Hello all! It's so good to see all of your wonderful faces again. I hate to say this but, I've been back for over a week now. I'm just a lazy bum. Forgive me.

Kumamon: It's okay my friend. We can all be lazy at times, so I wouldn't get mad at you.

Me: Um, does it hurt if I said that I actually got this done with in a few hours and was just putting it off and that I've done pretty much all the chapters like that?

Kumamon: WHAT!? YOU LAZY BUM!!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!

Me: Um, Please enjoy this chapter as I run for my life.

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. Eh, what else is new?

Half a day had passed since we left Paper Town as Kumamon and I were taking shifts, just in case any rouge digimon showed up. I had already gotten three hours of sleep and I was now keeping watch while Kumamon slept on a pile of leaves.

"Come on dang it!" I said as I struggled to make my own genuine flames. I hadn't had very much luck so far and I was beginning to get stressed out. "Ugh, why won't it work? Stupid fire!" I suddenly punched into the air and a stream of flames erupted from the end of my fist and set the tree in front of me ablaze. The tree toppled over and made a loud crash, waking my partner digimon.

Kumamon looked sleepily at the burning tree, then looked at me. "Hey, stupid! You're more of a danger to us than the sovereign's flunkies are!"

I put my hands behind my back and lied, "I had nothing to do with that."

"Uh-huh. Sure you didn't. What exactly are you trying to do anyway?"

I looked towards my hands and clenched them. "You remember how Baamon said that I couldn't create my own flames yet? Well I decided to try and see if I could make flames through training or something."

"What kind or training was that, you goggle-head? You were practically begging the flames to come out."

"Psh. It worked, didn't it? Anyway, it's time to eat," I said hungrily as I rubbed my stomach.

Kumamon moved his jaw in a way that revealed one of his lower fangs and pulled out his leather sack that was filled with food from Paper Town.

"Alright, Kumamon. Make something good!"

"Excuse me?"

"What?"

"Um, I thought that you were gonna cook, Stanley."

"What? I can't cook!"

Kumamon's jaw dropped and he chucked the sack at my head. "Don't you dare even think of saying that! I thought that all humans could cook!"

"Who the heck told you that!?"

Kumamon's lip quivered as he had a mental image of Baamon relaying the story of how well Kari Kamiya could cook and how she learned many recipes from her. "Nobody."

"Wait. I thought that you could cook! Are you telling me that we have all of this food and can't cook it!?

"Okay, let's not panic, Stanley."

"I'M GONNA STARVE TO DEATH OUT HERE!!!" I opened my mouth to scream, but all that came out was a massive flame. I fought to try and control the flames as Kumamon and I both began to panic.

"STANLEY, CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!!!"

Willing to try anything to quell my raging inferno I closed my mouth and instantly the flames stopped.

"Stanley, this is getting crazy. Can't you find a safer way to let out your aggression?"

I opened my mouth slowly to make sure that the flames wouldn't come out again. "This coming from Mr. Aggression? Don't make me laugh you silly bear."

Kumamon grimaced and leaned back against a tree. "Don't you turn this around on me. You've gone through quite the change since you first entered the digital world. I mean I know you weren't exactly frightened but you were still kind of awkward. But now it feels like you've been here for a long time." 'But I wonder. Maybe I feel that way because I've been wanting to journey with him for so long and now I get to. It's the only thing I ever wanted in life.'

"Well, Kumamon, the reason for that is that I've had so many weird things happen over the past twenty-four hours I don't even get surprised anymore. Besides," I looked up into the tree that he was standing over and pointed. "I have a solution to our little food problems."

"What?" Kumamon looked up and not even a beating from Baamon's infamous cane could rip the smile from his face. "Apples. I got em." He turned around and punched the tree but, to his surprise, no apples fell. "Well, how are we supposed to get those down, genius?" he said sarcastically.

"Like this." I jumped up fifteen feet and kicked the tree. When I landed Kumamon still had a surprised look on his face.

"Since when can you jump that high!?"

I smirked. "It turns out that that phoenix gave me more than just power over fire."

