Try

by Utopia's Magic

When 18-year-old Tiffany Strong accidentally creates an incredibly evil digimon, she and five others are transported to the Digital World to fix the problems that this digimon has created, enjoying the misadventures with their digimon friends. Rated T for later on in the story. Updates on Sunday/Monday

10. The Dark Network!

Disclaimer! I own only my OCs and potentially a few of the OC digimon. Everything else is owned by Saban Brands.

Hope you all enjoy!

Chapter 10

"Huh?" Linzi sat up as she held the no-longer glowing yellow dog tag. "What is this?" Ally held her formerly pink tag gently in her hands. Jacob poked his head into their room. "Um… Do you guys have any idea what this is?" He asked, holding up the still glowing dark green tag. "Come on in, it seems like they're important." Ally beckoned the two boys in and saw the bright red glow coming from Luke's dog tag. "Gennai?" Linzi asked as the old man walked into the room. "That's right. It's me." Following Gennai were Michael and Tiffany, both looking rather bashful.

"Michael? Why are you blushing so deeply?" Ally giggled and looked at Tiffany. "Um, we may have opened a box that made these things come flying out at us…" Tiffany trailed. "Oh! Well, that makes more sense." Luke nodded and took Ravenmon off of his head. "Caninmon, time to wake up buddy. Gennai's got a story to tell us." Jacob gently roused his partner. "Kangamon, you awake?" Ally called across the room. "Yes…" She groggily replied as Torpedomon waddled over to Linzi. "It's too early…" She moaned and Linzi giggled.

"I felt your embarrassment Tiffany." Azuremon stood next to Tiffany. "Is everything alright?" She nodded. "Just found these weird things." She showed Azuremon the tag. "It looks special." Chinchilmon chimed in, looking intently at Michael's tag. "If you'll all quiet down, I'll explain what these tags are." Gennai's tapped impatiently on the floor. "We're listening Gennai." Jacob told him. "These little tags are one half of the things that you need to digivolve again to the Ultimate level." Gennai dropped that bombshell.

"Wait a second; didn't you say that Devimon had hidden the tags away?" Michael asked him. "That's right. However, after you all went to sleep last night, a very kind digimon called Whamon brought the other tags to me after the Japanese digidestined found their tags. Do you know what this means?" Gennai answered and asked another question. "Um… That Whamon is a very nice digimon and we should go to him for help?" Ally asked, hopeful. "No. It means that the Japanese digidestined are in Server now. You must leave immediately in the morning. I had hoped to keep you a few more days so you could recuperate, but it seems that you must go now to help them." He sighed and a bubble appeared next to the group.

"The Japanese digidestined are heading straight for a Koromon village that Whamon knew about here. However, Etemon took over that village a long time ago and kidnapped the Koromon. In the morning, you will have to go and stop Etemon from destroying the village and the digidestined." He continued, and the bubble disappeared. "A Koromon village? I thought villages like that only existed on File Server, with Primary Village." Azuremon's eyes widened. "In-training villages like this are rare, as they cannot defend themselves well, but this Koromon village is famous for holding a secret hiding spot that the Koromon hide in if they get into trouble." Gennai answered.

"Well, why can't we go now?" Linzi asked, ready to go. "Look at you all. You're still exhausted and it's not even morning yet. You must get more sleep first and eat again. Some of you are sticks." Gennai shot down that idea. "Alright, I guess that's fine." Linzi conceded. "Besides, the Japanese Digidestined are asleep, right?" Tiffany asked. "Yes, they are. They too, are exhausted, and could use some rest, but they aren't capable of getting it right now." Gennai sighed and turned around. "Very well! Back to bed! All of you! You'll need your strength in the morning." As he said that, Michael yawned and nearly fell asleep on the bed he was sitting on.

