Chapter 9:

Netto, Meiru, Yuuichiro and Enzan walked into the hospital lobby and talked to a nurse.
"Excuse me maam. Where is Dark-Miyabi-san staying?" Enzan asked.
"Hold on, sweetie! I'll check..." She replied, reading all the names in her record notebook.

The nurse escorted them to miyabi's room; room 302. Miyabi had been in surgery to fix 20 torn muscles and a punctured lung. He was currently hooked up to an I.V machine filled with blood and 39 stitches covered his chest. Musyamon was standing over him with his hand over the handle of his unsheathed blade in a protective fashion. Shadowman stood from he monitor of his PET-Arc and watched over him as well.

"Netto-kun. Guilmon..." Musyamon acknowledged, too set on guarding his tamer to even look at them.

As the four of them sat down next to his bed, Meiru commented "He looks awful..."
"Where are the others?" Musyamon asked.
"Dekao had to work, so he went back to Maha Ichiban, and the Digimon had to wait outside the hospital. As for Higure, he had to get back to his shop..." Enzan explained.

There were no get well trinkets anywhere...No balloons, no fruit baskets, no bouquets, not even any cards...That somewhat angered Netto. "Does anyone care enough about him...?" He thought.
Netto got up and placed a 'Kunai' Chip in his hand as a gesture of good luck.

An hour of visiting and praying, Yuuichirou escorted the children out of the room when they noticed Yuriko walking in their direction with her head down, holding a wicker basket full of red carnations, oriental lilies and baby's breath. Their was a tag on the basket that read 'Saloma-Sa'.
"Yuriko-san...Is..Is that for??" Netto murmured.
Yuriko began to stutter, and her face almost became as red as the flowers she was carrying. "Wha...Uhh..Um...I..I don't..." She panicked.
Meiru looked up at her and said "If it helps, he's too upset to laugh at you!" Meiru made room for her to walk in. Musyamon unsheathed his sword and pointed it at yuriko to protect miyabi from further harm. Yuuichirou explained

"It's alright, Musyamon! This is Yuriko Oozono, she is Miyabi's friend!"

Musyamon stepped back, unsheathed his sword and leaned against the wall.
"Thank you..." she murmured. She placed the flower basket on the little table by Miyabi's bedside, and prayed for his recovery.

Meiru walked home with Netto, Guilmon suddenly blurted "Nettomon? What's for supper? I'm hungry..." Netto looked down at him and said "Let's find out." Before netto opened the door, he turned to meiru and said "Good night, Meiru-chan! See you tomorrow!"
"Mama! We're home!!" Netto yelled. Haruka looked at Netto and then at Guilmon from the kitchen and said "And what does guilmon want for dinner?"

"Bread!!" Guilmon said excitedly.
Haruka giggled and said "Okay, i'll fix up some homemade bread just for you, guilmon-chan! And Netto-kun, how about Sukiyaki tonight"
Netto just nodded "Sounds good, mom!"
The family (Including Rush and Guilmon) ate at the table when Yuuichirou suddenly asked "Mama, can i speak with you in private upstairs?"
Haruka nodded and followed her husband up the steps.

"Mama...This isn't easy to say, but...I've researched the map netto gave us, and i've found an open link to the digital world and invented a machine to transport them to and from the digital world safely...But...I need permission from Netto and the other tamers first..."

Haruka absorbed everything Yuuichirou told her, at first she was reluctant to put her baby boy in any danger, but then she realized netto was no baby! Netto had saved the world and made it home in time for dinner many a time...She swallowed hard and said

"I trust you, i trust these digimon and i trust netto...They can go to the digital world if they must...Thank you for telling me!" Haruka answered. "When will you tell Netto?"

"First thing after school..."

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Commander Beef was doing some research when he discovered a new form of style change. He plugged in Sharkman and Marineangemon to test it out.
Marineangemon flew into Sharkman, and they assimilated.
Sharkman became pink, was wearing a golden collar, and had a heart above his emblem.

Sharkman put his fingers together to form a heart-shaped silhoutte. A large concentration of energy in the form of a bright pink heart flew at a group of computer viruses in the net battle simulation machine, deleting all of them on contact.

Saloma followed suit, and Togemon merged with Woodman. Woodman looked pretty much the same, except he was now wearing boxing gloves and was covered in needles.

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Higure was sorting chips when numberman blurted "Higure-san, i sense a link in my PET opening!" Suddenly, a digimon that resembled a cannonball with limbs and battle armor appeared right next to the PET, and a D-Arc assimilated itself with higure's PET.

"AAAHHH! WH-WH-WHAT ARE YOU AND HOW DID YOU GET HERE?! De-masu?!" Higure shouted.
The digimon held up higure's PET-Arc and said "Just look! My name is right here!!"

Higure picked it up and read it like it asked:

"METALMAMEMON: PERFECT-LEVEL MACHINE DIGIMON: VACCINE TYPE"
"Yo, higure! I was sent here by the digi-sovereign Baihumon...I'm supposed to deliver a special gift to the chosen ones when the time comes when it's needed!" Metalmamemon explained, reclining on his counter.
Shuukou walked in suddenly and noticed the digimon lounging in the store. Shuukou was so startled she dropped her broom.

"Oh... ...How...Cute..." She mumbled.
Metalmamemon glared at her and replied "Hey, toots!! Don't call me 'Cute'!"

"Gift?? What are you talking about Metal...Uh, Can i call you 'Mame'? It's easier to say!" Numberman asked.
"Well, it's a long story, but here it goes..." Metalmamemon was about to explain when he added "Yes, call me whatever the hell you want!"
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Yaito was painting a portrait when she could hear guardromon moaning from the garden. Yaito peeked out the window to see what was going on to see her family's gardener whacking guardromon on the head with a rake.
"What are you doing to guardromon?!" Yaito snapped.
"KNOCKING SOME SENSE INTO HIM!!" The thin gardener exploded. "HE STEPPED IN ONE OF MY PRIZED ROSEBUSHES!!"