"Whatever. Well your kick still did absolutely nothing," he said as I started to back away from him.

"3........2........1!" At that moment an ocean of apples fell on top of Kumamon. I knelt down and fell to my knees as my laughter made it hard to stand. Kumamon slowly dug his body out of the pile of apples and looked up at me.

"That is so not funny." But his did very little to qualm my laughter.

"Yes it is."

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After we had gotten our fill of apples and saved the rest in our sacks, we continued to walk through the forest. Unfortunately, the apples had done very little to help Kumamon's annoyance.

"Ugh, so how much longer do we have to walk to find a place to rest?" he asked as we started to climb up a massively large hill.

I looked at the map on the digivice. "The closest town is Mechanized City. It's about three miles from here so at our speed it should take about an hour, but we should be able to see it when we reach the top of this hill."

Indeed, when we got to the top we could see skyscrapers in the distance. "Wow," said Kumamon. "Have you ever seen buildings that big?"

"No, I haven't. I live in a small town too, but I have been to some big cities and none of them compare to those skyscrapers in the distance. That must be the-"

"HELLLLLLLP!!!" came an ear splitting scream.

Kumamon and I both had to cover our ears to keep from going deft. "Who the heck is making that noise!?" shouted Kumamon.

I looked out towards the city, but if there was anything out there it was way too far to see. "Kumamon, I can't see anything."

"Ugh, must I do everything myself?" He reached up and tugged the goggles given to me by Kamemon down my face.

I grunted as I pulled the goggles properly over my glasses. "Kumamon, what are you doing?"

"Listen, stupid. Kamemon told me last night that those goggles aren't just for show. He equipped them with several tools, including scopes to see in far off distances. Use those to see up ahead and see what made that sound."

"Oh, okay then. Let's see if I can make these work." I touched the side of the goggles and my range of vision greatly intensified. It took me back at first, but I quickly got used to it then used them to look on towards Mechanized City. Through my enhanced vision I saw a blue digimon running away from the city and a trail of smoke trailing behind him that didn't look like it was coming from the digimon. "Kumamon, there's somebody running from the city. And it looks like they're being chased by something."

"Well let's not waste any time then. Here." He took something out of his leather sack and thrust it into my hand.

"Um, What are these?" I asked as I rattled what looked like coins in my hand.

"They're data chips. There should be one that has a pair of feet overlapped by wings on it. Use it on me like you did with Kuwagamon's card."

I ruffled through the chips and found the one he was looking for, wondering what kind of digimon he could have gotten this chis from. But that question would have to wait. "Digichip, boost!"

Kumamon quirked as eyebrow as his legs gave off a golden glow. "Digichip, boost? Where'd you get that from?"

"Well it just didn't seem right for some reason to just put the chip in without any kind of declaration. Anyway, what's that chip do?"

Kumamon smirked as he walked up towards the other side of the hill. "Well let's put it this way. Try to keep up."

"If you say so." We both ran down the other side of the hill full burst. As I suspected the chip had given him a vast increase in speed but, even so, I still had no trouble keeping up. It was safe to say that Kumamon was definitely surprised.

"You get more fun by the second. Now let's see what we're up against." As we ran on I looked through the goggles again. Now that we were closer I could now see a glint of metal behind the trail of dusty smoke. I could barely make out a familiar shape. The shape of a mech.

"A mech? You even have these in your world. But I'm not sure we can take something like that down. But let's try something. When we get to the bottom of this hill I want you to launch me."

Kumamon looked at me like I was insane. "Are you insane? Do you know how far you're gonna go if I throw you?"

"Just do it."

"Oh fine! Here we go!" Just as we reached the bottom of the hill Kumamon grabbed my arm and swung me forward, but just as I was beginning to shoot through the air I grabbed Kumamon's arm. "What the heck are you doing!?"

"You're gonna take that thing out." Using the momentum of Kumamon's throw I swung Kumamon out as hard as I could, launching him at the mech with twice the momentum he had used on me.

