Revival

Shadow- "As we were driving home today, my mom saw a penguin."

Renamon- "What? Really?"

Shadow- "Well, she thought it was a penguin. It was actually an orange cat."

Renamon- "...WHAT?!"

Shadow- "Yeah, I know... I have very strange people in my life..."

Renamon- "So do I... Shadow does not own digimon."

Shadow- "Please leave a review!"

digital world, kumihomon's lair, Mark's POV

"Ow! Damn it!" Mark yelled, holding his shin. "Why can't bad guys ever put lights in their hideouts?!"

"Get used to it." the half-lit form of Kai said. "We've still got a ways to go."

Mark growled. "And how the hell do you know that?!"

In response, Kai chipped a bit of ice off the wall, and dropped it over the side of the stairs. After a few seconds of hearing nothing, Kai said "That's how."

Mark sighed. Why can't things ever be easy?

"Hey... guys?" came Serenity's voice from the flight of stairs above them. "I think you'd better come see this."

Mark clambered back up to where Serenity stood. She was leaning against the wall, peering through a small window. Mark edged her aside.

Inside the room stood rows and rows of metal cylinders with glass fronts. Inside a few of them were humans and digimon, alternating sequentially. "Holy crap..." Mark whispered. "When that Gotsumon in the village said that there'd been humans before us, he wasn't kidding..."

Serenity nodded. "Yeah, but look at the one on the end."

Mark looked over, and saw another metal canister. With Kurt inside it. "Hey!" Mark yelled. "There he is!"

Serenity pushed him away from the window. "Now, we just need to find the door..."

"Why?" Lacertamon asked.

Serenity sighed. "Because we need to get in there, you little idiot!"

"Then why not just do this? Flareball!" The attack melted through the icy wall, leaving the metal and glass window suspended for a moment, before clattering to the ground.

Serenity looked over at the little digimon. "I take that back. You might be helpful after all..."

"Well, come on!" Mark yelled, and ran up to the canister that contained Kurt. He looked over the piece of machinery. Along the side of the container ran a series of blinking lights, all green. Below the lights was a small screen, and a keypad.

Mark tapped a few keys, and a message lit up the screen, asking for a password. "Well, that's helpful... what do you think it is?"

"Try 'This is not the password'."Serenity suggested.

Well, that's... inventive... Aloud, Mark said "I... don't think that's it."

Serenity snorted. "Well, that's what I would've put..."

"It's gotta be something obvious..." Kai said. "What exactly do we know about Kumihomon?"

"Um... he's a fox... he can transform..." Mark said.

"Try 'the amazing morphing fox'!" Lacertamon yelled.

Serenity growled. "Forget what I said earlier... you are a class-A idiot."

"How exactly is that better than your suggestion?" Mark asked indignantly.

"Would you all just shut up?!" Kai yelled, surprising Mark. "Listen... what does he care about the most?"

Mark blinked. Care about? He's a bad guy. Who cares what he cares about?

When nobody answered, Kai sighed. "Let me re-phrase that. Who did he just kidnap?"

"Oh! Krystal!" Serenity said, finally catching on.

Kai nodded. "Try it."

Mark tapped 'Krystal' into the small keypad. Immediately, a series of commands lit up on the screen. Mark tapped the one labeled 'Wake up cycle'.

The canister the Kurt was held in started to hum faintly. A series of freezing cold gases vented from the edges, until finally the glass front slid back, freeing Kurt.

Mark peeked inside. When Kurt didn't move, he poked his friend a few times. "Hey Kurt! Wake up!"

His friend's eyelids flickered for a moment, the he groaned faintly. "What th' heck..." he opened his eyes. "...Mark? What are you... where am I?"

Mark looked around. "Do you remember anything?"

Kurt shook his head. "Um... we were in the computer lab... then there was a flash of light... then I'm here." He shrugged. "Why? Did something happen?"

Mark sighed. "You have no idea..."

After filling Kurt in on what had happened, his friend sat on the lip of the cylinder, still in disbelief. "Wow... all that stuff really happened?"

Mark nodded. "Yeah..."

Kurt's eyes lit up. "Krystal likes me?"

Serenity laughed. "Apparently... although I'm not sure about her feeling now, because of Kumihomon."

Kurt growled. "I swear I'm gonna kill that thing..."

Kai sighed. "Yeah, great, kid. Now where's your digimon partner?"

"I'm assuming it's this thing here," Serenity said, banging on the front of the canister next to Kurt's, "Seeing as the one on his other side is empty."

Kurt looked at the digimon inside. "That's my digimon? It looks like a orange football with wings!"

Mark sighed. "Well, let's get him out..." he tapped in the seven letter code onto the side of the new canister. The lid popped open with a hiss, and after a moments pause, the little digimon hopped out. It looked up at Kurt then smiled. "Hi there! I'm a digimon, short for-"

"We know!" Mark yelled, along with the other three kids. "We've already been through the speech."

The little digimon looked crestfallen. "Aw..."

Mark looked at his digivice to get info on the digimon.

PATAMON

LEVEL: ROOKIE

TYPE: VACCINE

ATTACKS: BOOM BUBBLE, SLAMMING ATTACK

Kai nodded. "Good. Now, get we get going?"

"Well, hold on a minute..." Serenity said. "What about all the other kids here?"

Mark looked at the next canister in the row. A boy with medium length brown hair and glasses lay inside. His shirt and pants were ripped in several places, as if he had recently been through a hard battle. Mark checked the side panel. The lights along the side were all red, except for the top one, and when he tapped the key panel, the screen gave the message: ERROR CODE 15923-UDI. SUGGEST IMMEDIATE RECTIFICATION.

Mark shivered. "I don't think we want to open that one..."

He and the others checked the other containers with figures inside them, but all the lights were red. Serenity sighed. "...maybe we'd just better go..."

Kurt nodded. "Yeah... I"m anxious to see this 'digital world'."

Mark led the way back up the steps to the room where they had defeated Lefimon. Kurt stared at the spider-web cracks in the ice. "You guys really did all this?"

Mark nodded. "Yeah, now come on! We need to find out where Kumihomon went."

The group slid out of the damaged entrance doors, and stood in the ankle-deep snow, shivering. Mark looked around the ground, but didn't see any footprints. "Well, that's just great..."

"Hey, look down there!" Kai yelled. Mark looked, and saw a faint column of smoke rising out of the edge of the forest. "Is that Kumihomon?"

Serenity squinted. "No... it looks like the Gotsumon village we left..." her voice trailed off. "Oh no..."

Kai groaned. "That Xedramon must have come back with some friends..."

Mark looked around a second time, but still saw no sign of Kumihomon. "Well, we'd better get down there and help them out."

The group started picking their way down the snow covered mountain, knowing that they were just walking into another fight.