"So what have we got?" Tai asks Izzy.

It's been a couple days since they sent Apollomon, Beelzemon and Leopardmon into the Dark Ocean. All of the digidestined have gathered to discuss the situation.

"Because of those three destabilizing the digital world," Izzy begins as he types on his computer, setting up a projector for everyone to see images. "There's been a great surge in the digidestined all over the world."

"That's good, right?" Mimi asks.

"Not always," Izzy answers. "There's been a few incidents, but nothing serious. I'm more surprised at how fast they seemed to bond. When the third root was destroyed, there were reports of digimon coming through the cracks and causing trouble. But thanks to the new digidestined, the damage was kept to a minimum."

Izzy displays several pictures of people with digivices and digimon partners battling wild digimon. A few of them included Marcus with GeoGreymon and their friends battle a Tyrannomon, Takato and Growlmon with their friends against a Monochromon, and Takuya and Agunimon with their friends fighting a Seadramon.

"See how they already reached the Champion level?" Izzy asks.

"Yeah," Yolei answers. "It's only been a couple days. I wouldn't be surprised if they can go Ultimate within the week."

"That's way too fast," Cody complains.

"Hopefully they'll be able to control their partners," Matt comments.

"I think they will," Izzy responds. "Since now there's no need to go Ultimate, let alone Mega."

"Is there anything else?" Tai asks.

"Just some government complaints and inquiries," Izzy sighs. "Me and Gennai has some long days waiting for us."

"Umm, good luck?" Tai couldn't think of anything else to say.

"What about the other Sora?" Sora asks. "Did you find out anything about her or her digimon form?"

"Unfortunately, no," Izzy answers. "The information I have just says 'A goddess digimon that rules over water and ice. Not only can it fight with grace and power, but it can also heal and support other digimon, especially those closely attributed with water.' I don't have anything else, not even a sighting. She just disappeared."

"That's not necessarily true," Gennai walks in.

"Gennai," everyone greeted.

"You all seem well."

"Well, yeah!" Davis replies enthusiastically. "We managed to beat them!"

"True, but we're still missing answers." Gennai pulls out some sort of radar and a strange device with an indentation in the shape of a digivice.

"What are those?" Joe asks.

"While researching the enemy's digivolution, I discovered that they leave behind traces of a specific kind of digital energy."

"So that will help us find her by following the traces," Ken surmised.

"Correct."

"It's already been a couple days," Matt inquires. "Will there even be anything to follow?"

"You still have my nose, Matt," Gabumon tells him.

"Then what about that other thing?" Mimi wonders.

"That's for Tai," Gennai walks over to Tai with the other device. "I realize you don't need it anymore, but if you put your digivice here, then it will give you the ability to transform into a digimon."

"Really?" Tai's eyes glowed.

"Are you sure about this?" Kari asks.

"There's no harm in having it now," Tai answers. "I really want to see if I can turn into a digimon." Tai takes out his digivice and puts it in the machine.

The digivice glows, bars on the screen slowly light up.

"So," Tai turns to Gennai. "How do I do it?"

"I don't know," Gennai answers.

"What?"

"All I've been able to give you is the ability to transform, I don't know exactly how they were able to do it."

"This is going to be one of those 'you'll have to figure it out for yourself' type things isn't it?" Tai asks annoyed.

"I'm afraid so."

"Good thing there's no rush," Tai grabs his device as soon as it was finished. "Hey Agumon, want to help me out?"

"Sure!" The digimon excitedly answered. "I can't wait to see what you turn into."

"Izzy, can you set my gate to somewhere private?"

"There's lots of forests in the digital world, I'll just drop you off in one."

"Thanks."

"In the meantime," Matt take the other device. "I think we should be looking for their Sora. I don't think we can really close this unless we have her answer our questions."

"I better come with you," Sora suggests. "I think I can talk to her more easily than anyone."

"What about us?" Joe asks. "Is there anything you want us to do?"

"There's really nothing else," Izzy answers. "You're all free to do whatever you want."

XXX

In the middle of a forest, Tai inspects his digivice at all angles, in the sun, shaking it wildly, etc.

"I have no idea how to do this," Tai mumbles. "Hey Agumon, how do you digivolve?"

"We just use the energy that you give us to get stronger!" Agumon answers.

