Kyle's eyes fluttered open. He stared up at the plain white ceiling, lit only by soft light coming through the window. He sighed. His back was hurting a bit, but that didn't really matter right now. Mom's not yelling to get me up... must be a weekend... yes... He closed his eyes again. Now I can catch up on sleep...

He rolled over to his side, and looked at the clock. Yeah... mom wouldn't let me sleep until ten o'clock on a school d... he frowned. wait a second... that's not my clock...

Suddenly he remembered. They were at Sara and Reto's house. And it was Wednesday. A school day. "Shit!" he yelled, and literally jumped to his feet.

To his left, Isaac snorted. "Wuzzah?" he mumbled.

"Get the fuck up! We have school!" Kyle yelled.

"What's school, Kyle?" someone said from behind him.

Kyle looked back, and saw Raustemon. Awake. Okay. "Raustemon! You're okay!" Kyle almost hugged the dino, then shook his head, and turned back to Isaac. "Isaac, come on!"

A door opened. Sara leaned out, sleep still in her eyes. "Kyle, shut up..."

"We need to go to school!" Kyle yelled, wondering why nobody else was getting it.

Sara shook her head. "Kyle, chill, we don't need to leave for another..." she looked down at her watch for a moment. She blinked. "FUCKING A!" She slammed the door. Kyle heard her start yelling at Kirsten. Well, that's all good...

Kyle turned back to Isaac, who was already snoring again. Crap. "Isaac. Up. Now."

Reto looked back at Kyle. "Man, shut th' fuck up..." he buried his head in the pillow again.

Kyle sighed, and heard the door behind him open again. Sara raced out, already fully dressed. "Sara-" she ran by him, ignoring him.

Kyle turned back to the still asleep boys. "Sara, can you-"

Sara reappeared from the kitchen with a fire extinguisher. "UP, YOU LAZY BASTARDS, UP!" She yanked the covers off Isaac and Reto, and pulled the trigger on the fire extinguisher, sending a freezing white cloud at the two sleeping boys. Kyle blinked. I didn't know it was possible to jump that high...

"I'm up! I'm up!" Reto yelled. "Holy shit, Sara, where's the fire, huh?"

Sara threw the extinguisher at Reto. "You are a fucking idiot, you know that? You forgot to reset all the alarms when you reset the clocks from when the power went out yesterday!"

Reto looked at the clock. "Shit..." he dove for the closet. Sara groaned. "I'll call a cab. If you're not ready in five minutes, I'm leaving without you." She stuck her head in Kirsten's room. "And that goes for you too, kid!" She ran into the kitchen.

Raustemon shivered. "...scary lady..."

Kyle shook his head, and started trying to find his clothes.


Five minutes later, Kyle stood by the front door with Sara, waiting for the others to, as Sara put it, 'Stop fucking about and get moving!'

Kyle looked over at Sara. "What are we going to do about the digimon?"

Sara shrugged. "The little ones know how to care for themselves, and Magusmon and Malcamon can follow us unseen pretty well by now."

"Oh..." Kyle paused for a moment. "But... what about Raustemon?"

Sara snapped her fingers. "I knew I forgot something..." she muttered. Louder, she said "Malcamon! Get over here!"

The black cat digimon appeared from around the corner. "Yes?"

"Make sure Raustemon knows the route you and Magusmon take, so he can follow us back to the city."

The cat nodded, and disappeared back around the corner. A moment later, Reto came running up, followed closely by Isaac and Kirsten. "We're ready." Reto said.

Sara checked outside the window. "Good, the cab's already here..."

"Just one?" Isaac asked. "That's gonna be pretty cramped..."

"If it's that bad, then Kirsten'll just have to sit on your lap, huh?" Sara replied, before slipping out the door.

Isaac and Kirsten blushed. "Wh-wha...?"

Reto sighed. "Just ignore her..."

Kyle pushed the door the rest of the way open, and followed Sara to the waiting (and very small) cab. The driver looked back as they got in, and raised an eyebrow. "Must've been some party last night, huh?"

Sara snorted. "Shut up and drive..."

The man shrugged. "Okay. Where to?"

Kirsten told him the name of their school. Sara added "There'll be a second stop, after that one, but I won't say where until after we get there."

The man shrugged. "Okay..." he muttered something, and put the car in drive.

Kirsten growled. "Okay. Who's elbow is that?"

"I dunno," Kyle answered, "Where is it?"

"Screw you."

The cabbie grinned. "Trouble in paradise?"

All five, in one voice, replied "Shut up!"

The man shook his head.

Kyle sighed. "I hope Raustemon's having a better time than this..."


Raustemon blinked. "So, where do we go again?"

Malcamon growled. "For the third time, over the first three rooftops, down the alley, over the-"

Magusmon sighed. "You know what, just follow us okay?" he paused. "Raustemon?"

Raustemon's head had suddenly swept to the left. The red dinosaur growled deeply, then sped off down the road after the taxi.

"H-hey! Wait!" Magusmon yelled. "You'll be seen!"

The dino ignored him, and kept running right down the middle of the road.

"Damn it!" Malcamon whispered, before following the errant dino.


The cabbie sighed, and looked up through the windshield. "Looks like a thunderstorm's coming..."

Sara growled. "Shut... the fuck... up already!"

The driver shrugged, just as an odd buzzing sound began to fill the air. "Hey, does anybody else-?" Kyle started to say, before there was a loud crack, a brilliant light, and the entire world started doing cartwheels. A foot, an arm, a chest- hello! -sped by, before everything slammed to a stop. The world seemed upside down, so Kyle climbed out the window of the now stopped car, and looked around.