"Come on sleepyhead." Luke hoisted Michael up over his shoulder and took him back to the boys room, being followed by Chinchilmon, Azuremon, and Ravenmon. "Be careful girls, and keep an eye on these tags. I've got a feeling that we'll need them." Jacob smiled at the girls and picked up Caninmon, who had drowsily walked into the room while Gennai was talking. "Goodnight boys!" Ally called after the boys. "Well, I don't know about you all, but I'm exhausted." Tiffany stated and promptly fell asleep, getting giggles out of the other two. "Goodnight Linzi." Ally told the girl as she and Kangamon fell back to sleep. "Goodnight." Linzi responded while Torpedomon climbed back up into bed to fall asleep again. She followed suit.

In the Morning

"Are we ready guys?" Jacob burst into the dining room, ready to begin the trek to the other digidestined. "Hold up now Jacob. We need supplies and stuff. That way, we don't have to forage for so much food like last time." Michael reminded the overeager boy. "Okay, that's true. Let's go get some food then!" Jacob excitedly yelled and was about to run out the open door. "Hold up now." Gennai appeared from behind another door. "I don't have that much to feed all of you for very long, but I can supply you with breakfast today. Dig in!" As he said that, food appeared onto the tables and Jacob turned around. "FOOD!" He yelled again and began to dig in.

"Girls, are you ready?" Luke poked his head in the girls' room. "Yep! Let's go girls." Tiffany led the other two out to the food. "I smell food." Kangamon hopped out of the room at lightning speeds while Torpedomon followed her. "I want food." She explained to Linzi as she passed the group. "Come on Azuremon! Food's on the table." Tiffany took a short detour to holler into the boys' room for Azuremon. "Food?" Chinchilmon and Caninmon ran out to the table, quickly beginning to eat. "Azuremon, are you in there?" Tiffany stuck her head in and was surprised to see him slowly standing up. "Are you okay Azuremon?" She asked quietly as the other girls headed to breakfast.

"There is great darkness nearby…" He clutched his head. "And it's giving me a massive headache." He growled and Tiffany gave him a hug. "We'll see if we can get away from it soon enough, okay?" She told her partner and gave him a hug. "Now, let's go get some food, okay?" Azuremon sniffed quietly and ran out to the food. "Well, it seems that even he's unable to control hunger urges." Tiffany giggled and joined her partner.

"Now that you're all here and eating, I have a few last things to say." Gennai glanced across the room to make sure everyone was there. "Yeah? What's up Gennai?" Jacob asked. "You must not lose the Japanese digidestined. If either group is to defeat the evils on this continent, you must work together. That being said, with the exception of little TK, the other digidestined will most likely attack first and talk later. They are on their guard now, and so you must not be seen. Understood?" Gennai explained. "Got it. Follow and help it necessary, but do not reveal unless absolutely necessary." Linzi summarized and nodded. "We can do that just fine, right?" Ally looked at Kangamon, who nodded. "Easily. We could even grab a tarp that looks like the sand so we can at least hide better in the desert." Chinchilmon spoke and jumped up onto Michael's shoulder and grabbed a piece of fruit that he had been holding. "That's my fruit!" Michael tried to look offended, but failed, making Chinchilmon laugh.

"Wonderful. If you'll quickly finish your breakfast, the Digimon Mother has graciously allowed me to create another tunnel to the Koromon village." Gennai pointed towards the hill that they had entered his house from. "Well, that's really nice of her." Torpedomon smiled and quickly finished what she had been eating. "Well then guys?" Michael apprehensively looked around the room. "Are we ready?" Luke asked. "You betcha!" Ravenmon flew up and out of the door, heading towards the tunnel. "Here we go again, I guess." Luke followed him as the group joined the two at the edge of tunnel.

"Well, goodbye Gennai!" Jacob smiled and the group began to head off into the tunnel as Gennai watched them disappear. "I do hope that they can make it out of this one… But I must have faith and help them out as much as I possibly can, isn't that so?" He asked to no one in particular. "Yes. That's right. I must have faith. In the mean time, I'll just watch their progress." He chuckled to himself, seemingly, and went back inside his house, where he sat down on a chair and summoned two bubbles to watch the two groups.

