialize on a small patch of land that looks like a desert.

"Unfortunately, he won't live long."

A club smashed down on top of the ant, killing it. The camera panned up to show an Orgemon standing there. It began to inspect the club to see what it had killed. Irvine shut the monitor off.

"So... the more of those nine Hikari Chosen we destroy..." began Tori.

"... the weaker the barrier becomes." finished Hieshi in realization.

"But what's in it for us?" asked Jeska.

"Well..." began Irvine. "You get to keep your Digimon partners, which I think is an amazing gift. But in addition, we'll also take you all to Trinity Server with us."

"You keep referring to yourself as 'we'." pointed out Ray. "May I ask why?"

"I have three colleagues who wish to remain anonymous. They are members of your community, and most of you or the Hikari Chosen already know them." explained Irvine. "But they do not want their identities revealed so as not to jeopardize their public status."

"So... let's get wasting some Hikari Chosen!" shouted Jeska. "What's the way out of here?!"

"There's an elevator at the end of this hallway."

Tori, Hieshi, Ray, Jeska and Amara turned and left Irvine. But Amara stopped and faced him again.

"Do you know how I got my... my gift?" she asked, curiously. "It's... scary."

"All will become clear in due time Amara. Ask me again when Trinity Server is open." he replied, hoping to get her a bit more motivated with that promise.

Amara nodded and followed the others down to the elevator. They all gathered in the large elevator and left the warehouse. Amara, Tori and Ray went to walk back to campus together, while Jeska and Hieshi went their own ways.

"Hieshi... we aren't really going to work with them, are we?" asked Levelermon.

"For now." he replied. "Once Trinity Server opens, I'll have no use for them or Irvine anymore. But let's never think of this again, for if Amara were to find out..."

"Aye aye. My lips are sealed."

"Good... now let's thrash my brother and those other losers..."