"Heh, right. I forgot about that." Tai examines the digivice again. "Hmm…"

"We always digivolve when you're in danger," Agumon starts. "May be you can digivolve if I'm in danger."

"I don't want to force it," Tai tells him. "Remember what happened last time when I did that?" Images of SkullGreymon flow through their minds.

"You're right, I don't want that to happen again."

"Maybe if we fight a little," Tai suggests.

"Fight?"

"Yeah, it'll get my energy going," Tai hops about. "But you're a little small. Think you can digivolve?"

"Agumon digivolved to… Greymon."

"Er…" Tai nervously looks at his opponent.

"What?"

"I don't think this is going to work."

"Having trouble Tai?" A young man's voice asks through the bushes.

"TK, Kari. What are you doing here?"

"We thought about just hanging out today but we were too curious about what digimon you would turn into," Kari answered.

"Do you need any help?" Patamon wonders.

"I'll take any help I can get," Tai answers.

"Were you thinking of fighting Greymon?" Kari asks.

"Yeah, I thought that if I could get into it, it'll just happen. I mean it worked for the digimon most of the time. But the size…"

"Are you calling me fat?" Greymon questions.

"No, no of course not," Tai nervously responds.

"Hey Patamon, why don't we see if Angemon would be better?"

"Patamon digivolved to… Angemon."

"Well…" Tai looks over Angemon. "It's better, still a little big though. Are you sure about this TK?"

"Why don't you give it a shot?" Angemon dares him.

"Okay…" Tai winds up a punch and hits Angemon in the gut.

Angemon counters with an uppercut, sending Tai flying.

"Oops," Angemon muttered.

Kari tried her best to hold back her laughter but fails. "Hahahaha! An angel saying 'Oops'. Are you… are you okay… keeehahahaha… Tai?"

"I'm fine!" Tai, though winded, managed to answer without getting up.

"You all look like you're having fun," a girl's voice approaches them.

"Mimi," TK greets. "What are those bags for?"

"I just went and did a little shopping before coming here. So what's going on?"

"Tai wants to see if fighting a digimon will help him transform," Gatomon answers. "So far, the digimon in their Champion forms are too big and too strong."

"Too big?"

"Yeah," Tai gets up and walks over. "I really don't want to hurt them while they're Rookies, but their Champions are, well, huge."

"I'm just big boned!" Greymon complains.

"Sorry pal," Tai apologizes. "I don't really know how to fight a dinosaur."

"So you want something small and human shaped?" Mimi ponders. "I've got just the digimon!"

"Togemon digivolved to… Lillymon!"

"Er…" Tai stares nervously at Lillymon's face. "Um… I'm not sure if I can fight…"

"A girl?" Mimi gives him a glare.

"A plant."

"Nice try buster," Mimi replies. "But she's what you're looking for in a training partner right?"

"I guess," Tai scratches his head and glances at Lillymon again.

"What?" Lillymon asks. "Is there something on my face?"

"I'm sorry, I don't think I can get into it," Tai says.

"You're okay with punching an angel but not a plant?" Mimi asks, annoyed.

"Angemon at least looks like a bruiser," Tai starts.

Angemon proudly flexes about, going into various muscleman poses.

"Lillymon looks like she's ready to dance. It feels weird."

"Don't tell me your brother has a thing for plants," TK whispered to Kari.

"He'd rather just clean his balls," Kari replies. "He looooooves them balls."

"I heard that!" Tai yelled at Kari.

"So it's just her looks?" Mimi's eyes perked up. "It's a good thing I came prepared!" Mimi pulls Lillymon away and opens her bags.

"What? Mimi! Hey!" Lillymon tries to struggle against her partner, but Mimi's already started playing doll with her. Clothing material flew and scissors could be heard.

"There we go!" Mimi reveals a new Lillymon. "Introducing, BanchoLillymon!"

"MIMI!" Lillymon screamed and blushed, embarrassed. Her bulb is now black with a drawn on scar, she's wearing a red jacket like a cape, a very short trimmed schoolgirl top exposing her navel, her wings are a neon purple, she wears ripped and torn leather black pants with several belts and zippers revealing more of her legs, her shoes are all black, her arms are wrapped in pink belts leading into black fingerless gloves.

"Wha-what?!" Tai blushes as he looks, Lillymon covers her navel with her arms. "What is this Mimi?"