He screamed as he shot through the air like a torpedo, the wind blowing his cheeks out like a balloon. "I can't believe that guy would throw me like that. But I have to admit, I never would've thought of this. Well time to see if I can make his plan work. I'll use my new attack!" Kumamon reared his arm back as he continued to fly through the air, a familiar golden glow forming around it. "SHOTGUN BEAR FIST!!!" At the last second he shot his fist out and ripped through the mech like butter, its innards completely obliterated. I ran out to him as he landed on the ground, happy my plan had be successful.

"So how was your flight?" I suddenly cringed as Kumamon looked at with a glare filled with an amazing amount of killer intent.

"You know, you coulda warned me about that little plan of yours. Give me one reason as to why I shouldn't kill you."

I quickly thought. "You got to show off your new attack. It was awesome."

Kumamon suddenly beamed at me. "Awe, really? Thank you so much." He then looked to the wreckage that we had just made. The blue digimon from before was going through it. As we walked up to him the digivice in my pocket went off.

"Veemon, rookie ancient digimon. Vaccine type. Family: unknown. Attacks: Vee-Head butt, Vee-Knockout, and Vee-Punch."

Veemon was Kumamon's height with large, maroon eyes and extremely large hands. He had a small horn for a nose and a yellow V on his forehead.

"Um, what are you doing?" I asked. Veemon replied by completely ignoring me. "Man, this is a rude digimon. Kumamon, you try talking to him."

Kumamon nodded and poked the rookie digimon on the shoulder. "Hey! Are you alright?" Veemon then looked up, his eyes going to me and then to Kumamon, his eyes suddenly getting wide.

"Oh mon! You're the-"

"Yes, I'm the digidestined," I said as I reached out to shake Veemon's hand.

"-Bear of Power!" Veemon passed right by me and went straight to Kumamon. "Hi! I'm Veemon!" he said as he vigorously shook Kumamon's hand.

"........" I was confused. "Um, I'm here too. Hello." I said.

Veemon then looked at me again. "Oh, a human. Big deal," he said.

I was being insulted by a digimon wearing a tool belt and covered in oil. "Why, you little tech head!"

Veemon was back at the mech again, and in minutes had made a hovercraft. Kumamon and I were both in awe.

"Yo bro! Look, a hovercraft."

I sputtered as I suddenly acted like it was the lamest thing in the world. "B-big effing deal!" I spat.

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As we rode the hovercraft towards Mechanized City, Veemon filled us in on the situation. "About three weeks ago, an Agumon showed up all bruised and bloody. He claimed to be the Dinosaur of Virtue, so we let him stay in Mech City, nursing him back to health. But a week later he started to get malicious. Then he suddenly digivolved to Greymon and captured our leader, taking over all of Mech City. Our city is known for our iron ore plants that build mechs. The mechs are built for defense in case anyone comes to our city with evil intentions. But since Greymon has taken over the city he has also taken over all of our mechs and now the citizens have gone into hiding. It's because of this that I need your help, Lord Kumamon."

"Oh sure. Ask the bear for help, but not me," I said with clenched teeth.

Kumamon started to chuckle lightly. "Come on, Stanley. Don't be like that." Veemon looked at me too, but he didn't smile.

"What can he do? He's just some weak human." I suddenly stood up as the hovercraft was moving and quickly fell back down. "See?" said Veemon. I folded my arms and mumbled to myself. We were coming up fast to the walls of the city.

"I'll show you who's weak. Oh yeees. Let's go, Kumamon!" I shouted. Kumamon stood on the edge of the craft and jumped as I slapped my glowing hand into the back of the digivice.

"KUMAMON DIGIVOLVE TO..................GRIZZMON!!!" Grizzmon ran along side the hovercraft as I jumped onto his back and we ran on ahead to the village gates. The gates were made of metal.

I jumped from Grizzmon's back and punched the metal doors down and then landed back on his back as he passed under me. Veemon quickly caught up to us in his hovercraft and I planned to rub my strength in his face. "How do you like me now, Veemon?"

"Do you have any idea as to how long it's gonna take to put those doors back up!" he shouted as he went on ahead of us.