"Quickly guys. Remember to use the walls so we can get through here as fast as possible." Linzi reminded the group as they sped up. "There's no telling what waits for us once we're outside of this tunnel, so we must be cautious." Azuremon spoke to no one in particular. "Well, as long as we have you guys on our side, there's no way we can lose." Tiffany tried to boost the group's confidence. "That's the spirit! We're going to be just fine." Kangamon chimed in and gasped suddenly. "Look guys! At the end of the tunnel, there's a light! It's got to be the Koromon village that Gennai was talking about." She sped up again as the light grew closer. "Be careful now. If possible, observe from far away and if you see any of their digivolutions, get ready to help." Michael told the group and they nodded. "Right. Protecting them is the main goal here." Chinchilmon put on a serious face for once.

"Here we are guys…" Ravenmon cautiously did an overhead surveillance check of the village. "It looks pretty calm." He reported back. "The other digidestined must be near here, so let's get looking." Luke began to walk out of the cave and promptly hid behind a bush. "Found them?" Tiffany crawled up behind him. "You betcha. Look down there." He responded and she saw Mimi being carried off by the Pagumon that had taken over the village. "Oh dear… Those are Pagumon. Those tricky little in-training digimon love to just cause a ruckus." Torpedomon stood next to them while Linzi had climbed up in a tree to get a better view.

The rest of the group came out of the tunnel and, as the tunnel disappeared, saw that they were in a forest. "Well look at that. A forest is good for hiding." Michael smiled and climbed up a tree as well to get a better view of the other digidestined. "Why isn't Palmon digivolving?" He asked Chinchilmon. "It's probably because even Mimi could fight off a group of in-training digimon with relative ease. She's not in any real danger." Chinchilmon replied and Kangamon, underneath the tree, agreed. "When she gets into real trouble though, Palmon will digivolve really quickly, so don't worry about it too much." Kangamon told Ally, who looked worried for the young girl.

"Hey, over there. It's the other digidestined." Jacob kept his voice low. "They're coming down the side of that hill to enter the village." Caninmon woofed and stared at Agumon intently. "Why doesn't Agumon know that something's up? Pagumon don't normally take over villages unless they're under the command of another digimon…" The realization hit him as soon as it hit Azuremon. "This is a trap set up by Etemon." Azuremon spoke and Caninmon nodded. "How do we warn them though?" Tiffany asked. "We can't. We can only watch until they really need us." Azuremon told her softly. "Hm…" She sighed and glanced back at Mimi, being taken away by the Pagumon into a large tower as the other digidestined ran after her.

"Don't worry. They're strong. They defeated Devimon, remember?" Azuremon reminded her. "That's right. They're very powerful too, just like us, so there's no need to worry." Ravenmon began to fly to the tower to get a better look at what was going on inside of it. "Do you think we should get closer as well?" Luke asked Michael and Jacob. "No." The two spoke in unison and glanced at each other. "We'll be fine right where we are, plus, Ravenmon can give us a surveillance report." Jacob reminded Luke. "That's right. Ravenmon will take care of it." Michael confirmed.

Ravenmon gasped as he peaked into the walls, seeing the digidestined find Mimi's pink hat. "Look! It's Mimi's hat!" Sora alerted the group to her hat on the stairs. They quickly climbed up the stairs and ran into a hallway. "Hey! It's Mimi's purse!" Joe exclaimed. "She never goes anywhere without it."

Right as he said that, Ravenmon let out a tiny squawk as he thought of what could've happened to Mimi, and TK turned around to look for the sound. 'QUIET RAVENMON! QUIET!' He yelled at himself. "Hm… I wonder what that sound was." TK wondered, continuing onwards with the group. 'Whew… He didn't notice me…' Ravenmon breathed a sigh of relief and continued following the group through the wall.

Tai quickly stormed through what looked to be a changing room as Sora took a look at one of the racks. "Wait, it's Mimi's clothes!" She turned to Tai. "No Tai! Don't go in there!" Tai threw open a curtain that he thought Mimi was behind. "Mimi!" He called out and then saw her. Mimi was sitting in a hot bath with steam rolling off of it with her back to Tai, singing. "Oooooh, wash, wash, wash away!" She sang as she cleaned herself with a rag.