The car was upside down, on fire, on the side of the road. Sara was already out of the car, and the others were in the process of getting out. The driver sat on the side of the road, and shook his head. "Did we just fuckin' get hit by lightning?"

A power line a few meters back the way they had come, crossing over the road, was split in half, blue bolt of energy sizzling from its ends. "Shit..." Isaac muttered. "That was close..."

The electricity from the wires suddenly shot out in a huge burst. Laughter echoed around the empty street. "I've finally found you..." The electricity wound its way upwards, forming the outline of a creature. The cabbie's eyes bugged out. "Shit!" he pushed himself to his feet, and ran for an alley. A bolt of lightning shot from the creature, and touched the man's back. The man jerked upwards, then fell motionless. The creature grinned as it fully solidified. "Don't even try to run..."

"What is-" Kyle started to say, but Sara interrupted him. "It's a Fulmemon, level champion, and I think you can guess what element it is..." Kyle looked over, and saw Sara was reading the information from her digivice. He turned back to the creature.

The creature was as tall as the power lines, and seemed to be connected to them by streams of white hot energy, like a marionette. Most of the creature was also glowing white, with no features, but for three blue protrusions on its underside, shaped like accordions and connecting it to the ground, and two golden, angry looking eyes. It grinned again, showing a blue patch in the white electricity. "Now... where are...?"

"Thunder Claw!" the attack slammed into the digimon, but didn't do a thing. Kyle looked, and saw Malcamon and Magusmon standing on top of a nearby house. And Raustemon was-

"Rauste Flare!" A bolt of fire shot from the dino's mouth, only three feet from the electric digimon. Again, the attacks hit, but did nothing. The Fulmemon laughed. "Is that the best you can do?"

"Not quite!" Magusmon yelled. "Magical Shocker!"

The digimon just laughed, growing slightly larger every moment. "You are all going to die!"

Sara growled. "Why isn't..." She looked up. "Of course... Malcamon! Knock those power lines down!"

"On it!" the cat digimon growled. "Dark Nightmare!"

The power lines sizzled, then turned into dust. The tendrils of energy attaching Fulmemon to the lines disappeared. The digimon growled. "Fine... but I have other tricks up my sleeve..." He turned to the humans. "Lightning Arc!" A bolt of lightning shot right at Sara. Her eyes grew wide, but before she could react, something flew in front of her, blocking the attack. Something shaped like a cat...

"Malcamon!"

DIGIVOLUTION

"Malcamon... digivolve to... Malrizamon!"

The lightning dissipated. Now standing between Sara and the Fulmemon was a large black mountain lion with streaks of silver arcing across its back. Malrizamon grinned. "Now you're in for it..."

Sara grinned, her eyes sparkling. "Turn that thing to dust!"

"Thunder Striker!" Malrizamon's body gave off a glowing aura of electricity. The cat then leapt at the Fulmemon, striking it in the midsection. The enemy digimon groaned. "No... you've destroyed me..."

Malrizamon smiled, turning away from the digimon. "Then go to your hell."

The Fulmemon grinned. "Just kidding. Lightning Arc!" A blot of lightning shot out, and hit Malrizamon in the spine. The cat yowled in pain, and collapsed. Sara gasped. "No..." her eyes flashed. "You bastard!"

The Fulmemon laughed. "Now do you see? Nothing can defeat me! Nothing!"

Thunder pealed through the sky again, adding to the digimon's laughter. "Crap..." Kyle whispered.

The air shivered slightly, and Kyle felt something tap the tip of his nose. He reached up and brushed it away. Water? He held out his hand. A drop fell into it, then another. No... rain...

The Fulmemon's laughter died out. It looked up, just as the rain began in earnest. The digimon screeched. "No! This can't be!"

Malrizamon's eyes fluttered open. She shook her head, and turned to face the lightning digimon, who was now rapidly shrinking. "I guess your time just ran out... Dream Of Chaos!"

The reduced Fulmemon was surrounded by a dark aura. It murmured "S-s..." before collapsing, and turning to dust. The dust floated upwards, before pausing, and combining with Malrizamon.

Kyle looked over at Sara as Malrizamon de-digivolved. "So... when you said that stuff about dust earlier... you were being literal..."

Sara looked over at Kyle, and absent-mindedly brushed some of the rain out of her face. She sighed. "...you idiot..."

Reto sighed, looking at the remains of the taxi. "Well, how are we going to get to school now?"

Sara growled. "How the fuck should I know?"

Kirsten sighed. "I guess we'll just have to walk..."

Malcamon shivered. "Through the rain?" She mewled. "You've got to be kidding..."

Kyle laughed, and was quickly joined by the others. Malcamon shook herself. "Oh, shut up..." Sara sighed, picked up Malcamon, and held the cat inside her jacket. The digimon smiled. "Thanks..."

Sara nodded, and led the group down the road, back towards the city.


"At least the creation software worked this time, to its full extent."

"Yes... and perhaps I should try once more..."

"What do you mean?"

"One with full memories would be able to defeat one with fragmented memories... don't you think?"


Shadow- "Ooh... mystery and such stuff. Hey, I actually did some writing, how about that?"

Renamon- "Not bad. I've seen better."

Shadow- "Eh. It's late. I have my first crew practice tommorow. (yes, on the weekend.) So, whatever."

Renamon- "You know Shadow doesn't own digimon, so this is for free. Show some appreciation, huh?"

Shadow- "Renamon... don't be whiny..."

Renamon- "...I think it really is getting late..."

Shadow- "Night, peoples. Try to ignore the man behind the curtain."