"You. Have got. To be. KIDDING ME!!!"

Grizzmon started laughing and I glared at him.

"That is so not funny, Grizzmon."

"Yes it is."

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"Hey, Grizzmon. I wonder why Veemon belittles me like he does?" I asked.

"Belittle? What's that mean?"

I looked back to all the times I had been picked on and saw all the people who had looked down on me. "It means to not think much of somebody, to consider them less than what they actually are." I looked down and rubbed his bluish fur. "Kinda like how Kamemon and the others treated you before you found me."

I heard him chuckle and he playfully bucked upwards, bouncing me on his back. "Well, I wouldn't worry about it. Your time will come soon. I can feel it." He stopped as we had reached a very rundown part of the city. All around us were rubble covered streets, torn down buildings, and various robotic parts. "What happened here?"

"This was a battlefield. We have to hurry up and catch up to Veemon." Grizzmon nodded and started moving again, this time we began to hear souns of a new battle. "Grizzmon."

"I know, Stanley. They're in the middle of a battle and there's Veemon. Let's go." We followed Veemon into the deepest part of the city. What we saw there shocked us. There was a fierce battle going on, with digimon being overrun by mechs. Grizzmon skidded to a halt as Veemon drove into a crowd of mechs, running them over. "Stanley, this is pretty bad. You're not strong enough to fight anything this strong yet so I want you to go hide. Okay?"

I pouted at first but I knew that he was probably right. "Okay. But just promise me you'll give em hell."

Grizzmon gave a toothy grin as I jumped off his back. "I'll be back. Now go hide while I go show off." I smiled as he went and entered the fight. Alone, the rebel digimon had only taken out a few mechs, but with Grizzmon now helping, a few dozen were taken out in minutes. Grizzmon jumped onto one mech and started to rip it to shreds with his Maul attack. Then he turned as one tried to sneak up on him. He slashed it in the chest with his claws, sending it flying into ten mechs behind it and as it blew up so did the rest of them. But even thought they had all now destroyed so many, there were still so many left.

I heard someone scream behind me and turned around to see a mech attacking a defenseless peach colored dog digimon. I ran out, my body suddenly heating up and a familiar feeling coursing through my veins. I spun my body as I jumped up towards the mech's face plate and gave it a flaming uppercut, sending it high into the air as it exploded. I looked at my hands and balled them into fist and an aura of flames shot off in all directions. Then I heard something stomping behind me. I turned around to see a giant, orange T-rex with blue stripes and a horned helmet over his head.

"Greymon, champion level. Type: flame dinosaur. Vaccine type. Family: dragon's roar. Attacks: Nova Blast, Great Horns Bash."

I looked up into the eyes of the one who had caused all this. "So you're the jerk who caused all this!" I shouted. Greymon gave a low growl.

"And? What are you gonna do about it?"

"How about I show you!" I jumped up and kicked at Greymon. "BLAZE KICK!!!" The fiery shock wave hit him right in the abdomen, but had no effect at all. All Greymon did was scratch his belly.

"Hmmm, I wasn't aware that humans had such powers. But your fire is much too weak compared to mine. You stand no chance."

"I'm sick of everybody calling me 'weak'! Take this!" I jumped up and punched Greymon right in the face, but sadly he didn't budge. As I was landing, his tail swung around and sent me flying into a brick wall. I was out cold and Greymon was slowly walking towards my unconscious form.

"I was ordered to keep you alive, so I'll take you as my prisoner."

"OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!"

Greymon looked behind him, only to see Grizzmon in the air. But Greymon just grabbed Grizzmon by his head and slammed him into the ground, knocking him out cold as well. With nobody to stop him, Greymon hoisted me over his shoulder and carried me away, making me a prisoner.

Kumamon: I see you a Beast Wars moment there with the yeeees. Anyway, that sucks that you got taken away, but you're a weak human. What could you do?

Me: Just you wait. Next chapter I'm gonna blow all your minds!

Kumamon: We'll see. Just try to have the next chapter up a bit sooner.

Me: Okay. Hope you enjoyed this chapter everyone. Be sure to review.