Izzy came up behind Tai as Tai's eyes widened. "What's the-" Izzy cut himself off as his eyes widened. "Oh! Uh, sorry!" He turned around right as Mimi noticed the boys. "HEY! HAVEN'T YOU TWO EVER HEARD THE PHRASE "KNOCK BEFORE ENTERING"?" She yelled and covered herself up. Tai tried to explain quickly. "Mimi! We're here to rescue you and-" He was cut off by a giant towel and a bottle of shampoo that Mimi had just thrown at him. "Mimi! We can expla-" Izzy was also cut off by a pair of shower shoes that she had just thrown at him.

Coming up behind the two, Sora quickly closed the shower curtain and looked at them. "I believe I said to not go in." She stated, matter-of-factly. Izzy and Tai laid on the ground, groaning as shower products surrounded them.

Ravenmon decided that he had seen enough for the time being and quickly began flying back to the other group, who had begun to set up camp in the forest. "Hey guys!" He cheerfully called out when he landed back in the newly formed campsite. "Hey buddy. What did you find out?" Luke asked his partner. "Well, the other digidestined found Mimi and she was taking a bath, so two of the boys ended up with lots of shower products thrown at them. Other than that, there was no sign of the Pagumon." Ravenmon quickly filled the group in.

"Hm… We know that Mimi was taken away by the Pagumon, so where on earth, or rather, the digital world, could they have gone?" Michael asked. "They could've easily hidden themselves in the other baths." Ally supplied a reason. "Why though? They had the digidestined at their mercy basically, when they had kidnapped Mimi." Tiffany countered. "Etemon. He probably wants them gone for some reason that I don't know." Jacob shrugged. "It's a very likely theory. Etemon probably heard about them from some of Devimon's old henchmen, and he didn't want to lose his position as the "king of Server"." Caninmon sniggered and sat next to Jacob's log. "Well, whatever the case may be, all we can do is watch, so we might as well settle down now." Azuremon pointed out and Torpedomon nodded.

Later That Evening

"Welcome to our village! We hope you never go!" The Pagumon were putting on a party for the Japanese digidestined. "Stay and visit here with us, and please enjoy the show!" They cheered as the Japanese digidestined watched in the top room of the tower. Gabumon spoke quietly to Agumon. "This is definitely a Pagumon village, Agumon." "There's something wrong here, Gabumon. I know what I smelled was Koromon, and I'd bet my nose on it." Agumon whispered back as the Pagumon began their show.

"Here's your Pu-Pu platters!" The Pagumon began distributing food to the children. "I feel like a princess in a beautiful palace!" Mimi cried out with joy at seeing the food. "I once had a Chihuahua named Princess." Joe told her, frowning. "Huh?" Mimi asked in confusion as the Pagumon continued giving out food. "Food! Food! Food! We've got plenty!" He cried in excitement as Tai and Sora took a yellow apple-looking fruit.

"Tai, you don't suppose that this could be a trick, do you?" She asked him. "Remember Devimon? He tricked us with food too." She kept her voice low. As she expected, Tai answered in the negative. "Course not! You think I don't know a good digimon from a bad one?" He smiled and continued eating. "Hm…" Sora turned away and watched the Pagumon again. "We can show you so much fun, it would be inhumane!" The in-training digimon cheered again.

Tentomon and Gomamon were sitting in front of an untouched plate of fruit and food. "This is really strange." Tentomon stared at the food warily. "I've always heard that the Pagumon were awful pranksters." He finished. Gomamon tried to reassure him, though. "You were just hearing an awful rumor." He smiled. "Nice of you to say that!" A duo of Pagumon chimed in as they walked past the two, as well as Biyomon and Palmon.

"These guys are really nice little digimon!" Biyomon chowed down into the plate of food in front of her. The Pagumon passed by again and chimed in. "Right! Nice digimon!" They smiled as Palmon stared worryingly down at her food, hearing the Pagumon's chants again. "Next to you, we're geniuses!" The Pagumon continued cheering on as the Japanese digidestined continued to eat.