"If you couldn't fight her because she looked too cute," Mimi starts. "I just had to turn her into something you could fight. So I was thinking gangster."

"Why didn't you tell me about this?" Lillymon asks, panicked.

"Cause I wanted to surprise you too," Mimi puts a finger on her cheek. "You don't like it?"

"You could've at least picked a bigger shirt," Lillymon complains, still covering her navel.

Kari grabs TK's dropped chin, and shuts his mouth while her face displayed annoyance.

"Ow!" TK winched in pain. "Kari?"

"Hmph!" Kari turns away, angered and cross armed.

"You were drooling," Gatomon informs.

"It's a little late to change that," Mimi tells Lillymon. "But since you look the part now, why not acting like it?"

"Acting?" Lillymon stops covering herself.

"You know, to get Tai into the mood."

"Huh? Er… yeah…" Tai turns his blushing head away.

"You might want to hold back," Angemon advises. "A lot. I wasn't even at half strength when I hit him earlier."

"I was ready for that too," Mimi pulls out a green yoyo. "This one has a rubber coating so it shouldn't hurt that much when you get hit by it."

"Great," Tai nervously lets out a sigh. "Thanks."

"Here you go," Mimi gives the yoyo to Lillymon.

Lillymon plays with it a couple times to get a feel. She rips off the string and replaces it with a vine. She plays a couple more times, showing the yoyo flying at various angles and lengths.

"Now it's time to work on your inner gangster. Come on, be mean and screamy."

Lillymon sighed and took a deep breath. "Hey you!"

"Huh?" Tai reeled back in surprise.

"Yeah you! Dumbass! You messing with me? Huh?!" Lillymon puts on the angriest look she can muster.

"Oh she's good," Mimi comments.

Tai gets ready.

"So you want to fight, do you punk?" Lillymon launches the yoyo past Tai, shattering a tree behind him.

Everyone's jaw dropped. Tai slowly, creakily turned around. He sees the tree torn in half from the yoyo's attack. BanchoLillymon pulls the yoyo back and holds it like a whip, with an evil grin on her face.

"Aww hell no!" Tai makes a break for it into the trees.

"Get back here you bastard!" BanchoLillymon gives chase, swinging her yoyo and knocking down trees.

"Lillymon!" Mimi calls out but isn't heard.

"I think she got too into the role," TK mentions.

"We need to stop her!" Kari cries.

XXX

In the nearby forest, several trees fall down as they are hit by strong impacts.

"Ahahaha!" BanchoLillymon laughs maniacally as she chases Tai around the forest. Toying with him, intentionally missing her devastating attacks but hitting just close enough for Tai to feel the impact shockwaves. "Run little mouse run!"

Tai hides behind a tree, trying to control his breathing. BanchoLillymon's yoyo wraps around him and the tree. Tai struggles to break free, BanchoLillymon's hand smacks the tree near his head.

"Mmm…" the digimon licks her lips. "Getting a closer look, you're quite cute." She caresses his cheek down to his chin. "Tell me, how many flowers have you plucked?"

Tai headbutts her, loosening the yoyo wrapped around him. Tai escapes the area, only to run into BanchoLillymon speed stepping in front of him.

"Where do you think you're going?" The flower mon asks.

Tai instinctively throws a punch. BanchoLillymon catches it easily.

She smiles, "What's the matter? Am I not your type?"

Tai punches with his other hand, Lillymon deflects with her arm, then grabs him by his shirt, lifts him up, then slams him on his back.

"Ack!" Tai grunts in pain.

"You're still conscious after that," BanchoLillymon slams the yoyo into the ground, it pops up and down leaving vines to tie down Tai's arms and legs. She mounts Tai and cuddles on the boy's chest. "Mmm… so that's why, you're as tough as a tree trunk, I can feel the hardwood." She crawls up to Tai's face and leans her face a breath away from his, holding his head to face her. "I want to taste your nectar," Lillymon whispers licking her lips as her face drew in closer, closer, closing her eyes and readying her lips. "Pollinate me," She whispers.

"Tai?" Sora walks in on Tai, flat on his back, mounted by BanchoLillymon.

The flower digimon quickly opened her eyes and stared into Tai's panicked eyes. A quick moment of silence passed between the three of them.