Yaito looked at him and ordered "Stop that or you're fired!!"

Knowing better than to get on Yaito's bad side, the gardener dropped the rake and slowly backed away while bowing in apology before running for it! ;)
Yaito looked at her partner digimon and said "It's okay. He won't give you any more trouble!"
Yaito poured herself and Guardromon a glass of strawberry milk and said "Come inside! Have a strawberry milk with me!"
Guardromon hovered into yaito's room and sat with her.

Meanwhile in the digital world...

In an underground temple below the digital world's surface, four gigantic digimon had gathered for a meeting...
"Qinglongmon, you summoned us here to discuss something urgent...So what is the problem!?" A Phoenix-like digimon demanded.

A large, blue dragon-like digimon answered "My fellow Digimon Sovereigns, heed closely what i am about to tell you...I had a vision just a few days ago...The D-Reaper shall return!!"

The three other digimon gasped and murmured in shock. Qinglongmon took one of the crystal balls that made up one of his bracelets and added "But i have some good news as well. The digimon heroes have found new human tamers, and they have much potential!"
A tiny lightning bolt struck the ball and images of Netto and Guilmon, Terriermon and Laika, jasmine and renamon, guardromon and yaito, commander beef and marineangemon, Miyabi and Musyamon, Enzan and Impmon, and Saloma and palmon appeared one-by-one on the crystal orb.

"Oh, Xuanwumon, baihumon, have you sent your messengers?" Qinglongmon asked.
Baihumon and Xuanwumon nodded. "When do we invite the digimon and the tamers to our world?"
Xuanwumon answered "Five days, i think, would be reasonable! It would give the tamers time to rest up and hone their skills as tamers--"

Zhuqiaoumon interrupted. "Listen, it's not that i still hate humans, but as good as they may be, i'm not so confident they will be as good as the previous generation of tamers...I propose before we give them the gift of Matrix evolution, we test their abilities!"

Qinglongmon replied "Excellent idea! And Baihumon? Xuanwumon?"

Xuanwumon and Baihumon added "Sou!"

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It was 7:00pm, miyabi had half-awoken. Musyamon put his sheathed katana down and smiled.
"Miyabi-sama...You're awake!!"
Miyabi, with what little strength he had, turned his head to the left to see the flowers Yuriko left him.
"She left you a note, too!" Musyamon added, picking up the note to read aloud to him.

"Miyabi-san, i'm so sorry about what happened to you, i also feel bad about your family ties. If it helps, i didn't have that good a relationship with mine, either...I left you this bouquet along with my heartfelt prayers to help you feel better. When i spread word you were in the hospital, Tesla insisted on paying for your care, and Nenji has promised you a special fireworks display!

Please get well soon.

Yuriko." Musyamon stopped reading and put the note down.

Miyabi tried to get up, and saw a specially carved miniature totem pole with a tag that read 'Dingo', a stuffed panda from jasmine, a basket of delicate creamland pastries and a bottle of wine that read 'Princess pride', a heart-shaped pillow with a tag that read 'Meiru' and a toy helicopter with a 'Charlie' tag.
Overwhelmed by such kindness, miyabi shed a single tear before the anesthetics got to him again.

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Rockman was playing catch with guilmon for about an hour by now. Rockman was getting exhausted, but guilmon showed no signs of slowing down.
Luckily for rockman, a link in Netto's computer opened, and roll walked in with rush to visit.
Guilmon ran up to roll to greet her "Roll-chan!" He cheered.

"Saved by the bell..." Rockman thought, sitting down to rest.
Roll knelt to guilmon's level and scrathced his head behind the ear. "Hello, guilmon-chan! How are we feeling tonight?"
Guilmon happily wagged his tail like a doggie and nuzzled roll's cheek. "I like roll-chan..." He sighed.

Roll looked at rockman and said "Hello, rockman!"

Rockman replied "Roll-chan! What a pleasant surprise! What are you doing here anyway?"
Roll walked up to him and said "Nothing...Just wanted to pay you a little visit."

Suddenly, netto got an e-mail from dekao. It read:

"Oi, netto! Gutsman and i want to find out how to learn techniques from digimon! Gutsman challenges guilmon to a netbattle after school tomorrow!
DEKAO"

Guilmon said naively "He wants to fight me?"

"It's his funeral!" Rockman and roll thought out loud, sweatdropping.
Netto slapped his hand to his forehead and moaned "Ohhh, Dekao and gutsman NEVER learn!!"

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Enzan was in his bed trying to sleep, he could not at the moment, because of a bright light and loud noises coming from impmon's room at the end of the hall. Enzan groggily walked into the room to see Impmon playing the demo of their latest game.
"Impmon, that demo is top-secret information...Keep the volume down!! Besides, it's 9:30pm!!" Enzan yawned.

Impmon grudgingly turned off the platform and the T.V and whined "Alright, alright, you rich people sure are bossy!"
Enzan was about to return to his bed when he heard loud, stomping noises. Enzan looked out the window to see a large, mustached seal-like digimon with a big drill for a nose approaching and stomping every car and building in it's path.
Enzan currently wished he had his PET-Arc with him.
Impmon leapt towards the digimon and deleted it with a sword battlechip. Impmon chose not to load the data and leaned against the wall to sleep. As enzan made his way back to his bed, impmon heard him mumbling to himself about being lucky to get even an hour of sleep.

TBC..

Author's notes: Sukiyaki is a japanese dish consisting of beef, udon, bok choy and shiitake mushrooms.
'Sou' is also japanese for 'Yes'