"Do you like that, Poyomon?" TK asked his baby digimon friend as Poyomon chowed down on a piece of fruit. "Poyo, poyo!" Poyomon cheered and suddenly began to shake. "POYOMON DIGIVOLVE TOOOOOOOOO TOKOMON!" A bright light enveloped Poyomon, and when it dispersed, Tokomon was in Poyomon's place. "Hey! He's Tokomon again!" TK cheered and smiled at his digimon partner. "The food made him digivolve!" Izzy noticed. "Congratulations buddy." Matt congratulated his younger brother as the Pagumon suspiciously laughed.

"Together, we could make me Patamon again!" Tokomon cheered and TK agreed. "Let's hear it for Tokomon!" Mimi stood up and proposed a toast. "Yaaaay!" One of the Pagumon cheered. "Congratulations Tokomon!" Biyomon smiled at the in-training digimon. "Way to go!" Gabumon congratulated Tokomon as the room erupted into cheers for the little digimon.

"Congratulations, way to go! We're so excited, all aglow!" The Pagumon cheering squad clapped their ears together for Tokomon, even though their eyes glowed eerily.

Late That Night

Both groups of digidestined were fast asleep, the Americans in the forest, and the Japanese in one of the huts that the Pagumon lived in. However, all was not as peaceful as it seemed, as with the Japanese digidestined, Tokomon was jerked awake as a gag was stuffed in his mouth, preventing him from yelling. The little digimon saw the shadows of several Pagumon before being knocked out and quietly dragged away from the other digidestined and their partners.

The Pagumon were far away from the village, when Tokomon woke up and spat out his gag. "I WANT MY DIGIMOMMY!" He cried out and began to sob as, tied up by rope and carried by the Pagumon, he couldn't move or escape. They roughly dropped him in a cave and surrounded him with pointy sticks.

"Hey, why are you picking on me?" Tokomon sniffled. "Well, because you digivolved!" One of the Pagumon sneered. "You were so easy to fool! What a bunch of losers." Another Pagumon chimed in and stuck out its tongue. "Hey! What do you think you're doing?" Another group of three digimon walked up to the Pagumon. "Oh no… Those are Gazimon… On the evil scale of 1-10, with 10 being bad, these digimon are a 12!" Tokomon tried to stand up. "Where did that Tokomon come from?" The leader of the three asked the Pagumon.

"Well, the Tokomon came to our village with some humans, but-" One of the Pagumon tried to speak to the Gazimon but was cut off. "Wait, there are humans here?" The one of the left barked at the Pagumon. "Yes…" The Pagumon spoke quietly. "Lord Etemon will want to know about this…" The Gazimon chuckled evilly and glared at Tokomon, who whimpered. "Oh no… Somebody help me…" He whispered as the Gazimon came closer.

"You eat too much!" One of the Pagumon complained as they hopped Tokomon over to a cage. "Quit squirming!" Another ordered. "No!" Tokomon defiantly yelled as he tried to get away. "Into the cage with you!" The Pagumon evilly laughed and threw the digimon in a metal cage. "You're not so special now, are you?" One of the Pagumon taunted Tokomon as the digimon began to cry. "Yeah, you're not so special now!" Another one copied the first Pagumon's statement.

Tokomon watched as, to his terror, dozens of pairs of glowing red eyes appeared out of the darkness in front of him. "Oh no…" He almost started to cry again, but was relieved when one of the pair of eyes hopped into the light.

"One of us has to tell Lord Etemon that the digidestined humans are here." The Gazimon were arguing amongst themselves outside of the cave. "I'll go. I gotta ask him for some time off for a hair-cut anyway." One of the Gazimon volunteered for the job. He turned around and began running off into the distance. "Keep an eye on those kids, or Etemon will make digistew out of you!" The other two Gazimon ordered the Pagumon to watch the other kids. "Right!" The group of Pagumon snickered evilly and began to head back to their village.