Lillymon's face suddenly blushed redder than a rose as she got up hastily. "UuuuuuUWAAAAAAAAA!"

"That was Lillymon!" Mimi tells everyone.

Mimi, TK and Kari all rushed to the source of the scream. They see Tai tied to the ground with vines and Sora and Biyomon comforting the Bancho dressed Lillymon sulking in front of a nearby tree.

"There, there…" Sora rubs the flower digimon's back.

"It's about time you got here!" Tai yells to the arriving group. "Get me out of these things!"

Gatomon slices up the vines, Tai gets up and quickly uses his sleeve to wipe the pollen off his lips.

"Is she alright?" Mimi asks Sora.

"She's traumatized!" Sora answers. "What did you do to her?"

"I just gave her a makeover to help Tai. I wasn't expecting her to go overboard."

"Uuuuuu…" Lillymon buries her head even deeper into her harms.

"Hey," Tai puts a hand on Lillymon's shoulder. "It's alright, don't worry about it."

Lillymon looks up at Tai, he's holding out his hand. Tai smiles as best he could, she wipes the tears off her face and takes his hand. Tai helps Lillymon up.

"It looks like you're training hard," Gennai appears.

"Gennai!" everyone greeted him.

"I thought I'd come by to see how you're all doing," Gennai notices the carnage they left behind. "And to ask you to try and keep a low profile."

"I'm sorry," Lillymon looks down.

"It's not your fault," Tai comforts her.

TK inspects the yoyo, "Mimi, are you sure that this is just a regular yoyo?"

"Yeah," Mimi answers. "Here, I still have the receipt."

"May I see?" Gennai takes the yoyo and inspects it. "This isn't regular yoyo string. These are your vines, right?"

"Yes," Lillymon nods.

"Then you've infused this item with your power, this is now a part of you." Gennai hands the yoyo to Lillymon.

"A part of me?" Lillymon takes the yoyo back.

"Just like those clothes you wear."

"Wait! You mean I'm going to be stuck looking like this?!" Lillymon panics.

"I don't mind," Tai and TK spoke in unison. They were also slapped in the back of the head in unison by Sora and Kari.

"No, it's more like a side evolution. If you want to turn back, try thinking about how you looked before."

Lillymon closed her eyes, her body starts glowing. When the glow disperses, she returned to normal. Lillymon inspects herself, and smiles happily.

"I'm back to normal! YEES!" Lillymon flies around energetically. The others can't help but smile and giggle.

"She doesn't lose the other form, does she?" Tai asks.

"She can change between her two forms at will," Gennai answers. "Similar to Imperialdramon."

"Cool!" Mimi screeches overjoyed.

"Hey Sora," Tai addresses the former soccer girl. "Weren't you with Matt?"

"We found a very faint trail where we fought Apollomon and the others," Sora answers. "We followed it all the way to a monitor into the real world."

"The real world?" Tai repeats.

"Yeah, it also means that she could be anywhere. We already told Izzy about it, he'll try to figure something out tomorrow. Matt went home, I came to see how you were doing."

Tai looks at all the destruction he and BanchoLillymon left behind. "I was doing fine."

"You could've fooled me," Sora gave him a glare. She wipes more pollen off of Tai's face. "Stop smiling so much. Jerk."

"What?"

"Do you want to keep going?" Lillymon asks Tai.

"No, I'm kind of beat now after all that running around."

"What about tomorrow?"

"I have soccer practice, some other day."

"Okay, I'll see you then! Let's go Mimi." Lillymon grabs Mimi's hand and pulls her away.

"What? Hey! Lillymon! Stop dragging me around!" Mimi complains. "Why are you so pushy all of a sudden?"

"She recovered quickly," TK comments.

"We should get home too," Kari mentions.

"Yeah, we'll see you all tomorrow," Tai tells the group. "Later."

"Tai, wait," Gennai stops him. "Here, I brought this in case you were tired." Gennai tosses a water bottle to Tai. "Don't dry up now, okay?"

"Um… Thanks."

XXX

Author: In case you were wondering, BanchoLillymon is a real digimon. I was collecting medals in Cyber Sleuth when hers popped up and she became an instant favorite. I have every intention of bringing her back into the fic, but the focus for now is on the other Sora, and if you (somehow) still haven't figured it out, there was a major hint in this chapter.