The orange monkey digimon known as Etemon grinned as he heard the news that the Gazimon had for him. "Ha! I'm the biggest deal on the continent of server! I can control anything electronic through my Dark Network! Not even those digidestined kids can stop me!" He spun around in a circle and struck one of Elvis's classic poses. "Everyone hail Etemon! The true king!" He poorly sang a line and the Gazimon bowed down. "Now, you're too early for today's show, so go on and get going!" Etemon looked at a map and turned on an amplifier. "The humans will be here soon. You see, now, once I start makin' my faaabulous music, those kids will be mine!" The Gazimon jumped onto the Monochromon train that Etemon was riding and hung on. "Now! Let's go! Release the Dark Network!" Etemon cried out and a track of dark wires created a train track for the Monochromon to follow, heading straight for the Pagumon village.

Back At the Pagumon Village

"TOKOMON!" TK cried out, looking for his partner as the Pagumon pretended to search as well. The rest of the other digidestined began looking through the village. "Tokomon! Are you here?" Agumon began searching the area near the waterfall. "I smell Koromon…" He sniffed again and began to look around the waterfall. "Wait, is it from behind the waterfall?" He wondered and slowly walked into the cave behind it. "Agumon!" Tokomon cried out at seeing his digimon friend. "Tokomon! The Koromon!" Agumon cried out in happiness and began conversing with the digimon. "Wait, so the Pagumon took over your village? The others are in trouble!" He turned around and was greeted by a not-so-pleasant sight. "Gazimon!" He gasped in shock as the two digimon lunged to attack him.

With the American Digidestined in the forest

Ravenmon quickly reported back what he had seen. "Apparently Tokomon's gone missing!" Luke exclaimed and the group quickly began looking at the village. "Have they tried near the waterfall?" Tiffany asked, pointing to the water thundering into a pond. "It looks like the Pagumon searched it, so knowing them, the Koromon and Tokomon are all there." Ravenmon relayed and landed on the ground. "Well, what can we do to help?" Ally asked. "One of us should try to warn them about the danger that they're in." Caninmon quietly spoke. "I'll go." Linzi volunteered. "I'll go with you." Torpedomon agreed with her partner and the two headed towards the waterfall and the village.

"Gah!" Azuremon clutched his head and cried out. "Azuremon! Are you okay?" Tiffany rushed to her partner's side and hugged him. "There's an evil presence nearby…" He stood up straight and turned to the right. "There." Azuremon ran in that direction as Tiffany followed him. "Azuremon! Wait up!" "Tiffany!" Jacob and Caninmon followed the girl and her partner as they ran towards Etemon's Dark Network that was set up in the area.

At the Waterfall

"TORPEDOMON! NOW!" Linzi ordered her digimon to attack the Gazimon that were beating up Agumon. "On it! HORN BLASTER!" Torpedomon's horn detached itself and fired itself into the cave, where a loud groan was heard. "There we go! Pepper breath!" They could hear Agumon firing another attack at the Gazimon. "Torpedomon, fire an attack up at the sky so the other digidestined know that there's a fight going on over here." Linzi whispered to her digimon and Torpedomon complied. "HORN BLASTER!" She fired round after round into the sky, watching them explode while hearing the noises from Agumon and the Gazimons' fight.

"OVER THERE GUYS! THERE'S A FIGHT AND AGUMON'S IN TROUBLE!" Tai yelled as he reached the bottom of the tower from his looking post. "No! Please don't go over there!" One of the Pagumon exclaimed. "Why not?" Sora asked, becoming very suspicious of the digimon. "Um… We already checked over there?" The Pagumon offered. "Look! It's a Botamon, the digimon that digivolves into Koromon and then into Agumon." Gabumon pointed out. "That means this is a Koromon village!" Tentomon realized and glared down at the Pagumon. "Um… Well, it was really nice meeting you and all but we've got to go!" The pack of Pagumon ran off into the distance as the digidestined ran towards the waterfall.

"AGUMON!" Tai yelled, at the head of the pack. "AGUMON! ARE YOU IN THERE?" He yelled at the waterfall. "We did it Torpedomon. Let's head back to the others." Linzi whispered to her partner from behind the boulder that they had hid themselves behind. "Right." Torpedomon nodded and the two quickly began to head back up to their friends. "Agumon! Are you alright?" Tai ran behind the waterfall to see the Gazimon about to attack him again. "I am now!" Agumon cheered and began to digivolve. "AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TOOOOOOOOOOO GREYMON!"

The dinosaur digimon stood up and glared at the Gazimon. "NOVA BLAST! TWO AGAINST ONE ISN'T FAIR NOW, EH?" He called out to the Gazimon as they were knocked into the fast moving river that the pond led to. "WOAAAAAH!" The Gazimon were swept away by the current. "Good job Greymon!" Tai cheered. "Tokomon… I thought I lost you again!" TK cheered and helped his digimon out of the ropes. "I'm like a boomerang! I keep coming back." Tokomon smiled. "Hey guys! Lets free the Koromon." The other digidestined quickly freed the Koromon. "Hey guys, you can go back to your village now." Sora smiled as the Koromon surged forward only to push right back when a shadow covered the cave entrance. "Well, hello there." Etemon stepped into the cave. "Oh great, it's a digielvis." Joe sighed and put his face in his hands.

"AZUREMON! YOU'VE GOT TO SLOW DOWN! There's no telling where we could end up!" Tiffany yelled after Azuremon. "I know Tiffany, but we must destroy this abomination." Azuremon suddenly stopped and growled at the black wires that came out of the ground and went straight to the Koromon village. "How though? It looks as strong as steel!" Tiffany asked, confused. "TRIAN BEAM!" Azuremon attacked the wires, sending a wave of energy at them that only seemed to shift the wires. "See?" Tiffany pointed out. "Caninmon, how about you give it a try?" Jacob caught up to the two, bringing Caninmon with him. "Sure! HYPER BLAST!" The electric attack also only succeeded in moving the wires. "Hm… What can we do?" Tiffany asked, determined to find a way to destroy the wire.

"Maybe we could digivolve and see if that would help?" She looked hopefully at Azuremon. "Why doesn't Caninmon try first?" Azuremon smoothly put it on Caninmon. "Well, alrighty then. Let's go buddy!" Jacob cheered. "CANINMON DIGIVOLVE TOOOOOOOOOO RANETSUMON!" The powerful wolf-looking digimon glared at the wire. "WOLF KNUCKLES!" Ranetsumon punched the wire with his attack and the wires cracked. "There you go! Azuremon, try it now." Tiffany told her partner. "TRIAN BEAM!" Her partner fired another attack right where the wire had been cracked, making the crack even bigger. "Try it again Ranetsumon." Jacob grinned in anticipation. "HIYA! WOLF KNUCKLES!" The attack struck the crack and shattered that part of the wire. "Sweet! Look at the wire. It's disappearing too!" Tiffany cheered as Azuremon, Ranetsumon, and Jacob watched the wire disappear.

Etemon glared at the Japanese digidestined. "You measly little digidestined humans, thank you very much!" The Koromon began to panic. "Oh no! It's Etemon!" They yelled and hurried back into the cave. Etemon stood on top of his train and began to poorly play a guitar. "You messed up all of my beautiful plans! No one messes up the beautiful plans of the King of Server." "Hey now! We didn't do anything!" Mimi cried out in fear. "Uh huh huh! I got a little number that I hope you kids really don't like! I call it destroying the whole village!" Etemon began to play his guitar and sing. "DARK NETWORK CONCERT CRUSH!"

"AAAAAH!" The Japanese digidestined screamed as the ground began to shake violently. "DO YOU THINK HE COULD ACTUALLY DESTROY THE VILLAGE?" Izzy yelled at Tai. "I wouldn't doubt it!" He yelled back. "Everyone, HOLD ON TIGHT!" Matt yelled and grabbed TK. They watched in horror as they saw a network of black wires rise above the village and slowly begin attacking it. "THE BUILDINGS! They're being destroyed!" Sora yelled as Joe began to panic. "Now I knew I should've packed noise-proof headphones!" He yelled as the village was slowly destroyed.

"Come on guys! Digivolving time!" Tai yelled and the group's digimon began to digivolve. "GABUMON DIGIVOLVE TOOOOO GARURUMON!" The blue wolf stood menacingly outside of the cave entrance. "You want digivolution? I don't think so!" Etemon became to laugh. "DARK NETWORK! CONCERT CRUSH!" He yelled again and Greymon and Garurumon were both forced to dedigivolve. "What's going on with our digimon?" Tai yelled. "Something's going on!" He managed to drag Agumon and Gabumon back to the cave. "Izzy, Etemon's Concert Crush attack took our power! We can't digivolve." Tentomon explained. "Oh no! We're in real trouble now." TK frowned.

"RUN! WE'VE GOT TO STOP THAT MONSTER!" Ally began running as fast as she could towards the waterfall, with Kangamon at her heels. "Here we go!" Luke and Ravenmon followed suit as Tiffany, Azuremon, Jacob, and Ranetsumon caught up with the group. "Linzi and Torpedomon are on their way back down now, and Michael and Chinchilmon are still up at the top of the cliff, but they just started heading down." Luke explained to Tiffany what had been going on. "That Etemon should be taken down a notch soon. We destroyed one of his nasty dark networks." Tiffany smiled as they reached the bottom of the hill. "The cave is collapsing!" Linzi gasped, out of breath, as her friends caught up to her at the bottom of the hill. "NOT IF I CAN HELP IT!" Ranetsumon jumped up and sped towards the cave. "WOLF'S ILLUSION!" His clones quickly went to work blocking the rocks from completely blocking up the cave.

At that moment, Etemon felt the destruction of his dark network and growled in pain. "DIGIDESTINED! YOU MAY HAVE MANAGED TO DESTROY ONE OF MY DARK NETWORKS BUT I WILL DESTROY YOU!" He whipped the Monochromon driven train and drove off as fast as possible. "There you go!" Michael cheered as he and Chinchilmon met up with the others at the bottom of the hill. "Are the Japanese digidestined all in that cave?" Tiffany asked Ranetsumon, who had summoned his clones back to him. "Yes, as far as I could see." Ranetsumon dedigivolved back into Caninmon, who was then picked up by Jacob. "Thanks for all of your hard work buddy." Jacob smiled at his partner, who sleepily smiled back.

"We've got to be quiet…" Linzi warned the group as they stepped into the cave behind the Japanese digidestined and the Koromon. "Listen." Michael hushed them. "Lookie! We can even go out this way if it's too dangerous to return, like it is now!" The Koromon's voice came from around the corner, and was followed by a burst of light. "Wait, Tai! What's that thing?" They could hear Matt's voice coming through the cave away from them. "It looks like a stone tablet sort of thing…" Tai's voice came through as the cave became illuminated by the tablet. "It's so red and bright…" Mimi ruffled her nose at it. "The colors are too gaudy." She decided and continued walking. "It's… My crest…" Tai trailed off and watched as the red trapezoid crest fit into his tag. "It's got a sun-looking design on it." He muttered to himself. "The Crest of Courage." A voice was heard through the cave that didn't belong to any of the digidestined. "You have the Crest of Courage? How cool Tai!" Agumon smiled at his partner, who smiled back. "Let's keep going. We're almost out of the cave." He spoke to the group as they kept walking.

"Well, this is where Tai's Crest of Courage was." Linzi pointed out as the slab started glowing again. "Wait, what's going on?" Michael glanced around the room, looking for a trap. "It's another crest…" Tiffany was shocked as it flew to her. "It's my crest?" She asked, looking at the slab as it glowed a purple color. "The Crest of Determination." The same voice came to only her this time. "Thank you…" The purple crest fit perfectly into her tag. "It's got a cute little bird footprint pattern, with the circle at the bottom and the three claws coming out of that." Ally pointed out. "How wonderful! We've only got five more crests left then, so let's keep looking." Jacob suggested and the group agreed, getting through the last bits of the tunnel with ease.